On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on October 09:
1201 Robert de Sorbon founded Sorbonne University, Paris
1261 Dionysius the Justified, king of Portugal (1279-1325)
1547 Miguel de Cervantes novelist (Don Quixote)
1813 Giuseppe Fortunio Francesco Verdi Italian composer (Traviata, Aida)
1813 John Jones Pettus Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63)
1819 Samuel McGowan Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1822 George Sykes Major General (Union volunteers), died in
1855 HiJinx
(He wasn't born on a mountaintop in Tennessee,
but in some fureign place where they all drink tea.
Raised on a base wearing camie green,
finally toilet trained when he was 23.)
Happy Birthday!
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
1858 Gerard L F Philips Dutch engineer/manufacturer (Philips)
1884 Martin Elmer Johnson explorer/photographer
1888 Hank Patterson Alabama, actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel-Green Acres)
1890 Aimee Semple McPherson Pentecostal evangelist/radio preacher
1899 Bruce Catton civil war historian
1900 Alastair Sims actor (Christmas Carol, Stage Fright)
1903 Walter O'Malley owner (Dodgers)
1907 Klaes Karppinen Findland, 4 X 10K relay (Olympic-gold-1936)
1908 James E Folsom (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59)
1910 Phil Hanna River Forest Ill, singer (Once Upon a Tune)
1917 Kusuo Kitamura Japan, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
1918 E Howard Hunt Hamburg NY, involved in Watergate break-in
1924 Robert Rushworth pilot (X-15)
1940 Gordon Humphrey (Sen-R-NH)
1940 Joe Pepitone baseball player (NY Yankee 1st baseman)
1940 John Lennon rocker/Beatle (Imagine)
1944 John Entwistle rocker (The Who-Tommy)
1944 Peter Tosh Jamaica, reggae musician (Mystic Man, Mama Africa)
1945 Jeannie C Riley Texas, singer (Harper Valley PTA, Hee Haw)
1948 Dave Samuels vibraphonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1948 Jackson Browne Germany, rocker (Lawyers in Love)
1951 Robert Wuhl Union NJ, actor (Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam)
1955 Steve Ovett England, runner (Olympics-800m gold, 1500m bronze-1980)
1959 Mike Singletary NFL middle linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1975 Sean Ono Lennon John's son
2003 Piper the rambunctious Queen of the Universe, AKA She you must be OBEYED!
("Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.")
Deaths which occurred on October 09:
1047 Clemens II [Suitger], Pope (1046-47), dies
1253 Grosseteste an English scholar, dies at 78
1562 Gabriel Fallopius Modena Italy, anatomist
1646 Baltasar Carlos son of Spanish king Philip IV, dies
1797 Elia van Vilnius Latvian rabbi, dies at 77
1806 Benjamin Banneker astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74
1906 Joseph F Glidden inventor (barbed wire), dies
1912 Millie & Christine Siamese twins, die at 61
1934 J Louis Barthou French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered
1934 King Alexander of Yugoslavia, by Georgief, a Croatian terrorist
1974 Oskar Schindler credited with saving about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust (Schindler's List)
1958 Pope Pius XII dies, 19 years after elevation to the papacy
1960 Howard Glenn NY Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day's game
1988 Felix Wankel developer of the Wankel rotary engine, dies
1991 Thalmus Rasulala actor (Blacula), dies of heart attack at 51
1994 Fred Lebow US founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer
1994 James Hill English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
10-Oct-2004 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class James E. Prevete Habbaniyah - Anbar Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Private Carson J. Ramsey Baghdad (eastern part) Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0028 BC The Temple of Apollo is dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome
0439 Carthage captured by Genseric the Vandal
0680 Husain ibn 'Ali, Shi'i religious leader, killed in battle (Kerbala modern day Iraq)
0768 Charles the Great & Charlamane II divide the Frankish kingdom
1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
1290 Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves
1446 Korean Hangual alphabet devised
1514 King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII
1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1701 Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
1776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1779 The Luddite riots being in Manchester, England in reaction to machinery for spinning cotton.
1781 Americans begin shelling the British surrounded at Yorktown.
1812 Victory for Americans on Lake Erie (War of 1812); Lieutenant Jesse Duncan Elliot capture two British brigs, the Detroit and Caledonia.
1820 Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
1855 Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
1855 Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope
1863 Battle of Brady Station, VA (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
1864 Battle of Tom's Brook Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is wiped by Custer & Merrit's cavalry divisions
1867 Russians formally transferred Alaska to the US. The U.S. had bought Alaska for $7.2 million in gold.
1872 Aaron Montgomery starts his mail-order business
1876 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
1877 American Humane Association organized in Cleveland
1888 Public admitted to Washington Monument
1900 8.3 earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska
1903 11" rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)
1910 Nap Lajoie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won
1915 Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st pres to attend a world series game (World Series #12)
1916 Babe Ruth pitches & wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1
1921 Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1930 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
1934 St Louis Cards beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series
1934 King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated by a Croatian terrorist during a state visit to France.
