On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on October 26:
1466 Desiderius Erasmus Holland, scholar/author (In Praise of Folly)
1685 Domenico Scarlatti Naples Italy, composer/harpsichordist
1759 Georges Danton France, revolutionary leader
1800 Helmuth K B von Moltke Prussian general-fieldmarshal
1804 Lorenzo Thomas Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1875
1830 Stephen Elliott Jr Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1837 James Lawlor Kiernan Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1855 Charles Post who had a way with breakfast cereals
1861 Richard D Sears Boston, 1st to win US amateur national tennis match
1873 Thorvald Stauning Denmark, PM (1924-26, 1929-42)
1879 Leon Trotsky Russian revolutionary (pres of 1st Soviet)
1894 John S Knight WV, publisher (Knight-Rider)
1910 John Cardinal Krol former archbishop of Philadelphia
1911 Mahalia Jackson New Orleans, gospel singer (Whole World in his Hands)
1911 Sid Gillman NFL coach (LA, San Diego, Houston)
1914 Jackie Coogan LA Calif, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family)
1916 Francois Mitterand Jarnac France, President of France (1981-1995)
1917 Felix the Cat cartoon character
1919 Edward W Brooke 1st black senator in over 80 yrs (Sen-R-Mass)
1919 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr Shah of Iran (1941-79)
1939 John Arden England, novelist/playwright (Left Handed Liberty)
1940 Mario Orosco 1st victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
1942 Bob Hoskins Suffolk England, actor (Brazil, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
1945 Pat Conroy American writer (Great Santini, Prince of Tides)
1946 Pat Sajak Chicago, TV host (Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak Show)
1947 Jaclyn Smith Houston Tx, actress (Charlie's Angel, Nightkill)
1947 Hilary Rodham Clinton First Lady/smartest woman in the history of the world (1993-2001)
1950 Chuck Foreman NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1951 Bootsy Collins Cin, rocker (Parliaments-We Got the Funk)
1954 Lauren Tewes Braddock PA, actress (Love Boat, Eyes of a Stranger)
1962 Cary Elwes actor (Glory, Princess Bride)
1963 Kerri Lynne Rosenberg Burlington Ia, Miss Iowa-America (1991-top 10)
1973 Brian Smith Cedar Rapids Iowa, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
Deaths which occurred on October 26:
0901 King Alfred the Great, die
1440 Gilles de Rais, French marshal, killer of 140 children, hanged over slow fire.
1868 B F Randolph SC state senator, assassinated
1909 Prince Ito of Japan is assassinated
1920 the Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland, Terence McSwiney, died after a two-and-a-half-month hunger strike in a British prison cell, demanding independence for Ireland.
1957 Nicos Kazantzakis, writer (The Last Temptation of Christ), dies
1962 Louise Beavers actress (Beulah-Beulah), die at 64
1968 Erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52
1972 Igor Sikorsky, Russian/US helicopter builder, dies at 83
1979 Park Chung-hee South Korean President is assassinated
1984 Sue Randall actress (Miss Landers-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 49
1990 William Paley CEO (CBS), dies at 89 from a heart attack
1991 Lori Rae Matthews crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella
1993 Absolutely Nobody [David Powers], Wash lt-gov candidate, dies at 37
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1966 MORRISON GLENN RAYMOND JR---MASON CITY IA.
1967 DANIELS VERLYNE W.---REAMSVILLE KS.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1967 MC CAIN JOHN S.---NORFOLK VA.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 03/US SENATOR]
