Dobsons Improbable History for October 9—This day in 1582 does not exist in Italy, Poland, Portugal, or Spain. In other news, Charlemagne is crowned King of the Franks, the Korean 한글 (hangul) alphabet is introduced, the light from Keplers Supernova reaches Earth, Yale is chartered, the Washington Monument opens, the Chicago White Sox lose the 1919 World Series and trigger the Black Sox Scandal, Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity, the SR-71 makes its last flight, North Korea tests its first nuclear device, members of the Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate Malala Yousafzai on her way home from school, and a 13-kg meteorite lands in a driveway in Peekskill NY and destroys a 1980 Chevy Malibu! Its the birthday of composer Camille Saint-Saëns; jaccused officer Alfred Dreyfus; evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; actor Alastair Sim; Nazi lieder Horst Wessel; Watergate figure and thriller writer E. Howard Hunt; rockers John Lennon, John Entwistle, Jackson Browne, and Sean Lennon; actors Tony Shalhoub and Scott Bakula; and prime minister David Cameron. Deaths include astronomer and surveyor Benjamin Banneker, torch singer Helen Morgan, Pope Pius XII, revolutionary Che Guevara, exerciser Joseph Pilates, Holocaust hero Oskar Schindler, diplomat Clare Booth Luce, engine designer Felix Wankel, philosopher Jacques Derrida, and comedian Louis Nye. Happy Leif Erikson Day, everybody! #TodayinHistory improbhistory.blogspot/2013/10/october-9-in-history.html
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 08:03:50 +0000
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