Opinion - The Korea Times

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2010

Today is Wednesday, October 13, the 286th day of 2010. There are 79 days left in the year. 1775 ― Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet 1943 ― Italy declares war on former ally Germany 1953 ― Burglar alarm ― ultrasonic or radio waves ― patented ― Samuel Bagno 1962 ― ``Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen 1963 ― ``Beatlemania" is coined after the Beatles appear at the Palladium 1972 ― Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12/23 rescue) 1978 ― James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu 1981 ― Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt 1987 ― First military use of trained dolphins (U.S. Navy in Persian Gulf) 1987 ― Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 12, 2010

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2010

Today is Tuesday, October 12, the 285th day of 2010. There are 80 days left in the year. 1492 ― Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day 1860 ― British and French troops capture Peking 1942 ― U.S. navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance 1960 ― Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at U.N. General Assembly session 1968 ― Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is first woman to light Olympic flame 1973 ― Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP 1976 ― Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party 1978 ― Representatives of Israel and Egypt open talks in Washington 1984 ― IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying 1985 ― International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize

Oct 11, 2010

MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2010

Today is Monday, October 11, the 284th day of 2010. There are 81 days left in the year. 1737 _ Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys Calcutta, India 1923 _ German currency falls to 4 billion marks per U.S. dollar 1945 _ Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-shek vs. Mao Tse-tung 1979 _ Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing the CAT scan 1981 _ Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum 1984 _ VP candidate debate-Geraldine Ferraro (D) vs. George Bush (R) 1986 _ Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland 1987 _ 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington 1990 _ Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature

Oct 10, 2010

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2010

Today is Saturday, October 9, the 282nd day of 2010. There are 83 days left in the year. 680 ― Husain ibn Ali, religious leader, enters martyrdom 1000 ― Leif Ericson discovers ``Vinland" (possibly New England) 1446 ― Korean Hangeul alphabet devised 1876 ― First two-way telephone conversation, first over outdoor wires 1965 ― Beatles' ``Yesterday," single goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for four weeks 1975 ― Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize 1980 ― First consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville ,Tenn.) 1983 ― 17 South Korean Cabinet minister-level officials assassinated in Yangon, Miyanmar 1989 ― Penthouse Magazine's Hebrew edition hits the newsstands 1990 ― Radio stations around the world play ``Imagine" honoring John Lennon

Oct 8, 2010

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010

Today is Thursday, October 7, the 280th day of 2010. There are 85 days left in the year. 3761 B.C. ― Origin of Jewish Mundane Era 1571 ― Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish and Italians in Battle of Lepanto 1737 ― 40-foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India) 1900 ― The term ``orienteering" is first used for an event 1931 ― First infra-red photograph, Rochester, N.Y. 1938 ― Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J 1950 ― U.S. forces invade North Korea by crossing the 38th parallel 1958 ― U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury 1959 ― Far side of Moon seen for first time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3 1990 ― Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens

Oct 6, 2010

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2010

Today is Wednesday, October 6, the 279th day of 2010. There are 86 days left in the year. 1781 ― Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of the Revolutionary War 1863 ― Dr. Charles H Sheppard opens the first public bath, in Brooklyn 1889 ― Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture 1928 ― Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China 1949 ― President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO) 1959 ― Soviet Luna 3, first successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon 1973 ― Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel 1976 ― John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in the world and cycling 50,600 miles 1976 ― President Ford says there is ``no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe" 1991 ― Elizabeth Taylor weds for the eighth time (Larry Fortensky)

Oct 5, 2010

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2010

Today is Tuesday, October 5, the 278th day of 2010. There are 87 days left in the year. 1582 ― Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries 1762 ― The opera ``Orfeo Ed Eurydice" is produced (Vienna) 1864 ― Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die) 1908 ― Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar 1910 ― Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic 1931 ― First nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Washington (Herndon & Pangborn) 1962 ― Beatles release their first record ``Love Me Do" 1983 ― Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize 1984 ― 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched 1986 ― London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms

Oct 4, 2010

MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2010

Today is Monday, October 4, the 277th day of 2010. There are 88 days left in the year. 1582 _ Last day of the Julian calendar in Italy, many Catholic countries 1824 _ Mexico becomes a republic 1830 _ Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands 1940 _ Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in the Alps 1955 _ Rev. Moon Sun-myung leaves prison in Seoul 1957 _ USSR launches Sputnik I, the first artificial Earth satellite 1958 _ Fifth French republic established 1965 _ Pope Paul VI becomes first Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (U.N.) 1970 _ Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984-ft TV mast in Tulsa, Okla. 1984 _ U.S. government closes down due to budget problems

Oct 3, 2010

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2010

Today is Saturday, October 2, the 275th day of 2010. There are 90 days left in the year. 1187 ― Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders 1608 ― Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey 1836 ― Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle 1870 ― Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital 1936 ― First alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kan. 1942 ― ``Queen Mary" slices cruiser ``Curacao" in half, killing 338 1942 ― First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago 1984 ― three cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit 1984 ― Richard Miller, becomes first (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage 1990 ― Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is ``The End" by the Doors

Oct 1, 2010

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2010

Today is Friday, October 1, the 274th day of 2010. There are 91 days left in the year. 331 B.C. ― Alexander the Great of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela 1791 ― First session of the new French legislative assembly 1890 ― Yosemite National Park established 1908 ― Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825) 1936 ― Gen Francisco Franco establishes the state of Spain 1949 ― People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day) 1949 ― Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on the island of Formosa 1962 ― Johnny Carson hosts his first Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests 1977 ― Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games 1982 ― West Germany's Parliament ousts chancellor Helmut Schmidt

Sep 30, 2010

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