On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on October 25:
1360 Louis, founder of house of Anjou
1800 Thomas Babington Macaulay England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby)
1819 Zachariah Cantey Deas Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1882
1825 Johann Strauss (the younger) composer (Waltz King)
1838 Georges Bizet France, composer (Carmen)
1843 Gleb Uspensky Russia, author (Power of the Soil)
1869 John Heisman pioneering football coach/trophy namesake
1877 Henry Norris Russell astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
1881 Pablo Picasso Spain, artist (3 Dancers, Guernica)
1888 Richard E Byrd Virginia, admiral/polar explorer (1926)
1902 Henry Steele Commager Pitts Pa, historian (Atlas of the Civil War)
1912 Jack Kent Cooke NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
1912 Minnie Pearl [Sarah Ophelia Colley] Tenn, (Grand Old Opry, Hee-Haw)
1924 Billy Barty Millsboro Pa, 3'9" actor (Under the Rainbow, Foul Play)
1925 Yakov Rylskly USSR, sabre team (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1927 Franklin "Bud" Held javelin world champ (1949, 51, 53-55)
1928 Jeanne Cooper Minneapolis, actress (Kay-Young & Restless)
1928 Marion Ross Albert Lea Mn, actress (Marion-Happy Days, Brooklyn Bridge)
1935 Russell "Rusty" L Schweickart Neptune NJ, astronaut (Apollo 9)
1940 Bob Knight college basketball coach/ chair thrower (Indiana, Olympic-gold-1984)
1941 Anne Tyler American writer (Accidental Tourist)
1941 Helen Reddy Melbourne Australia, singer (I Am Woman)
1944 James "corporal cueball" Carville
1948 Happy Birthday CelticLass
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
Ní fuaireamar
1950 John Matuszak Milwaukee Wisc, NFLer (Raiders)/actor (Hollywood Beat)
1960 Scott Anthony Haneline Indianapolis, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1967 Julia Roberts Smyma Georgia, actress (Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman)
Deaths which occurred on October 25:
0304 Marcellinus bishop of Rome, dies
1047 Magnus I Godhi, king of Norway/Denmark (1035-47), dies
1154 King Steven of England (1135-54), dies
1400 Geofrey Chaucer author, dies in London
1760 George II (August) king of Great-Britain (1727-60), dies at 76
1892 Caroline Harrison Pres Benjamin Harrison's wife, dies at 60
1920 Alexander king of Greece (1917-20), dies after ape bite at 27
1957 Lord Dunsany [Edward J M D Plunkett], author (The King of Elfland's Daughter), dies at 79
1957 Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, US gangster, dies while taking a shave in Manhattan hotel at 55
1959 Bob Murphy TV host (RFD America), dies at 42
1961 Peter(turn that damn thing down) Jensen co-inventer (loud speaker), dies at 75
1973 Abebe Bikila Ethiopian marathoner (Oly-gold 1960, 64), dies at 46
1981 Ariel Durant, US author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83
1986 Forrest Tucker actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail), dies at 67
1987 Cecil Brown news correspondant (CBS), dies at 80
1989 Mary McCarthy author (The Group), dies, at 77
1991 Bill Graham rock concert promoter (Filmore), dies at 60
1993 Vincent Price, actor (Raven, Fly), dies of lung cancer at 82
2002 Sen. Paul Wellstone (D Mn.) dies (Plane Crash)
(So you Democracts can take your Wellstone bumperstickers off. Because he dead..defunct..cadaverous..unanimated..extinct! GET OVER IT)
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
25-Oct-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Seaman Jakia Sheree Cannon Unknown Non-hostile
25-Oct-2004 2 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 1
EST 1st Sergeant Arre Illenzeer Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Corporal Brian Oliveira Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
Afghanistan
10/25/03 Mueller, Christopher Glenn Civilian contractor 32 CIA Directorate of Operations Hostile fire (near) Shkin 10/25/03 Carlson, William Civilian contractor 43 CIA Directorate of Operations Hostile fire (near) Shkin
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0625 Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1147 Battle at Doryleum: Arabs defeat Conrad III of Germany and Louis VII
1415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
(This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered)
http://www.aginc.net/battle/ 1671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn
1760 George III ascends the British throne
1764 John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years)
1812 US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
1825 The Erie Canal, America's first man-made waterway, was opened, linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
1854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)
1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek, MI (Springfield)
1864 Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas (Mine Creek)
1870 Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore
1870 Postcards 1st used in US
1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) ends
1900 England annexes Transvaal
1903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin
1918 Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die
1924 1st appearance of Little Orphan Annie comic strip
1929 Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe.(Teapot Dome scandal)
1931 The George Washington Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, was completed at a cost of $59 million and 12 lives
1935 Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti (And where was George Bush?)
