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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2007

Today is Wednesday, October 17, the 290th day of 2007. There are 75 days left in the year. 532 _ Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic pope 1492 _ Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas) 1787 _ Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities 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 1941 _ The first U.S. destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WWII off Iceland 1957 _ Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit White House 1957 _ French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1959 _ Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse 1977 _ West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of the 4 hijackers 1978 _ President Jimmy Carter signs a bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship 1979 _ Mother Teresa of India, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1986 _ The U.S. Sen

Oct 16, 2007

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2007

Today is Tuesday, October 16, the 289th day of 2007. There are 76 days left in the year. 1311 _ Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens 1781 _ Washington takes Yorktown 1923 _ Disney Co. founded 1940 _ Warsaw Ghetto established 1941 _ Germany advances within 60 miles (96km) of Moscow 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 _ Brezhnev and Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia 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 1978 _ Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II 1984 _ Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins the Nobel Peace Prize 1990 _ U.S. forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf

Oct 15, 2007

Today in History

Today is Monday, October 15, the 288th day of 2007. There are 77 days left in the year. 1520 -- King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall 1878 -- Edison Electric Light Company incorporated 1914 -- The Clayton Antitrust Act passed 1937 -- Ernest Hemingway novel “To Have & Have Not” published 1949 -- Billy Graham begins his ministry 1969 -- Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war 1983 -- U.S. Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut International Airport

Oct 14, 2007

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2007

Today is Saturday, October 13, the 286th day of 2007. There are 79 days left in the year. 1483 _ Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on the Bible 1845 _ Texas ratifies a state constitution 1943 _ Italy declares war on former ally Germany 1962 _ ``Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen 1969 _ Soyuz 8 is launched 1980 _ Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, N.Y. 1981 _ Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt 1987 _ Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize 1988 _ Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest 1989 _ Dow Jones down 190.58 points

Oct 12, 2007

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2007

Today is Friday, October 12, the 285th day of 2007. There are 80 days left in the year. 1285 _ 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich, Germany, they are set on fire 1492 _ Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day 1860 _ British and French troops capture Beijing 1915 _ Theodore Roosevelt criticizes U.S. citizens with dual nationalities 1941 _ The Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow 1942 _ The U.S. navy defeats Japanese in WWII Battle of Cape Esperance 1962 _ The U.S. and the USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications and meteorology 1968 _ The 19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City 1968 _ Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain 1969 _ Yoko Ono suffers another miscarriage 1972 _ 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk 1973 _ Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as vice president 1976 _ Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party 1988 _ Israel and China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations

Oct 11, 2007

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2007

Today is Thursday, October 11, the 284th day of 2007. There are 81 days left in the year. 1797 _ British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands 1864 _ Slavery abolished in Maryland 1890 _ Daughters of the American Revolution founded 1919 _ The first transcontinental air race ends 1945 _ A Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-shek vs Mao Tse-tung 1962 _ The second Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII 1968 _ Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours 1968 _ Panama revolts 1977 _ Soyuz 25 returns to Earth 1984 _ NASA launches space vehicle S-208 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, 2007

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2007

Today is Wednesday, October 10, the 283rd day of 2007. There are 82 days left in the year. 1780 _ Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean 1802 _ The first non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma 1868 _ Cuba revolts for independence against Spain 1874 _ Fiji becomes a British possession 1911 _ Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day) 1933 _ The first synthetic detergent for home use marketed 1935 _ George Gershwin's ``Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway 1938 _ Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland 1943 _ Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China 1963 _ A treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by the U.S., U.K., the USSR 1964 _ The 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo 1970 _ Fiji gains independence from Britain 1979 _ Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area 1981 _ Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo 1982 _ Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev. M. Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration

Oct 9, 2007

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2007

Today is Tuesday, October 9, the 282nd day of 2007. There are 83 days left in the year. 680 _ Husain ibn `Ali, Shi'i religious leader, enters martyrdom 1446 _ The Korean hangeul alphabet devised 1876 _ The first two-way telephone conversation, first over outdoor wires 1915 _ Woodrow Wilson becomes the first U.S. president to attend a world series game 1930 _ The first transcontinental flight by a woman (Laura Ingalls) completed 1936 _ Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA 1946 _ The first electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50 1963 _ Uganda becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth 1970 _ Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence 1975 _ Japanese Emperor Hirohito visits San Francisco 1975 _ Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize 1983 _ Four South Korean cabinet ministers assassinated in Yangon, Myanmar 1990 _ Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile

Oct 8, 2007

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2007

Today is Monday, October 8, the 281st day of 2007. There are 84 days left in the year. 451_ The Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens 1604 _ Supernova called ``Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted 1840 _ The first Hawaiian constitution proclaimed 1912 _ The first Balkan War begins 1939 _ Germany annexes Western Poland 1945 _ Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada 1962 _ Algeria admitted as 109th member of the U.N. 1962 _ North Korea reports 100 percent election turnout, 100 percent vote for Workers' Party 1970 _ Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit 1982 _ Poland bans Solidarity 1990 _ Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters

Oct 7, 2007

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2007

Today is Saturday, October 6, the 279th day of 2007. There are 86 days left in the year. 891 _ Formosus begins his reign as Catholic pope 1683 _ 13 German families arrive in present day Philadelphia 1884 _ The Naval War College established in Newport, R.I. 1889 _ Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture 1890 _ Mormon Church outlaws polygamy 1908 _ Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina 1928 _ Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China 1939 _ Hitler announces he has no attention of war with Britain and France 1949 _ President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO) 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" 1979 _ Pope John Paul II is the first pope to visit the White House 1991 _ Elizabeth Taylor weds for the eighth time (Larry Fortensky)

Oct 5, 2007
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