On this Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on October 11:
1671 Frederik IV king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730)
1759 Mason Locke Weems, preacher (Episcopalian clergyman). (invented the story of George Washington and the cherry tree)
1820 Alfred Washington Ellet Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1821 Sir George Williams England, founder YMCA
1825 Elkanah Brackin Greer Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1835 Hunter Holmes McGuire Med Director (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1844 Henry John Heinz founded prepared-foods company (57 varieties)
1872 Harlan Fiske Stone NH, Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (41-46)
1884 Eleanor Roosevelt 1st lady/crusader
1896 Roman Jakobson linguist/Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language)
1902 Leon Belasco Odessa Russia, actor (Lucky Partners, My Sister Eileen)
1906 Earl "Dutch" Clark Colo, NFL hall of fame QB (Spartans, Detroit)
1910 Joseph Alsop political newspaper columnist (Men Around the President)
1914 Edward J Day US Postmaster General (1961)
1918 Jerome Robbins choreographer/composer (Tony-West Side Story)
1919 Art Blakey Pitts Pa, drummer (Billy Eckstine Band)
1925 Elmore Leonard American writer (Glitz, Mr Majestyk)
1932 Dottie West Tenn, country singer (Here Comes My Baby)
1936 Charles Gordon Fullerton Roch, USAF/ast (STS T-1, T-3, T-5, 3, 51F)
1937 Ron Leibman NYC, actor (Norma Rae, Where's Poppa?, Beauty & Beast)
1943 Gene Watson country singer (Heartaches, Love & Stuff)
1948 Daryl Hall rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates-Sara Smile)
1962 Joan Cusack Evanston Ill, comedienne (SNL)
1962 Leslie Landon LA Calif, actress (Etta Plum-Little House on Prairie)
1971 Luke Perry Mansfield Ohio, actor (Dillon-Beverly Hill 90210)
1975 Kellie Martin actress (Life Goes On)
Deaths which occurred on October 11:
0732 Abd ar-Rahman Yemenite general strategist (Bordeaux occupier), dies
1303 Boniface VIII, [Benedetto Gaetani], lawyer/pope (1294-1303), dies
1424 Jan Zizka, Czech (army)leader (Hussite), dies of plague at 46
1531 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss church reformer (Zwinglian), dies
1779 General Casimir Pulaski dies
1809 Meriwether Lewis capt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 35
1891 Charles Stewart Parnells remains, buried in Ireland
1961 Leonard "Chico" Marx (Marx Brothers), dies at 74
1985 Orson Welles dies at 70 of a heart attack
1985 Tex Williams country-western singer, dies at 68 of cancer
1988 Waylon Flowers puppeteer, dies at 48
1990 Douglas Edwards WW II correspondant, dies of cancer at 73
1991 Redd Foxx comedian, dies at 68 from a heart attack
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
11-Oct-2004 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Aaron J. Rusin Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - sniper
US Staff Sergeant Michael Lee Burbank Mosul (SW part) - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire - suicide car bomb
US Private 1st Class Anthony W. Monroe Baghdad (southern part) Hostile - hostile fire - rocket attack
US Sergeant Pamela G. Osbourne Baghdad (southern part) Hostile - hostile fire - rocket attack
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
0732 Battle at Tours: Franks under Charles (the hammer) Martel defeats Moors
1492 Columbus' ships sight land on the horizon (Bahamas)
1521 Pope Leo X titles King Henry VIII of England "Defender of the Faith"
1531 The Catholics defeat the Protestants at Kappel during Switzerland's second civil war.
1643 Battle at Wincebt: English New Model-army defeats royalists
1737 Earthquake kills 300,000 & destroys much of Calcutta India (And where was George Bush?)
1776 Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British
1779 Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski was killed while fighting for American independence during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, Ga.
1811 The Juliana, the 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation
1861 Battle of Dumfries, VA (Quantico Creek)
1862 The Confederate Congress in Richmond passes a draft law allowing anyone owning 20 or more slaves to be exempt from military service.
1863 Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee
1864 Slavery abolished in Maryland
1865 Pres Johnson paroles CSA VP Alexander Stephens
1868 Thomas Alva Edison filed papers for his first invention: an Electrical Vote Recorder, to rapidly tabulate floor votes in Congress. Members of Congress rejected it.
1877 Outlaw Wild Bill Longley, who killed at least a dozen men, is hanged, but it took two tries; on the first try, the rope slipped and his knees drug the ground.
