Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Krandall]

2005 – NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico

why? 

[dragonz]

2005 – NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico

why? 

$$$$$.........Why else?

[socalrappy700]

October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 87 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

610 – Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius
869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
1143 – The king Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
1550 – Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1665 – The University of Kiel is founded.
1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1857 – The City of Anaheim is founded.
1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1869 – A strong hurricane devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
1895 – The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1903 – Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
1910 – Portugal overthrows its monarchy and declares itself a republic.
1914 – World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill.
1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1921 – Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1930 – British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1944 – Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
1944 – Suffrage is extended to women in France.
1945 – Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
1953 – The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
1968 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
1969 – The first episode of the famous comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on BBC.
1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
1970 – Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1973 – Signature of the European Patent Convention.
1974 – Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured.
1981 – Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honorary U.S. citizen.
1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times ran Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal."
1988 – The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeat Augusto Pinochet in his re-election intentions. Next year a general election is called.
1990 – After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1991 – An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
1991 – The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
2000 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
2001 – Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

Births

1338 – Alexios III, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1390)
1520 – Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
1641 – Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
1658 – Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
1695 – John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
1703 – Jonathan Edwards, American minister (d. 1758)
1712 – Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
1713 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
1715 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
1717 – Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
1781 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
1792 – Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1844)
1795 – Alexander Keith, Scottish-born Canadian brewer (d. 1873)
1820 – David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
1822 – Hans Hampel, Czech composer and pianist (d. 1884)
1824 – Henry Chadwick, English-born American baseball writer and statistician (d. 1908)
1829 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)
1844 – Francis William Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
1848 – Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
1850 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (d. 1910)
1857 – Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish Language writer (d. 1942)
1864 – Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (d. 1948)
1878 – Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
1879 – Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1970)
1882 – Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
1887 – René Cassin, French jurist and Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1889 – Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (d. 1936)
1892 – Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969)
1894 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
1899 – Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1963)
1901 – John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
1902 – Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
1902 – Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
1903 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
1904 – John Hoyt, American film and television actor (d. 1991)
1905 – Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)
1907 – Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
1908 – Joshua Logan, American film director and writer (d. 1988)
1909 – Tony Malinosky, American baseball player
1911 – Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (d. 1966)
1912 – Fritz Fischer, Nazi war criminal (d. 2003)
1913 – Eugene Bennett Fluckey American Navy Submariner (d. 2007)
1916 – Stetson Kennedy, American writer
1917 – Allen Ludden, American television game show host (d. 1981)
1919 – Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
1921 – Bill Willis, American football player (d. 2007)
1922 – José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver
1922 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist
1922 – Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
1923 – Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer (d. 1994)
1923 – Philip Berrigan, American peace activist (d. 2002)
1923 – Glynis Johns, British actress
1923 – Bill Wirtz, longtime Chicago Blackhawks owner (d. 2007)
1923 – Stig Dagerman, Swedish writer (d. 1954)
1924 – Bill Dana, American actor
1924 – Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
1924 – José Donoso, Chilean writer (d. 1996)
1925 – Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997)
1925 – Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1926 – Willi Unsoeld, American climber (d. 1979)
1928 – Louise Fitzhugh, American author (d. 1974)
1929 – Fred Feast, English actor (d. 1999)
1929 – Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
1930 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d. 1999)
1930 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
1930 – Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel laureate
1932 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (d. 2006)
1933 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress
1934 – Angelo Buono, Jr., American serial killer (d. 2002)
1935 – Arlene Saunders, American soprano
1936 – Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic
1937 – Barry Switzer, American football coach
1938 – Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist
1939 – Marie Laforêt, French singer and actress
1939 – Marie-Claire Blais, French Canadian author and playwright
1939 – Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1939 – Walter Wolf, Slovenian-born Canadian industrialist
1940 – Milena Dravić, Serbian actress
1941 – Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
1942 – Richard Street, American singer (The Temptations)
1943 – Steve Miller, American musician (Steve Miller Band)
1943 – Ben Cardin, American politician, junior senator of Maryland
1945 – Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (d. 1997)
1945 – Geoff Leigh, English musician (Henry Cow)
1946 – Zahida Hina, Pakistani columnist
1946 – Jean Perron, Canadian ice hockey coach
1947 – Brian Johnson, English singer (AC/DC)
1948 – Tawl Ross, American musician (P Funk)
1948 – Zoran Živković, Serbian writer
1949 – Ralph Goodale, Canadian politician
1949 – Bill James, American baseball writer
1949 – B. W. Stevenson, American singer (d. 1988)
1950 – 'Fast' Eddie Clarke, English guitarist (Motörhead, Fastway)
1950 – Jeff Conaway, American actor
1950 – Edward P. Jones, American writer
1951 – Karen Allen, American actress
1951 – Bob Geldof, Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats) and activist
1952 – Clive Barker, English writer
1952 – Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor
1952 – Gigi Sabani, Italian TV host (d. 2007)
1955 – Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
1955 – Caroline Loeb, French singer and actress
1955 – Ángela Molina, Spanish actress
1957 – Mark Geragos, American attorney
1957 – Lee Thompson, English saxophonist (Madness), vocalist
1957 – Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
1958 – André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut
1960 – Daniel Baldwin, American actor
1960 – Careca, Brazilian footballer
1961 – Sharon Cheslow, American musician, composer and artist
1961 – Matthew Kauffman, American journalist and George Polk Award winner
1961 – David Kirk, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1962 – Michael Andretti, American race car driver
1962 – Caron Keating, British television personality (d. 2004)
1963 – Laura Davies, English golfer
1964 – Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor
1964 – Malik Saidullaev Chechen businessman
1964 – Warren E. Miller, Maryland politician
1965 – Trace Armstrong, American football player
1965 – Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 – Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 – Jan Verhaas, Dutch snooker referee
1966 – Dennis Byrd, American football player
1967 – Rex Chapman, American basketball player
1967 – Guy Pearce, Anglo-Australian actor
1970 – Josie Bissett, American actress
1970 – Audie Pitre, bass guitarist (d. 1996)
1971 – South Park Mexican, American rapper
1971 – Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine former footballer
1971 – Samuel Vincent, Canadian voice actor
1972 – Grant Hill, American basketball player
1972 – Thomas Roberts, American news anchor
1972 – Aaron Guiel, Canadian baseball outfielder
1974 – Heather Headley, Trinidadian singer
1974 – Rich Franklin, American Mixed Martial Artist
1974 – Colin Meloy, American singer (The Decemberists) (married to Carson Ellis who shares his birthday)
1975 – Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer
1975 – Parminder Nagra, English actress
1975 – Kate Winslet, English actress
1975 – Carson Ellis, American artist (married to Colin Meloy who shares her birthday)
1975 – Scott Weinger American actor
1976 – Song Seung-hun, South Korean actor
1976 – Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen President
1976 – J. J. Yeley, American race car driver
1978 – Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer
1978 – Jesse Palmer, Canadian-born American football player
1978 – Morgan Webb, Canadian-born television presenter
1978 – James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
1979 – Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Vincenzo Grella, Australian footballer
1979 – Jaime Chambers, American television reporter
1981 – Kelvin Tan Wei Lian, Singaporean singer
1983 – Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladeshi cricketer
1983 – Nicky Hilton, American heiress
1984 – Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
1985 – Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1987 – Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
1987 – Javier Villa, Spanish racing driver
1988 – Bahar Kızıl, German Singer (Monrose)
1988 – Bobby Edner, American actor
1988 – Maja Salvador, Filipina Actress

