On this day in history......................

27th October

1659 - William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson became the first Quakers to be executed in America.

24th October

1537 - Jane Seymour, the third wife of England's King Henry VIII, died after giving birth to Prince Edward. Prince Edward became King Edward VI.

1632 - Scientist Anthony van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, Holland. He created the first microscope lenses that were powerful enough to observe single-celled animals.

23rd October

42 B.C. - Marcus Junius Brutus committed suicide after his defeat at the Battle of Philippi. He was a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar.
 

22nd October

1844 - This day is recognized as "The Great Disappointment" among those who practiced Millerism. The world was expected to come to an end according to the followers of William Miller.

20th October

1952 - The Mau Mau uprising against white settlers began in Kenya.

2003 - A 40-year-old man went over Niagara Falls without safety devices and survived. He was charged with illegally performing a stunt.

17th October

1888 - The first issue of "National Geographic Magazine" was released at newsstands.

1931 - Al Capone was convicted on income tax evasion and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.

14th October

1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution after being accused of conspiring against Adolf Hitler and the execution that would follow.

13th October

54 A.D. - The Roman emperor Claudius I died after being poisoned by his wife, Agrippina.

1992 - A commercial flight record was set by an Air France supersonic jetliner for circling the Earth in 33 hours and one minute.

1995 - Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 500-millionth guest

9th October

1967 - Che Guevara was executed by Bolivian soldiers for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.

1974 - Oskar Schindler died in Frankfurt, Germany. Schindler is credited with saving the lives of about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.

8th October

2001 - Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.

1971 - "Imagine" was recorded by John Lennon.

7th October

2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis.

2001 - The U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to that state's support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.

6th October

1889 - The Kinescope was exhibited by Thomas Edison. He had patented the moving picture machine in 1887.

1939 - Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.
 

3rd October

1226 - St. Francis of Assisi died. He was the founder of the Franciscan order.

1995 - O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman. Simpson was later found liable in a civil trial.

2nd October

1452 - Richard III was born. He married the widow of the Prince of Wales and then imprisoned his mother-in-law for life.

1870 - Rome was made the capital of Italy.
 

1st October

1908 - The Model T automobile was introduced by Henry Ford. The purchase price of the car was $850.

1596 - The Duke of Norfolk was imprisoned by Britain's Queen Elizabeth for trying to marry Mary the Queen of Scots.
 

Sept 30th

1399 - Henry Bolingbroke became the King of England as Henry IV.
William Wrigley, Jr. 1861 - Chewing gum tycoon  was born

Sept 29th

1758 - England's Admiral Horatio Nelson was born.
1829 - The first public appearance by London's re-organized police force was met with jeers from political opponents. The force became known as Scotland Yard.

Sept 26th

1991 - Four men and four women began their two-year stay inside the "Biosphere II." The project was intended to develop technology for future space colonies.

1993 - The eight people who had stayed in "Biosphere II" emerged from their sealed off environment.
 

Sept 25th

1493 - Christopher Columbus left Spain with 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

1983 - A Soviet military officer, Stanislav Petrov, averted a potential worldwide nuclear war. He declared a false alarm after a U.S. attack was detected by a Soviet early warning system. It was later discovered the alarms had been set off when the satellite warning system mistakenly interpreted sunlight reflections off clouds as the presence of enemy missiles.

Sept 24th

1880 - Sarah Knauss was born. She was the world's oldest person when she died at 119 years old on December 31, 1999.
 

1991 - Theodor Seuss Geisel died at the age of 87. The children's author is better known as Dr. Seuss.
 

Sept 23rd

1897 - The first recorded traffic fatality in Great Britain occurred.

1999 - A 17-month-old girl fell 230 feet from the Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The girl had bruises but no broken limbs from the fall onto a rocky ledge.
 

Sept. 22

1776, Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War.

1903 - Italo Marchiony was granted a patent for the ice cream cone.
 

 

Quote of the day

 

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
- W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", 1915