Today in history

[Kulindahr]

Post something that happened on this day in the past.

For example--

October 14, 1066: William the Conqueror led the Normans to victory over the English Saxons in the Battle of Hastings.

 

[rareboy]

15th and last Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns in Japan, 1867

 

[unloadonme]

Someone's already beaten you to it: https://www.justusboys.com/forum/threads/186470-On-this-day but I'll have a go:

14 October 1976 - Death of Dame Edith Evans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Evans

 

[Kulindahr]

Someone's already beaten you to it: https://www.justusboys.com/forum/threads/186470-On-this-day but I'll have a go:

14 October 1976 - Death of Dame Edith Evans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Evans

i wanted one here in Hot Topics.

 

[peeonme]

1912

Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and wounded in assassination attempt in Milwaukee. He was saved by the papers in his breast pocket and, though wounded, insisted on finishing his speech.

 

[Kulindahr]

1912

Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and wounded in assassination attempt in Milwaukee. He was saved by the papers in his breast pocket and, though wounded, insisted on finishing his speech.

I can't imagine either of our latest two presidents would be so stubborn (or tough.)

 

[smokeshadow]

1586 - Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial, accused of committing treason against Queen Elizabeth I
1933 - Germany announced that it was withdrawing from the League of Nations
1939 - a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship anchored at Scapa Flow in Scotland's Orkney Islands. 833 of the more than 1,200 men aboard were killed
1964 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
1968 - the first successful live telecast from a manned U. S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7

 

[unloadonme]

15 October 1881 - Birth of P G Wodehouse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse

 

[Vannie]

October 14 1963

The #1 song was Sugar Shack by Jimmy Gilmer and The Fireballs

Very racey lyrics

 

[HoodedRat]

^
Great track!

 

[rareboy]

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile

Couldn't pull the old 'Able was I ere I saw Elba' that time, could ya, Nappy>

 

[smokeshadow]

1793 - During the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette was beheaded
1962 - the Cuban Missile Crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the pressence of missile bases in Cuba
1968 - athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos sparked controversy at the Mexico City Olympics by giving "Black Power" salutes during a victory ceremony after winning gold and bronze medals in the 200 meter race

Murder She Wrote's authoress, Jessica Fletcher (actress and C.B.E. Angela Lansbury) celebrates her 96th birthday today

 

[unloadonme]

16 October 1946 - Following the Nuremberg trials, execution of:

Hans Frank, German lawyer and politician
Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior
Alfred Jodl, German general
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer
Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal
Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian architect and politician
Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian lawyer and politician, 16th Federal Chancellor of Austria
Julius Streicher, German journalist and politician
Joachim von Ribbentrop, German lieutenant and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

 

[gsdx]

October 16, 2012

Nike cut all ties with cyclist Lance Armstrong when it was revealed that he was a drug cheat.

 

[rareboy]

On October 17, 1931, gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $80,000, signaling the downfall of one of the most notorious criminals of the 1920s and 1930s.

 

[unloadonme]

18 October 1744 - Death of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Churchill,_Duchess_of_Marlborough

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^ Cigarettes?

 

[unloadonme]

^ Cigarettes?

I'd never made that connection before, but, according to Wikipedia, Marlboro cigarettes were originally manufactured in a factory in Great Marlborough Street, London. The street was named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, husband of Sarah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlboro

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

On October 17, 1931, gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $80,000, signaling the downfall of one of the most notorious criminals of the 1920s and 1930s.

Thank the Lord we don´t have misguided legislation such as Prohibition in the 21st century!

 

[smokeshadow]

1867 - the United States officially took posession of Alaska from Russia
1892 - the first long distance telephone line between New York and Chicago was officially opened
1898 - the U. S. flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquished control of the island to the U. S.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (later the British Broadcasting Corporation), aka the BBC, was founded
1961 - the movie musical West Side Story premiered in New York City