Monday, October 21, 2013 National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day, Celebration of The Mind Day, Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD) Prevention Day, Information Overload Day, National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day, Reptile Awareness On This Day: 1797 - The navy frigate U.S. Constitution, known as Old Ironsides, was launched in Boston Harbor. 1805 - Admiral Horatio Nelson died in the Battle of Trafalgar. 1837 - Seminole chief Osceola was captured as he carried a white flag of truce during the Second Seminole War. 1879 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the first commercially practical light bulb at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. 1892 - Dedication ceremonies were held for the Worlds Columbian Exposition (Chicago Worlds Fair) 1921 - President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting president against lynching in the South. 1959 - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened to the public in New York City. 1988 - Former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos and wife Imelda are indicted on charges of laundering money from their country’s economy. 2011 - President Obama announces that all troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of December 2011. Born on This Day: 1449 - George Plantagenet, duke of Clarence was born. Brother of Edward IV whom he was accused of plotting against. He was thrown into prison and secretly executed in the Tower of London. The rumor is that he was drowned in a large cask of malmsey wine. 1833 - Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer, inventor of dynamite. 1911 - William A. Mitchell was born (died July 26, 2004). American food chemist. While working for General Foods Corp. he invented Tang, Pop Rocks, Cool Whip, quick-set Jell-O, powdered egg whites, among other things. 1917 - John Birks Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and singer. 1925 - Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso, a.k.a. Celia Cruz, Cuban-American Salsa Performer 1949 - Benjamin Bibi Netanyahu, Israeli politician and the current Prime Minister of Israel 1956 - Carrie Frances Fisher ,American Actress, Novelist, Screenwriter, and Performance Artist. 1980 - Kimberly Noel Kardashian, Reality Television Star Died on This Day: 1422 - Charles VI of France 1969 - Jean-Louis Jack Kérouac, American journalist, novelist and poet 1970 - John Thomas Scopes, The teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925 for violating Tennessees Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes Trial. 1985 - Daniel James Dan White, San Francisco supervisor who assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, on Monday, November 27, 1978, at City Hall. 1990 - Thomas A. Carvelas, a.k.a. Tom Carvel, Greek-born American businessman and entrepreneur. Inventor of the soft-serve ice cream machine, and founder of the Carvel ice cream chain If you were born on this day in 1972, the song at the top of the charts was My Ding-a-Ling by Chuck Berry. My Ding-a-Ling was a novelty song written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew. In 1972 it was covered by Chuck Berry and became Berrys only U.S. number-one single on the pop charts. Berry recorded a version called My Tambourine in 1968, but the version which topped the charts was recorded live during the Lanchester Arts Festival at the Locarno ballroom in Coventry, England, on 3 February 1972, where Berry – backed by The Roy Young Band – topped a bill that also included Slade and Billy Preston. Boston radio station WMEX disc jockey Jim Connors was credited with a gold record for discovering the song and pushing it to #1 over the airwaves and amongst his peers in the United States.
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