On this day ......

[MassRuss]

September 20, 1878 Upton Sinclair born

Not a very historic date.........

 

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30 September 1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dean

 

[MassRuss]

forgot this one & the other date one.

September 30, 1938 Chamberlain & Daladier allow the Nazis to occupy some sections of the Sudetenland

 

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1 October 1920 – Birth of Walter Matthau.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Matthau

 

[MassRuss]

October 2, 1967 - Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st African American justice on US Supreme Court

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall

 

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3 October 1967 – Death of Woody Guthrie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie

 

[MassRuss]

October 4, 1957 USSR launches Sputnik. Space Age Begins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik

 

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4 October 1895 – Birth of Buster Keaton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton

 

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5 October 1967 – Birth of Guy Pearce.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Pearce

 

[MassRuss]

October 5, 1947 President Trumas delivers 1st televised address from White House

 

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6 October 1773 – Birth of King Louis-Philippe of France.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Philippe_of_France

 

[MassRuss]

October 6, 1981 President Sadat assassinated in Egypt

 

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6 October 1892 – Death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Lord_Tennyson

 

[MassRuss]

October 6, 1889. Moulin Rouge cabaret opens in Paris

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000762/

 

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7 October 1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_II_of_the_Netherlands

 

[MassRuss]

October 7, 1849. Edgar Allan Poe dies @ 40.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_allan_poe

 

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21 October 1209 – Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_IV,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

 

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22 October 1870 – Birth of Lord Alfred Douglas, partner of Oscar Wilde.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Douglas

 

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23 October 1844 – Birth of Robert Bridges OM, English poet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bridges

 

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24 October 1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Bridge