Deaths

578 – Justin II, Byzantine Emperor
1056 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
1112 – Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
1214 – King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
1285 – King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
1528 – Richard Foxe, English churchman
1540 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (b. 1488)
1564 – Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
1565 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
1606 – Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1714 – Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
1740 – Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
1777 – Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
1791 – Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
1805 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
1813 – Tecumseh, Shawnee leader (b. 1768)
1848 – Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781)
1861 – Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
1880 – Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
1913 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
1918 – Roland Garros, French pilot (b. 1888)
1930 – Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
1933 – Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898)
1933 – Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)
1936 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (tuberculosis) (b. 1898)
1938 – Saint Faustina, Polish saint (b. 1905)
1940 – Ballington Booth, Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
1940 – Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (b. 1859)
1940 – Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican musician (b. 1889)
1941 – Louis Dembitz Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1856)
1943 – Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
1950 – Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
1952 – Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver
1975 – Lady Constance Malleson, British actor and writer (b. 1895)
1976 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1976 – Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)
1981 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
1983 – Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907)
1983 – Humberto Mauro, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
1986 – Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
1986 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
1986 – Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (b. 1947)
1992 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
1995 – Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
1996 – Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1925)
1997 – Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2000 – Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)
2001 – Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
2002 – Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
2003 – Denis Quilley, English actor (b. 1927)
2003 – Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1978)
2003 – Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast featured in Grizzly Man (b. 1957)
2004 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
2004 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 – William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine nominee (b. 1941)
2006 – Jennifer Moss, English actress (b. 1945)
2006 – Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion AAA (b. 1953)
2007 – Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (b. 1898)
2009 – Shōichi Nakagawa, Japanese politician (b. 1953)
2009 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (b. 1935)
2009 – Ernő Kolczonay, Hungarian fencer (b. 1953)

