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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2010

Today is Tuesday, October 26, the 299th day of 2010. There are 66 days left in the year. 1863 ― Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva 1863 ― Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer 1881 ― Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az. 1905 ― First Soviet (workers' council) formed, St. Petersburg, Russia 1905 ― Union of Sweden and Norway ends 1916 ― Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control) 1949 ― President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents 1955 ― Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres 1956 ― U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved 1971 ― U.N. votes to replace Taiwan with China

Oct 25, 2010

MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2010

Today is Monday, October 25, the 298th day of 2010. There are 67 days left in the year. 1870 ― Postcards first used in U.S. 1935 ― Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel, Haiti 1945 ― Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek 1951 ― Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom 1963 ― Beatles begin their first full foreign tour in Sweden 1971 ― U.N. General Assembly admits mainland China and expels Taiwan 1983 ― U.S. invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (U.S. Wins!) 1986 ― International Red Cross ousted from South Africa 1986 ― Michael Sergio parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of World Series 1990 ― NY Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)

Oct 24, 2010

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2010

Today is Saturday, October 23, the 296th day of 2010. There are 69 days left in the year. 1775 _ Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army 1884 _ First world series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats NY Mets (AA) 6-0 1915 _ 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote 1944 _ Soviet army invades Hungary 1954 _ Britain, England, France and USSR agree to end occupation of Germany 1956 _ First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast 1956 _ Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary 1958 _ Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature 1983 _ Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 U.S. personnel in Beirut 1991 _ Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills two women

Oct 22, 2010

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2010

Today is Thursday, October 21, the 294th day of 2010. There are 71 days left in the year. 2137 B.C. ― First recorded total eclipse of the sun in China 1520 ― Magellan entered the strait which bears his name 1805 ― Battle of Trafalgar, Adm. Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet, and dies 1879 ― Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb 1918 ― Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 words-per-minute for one minute 1945 ― Women in France allowed to vote for first time 1948 ― Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington, D.C.) 1950 ― Chinese forces occupy Tibet 1967 ― Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm the Pentagon 1970 ― 777 Unification Church couples wed in Korea

Oct 20, 2010

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2010

Today is Wednesday, October 20, the 293rd day of 2010. There are 72 days left in the year. 1600 ― Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns) 1740 ― Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia 1813 ― German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished 1905 ― Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days 1906 ― Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrates his radio tube 1963 ― S. Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and eight others on conspiracy 1968 ― Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis 1973 ― OPEC oil embargo begins 1983 ― IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released 1990 ― Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (U.S.-Iraq)

Oct 19, 2010

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2010

Today is Tuesday, October 19, the 292nd day of 2010. There are 73 days left in the year. 125 B.C. ― Origin of Era of Tyre 1812 ― Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow 1845 ― Wagner's opera Tannheuser performed for first time 1933 ― Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936 1944 ― U.S. forces land in Philippines 1950 ― U.N. forces entered Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea 1951 ― President Harry S. Truman formally ends state of war with Germany 1977 ― Supersonic Concorde jet's first landing in NYC 1988 ― Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members 1988 ― S. African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights Prize

Oct 18, 2010

MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2010

Today is Monday, October 18, the 291st day of 2010. There are 74 days left in the year. 1648 ― First U.S. labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers) 1685 ― Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism 1776 ― In a N.Y. bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders ``cock tail" 1867 ― U.S. takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million) 1890 ― John Owen is first man to run 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds 1892 ― First commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-N.Y.) 1912 ― Beginning of the first Balkan War 1960 ― In Britain, the News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, and The London Evening Star merges with the Evening News 1968 ― U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving ``black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony 1979 ― ``Beatlemania" opens in London

Oct 17, 2010

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010

Today is Saturday, October 16, the 289th day of 2010. There are 76 days left in the year. 1916 _ Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic (46 Amboy St., Brooklyn) 1923 _ Disney Co. founded 1925 _ Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution 1946 _ 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials 1962 _ Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba 1964 _ China becomes world's fifth nuclear power 1968 _ During Olympics Tommie Smith and John Carlos give black power salute 1970 _ Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser 1973 _ Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1982 _ Shultz warns U.S. will withdraw from U.N. if they vote to exclude Israel

Oct 15, 2010

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2010

Today is Friday, October 15, the 288th day of 2010. There are 77 days left in the year. 1520 ― King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall 1582 ― Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days 1846 ― Dr. William Thomas Green Morton first public use of ether 1878 ― Edison Electric Light Company incorporated 1937 ― Ernest Hemingway novel ``To Have & Have Not" published 1964 ― Kosygin and Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev 1969 ― Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war 1985 ― Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit 1989 ― Billy Graham is given the 1,900th star on Hollywood Blvd. 1989 ― Wayne Gretsky passes Gordie Howes as NHL's all time top scorer

Oct 14, 2010

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2010

Today is Thursday, October 14, the 287th day of 2010. There are 78 days left in the year. 1066 ― Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England 1867 ―15th and last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan 1884 ― George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film 1922 ― First automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC 1933 ― Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations 1944 ― German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler 1949 ― 14 U.S. Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition 1950 ― Rev. Moon Sun-myung liberated from Hungnam prison 1960 ― Peace Corps first suggested by JFK 1964 ― Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 13, 2010

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