1967 RICE CHARLES D.---SETAUKET NY.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1969 BYNUM NEIL S.---VIAN OK.
1969 WARREN GARY D.---DES MOINES IA.
1971 EVELAND MICKEY E.---LOS ANGELES CA
1971 FINGER SANFORD I.---NEW YORK NY.
1971 GREEN THOMAS F.---RAMONA CA.
1971 LAUTZENHEISER MICHAEL---MUNCIE IN.
1971 NICKOL ROBERT A.---BETHLEHEM PA.
1971 TRUDEAU ALBERT R.---MILWAUKEE WI.
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
1407 Mobs attack Jewish community of Kracow
1492 Lead pencils 1st used
1529 Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor
1662 Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France
1682 William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York
1749 Georgia Colony reverses itself & rules slavery is legal
1774 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia
1787 "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution
1863 Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva
1864 Union troops ambush & kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI
1868 Whites kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La
1869 1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY)
1876 President sends federal troops to SC
1881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az
1905 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
1905 Union of Sweden & Norway ends
1911 Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series
1916 Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1921 Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia
1934 While Wash player-mgr Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson, owner Clark Griffith's niece and adopted daughter, he is sold to the Red Sox
1941 US savings bonds go on sale
1942 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
1942 4th day in battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough
1942 US ship Hornet sunk in Battle of Santa Cruz Islands during WW II
1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf Ends
1947 Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
1949 President Truman signed a measure raising the minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents an hour.
1950 Mother Teresa founds her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India
1950 A reconnaissance platoon for a South Korean division reaches the Yalu River. They are the only elements of the U.N. force to reach the river before the Chinese offensive pushes the whole army down into South Korea.
1950 Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president
1951 Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
1954 Chevrolet introduces the V-8 engine
1955 1st edition of "Village Voice" (NYC) published
1955 Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres
1956 UN's International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
1956 Vietnam promulgates its constitution
1957 USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov
1957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
1958 PanAm flies the 1st transatlantic jet trip-NY to Paris
1960 AL announces Minneapolis & LA to get teams in 1961
1960 AL's Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins
1962 Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"
1964 Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan Show
1965 Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang
1966 1st Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2
1966 US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonkin, 43 die
1967 Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne
1968 Soyuz 3 launched
1970 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
1972 Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam
1974 Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cavaliers & MISL's Crunch
1975 Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit the US
1976 Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa
1976 Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic
1977 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise
1977 Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of NY
1980 St Louis Cards sack Balt Colt QBs an NFL record tying 12 times
1981 LA Dodgers beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 2 in 78th World Series
1982 Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards
1984 "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days
1985 On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the 82nd World Series
1987 Dow Jones down 156.83 points
1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads
1988 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service
1988 US-Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK
1994 Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty at a desert site along the Israeli-Jordanian border.
1995 Islamic Jihad leader Fathi ash-Shiqaqi was assassinated in Malta
1996 Federal prosecutors cleared Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic park bombing, ending a three-month ordeal for the former security guard.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Austria : National Day
Benin, Rwanda : Armed Forces Day
Iran : Birthday of HIM the Shahanshah
South Vietnam : Constitution & Republic Day (1955, 1956)
Switzerland : Flag Day
US : Mother-in-Law's Day (Sunday)
Wild Foods Day
National Magic Week (Day 2)
Vegetarian Awareness Month
Religious Observances
Ang : Commemoration of Alfred the Great
Luth : Commem of P Nicolai, J Heermann, P Gerhardt, hymnwriters
Orthodox : Feast of Demetrios the Martyr
Lutheran : Protestant Reformation Day
Old Catholic : Christ the King Sunday
RC : Commem of St Evaristus, 5th pope (c 97-c 107), martyr
Religious History
1779 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'The Lord is so rich that He easily can -- so good that He certainly will -- give His children more than He will ever take away.
1813 Birth of Henry T. Smart, English sacred organist. Though largely self-taught, Smart published many compositions, two of which are still popular as hymn tunes: LANCASHIRE ("Lead On, O King Eternal") and REGENT SQUARE ("Angels From the Realms of Glory").
1889 Birth of Millar Burrows, American archaeologist. Director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem 1931-32, 1947-48), Burrows' most popular published work was "What Mean These Stones?" (1941).
1948 The Pentecostal Fellowship of North America was organized at Des Moines, Iowa. The association is comprised of 24 Pentecostal groups and meets annually to promote unity among Pentecostal Christians.
1963 One month before his death at age 65, English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter addressed to a child: 'If you continue to love Jesus, nothing much can go wrong with you, and I hope you may always do so.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"People see God every day, they just don't recognize him."
Childrens Impression of Love...
CONFIDENTIAL OPINIONS ABOUT LOVE
"I'm in favor of love as long as it doesn't happen when 'The Simpsons' is on television." (Anita, 6)
"Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I have been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me." (Bobby, 8)
"I'm not rushing into being in love. I'm finding fourth grade hard enough." (Regina, 10)
Signs Your Cat is Overweight...
Enormous gut keeps your hardwood floors freshly buffed.
Handy Latin Phrases...
Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.
I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem
Redefining the English language
Willy-nilly (adj.)
impotent.
