Happy birthday and many happy returns CQ and Tan Nguyen. Born on the same day, across the years, with 1427 – Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (d. 1496) 1803 – Joseph Hansom, English architect, designed Birmingham Town Hall and invented the Hansom cab (d. 1882) 1865 – Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912) 1874 – Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American philanthropist (d. 1948) 1941 – Steven Kellogg, American childrens author and illustrator 1942 – Bob Hoskins, English actor 1962 – Cary Elwes, English actor 1967 – Keith Urban, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Ranch) 1981 – Guy Sebastian, Australian singer-songwriter and producer 2000 – Ellery Sprayberry, American actress October 26: National Day in Austria (1955); Feast day of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki St Pauls Cathedral 1708 – The final stone of St Pauls Cathedral (pictured), rebuilt after the original burned down in the 1666 Great Fire of London, was laid by the son of its architect, Christopher Wren. 1921 – The Chicago Theatre, which is the oldest surviving Neo-Baroque French-revival grand movie palace, opened. 1944 – World War II: In one of the largest naval battles in modern history, Allied forces defeated the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the seas surrounding the Philippine island of Leyte. 1977 – Somalian hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms in the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox. 1994 – Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty settling relations between the two countries and pledging that neither would allow its territory to become a staging ground for military strikes by a third country. The final stone was laid. The movie palace opened. The big battle was fought. That pox is old. We have peace. Lets party.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:43:43 +0000
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