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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009

Today is Tuesday, October 20, the 293rd day of 2009. 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 1911 _ Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole 1944 _ U.S. forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines 1963 _ S. Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and eight others on conspiracy 1968 _ Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis 1973 _ OPEC oil embargo begins 1977 _ Three members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash 1990 _ Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (U.S.-Iraq)

Oct 19, 2009

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2009

Today is Monday, October 19, the 292nd day of 2009. 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 Tannhauser performed for first time 1856 _ James Kelly and Jack Smith fight bare knuckle for 6 hours and 15 minutes in Melbourne 1912 _ Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control 1950 _ U.N. forces entered Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea 1951 _ President Harry S. Truman formally ends state of war with Germany 1960 _ Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in 1960 _ U.S. imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba 1963 _ Beatles record ``I Want to Hold Your Hand"

Oct 18, 2009

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2009

Today is Saturday, October 17, the 290th day of 2009. There are 75 days left in the year. 1492 _ Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas) 1860 _ First pro golf tournament held (Scotland) (Willie Park wins) 1918 _ Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic 1931 _ Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison 1933 _ Albert Einstein arrives in the U.S., a refugee from Nazi Germany 1945 _ Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina 1957 _ French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 _ Canada begins regular live TV coverage of parliament 1977 _ West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers 1979 _ Mother Teresa of India, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 16, 2009

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009

Today is Friday, October 16, the 289th day of 2009. There are 76 days left in the year. 1916 _ Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic (46 Amboy St., Brooklyn) 1923 _ Disney Co. founded 1942 _ Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta, India 1945 _ U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization comes into existence 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 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, 2009

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009

Today is Thursday, October 15, the 288th day of 2009. There are 77days left in the year. 1520 _ King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall 1846 _ Dr. William Thomas Green Morton first public use of ether 1928 _ German dirigible ``Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, N.J. 1937 _ Ernest Hemingway novel ``To Have and Have Not" published 1951 _ ``I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV 1964 _ Kosygin and Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev 1977 _ Debbie Boone's ``You Light Up My Life," goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 10 weeks 1985 _ Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit 1988 _ Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires 1989 _ Wayne Gretsky passes Gordie Howes as NHL's all time top scorer

Oct 14, 2009

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009

Today is Wednesday, October 14, the 287th day of 2004. There are 78 days left in the year. 1066 _ Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England 1774 _ First Continental Congress is first to declare colonial rights (Philadelphia) 1867 _ 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan 1884 _ George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film 1933 _ Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations 1949 _ 14 U.S. Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition 1960 _ Peace Corps first suggested by JFK 1964 _ Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize 1982 _ 6,000 Unification Church couples wed in Korea 1986 _ The IOC decides to stagger the Winter and Summer Olympic schedule

Oct 13, 2009

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2009

Today is Tuesday, October 13, the 286th day of 2009. There are 79 days left in the year. 1792 _ Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House) 1860 _ First aerial photo taken in U.S. (from a balloon) above Boston 1943 _ Italy declares war on former ally Germany 1953 _ Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves patented, Samuel Bagno 1960 _ Third presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood and Kennedy in N.Y. 1962 _ ``Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen 1972 _ Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12/23 rescue) 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, 2009

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2009

Today is Monday, October 12, the 285th day of 2009. 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 1933 _ Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially) 1941 _ Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow 1960 _ Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at U.N. General Assembly session 1973 _ Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as V.P. 1976 _ Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party 1984 _ IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying 1985_ International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Peace Prize 1988 _ Israel and China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations

Oct 11, 2009

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2009

Today is Saturday, October 10, the 283rd day of 2009. There are 82 days left in the year. 1780 _ Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean 1865 _ John Hyatts patents the billiard ball 1868 _ Cuba revolts for independence against Spain 1886 _ First dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, N.Y. (the tuxedo) 1911 _ Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchu (Taiwan National Day) 1935 _ George Gershwin's ``Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway 1963 _ Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by U.S., U.K., USSR 1964 _ 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo 1975 _ Liz Taylor's sixth marriage (remarries Richard Burton) 1976 _ Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33

Oct 9, 2009

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2009

Today is Friday, October 9, the 282nd day of 2009. There are 83 days left in the year. 1446 _ Korean Hangul alphabet devised 1876 _ First two-way telephone conversation, first over outdoor wires 1946 _ First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50 1965 _ Beatles' ``Yesterday," single goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for four weeks 1970 _ Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence 1975 _ Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco 1975 _ Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize 1983 _ 17 ranking South Korean officials assassinated in Rangoon, Burma 1990 _ Radio stations around the world play ``Imagine" honoring John Lennon 1990 _ Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile

Oct 8, 2009

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