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SAHM
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on October 03:
1605 Li Tzu-ch'eng Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor
1728 Christian d'Oriola France, foils (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1800 George Bancroft historian (Hall of Fame)
1803 John Gorrie inventor (cold-air process of refrigeration)
1804 Townsend Harris 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
1844 Sir Patrick Manson "Father of tropical medicine"
1854 William Crawford Gorgas US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever
1886 Henri Alain-Fournier French novelist (Le Grand Meaulnes)
1888 Carl von Ossietzky Germany, journalist, pacifist (Nobel 1935)
1899 Gertrude Berg Harlem NYC, actress (Molly Goldberg-The Goldbergs)
1900 Thomas Wolfe American novelist (Look Homeward Angel)
1904 Charles Pedersen UK, biochemist (Nobel 1987)
1911 Michael Hordern England, actor (Friar Domingo-Shogun)
1923 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Lwow Poland, conductor (Die Zauberfl”te)
1925 Gore Vidal writer/playwright (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln, Burr)
1928 Erik Bruhn Copenhagen Denmark, dancer (Natl Ballet of Canada)
1935 Abdon Pamich Italy, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1964)
1935 Charles M Duke Jr Charlotte NC, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut (Apol 16)
1937 Eli Jacobs baseball owner (Baltimore Orioles)
1938 Eddie Cochran Okla City, rocker (C'Mon Everybody)
1939 James Darren Phila, actor/singer (Gidget, Diamond Head)
1940 Jean Ratelle NHL center (NY Rangers, Boston Bruins)
1941 Chubby Checker singer (The Twist)
1945 Viktor Saneyev USSR, triple jumper (Olympic-3 gold/1 silv-1968-80)
1947 Lindsey Buckingham rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk)
1950 Pamela Hensley Glendale Calif, actress (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
1951 Dave Winfield baseball outfielder (NY Yankee)
1951 Kathryn D Sullivan Paterson NJ, PhD/astro (STS 41-G, 28, 31, 45)
1956 Hart Bochner actor (Supergirl, Die Hard)
1959 Jack Wagner rocker/actor (General Hospital, Santa Barbara)
1962 Tommy Lee Greece, rock drummer (Motley Cre), wed Heather Locklear
1963 Patrick Flatley Ontario, right winger (NY Islanders, Oly-4 gold-1988)
1969 Shane Butterworth actor (Timmy-Bad News Bears)
Deaths which occurred on October 03:
1226 St. Francis of Assisi (b.1182), founder of the Franciscan order, died.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06221a.htm 1283 Dafydd ap Gruffyd, last monarch of Gwynnedd (North-Wales), dies
1564 Christophorus Fabritius, [Christoffel Smit], calvinist vicar, burned at the stake
1656 Myles Standish Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown)
1959 William Bishop actor (Steve-It's a Great Life), dies at 42
1967 Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, US folk singer/guitarist, of Huntington's Chorea at 55
1965 Zachary Scott actor (Spotlight Playhouse), dies at 51
1983 John K.M. McCaffery TV host (One Minute Please), dies at 69
1985 Charles Collingwood newscaster (Chronicles), dies at 68
1985 Maurice Copeland actor (Ralph-Those Young Charmings), dies at 74
1988 Franz Josef Strauss German FR min of defense (1956-62), dies at 73
1988 Generoso Pope Jr National Enquirer owner, dies at 61
1990 Stefano Casiraghi Princess Caroline of Monaco husband, dies at 30
1999 Akio Morita, Sony co-founder dies 78
2004 Janet Leigh (77), actress "Psycho,"
2005 The FReeper Foxhole
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
03-Oct-2003 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist James H. Pirtle Sadiyah - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - grenade
US Private 1st Class Charles M. Sims Baghdad Non-hostile - drowning
03-Oct-2004 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Staff Sergeant James L. Pettaway Jr. Brooke Army Med Center, TX Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Sergeant Russell L. Collier Taji (NW of Baghdad) - Salah ad Din Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant Christopher S. Potts Taji (NW of Baghdad) - Salah ad Din Hostile - hostile fire
Afghanistan
10/03/03 Kimbrough, Paul W. Lieutenant Colonel 44 Army Reserve 416th Engineering Command, Team 28 Illness Incirlik, Turkey Little Rock Arkansas
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/site/c.iqLTI2OBKlF/b.932833/k.CB9C/Home.htm Wounded Warrior Project Mission
The Wounded Warrior Project was founded on the principle that veterans are our nation's greatest citizens. The Project seeks to assist those men and women of our armed forces who have been severely injured during the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other hot spots around the world. Many of the injuries are traumatic amputations, gunshot wounds, burns and blast injuries that will retire these brave warriors from military service. These wounded soldiers will return to civilian life minus one or more limbs, or with serious wounds or disfiguring scars, and will face greater challenges today obtaining assistance and finding opportunities that would enable them to provide for themselves and their families.
The Wounded Warrior Project was founded to give a voice to this new generation of veterans facing unique issues and problems. The Project fills the vital need for a coordinated, united effort to enable wounded veterans to aid and assist each other and to readjust to civilian life.
On this day...
2333BC Tangun establishes kingdom of Chosun (Korea) (legendary)
1264 Comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
1430 Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
1569 Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou defeats the Huguenots
1650 The English parliament declares its rule over the fledgling American colonies
1678 Taj Mahal was completed
1789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
(Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to "recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:"
Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us. And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.)