1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
1938 Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game
1938 NY Yankees sweep Cubs in the 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win
1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests congressional approval for arming U.S. merchant ships.
1944 St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series
1945 British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1946 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1947 1st telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane
1950 U.N. forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking northward towards the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1960 Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2")
1961 Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth
1961 Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
1962 NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m
1963 British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns
1963 Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die
1963 French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons (Why didn't we invade!)
1963 Uganda becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth
1965 Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1966 Balt Orioles sweep LA Dodgers, in 63rd World Series
1968 Government seizes oil fields in Peru
1970 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
1973 Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
1973 Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal
1973 Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors
1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1980 1st consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville Tn)
1983 4 South Korean cabinet ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
1984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space
1986 Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals
1986 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him the 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
1988 Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
1989 Penthouse Magazine's hebrew edition hits the newstands
1989 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
1990 Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
1990 David H Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
2001 The Pentagon reported the destruction of seven terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and, claiming control of the skies over Afghanistan, launched heavy air strikes against Taliban garrisons and troop encampments.
2001 Al-Jazeera broadcasts a taped video of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, an al Qaeda spokesman, who called on Muslims to attack US interests worldwide.
(Muslims to al Qaeda, no thanks.)
2003 New peach and blue redesigned US $20 bill made its debut
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Ecuador : Guayaquil's Independence Day (1820)
Hong Kong : Confucius' Birthday
Khmer Republic : Republic Day (1970)
Minnesota : Leif Ericsson Day (c 1000)
Peru : Day of National Dignity (1968)
South Korea : Hangual Day/Korean Alphabet Day (1446)
Tanganyika : independence day (1961)
Uganda : independence day (1962)
Home-Based Business Week Begins
National Pet Peeve Week (Day 2)
National Angel Food Cake Day
Gourmet Adventures Month
Religious Observances
Orth : Commem of the Death of St John Leonardi the Divine (9/26 OS)
RC, Ang : Memorial of St Denis, bp, & companions, martyrs (opt)
Shi'te : Husain Day
Ang : Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln
RC : Memorial of St John Leonardi, confessor (opt)
Ang : St. Denys's Day
Religious History
1635 Colonial American Separatist Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for preaching that civil government had no right to interfere in religious affairs. (Williams was seeking to establish freedom of worship through the separation of church and state.)
1776 Spanish missionaries dedicated the first mission chapel on the northern California coast at Yerba Buena. (In 1847, the city which grew up around the mission changed its name to San Francisco.)
1842 Episcopal missionary James L. Breck was ordained a priest at Duck Creek, WI. In 1850, this "apostle of the wilderness" moved to Minnesota and in 1858 founded the Seabury Divinity School. It is said that "no priest did more for the Episcopal Church in the West than Breck."
1845 Cofounder of the Oxford Movement in England, churchman John Henry Newman made his celebrated conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism. From 1845-1862, nearly 250 other English clergy followed Newman into the Roman Catholic faith
1747 Colonial missionary to the New England Indians, David Brainerd died of tuberculosis (brought on by exposure) at age 29. Following his death, the publication of "Brainerd's Journal" by Jonathan Edwards influenced hundreds to become missionaries after him.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Dog testicles, penguin poop study win Ig Nobels
Oct 7, 10:46 AM (ET)
Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The inventor of artificial testicles for dogs, Nigerian Internet scammers and a team that calculated the pressures created when penguins poop won Ig Nobel prizes for 2005 on Thursday.
The spoof prizes, awarded by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research, are presented at a ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the winners must try to explain their work in a minute or less.
While some awards clearly poke fun at current culture, others are meant to provoke debate about science, Annals editor Marc Abrahams said.
"Now in their fifteenth year, the Igs honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think," Abrahams said in a statement.
The Ig Nobel Prizes were handed to the winners by genuine Nobel laureates Dudley Herschbach (1986 Chemistry), William Lipscomb (1976 Chemistry), Robert Wilson (1978 Physics) and Sheldon Glashow (1979 Physics).
Harvard professor Roy Glauber, awarded a Nobel Prize in physics, has been a regular at the Ig Nobels for 10 years, sweeping paper airplanes thrown on the stage during the ceremony.
This year's winners include:
"Medicine" -- Gregg Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri, for inventing Neuticles -- artificial replacement testicles for dogs.
"Neuticles allow your pet to retain his natural look, self esteem and aids in the trauma associated with neutering. With Neuticles -- It's like nothing ever changed!" reads Miller's Web site at
http://www.neuticles.com. "Literature" -- The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, "for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq." The scams are notorious for asking people to reveal their private bank information to help fictitious characters transfer large sums of money.
"Fluid Dynamics" -- Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany, and the University of Oulu, Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Lorond Eotvos University in Hungary, for "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defecation," an actual study published in 2003 in the journal Polar Biology.
"Economics -- Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides.
Thought for the day :
"God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space."
Pope Pius XII
If there is anything that we love to hate more than the arrogance of others, it would have to be an awareness of our own weakness. We detest it so much that we invent ways to cover our personal inadequacy. 
