On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on October 24:
1632 Antony van Leeuwenhoek Hol, naturalist
1788 Sarah Josepha Hale author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
1815 John Edwards Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1890 Chicago Mainbocher uniform designer (Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves)
1904 Moss Hart Bronx NY, playwright (You can't Take it With You, Act 1)
1905 Mrs.Nooseman aka She who must be obeyed, aka Queen of all she surveys. Inventor of the FFLF (anytime a couple of guys are drinking a beer or two and having a good time,approaching FUN a woman will come along and ask, Do you really think you should be doing that?")
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
George Santayana
Hope you enjoy your!
1911 Clarence M Kelley FBI head
1923 Denise Levertov American poet/essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin)
1926 YA Tittle AAFC, NFL QB (Baltimore, SF, NY Giants, MVP 1963)
1929 George Crumb Charleston WV, composer (Pulitzer 1968-Echoes of Time)
1929 James Brosnan baseball player/writer (The Long Season)
1936 Bill Wyman England, rocker (Rolling Stones-Under My Thumb)
1936 David Nelson NYC, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
1938 Fred E Finn SF Calif, pianist (Mickie Finn's)
1940 F Murray Abraham actor (Amadeus, Mad Man)
1947 Kevin Kline St Louis, actor (Sophie's Choice, Big Chill)
1951 Todd Crespi Frankfurt Germany, actor (The Magician)
1953 Jonathan di Donato twin who swam the butterfly 406 miles
Deaths which occurred on October 24:
0996 Hugo Capet, king of France (987-96), dies at 58
1537 Jane Seymour 3rd wife of Henry VIII, dies
1601 Tycho Brahe astronomer, dies in Prague at 54
1655 Pierre Gassendi French philosopher, dies at 63
1864 James Jay Archer US Conf brig-general, dies in battle at 46
1945 Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Min of Defense/PM (1942-45), executed at 58
1957 Christian Dior French designer, dies at 52 in Italy
1961 Dr Milan Stoyadinovich Fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-9), dies at 73
1971 Chuck Hughes Detroit Lion collapses during game & later, dies
1972 Jackie Robinson dies at 53
1973 Allan "Rocky" Lane actor (voice of Mr Ed, Red Ryder), dies at 72
1975 Ismail Erez Turkish ambassador killed by car bomb in Paris
1983 Jessica Savitch news anchor (NBC-TV), dies at 35
1984 Edith Massey actress, dies at 66
1984 Walter Woolf King actor/TV host (Lights Cameras Action), dies at 85
1987 Constantin Alajalov Russian artist, dies at 86
1991 Gene Roddenberry Star Trek creator, dies of a heart attack at 70
1994 Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), dies of stroke at 54
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
24-Oct-2003 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Michael S. Hancock Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Jose L. Mora Samarra (near) - Salah ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack
US Specialist Artimus D. Brassfield Samarra (near) - Salah ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack
24-Oct-2004 3 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 1
BUL Senior Sergeant Vladimir Pashov Karbala Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
US Sergeant Dennis J. Boles Camp Arifjan Non-hostile - illness - sudden collapse
US Lance Corporal Richard Patrick Slocum Baghdad (Abu Ghuraib) Non-hostile - vehicle accident
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0439 Carthage, the leading Roman city in North Africa, falls to Genseric and the Vandals.
1492 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany
1648 Treaty of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War in Europe. The war was mainly a struggle between European Protestantism and Roman Catholicism as represented by the Hapsburg monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire. France emerged from the war with the most power, and Germany was virtually devastated (about 1/4 pop. dead).
1795 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
1836 The match is patented
1851 William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus
1857 World's 1st soccer club, Sheffield F.C., founded in England
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia
1861 1st transcontinental telegram sent ending the Pony Express
1871 Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese
1889 Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
1901 First Barrel Ride down Niagara Falls when Annie Edson Taylor initiates a famous stunt when she goes over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel
1903 1st trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1)
1903 George Sutton becomes billiard champ
1911 Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
1916 Henry Ford awards equal pay to women.
1929 "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%. Nearly 13 million shares traded hands and stock prices plummeted. Many stocks recovered late in the afternoon, but the stage had been set for the October 29th stock market crash -- and the beginning of the Great Depression.
