Post by Flying Horse on Oct 31, 2013 16:13:27 GMT -5
Books for Treats Day
Today in History: October 31st, the 304th day of 2013 with 61 days left in the year
1517--Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
1776--in a speech before British Parliament, King George III acknowledged that all was not going well for Britain in the war with the American colonies.
1795--John Keats, English Romantic poet. one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Shelley, was born in London; died 1921 at age 25 of tuberculosis in King's College, London.
1846--the Donner party became trapped in what is now known as Donner Pass in the Sierra Mountains.
1861--citing failing health, Gen. Winfield Scott, commander of the Union forces, retired from service.
1864--Nevada became the 36th state.
1868--Postmaster General Alexander Williams Randall approved a standard uniform for mail carriers.
1888--John Boyd Dunlop took out a patent for his pneumatic bicycle tire.
1892--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, was published for the first time in book form (had benn publishing in magazines since 1887).
1914--Russian troops under General Russki pushed the Germans under Hindenburg back to their original positions, ending the battle of the Vistula River.
1922--Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy.
1926--magician Harry Houdini died of complications from a ruptured appendix causing gangrene and peritonitis.
1931--Dan Rather, broadcast journalist for CBS, turns 82 today.
1938--the day after his War of the Worlds broadcast had panicked radio listeners, Orson Welles expressed "deep regret" but also bewilderment that anyone had thought the show was real.
1941--the Navy destroyer USS Reuben James was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives.
1941--work was completed on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, begun in 1927. Actually, the money ran out.
1954--the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) began a revolt against French rule.
1956--British and French military forces join Israel in the Suez Canal Zone to try to retake the canal from Egypt.
1961--the body of Josef Stalin was removed from Lenin's Tomb as part of the Soviet Union's "de-Stalinization" drive.
1968--Pres. Johnson ordered a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hoped for fruitful peace negotiations.
1984--Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated near her residence by two Sikh security guards.
1992--five American nuns in Liberia were shot to death near the capital Monrovia; the killings were blamed on rebels loyal to Charles Taylor.
1992--Pope John Paul II formally proclaimed that the Roman Catholic Church had erred in condemning the astronomer Galileo for holding that the Earth was not the center of the universe.
1993--River Phoenix died at the age of 23 after collapsing outside The Viper Room in Hollywood
1999--EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed off the Massachusetts coast, killing all 217 people aboard.
2001--New York hospital worker Kathy T. Nguyen (nwen) died of inhalation anthrax, the fourth person to perish in a spreading wave of bioterrorism.
2005--Pres. Bush nominated Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court.
2006--P.W. Botha, South Africa's apartheid-era president, died at age 90.
2008--Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel died in Chicago at age 96.
2012--Pres. Obama joined Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for a tour of damage along the New Jersey coast from Superstorm Sandy.
Thought for Today:
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
—Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) English author and critic
Today in History: October 31st, the 304th day of 2013 with 61 days left in the year
1517--Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
1776--in a speech before British Parliament, King George III acknowledged that all was not going well for Britain in the war with the American colonies.
1795--John Keats, English Romantic poet. one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Shelley, was born in London; died 1921 at age 25 of tuberculosis in King's College, London.
1846--the Donner party became trapped in what is now known as Donner Pass in the Sierra Mountains.
1861--citing failing health, Gen. Winfield Scott, commander of the Union forces, retired from service.
1864--Nevada became the 36th state.
1868--Postmaster General Alexander Williams Randall approved a standard uniform for mail carriers.
1888--John Boyd Dunlop took out a patent for his pneumatic bicycle tire.
1892--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, was published for the first time in book form (had benn publishing in magazines since 1887).
1914--Russian troops under General Russki pushed the Germans under Hindenburg back to their original positions, ending the battle of the Vistula River.
1922--Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy.
1926--magician Harry Houdini died of complications from a ruptured appendix causing gangrene and peritonitis.
1931--Dan Rather, broadcast journalist for CBS, turns 82 today.
1938--the day after his War of the Worlds broadcast had panicked radio listeners, Orson Welles expressed "deep regret" but also bewilderment that anyone had thought the show was real.
1941--the Navy destroyer USS Reuben James was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives.
1941--work was completed on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, begun in 1927. Actually, the money ran out.
1954--the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) began a revolt against French rule.
1956--British and French military forces join Israel in the Suez Canal Zone to try to retake the canal from Egypt.
1961--the body of Josef Stalin was removed from Lenin's Tomb as part of the Soviet Union's "de-Stalinization" drive.
1968--Pres. Johnson ordered a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hoped for fruitful peace negotiations.
1984--Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated near her residence by two Sikh security guards.
1992--five American nuns in Liberia were shot to death near the capital Monrovia; the killings were blamed on rebels loyal to Charles Taylor.
1992--Pope John Paul II formally proclaimed that the Roman Catholic Church had erred in condemning the astronomer Galileo for holding that the Earth was not the center of the universe.
1993--River Phoenix died at the age of 23 after collapsing outside The Viper Room in Hollywood
1999--EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed off the Massachusetts coast, killing all 217 people aboard.
2001--New York hospital worker Kathy T. Nguyen (nwen) died of inhalation anthrax, the fourth person to perish in a spreading wave of bioterrorism.
2005--Pres. Bush nominated Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court.
2006--P.W. Botha, South Africa's apartheid-era president, died at age 90.
2008--Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel died in Chicago at age 96.
2012--Pres. Obama joined Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for a tour of damage along the New Jersey coast from Superstorm Sandy.
Thought for Today:
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
—Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) English author and critic