On this Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on October 23:
1752 Nicolas Appert inventor (food canning, bouillon tablet)
1844 Louis Riel Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis
1905 Felix Bloch US physicist (Nobel 1952)
1906 Gertrude Ederle US, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1910 Hayden Rorke Brooklyn NY, actor (Dr Bellows-I Dream of Jeannie)
1923 Frank Sutton Clarksville Tenn, actor (Sgt Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC)
1925 Johnny Carson Corning Iowa, comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust)
1927 Dezs” Gyarmati Hungary, water polo player (Olympic-gold-1956, 60, 64)
1931 Jim Bunning Phillies pitcher (perfect Game against Mets 1965)
1935 Chi Chi Rodriguez golfer (PGA Seniors-1987)
1940 Edison Pel‚ Brazil, soccer player extraordinaire (NY Cosmos)
1941 Greg Ridley bassist (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1942 Michael Crichton US novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker)
1946 Miklos Nemeth Hungary, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 Dwight Yoakum country singer (If There Was a Way)
1959 "Weird Al" Yankovic parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)
1962 Doug Flute WFL/NFL QB (Generals, Bears, Patriots)
Deaths which occurred on October 23:
0042BC Marcus Junius Brutus, a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, commits suicide after his defeat at the Battle of Philippi [H]
1260 Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered
1450 Juan de Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70
1903 Francis Ellingwood Abbot theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66
1935 Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], US gangster, murdered at 33
1935 Otto "Aba Daba" Berman, US gangster, murdered
1939 Zane Grey, US western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67
1978 Mother Maybelle Carter country singer, mother of June Carter Cash, One of the founders of modern country music, dies at 69
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/7059/carters.html 1983 Jessica Savitch Margate NJ, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies at 36
1983 Tamara Shayne actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack
1984 David Gorcey dead end kid actor, dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
1984 Oskar Werner actor, dies of a heart attack at 61
1994 Robert Lansing, actor (Twelve O'Clock High) dies of cancer at 66
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
23-Oct-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Captain John R. Teal Ba’qubah - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
1642 The Battle of Edgehill. The first major clash between Royalist and Parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars.
1668 Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade
1690 Revolt in Haarlem, Holland after public ban on smoking
1775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1783 Virginia emancipates slaves who fought for independence during the Revolutionary War
1790 Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
1814 The 1st plastic surgery was performed in England
1829 The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia received its 1st prisoner, burglar Charles Williams (18). It was based on the Quaker idea of reform through solitude and reflection.
1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C. for all military-related cases
1864 Battle of Westport, Missouri
1864 Union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price
1876 New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
1915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
1917 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I
1921 Green Bay Packers play their 1st NFL game. They won 7-6 over Minneapolis (Damn Cheeseheads!)
1927 City of Netanya, Israel founded
1932 "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
1942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1944 Soviet army invades Hungary
1944 The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
1946 UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC) (Flushing Meadows)
1947 NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN
1954 Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
1956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1956 Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB76/ 1957 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1958 USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
1962 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m
1964 Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
1968 Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec)
1970 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,002 kph)
1973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1973 UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1977 Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve the new Canal treaties
1978 CBS raises LP prices to $8.98.
1980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness
1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion
1983 241 U.S. Marines and sailors in Lebanon were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.
1984 NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
1989 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
1990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1991 Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
2000 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright held groundbreaking talks in North Korea with communist leader Kim Jong Il and attended a huge spectacle of 100,000 performers honoring her host.
2001 U.S.-led forces maintained their intense pressure on the Taliban, pounding positions around the Afghan capitol of Kabul and the militia's southern stronghold of Kandahar for the 17th consecutive day. Vice President Dick Cheney was given the International Republican Institute's 2001 Freedom Award. He promised the war against terrorism being waged in Afghanistan would be "relentless."
2001 John Ashcroft, US Attorney Gen’l., said 3 men wanted by German authorities, Said Bahaji, Ramzi Binalshibh and Zakariya Essabar, were part of a terrorist cell in Hamburg that included 3 men from the Sep 11 attack on the WTC.