1862 Battle of Corinth, Miss
1863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
1904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School
1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
(Hey, it's only 1%. And besides most people will never have to pay it as it's only on the rich, and they can afford it.)
1918 Boris becomes king of Bulgaria
1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
1929 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changes its name to Yugoslavia
1922 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC
1928 French sub "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
1929 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
1931 The comic strip Dick Tracy first appears in the New York News
1940 U.S. Army adopts airborne, or parachute, soldiers.
1941 Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
1941 "Maltese Falcon," starring Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade, opened. It was directed by John Huston (34).
1941 All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS
1942 Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
1945 World Federation of Trade Unions formed; CIO a member
1947 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed
1947 With only 1 out to go, Yankee Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his world series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs & he lost the game (World Series #44)
1948 NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of the week
1949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
1950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
1951 Bobby Thompson won the pennant for the New York Giants by hitting a home run off of Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers at the New York Polo Grounds before 20,000 empty seats. A "shot is heard around the world" when New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4 to win the National League pennant.
1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
1954 "Father Knows Best" premieres
1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres, Good Morning, Captain!
1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
1960 SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
1960 "The Andy Griffith Show" premiered on CBS-TV
1961 "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1961 "Mr Ed" premieres
1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
1965 Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
1967 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
1968 Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando Bela£nde Terry in Peru
1970 Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
1971 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
1971 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub joins The Coast Guard Auxillary. It's reported that Osama Bin Laden....soils himself, Saddam Hussein starts looking for a hole to hide in, Don Rumsfeld is quoted as saying "About damn time! Lets get this show on the road."
1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
1974 Bundy victim (?) Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1974 Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 Watergate trial begins
1978 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike
1982 Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)
1982 Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours
1983 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK
1985 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
1987 Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile
1988 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days
1988 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
1988 WBMW-FM, Wash DC changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern
1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
1990 East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
1990 George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades
1990 Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 HRs (& 51st)
1990 Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obscenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records
1991 Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1993 Eighteen US Rangers and Delta Force specialists died in a botched raid in Somalia and over 70 were wounded. In 1999 Mark Bowden published "Black Hawk Dawn," an account of the failed attempt to capture Mohammed Farrah Aidid. At least 500 Somalis were killed and 1,000 injured
1994 Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "Far Side" cartoon
1997 In response to Republican calls to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the fund-raising practices of President Clinton and Vice President Gore, Atty. Gen. Janet Reno said there was "no evidence whatsoever" that the president solicited campaign contributions in exchange for favorable treatment.
1997 Algerian terrorists kill 38 people at the village of Mahelma. Throats of the victims were slit, heads were cut off and houses were set on fire.
2003 In Las Vegas a tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy during a performance
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Bangladesh : Jamat Ul-Wida
Barbados : United Nations Day/Clerks' Holiday
Germany : Reunion Day "Tag der Deutsche Einheit" (1990)
Honduras : Moraz n Day/Soldier's Day
Iraq : Independence Day (1932)
Netherlands : Relief of Leyden Day (1573-74)
South Korea : National Foundation Day (2333 BC)
Missouri : Missouri Day
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) Moroccan New Year.
Virus Appreciation Day
National Clock Month
Religious Observances
Unification Church : Foundation day for nation of the unified world
Old Catholic : Feast of St Therese of the Child Jesus-Little Flower
Feast of St. Candidus, martyr.
Feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor.
Religious History
1692 In Massachusetts, Increase Mather published his "Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits," which effectively brought an end to the Salem Witch Trials which had begun earlier this year.
1778 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'A real conviction of our weakness we cannot learn merely from books or preachers. The providence of God concurs ... in making us acquainted with ourselves.'
1832 Birth of Carolina (aka Lina Sandell) Berg, hymnwriter. Known as the "Fanny Crosby of Sweden," her most enduring songs which survive today are: "Day by Day (And With Each Passing Moment)" and "Children of the Heavenly Father."
1875 Hebrew Union College was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio under Jewish auspices. It was the first Jewish college in America to train men for the rabbinate.
1929 The Church of Scotland merged with the United Free Church of Scotland, retaining the name Church of Scotland. Though it maintains an official state connection, its ecclesiastical government is presbyterian (elder-led) in nature.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Brothers fined for keeping 'pet ghost'
A village council in eastern India has fined two brothers for keeping a pet ghost.
Iswar and Haripada Murmu, of Akshaypur in West Bengal, were accused of owning a ghost after one of their wives died.
An exorcist summoned by villagers claimed the brothers' pet ghost was "responsible for a recent outbreak of disease in the locality".
Village elders said they were bringing evil to the village and fined them the equivalent of £360, reports the Deccan Chronicle.
The paper reports that the brothers had to mortgage their agricultural land to raise the money.
They now risk losing everything unless they can pay the money back within two months.
District magistrate Mukul Sarkar said: "I will immediately inquire into the matter and if there is any truth to it, the district administration will take the necessary action."
Thought for the day :
"With history one can never be certain, but I think I can safely say that Aristotle Onassis would not have married Mrs. Khrushchev."
Gore Vidal
USS John F. Kennedy, 
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, 
and son of WWII 8th Infantry Division Vet 
I've gotta say thanks for the memories. 
