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Today in history

751: Pepin the Short, son of Frankish hero Charles Martel and father of Charlemagne, deposes the last of the Merovingian kings and becomes the first king of the Carolingian dynasty. He was crowned by Pope Stephen II, who later asked for his help when threatened by Lombards of northern Italy. Pepin defeated the Lombards, then ceded the territory he captured back to the pope, laying the foundation for the papal states, whose existence corrupted the papacy for centuries.
 
21 October 1805 - Death of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte at the Battle of Trafalgar

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1663: Virginia colonist John Harlow is fined 50 pounds of tobacco for missing church.

1692: William Penn is deposed as governor of Pennsylvania. His grateful overtures to James II for permitting religious freedom for Dissenters from the Church of England led William and Mary to charge Penn with being a papist. They were also troubled by his pacifism.
 
1844: Between 50,000 and 100,000 followers of Baptist lay preacher William Miller prepared for "The Day of Atonement"—the day Jesus would return. Jesus didn't, and though Miller retained his faith in Christ's imminent return until his death, he blamed human mistakes in Bible chronologies for "The Great Disappointment." Several groups arose from Miller's following, including the Seventh-Day Adventists

1383: The 1383-85 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder begins after King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.

1764: Battle of Baksar, between the forces of the British East India Company, commanded by Major Hector Munro, and the combined army of an alliance of Indian states including Bengal, Awadh, and the Mughal Empire. The BEIC's private army won.
 
1707 - the first Parliament of Great Britain, created by the Acts of Union between England and Scotland, held it's first meeting
1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public, solo airplane flight, reaching an altitude of 12 feet at a park in Fort Wayne, Indiana
 
On October 25, 1854, the military disaster took place that inspired Alfred Lord Tennyson to write "The Charge of the Light Brigade" took place.

The British were fighting in the Crimean War to help defend Turkey from Russia. It was one of the first wars covered extensively by the European media, and British people read about it every morning in their newspapers. On this day in 1854, a British light brigade attempted to charge the Russian troops on a hill, but they misunderstood their orders and charged down the hill instead of up. Hundreds of British soldiers were surrounded and about 200 were killed.

 
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On the origins of the Crimean War:

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Charge of the Light Brigade, (Oct. 25 [Oct. 13, Old Style], 1854), disastrous British cavalry charge against heavily defended Russian troops at the Battle of Balaklava (1854) during the Crimean War (1853-56). The suicidal attack was made famous by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his 1855 poem of the...
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Sadly, Crimea appears to be the battefield again soon.

I saw last night that the 101st Airborne is staged in Romania, right near the Ukraine border. I thnk we'll be at war by Christmas.
 
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Never quite understood that one. I know it's more complicated, but I still think this is a case of "Do not put your trust in princes."
 
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The Wikipedia article you attached states that Raleigh didn't take advantage of numerous opportunities he was given to escape. I wonder why. I remember once reading an account of his adventures which stated he was tired of life or something of that sort, but what is the evidence?
 
1912 - Vice President James S. Sherman, running for a second term of office with President William Howard Taft, died six days before election day. Sherman was replaced by Nicholas Murray Butler, but Taft, the Republican candidate, ended up loosing in an Electorial Landslide to Democrat Woodrow Wilson
1938 - the radio play, The War of the Worlds, starring Orson Welles, aired on CBS. Due to this broadcast scaring the begebers out of so many people, radio stations were required to announce their call letters and broadcast frequency on the hour and half-hour; and, to differenciate between real news bulletins and those that were a part of a radio drama.
1945 - the U. S. government announced the end of shoe rationing, effective at midnight
1974 - Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, that became known and the "Rumble in the Jungle", to regain his world heavy weight title
2001 - Ukraine destroyed its last nuclear missle silo, fulfilling a pledge to give up the vast nuclear arsenal it had inherited after the breakup of the former Soviet Union
2005 - the body of Rosa Parks arrived at the U. S. Capitol where the civil rights icon became the first woman to lie in honor in the rotunda. President George W. Bush and congressional leaders paused to lay wreaths by her casket
 
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