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Birthday October 01, 1207 Henry III, king of England (1216-72) |
Birthday October 01, 1685 Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor (1711-40) |
Birthday October 01, 1781 James Lawrence, naval hero ("Don't give up the ship!") |
Birthday October 01, 1791 Sergey Aksakov, Russian novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family) |
Birthday October 01, 1832 Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st wife of Benjamin Harrison |
Birthday October 01, 1881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co |
Birthday October 01, 1893 Faith Baldwin, author |
Birthday October 01, 1904 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist |
Birthday October 01, 1907 Hiram Fong, Sen |
Birthday October 01, 1909 Sam Yorty, ex-mayor of LA |
Birthday October 01, 1911 Edward P. Boland, (D-Rep-Mass) |
Birthday October 01, 1920 Walter Matthau, (Odd Couple, Bad News Bears) |
Birthday October 01, 1921 James Whitmore, Actor (Black Like Me, Tora! Tora! Tora!) |
Birthday October 01, 1924 William Rehnquist, chief justice, Supreme Court (1987-, ) |
Birthday October 01, 1924 Jimmy Carter is born |
Birthday October 01, 1924 Jimmy Earl Carter,(D) 39th Pres (1977-1981) |
Birthday October 01, 1927 Tom Bosley, Actor (Happy Days) |
Birthday October 01, 1928 George Peppard, Actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Blue Max) |
Birthday October 01, 1928 Laurence Harvey, Actor (Alamo, Romeo & Juliet) |
Birthday October 01, 1930 Richard Harris |
Birthday October 01, 1935 Julie Andrews, Actress & singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins) |
Birthday October 01, 1936 Charles G. Fullerton, astronaut (STS-3, 51F) |
Birthday October 01, 1936 Edward Villella, American ballet dancer |
Birthday October 01, 1936 Stella Stevens, Actress (Girls! Girls!, Manitou) in Yazoo City Miss |
Birthday October 01, 1945 Rod Carew, baseball slugger |
History October 01, 0331 BC Alexander of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela |
History October 01, 1776 Patriots learn of increased French support |
History October 01, 1837 Treaty with Winnebago Indians |
History October 01, 1847 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet |
History October 01, 1851 1st Hawaiian stamps issued |
History October 01, 1856 First installment of Madame Bovary is published |
History October 01, 1864 Rose Greenhow dies |
History October 01, 1869 1st postcards are issued in Vienna |
History October 01, 1890 Congress creates Yosemite National Park |
History October 01, 1896 Yosemite becomes a National Park |
History October 01, 1898 Henry Huntington buys the LA Railway |
History October 01, 1903 1st Baseball World Series |
History October 01, 1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car |
History October 01, 1908 Ford Motor Company unveils the Model T |
History October 01, 1908 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory beats Walter Johnson 2-1 |
History October 01, 1912 Yanks lose game #100 enroute to a 50-102 season |
History October 01, 1918 Crisis in Germany |
History October 01, 1918 Lawrence of Arabia captures Damascus |
History October 01, 1920 Scientific American reports that radio will soon be used to transmit music to the home |
History October 01, 1921 Yanks win their 1st pennant |
History October 01, 1932 Babe Ruth's famous homerun called off of Cubs Charlie Root |
History October 01, 1936 Franco heads Spain |
History October 01, 1938 Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) |
History October 01, 1940 Penn Turnpike pioneer toll thruway opened |
History October 01, 1942 1st jet propelled airplane tested |
History October 01, 1944 Experiments begin on homosexuals at Buchenwald |
History October 01, 1946 Bob Feller 348th strikeout of the season |
History October 01, 1946 Nazi war criminals sentenced at Nuremberg |
History October 01, 1947 1st helicopter air mail & express service LA Ca |
History October 01, 1949 People's Rep of China proclaimed (National Day) |
History October 01, 1949 Mao Zedong proclaims People's Republic of China |
History October 01, 1951 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador - Eugenie Anderson |
History October 01, 1952 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station Portland Or |
History October 01, 1958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA |
History October 01, 1960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
History October 01, 1961 Roger Maris breaks home-run record |
History October 01, 1961 Roger Maris sets record of 61 homers last off of Tracy Sallard |
History October 01, 1961 South Vietnam requests a bilateral defense treaty |
History October 01, 1962 Johnny Carson makes debut as Tonight Show host |
History October 01, 1962 US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' radio telescope |
History October 01, 1962 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show |
History October 01, 1962 The Lucy Show premiers |
History October 01, 1964 SF cable cars declared a national landmark |
History October 01, 1965 Suharto crushes Indonesian coup |
History October 01, 1971 Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida opens |
History October 01, 1975 Reunion Island no longer prints stamps France takes over production |
History October 01, 1977 Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title |
History October 01, 1978 Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians setting up a play off game with Red Sox |
History October 01, 1979 US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal) |
History October 01, 1982 EPCOT Center opens |
History October 01, 1987 Earthquake rocks Southern California |
History October 01, 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes head of Supreme Soviet |
History October 01, 1993 A 12-year-old girl is kidnapped |
History October 01, 2005 Terrorists strike again in Bali |
History October 01, 2013 Tom Clancy, author of mega-selling techno thrillers, dies |