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my playlist right now...
Barry White - You\'re the first, the last, my everything
Pulp - Common People
Ian Dury - SexNDrugsNRockNRoll
Ian Dury - Reasons to be cheerful
Wedding Present - Kennedy
today in history...
1884 - Naval War College forms in Newport RI
1925 - Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen P ngulos arrested
1947 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series
1979 - Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9"
1986 - Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean
and birthdays...
1882 - Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater)
1913 - Meret Oppenheim, writer
1926 - Cyril Reuben, violinist
1946 - Gary Gentry, baseball player (NY Mets)
1965 - Cynthia Meyer, NY, Canadian trap shooter (Olympics-96)
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Today in History
This is what was happening on this day
all those years ago ...and quite recently. (note to self: I should
open that database and put a few of my own entries in there... ;) )
- 0891 - Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1111 - Boudouin VII becomes earl of Flanders
- 1499 - French king Louis XII occupies Milan
- 1567 - Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of Netherlands
- 1683 - 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Phila)
- 1689 - Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII
- 1762 - English troops occupy Manila Philippines
- 1777 - Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British [OS=Sept 27]
- 1781 - Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War
- 1783 - Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock
- 1799 - Battle at Castricum: French & Bataafs army beats English/Russian army
- 1811 - French emperor Napoleon visits Utrecht
- 1857 - American Chess Assn organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
- 1861 - Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert
- 1861 - Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
- 1863 - Battle at Baxter Springs Kansas
- 1863 - Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
- 1866 - 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
- 1869 - John Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer," premieres
- 1871 - Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour
- 1876 - American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
- 1882 - 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
- 1884 - Naval War College forms in Newport RI
- 1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Resident Patient" (BG)
- 1889 - Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
- 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
- 1890 - Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
- 1893 - Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
- 1898 - Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic
- 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
- 1908 - Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant
- 1908 - Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season
- 1910 - Braves beat Phillies 20-7
- 1911 - Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
- 1911 - Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game
- 1912 - Pirates Owen "Chief" Wilson hits record 36th triple of season
- 1918 - US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die
- 1919 - Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria
- 1919 - White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series
- 1920 - 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleve's Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln
- 1921 - Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962)
- 1921 - Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yanks (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0
- 1922 - Schwebla replaces Benes govt in Czechoslavakia
- 1923 - 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
- 1923 - 2nd govt of Stresemann in Germany forms
- 1923 - US lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)
- 1923 - USSR adopts experimental calendar
- 1925 - Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen P ngulos arrested
- 1926 - Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5
- 1927 - "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
- 1928 - 11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms CC Baltimore
- 1928 - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China
- 1928 - Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail
- 1929 - 12th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest CC Los Angeles
- 1931 - Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish Natl Solidarists)
- 1935 - Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
- 1935 - Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
- 1936 - NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series
- 1938 - Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
- 1939 - Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain
- 1939 - Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
- 1940 - Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF
- 1941 - German army occupies Briansk, USSR
- 1941 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series
- 1942 - Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
- 1943 - Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island
- 1943 - Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"
- 1944 - Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel
- 1944 - Canadians free Austria
- 1944 - HM Zwaardvis sinks U168 at Java
- 1944 - Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia
- 1945 - Gen Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train)
- 1945 - Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge
- 1945 - Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series & is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs
- 1946 - 90øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
- 1946 - Pres Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
- 1947 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series
- 1948 - "Polonaise" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances
- 1948 - KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
- 1949 - Pres Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
- 1951 - Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb
- 1953 - WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 - LSD made illegal in US
- 1956 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad
- 1956 - Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
- 1956 - South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan
- 1957 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1957 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open
- 1958 - US nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole
- 1959 - Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
- 1959 - Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
- 1961 - JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
- 1961 - USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1962 - 16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto
- 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
- 1963 - Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show"
- 1963 - LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series
- 1964 - "Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
- 1965 - Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
- 1965 - William Goodhart's "Generation," premieres in NYC
- 1966 - Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout
- 1966 - Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor
- 1967 - Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies
- 1967 - USSR performs nuclear test
- 1969 - WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1972 - 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
- 1973 - Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel
- 1974 - "Mack & Mabel," opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances
- 1974 - Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic
- 1976 - "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing
- 1976 - Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack
- 1976 - John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent
- 1976 - Pres Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
- 1977 - DL Coburns "Gin Game," premieres in NYC
- 1977 - Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game
- 1978 - Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of US university (Chic)
- 1978 - Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
- 1978 - Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"
- 1978 - Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5
- 1979 - Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9"
- 1979 - Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House
- 1980 - Guyana adopts constitution
- 1980 - John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges
- 1982 - Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
- 1982 - Fokker's Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die
- 1983 - Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs
- 1983 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
- 1983 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
- 1983 - NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands
- 1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1984 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open
- 1985 - Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia
- 1985 - Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
- 1986 - Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean
- 1987 - Milt coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic
- 1988 - Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
- 1990 - Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun
- 1990 - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
- 1990 - Ulysses launched (Solar Polar Orbiter)
- 1991 - Elizabeth Taylor weds for 8th time (Larry Fortensky)
- 1991 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship
- 1991 - NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
- 1991 - Orioles last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers)
- 1993 - Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time
- 1994 - -9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria
- 1994 - Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa
- 1995 - BPAA US Women's Open won by Cheryl Daniels
- 1995 - Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
- 1996 - Bob Dole & Pres Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate
- 1996 - Caroline Pierce wins JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
- 1996 - Lois & Clark (fictional characters) wed
- 1996 - NY Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals
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