2002 In China rescuers fought to save 29 miners trapped underground after a coal mine explosion in the northern province of Shanxi killed 21.
2003 A 3-day dominos tournament began at the Ocho Rios resort in Jamaica
2004 50 unarmed Iraqi soldiers were killed in eastern Iraq as they headed home on leave after basic training. Many were shot execution style with gunshots to the back of the head.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Thailand : Chulalongkorn Day (1868)
US : United States Day
Afghanistan : Id-Qurban Day
National Dental Hygiene Week (Day 6)
National Mole Day
National Applejack Month!!
National Hobby Month.
Polish-American Heritage Month
Religious Observances
Ang, Orth, Luth : Comm of St James of Jerusalem, Brother of Jesus
RC : Mem, St John of Capistrano, patron of military chaplains (opt)
Jewish : Sh'mini Atz-8th day of Succoth
Religious History
Ussher's "Chronologies of he Old and New Testaments" was first published 1650-54.
1239 In England, the main cathedral at Wells (begun c.1186) was consecrated. The most striking interior feature of the cathedral are the inverted arches (14th century) by which the piers of the tower are strengthened.
1385 In Germany, the University of Heidelberg was founded under Pope Urban VI as a college of the Cistercian order. (Among its faculties today are theology, law, medicine and philosophy.)
1857 Delegates from eight states met in Nashville and organized the Southern Baptist Sunday School Union. The organization proved short-lived, when it was nullified by the onset of the American Civil War.
1871 Birth of Edgar J. Goodspeed, American Greek N.T. scholar. He taught at the University of Chicago 1898-1937. In 1931, he co-authored with JMP Smith "The Bible: An American Translation," better known today as "Smith and Goodspeed."
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Sleep could help weight loss: study
From: Agence France-Presse
Vancouver, Canada
October 21, 2005
IF you want to lose fat, getting the right amount of sleep each night may be just as crucial to shedding excess pounds as diet and regular exercise.
Research presented at a Canadian conference on obesity this week in Vancouver shows a strong link between lack of sleep and increased fat, as well as an increased risk of several life-threatening diseases.
The findings, suggested researchers, will lead to sleep being added to treatment regimes for obesity, diabetes and other ailments.
The research reveals that body-chemical changes caused by lack of sleep lead to weight gain, and that disruption of normal sleep patterns can destroy the body's ability to regulate appetite.
In modern societies people are sleeping nearly two hours less each night than they did 40 years ago, said Esra Tasali of the University of Chicago.
To find out if there is a link between soaring obesity rates in the industrialised world and a lack of sleep, researchers in Chicago studied metabolic changes in healthy young adults.
The adults were divided into three groups, one group had their daily sleep restricted to four hours, the second group was allowed a normal eight hours while the third group was granted an extended sleep period of 12 hours.
The sleep-deprived adults quickly experienced cravings for high-calorie sweets, while their metabolisms resembled that of people with diabetes.
There was an increased glucose tolerance after six days of just four hours in bed, Mr Tasali told researchers at the annual meeting of NAASO, The Obesity Society.
Separate research presented here found that a lack of sleep can also contribute to several life-threatening diseases.
James Gangwisch and Steven Heymsfield of New York analysed a US government National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey seeking links between lack of sleep and hypertension, diabetes and heart attack.
The study, they concluded, showed that sleep deprivation was associated with significantly increased risks to such conditions.
Other researchers, who studied sleep patterns and obesity rates among 323 men and 417 women in the Canadian province of Quebec, showed that people who get the least sleep have the most body fat.
The study, which examined body fat as well as the levels of the hormone leptin, found that people who slept seven to eight hours were the most healthy, compared to those who received less or too much sleep.
The findings suggest that the optimum amount of sleep is 7.7 hours each night, said Jean-Philippe Chaput who worked on the Quebec study.
He said while much more research is needed before medical treatment plans can be adopted, ensuring that people get adequate sleep will soon become a standard part of the treatment for obesity.
It is possible that in a couple of years, sleep will be added to diet and physical activity in tackling weight loss, Mr Chaput said.
Thought for the day :
"Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had."
Michael Crichton
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
General George S. Patton