1941 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa Ukraine
1942 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
1942 Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins
1943 Thailand-Burma railroad opened, Approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the “Death Railway.
1944 Near Bruyeres Sgt. Clyde Lee Choate (d.2001 at 81) destroyed a German Mark IV tank with 2 bazooka shots while under heavy fire. Choate was later awarded the Medal of Honor and served in the Illinois Legislature (1947-1967).
1944 Japanese navy defeated at battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 First kamikaze attack of the war begins
1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek
1946 1st trial against nazi war criminals (Neurenberg)
1951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom
1953 Cleveland Browns' QB Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles
1960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
1962 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda)
1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1962 Amb Stevenson demands USSR Amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
1963 Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas
1964 Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in the wrong direction for a safety
1965 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"
1968 Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
1971 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan (Great moments in diplomacy #56,293)
1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hr
1973 Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship
1975 USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing
1976 Gov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape
1978 Israeli Cabinet approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace
1983 US invades Grenada
1985 Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
1986 International Red Cross ousted from South Africa
1986 Michael Sergio parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS
1987 Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series
1988 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy pigs popularity as pets
1996 Federal judge Richard Matsch granted Oklahoma City bombing defendants Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols separate trials.
2000 Russian divers find and remove the first bodies from the wreckage of the nuclear submarine Kursk, which sank on Aug. 12 with the loss of all 118 sailors aboard.
2001 Microsoft introduces its new Windows XP operating system
2003 The USS Hartford, a fast attack submarine, went aground off La Maddalena, a tiny island off Sardinia's north coast. (I said LEFT! No your other left!)
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Taiwan : Restoration Day (1945)
Virgin Islands : Thanksgiving Day
Afghanistan : Id-Qurban Day
US : Mother-in-Law's Day (Sunday)
US some states : Veterans Day
World Pasta Day
National Magic Week Begins
National Wine Festival Month
Religious Observances
Feast of SS. Crispin and Crispinian, brothers, martyrs.
Christian : Feast of St Gaudentius, bishop of Brescia
Christ : Commemoration of SS Chrysanthus & Daria, martyrs (3rd cen)
Religious History
1147 The armies of the Second Crusade (1147-49) were destroyed by the Saracens at Dorylaeum (in modern Turkey). The Crusaders went on with fruitless campaigns against Damascus, Syria.
1564 Birth of Hans Leo Hassler, sacred composer. The first notable German musician educated in Italy, Hassler left a rich musical legacy, including the hymn tune PASSION CHORALE, to which the Church now sings, "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded."
1800 Birth of Jacque Paul Migne, French theological publisher. Establishing his own press in 1836, Migne published a voluminous collection of writings by the ancient Greek and Latin fathers (161 vols: "Patrologia Graecae"; 221 vols: "Patrologia Latinae") during his remaining 39 years.
1921 Franklin Small, 48, and a group of dissatisfied members of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, obtained a Dominion charter to establish the Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada. In 1953, this group merged with the Evangelical Churches of Pentecost, whose major congregations are located today in the Canadian prairie provinces.
1941 The first Youth For Christ rally was held at Bryant's Alliance Tabernacle in New York City. An international evangelical youth organization, YFC has no single founder, but rather emerged out of weekly rallies held for the youth of New York City during the 1930s.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Attorney Jailed After Going to Court Drunk
Oct 24, 10:30 PM (ET)
BENTON, Ark. (AP) - An attorney appealing his second drunken driving conviction was jailed Monday after he came to court intoxicated, officials said.
A Saline County Circuit Court judge ordered 59-year-old Jerry Stewart jailed for contempt of court.
He was ordered held without bail until Thursday, when he is scheduled in court for an unrelated case. It was not known whether Thursday's court appearance involved two pending drunken driving charges.
Stewart faces a total of six years in prison and could be disbarred if convicted of a fourth felony offense, prosecutor Robert Herzfeld said.
Thought for the day :
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
Pablo Picasso