1930 John Wayne debuts in his first starring role (The Big Trail)
1931 Al (Alphonse) Capone, the prohibition-era Chicago gangster, is sent to prison for tax evasion.
1935 Italy invades Ethiopia
1939 Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"
1939 Nazi require all Jews wear the Star of David
1939 Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)
1940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
1940 Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
1942 2nd day of battle at El Alamein
1943 Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
1944 US air raid on Jap battleships/cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks
1944 US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines
1944 US capt David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Jap planes in Gulf of Leyte
1945 United Nations Charter becomes effective
1947 Series of forest fires burn $30 million of timber (New England States)
1948 Bernard Baruch, presidential advisor, stated, "Although the war is over, we are the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer." The term 'Cold War' was coined.
1951 United Nations publishes its 1st postage stamps
1952 Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that if elected, he will go to Korea. (The things some people will go through for a bowl of kimchi!)
1952 Arab Liberation Movement becomes the only party of Syria
1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary
1960 Disaster on USSR launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in plane crash
1964 Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1964 Belgian paratroopers liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville
1970 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
1971 Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21
1973 Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ Turnpike
1973 John Lennon sues US govt to admit the FBI is tapping his phone
1973 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
1974 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Texas Rangers)
1976 1st Jewish film & TV festival
1976 Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader
1978 NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs NY Islanders
1979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy
1980 John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK
1980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
1984 11 members of the Colombo crime family arrested
1984 Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed
1984 Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
1987 Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
1987 NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
1988 NY Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires
1988 Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released
1989 After a week's delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played (World Series #86)
1989 Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud
2001 An estranged sister-in-law of Osama bin Laden told a U.S. television show that she believed some members of the Saudi royal family supported the suspected terrorist.
2002 Police arrested two suspects in the three-week series of sniper attacks in the Washington area that killed 10 and wounded three others. John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, were found sleeping in a car at a rest stop outside Frederick, Md.
2004 Brazil launchs its 1st rocket into space.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
World, UN : United Nations Day (whoopee!)
Zambia : Independence Day (1964)
National Bologna Day
National Save Your Back Week (day 2)
National Kitchen and Bath Month
Religious Observances
Old Catholic : Feast of St Raphael the Archangel, patron of travelers
RC : Memorial of Antony Mary Claret, bishop (opt)
Jewish : Simchat Torah-day of rejoicing
Religious History
1260 Under Pope Alexander IV, Chartres Cathedral in France was consecrated. Completed in less than 30 years, the structure represents high Gothic architecture at its purest.
1538 French reformer John Calvin wrote in a letter: 'Among Christians there ought to be so great a dislike of schism, as that they may always avoid it so far as lies in their power.'
1790 English founder of Methodism John Wesley, 87, made the last entry in his 55-year-long journal, written after preaching a sermon: 'I hope many even then resolved to choose the better part.' (Wesley died the following March.)
1911 Missionary widow Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy Semple, 21, married Harold Stewart McPherson, also 21. Afterward, Aimee Semple McPherson went on to establish the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in 1918. (She and Harold would divorce in 1921).
1956 In Syracuse, New York, Margaret Ellen Towner became the first woman ordained in the Presbyterian Church.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Sperm donor must pay maintenance
A Swedish man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple has been ordered to pay child support for their three children.
In the early 1990s the man, now 39, donated his sperm to a woman in a lesbian relationship. She had three sons, the oldest of whom is now 13 years old.
Although the man signed a document confirming he was the biological father of the children, he told the court the women agreed he would not be involved in their upbringing in any way.
But when the women separated, the biological mother of the three boys demanded child support payments from the man.
He went to court but lost the case and the subsequent appeal before taking the matter to the Supreme Court, the highest appeals court in the country.
The Supreme Court has confirmed the earlier rulings, stating that the biological father is required to pay child support to the mother of the three children he indirectly fathered.
Thought for the day :
"So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience."
Moss Hart