1890 1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 secs, Wash DC)
1890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded
1913 Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series
1914 German troops occupy Gent
1915 Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins
1919 1st transcontinental air race ends
1922 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)
1923 German mark falls to 10 billion per , 4 billion per $
1925 NY Giants play 1st NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0
1927 Lou Gehrig elected MVP
1931 100,000 extreme-right Germans form "Harzburger Front"
1932 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC
1936 "Professor Quiz", 1st radio quiz show premieres
1939 Albert Einstein wrote his famous letter to FDR about the potential of the atomic bomb.
1942 Battle of Cape Esperance in the Solomon Islands, U.S. cruisers and destroyers decisively defeat a Japanese task force in a night surface encounter
1945 Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100 m
1962 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
1967 Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
1968 Apollo 7 the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard,made 163 orbits in 260 hours
1968 Billy Martin named manager of Twins
1969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days
1971 Frank McGee becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1972 Prison uprising at Washington DC jail
1975 "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin
1975 Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham (A marriage made somewhat lower than heaven)
1976 Mao TseTung widow Jiang Qing & "Gang of Four," arrested & charged with plotting a coup
1975 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick
1977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
1978 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
1979 Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing the CAT scan
1980 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
1981 LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)
1981 Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum (That would be Minnesota's own Prince)
1982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England
1983 Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1984 VP candidate debate-Geraldine Ferraro (D) & George Bush (R)
1985 Pres Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1986 Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1990 Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
1990 Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
1991 Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrassed her
1991 Chip Beck ties PGA lowest 18 hole score of 59
1996 Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor won the Nobel Peace Prize for their pro-democracy efforts in troubled East Timor where famine and repression had killed one-third of the entire population.
1998 Pope John Paul II decreed the first Jewish-born saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a nun killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
2000 Celera Genomics announces the completion of the mapping of the lab mouses genome.
2001 NYC Mayor Giuliani rejects a $10 million donation from Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal due to an attached press release that said the US should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
2003 A team of 18 doctors in Dallas, Texas, began a complicated separation surgery in an attempt to give Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim, 2-year-old conjoined twins from Egypt, a chance at independent lives.
2004 Swiss paleontologists said hundreds of dinosaur prints dating back 152 million years (10 months, 14 days, 4 hours 47 minutes 19 seconds) have been discovered in the Jura mountains in the northwest of Switzerland.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Panama, Panama Canal Zone : Revolution Day (1968)
Sri Lanka : Deepavali
US : General Pulaski Memorial Day (1779)
Western Samoa : National Day
Canada : Thanksgiving Day
Florida : Farmers' Day (1915)
Hawaii : Discoverer's Day
US : Columbus Day (1492)
Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day
Virgin Is & Puerto Rico : Friendship Day
Get Organized Week Ends
Mental Illness Awareness Week Ends
Kiss Your Car Day
Value of Play Month
National Sarcastics' Awareness Month
Religious Observances
RC : Commemoration of the Motherhood of Mary
RC : Commemoration of St Mary Soledad, foundress of Handmaidens of Mary
Jewish : Sukkot
Religious History
1521 Leo X conferred the title "Fidei Defensor" (Defender of the Faith) upon England's Henry VIII. Three popes and 13 years later, Henry severed all ties with Rome to establish the Church of England.
1551 The 13th Session of the Council of Trent opened, during which major decisions were reached regarding the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist.
1895 Birth of Avis B. Christiansen, devotional author. One of the most prolific hymnwriters of the 20th century, two of her most enduring hymns today are "Up Calvary's Mountain" and "Precious Hiding Place."
1914 During World War I, the Cathedral of Notre Dame suffered minor damage during an air raid on Paris. (Notre Dame, the most famous of the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages, is distinguished for both its size and antiquity.)
1954 Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship -- and not as ends in themselves.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Candidate Nabbed for DWI Twice in 3 Hours
Oct 10, 7:42 PM (ET)
VERNON, N.Y. (AP) - A first-time candidate for public office was arrested twice in a three-hour span for driving drunk, authorities said Monday.
Brian E. Karst, 34, who is running for Oneida Common Council as an independent candidate was arrested Friday night by Oneida County Sheriff's Deputy Mark Chrysler and ticketed for numerous traffic violations. Sobriety tests revealed his blood alcohol content was 0.14 percent, nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08, deputies said.
After his arrest, Karst was released to a third party.
Less than three hours later, Chrysler pulled Karst over again - driving the same car as before. This time, Karst's blood alcohol content was 0.11, deputies said.
Deputies said Karst also was arrested for driving while intoxicated on Sept. 9.
A message on Karst's phone Monday said he was not taking messages. His uncle, Terry Karst, said his nephew has been under stress after a divorce and a custody dispute.
Terry Karst, who is chairman of the Independence Party in neighboring Madison County, said he would encourage his nephew to stay in the race against two-term Democratic incumbent Donald Moore so voters have a choice.
"When you have a president caught having sex with an intern or lying under oath, how's that compare? These are working people, not elitist politicians. They make mistakes. They put their pants on one leg at a time, and they make mistakes," Terry Karst said.
Thought for the day :
"Mustard's no good without roast beef."
Leonard "Chico" Marx