Today is Sunday, October 6, 2013. These notable events happened on this day in: 1781 - Americans and French begin the siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown. The last battle of the American Revolutionary War. 1866 - First train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000) 1889 - Moulin Rogue opens in Paris, France 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture 1893 - Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat 1911 - Cy Young’s farewell appearance to Major League baseball 1927 - “Jazz Singer”, 1st movie with a sound track premiers in NYC 1928 - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes President of China 1952 - Agatha Christie’s “The Mouse Trap” opens in London (It’s still running) 1955 - LSD made illegal in the US 1956 - Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine 1961 - JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters 1965 - “The Supremes” release “I Hear A Symphony” 1976 - “Gang of Four” arrested in Bejing 1978 - Hannah H. Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of US university (University of Chicago) 1979 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit America 1985 - At age 46, NY Yankees’ Phil Niekro becomes the oldest player to pitch a shut-out, beating Toronto 8-0 1996 - Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their first debate 2000 - Slobdan Milosevic resigns as President of Yugoslavia. He is later arrested and charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. He dies in his cell of a heart attack in 2006 before he can be convicted 2007 - Jason Lewis becomes the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a human powered craft These notable people were born on this day in: 1824 - Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed the first rule book 1846 - George Westinghouse, inventor, entrepreneur (invented modern air brakes, was a rival of Thomas Edison. Westinghouse proposed using “DC” or direct current as the standard for electrical service) 1866 - Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice and music 1908 - Carol Lombard, actress, (My Man Godfrey) Was killed in a plane crash in 1942 returning from a war bond tour. 1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist/explorer/writer (Kon Tiki) 1951 - Kevin Cronin, rock vocalist (REO Speedwagon) 1954 - David Hidalgo, musician (Los Lobos) 1956 - Stephanie Zimbalist, actress (Remington Steele) Daughter of Efrem Zimbalist Jr. 1963 - Elizabeth Shue, actress (Cocktail, Adventures in Babysitting) 1974 - Jeremy Sisto, actor (Six Feet Under, Law & Order) Let’s wish all of these folks a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! May you have a wonderful Sunday.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 15:34:04 +0000
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