Holidays and observances

Roman calendar

    Mundus patet: a harvest feast involving the dead.

Portugal – Republic Day, celebrates overthrow of the Monarchy in 1910
International World Teachers' Day
French Republican Calendar – Réséda (Mignonette) Day, fourteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
Indonesia – Army Day
Hor and Susia in the Coptic Church
Feast day of Saint Faustina Kowalska, Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos and Saint Thraseas in the Roman Catholic Church

[Krandall]

1914 – World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill.


Constructed of Balsa Wood doesnt count....

[Krandall]

g'night RS

[socalrappy700]

October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

105 BC – Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
68 BC – Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1600 – Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
1683 – William Penn brings 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first immigration of German people to America.
1762 – Seven Years' War: conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war.
1789 – French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
1849 – The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
1854 – The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1889 – Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1906 – The Majlis of Iran convene for the first time.
1908 – Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1921 – International PEN is founded in London.
1922 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
1928 – Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
1939 – World War II: The last Polish army is defeated.
1945 – Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
1955 – A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people
1966 – LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
1973 – Egypt launches a coordinated attack against Israel to reclaim land lost in the Six Day War. The Ramadan War Yom Kippur War starts at 2:05 pm that day.
1976 – Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed by on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on-board are killed.
1976 – New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
1976 – Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
1977 – In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
1977 – The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1981 – President of Egypt, Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
1985 – PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1987 – Fiji becomes a republic.
1995 – 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
2000 – Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
2000 – Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
2002 – The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

Births

1289 – King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1459 – Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
1510 – Rowland Taylor, English clergyman (d. 1555)
1510 – John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
1552 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610)
1573 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624)
1610 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
1716 – George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)
1738 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
1744 – James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
1767 – Henri Christophe, king of Haiti (d. 1820)
1769 – Sir Isaac Brock, British commander (d. 1812)
1773 – King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
1801 – Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
1820 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
1831 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
1866 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian-born inventor and radio pioneer (d. 1932)
1872 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
1874 – Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
1876 – Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941)
1882 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1937)
1886 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
1887 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
1888 – Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
1892 – Jackie Saunders, American silent film actress (d. 1954)
1895 – Caroline Gordon, American writer and critic (d. 1981)
1900 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1905 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
1906 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
1908 – Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
1908 – Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
1910 – Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
1912 – Pauline Gore, mother of American Vice President Al Gore (d. 2004)
1912 – Perkins Bass, American politician
1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)
1915 – Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007)
1915 – Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and civil rights activist (d. 2007)
1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (d. 1977)
1918 – André Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1993)
1920 – Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
1920 – Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)
1921 – Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
1921 – Joseph Lowery, American Civil rights movement leader
1922 – Joe Frazier, American baseball player
1925 – Shana Alexander, American columnist (d. 2005)
1927 – Bill King, American sports broadcaster (d. 2005)
1930 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
1930 – Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer
1931 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
1931 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman and professional wrestler
1935 – Charito Solis, Filipino actress (d. 1998)
1938 – Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder
1939 – John LaFalce, American politician, former Member, US House of Representatives
1942 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
1942 – Millie Small, Jamaican singer
1943 – Michael Durrell, American actor
1943 – Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
1944 – José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1977)
1945 – Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
1946 – Eddie Villanueva, JIL Spiritual Director, Owner of ZOE Broadcasting Network
1946 – Lloyd Doggett, American politician
1946 – Vinod Khanna, Indian actor
1946 – Tony Greig, South African-born English cricketer
1947 – Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter
1948 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
1950 – David Brin, American author
1951 – Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)
1951 – Kevin Cronin, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
1952 – Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer
1953 – Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
1954 – David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
1954 – Darrell M. West, American political scientist
1955 – Tony Dungy, American football coach
1956 – Kathleen Webb, American comic book writer and artist
1958 – Joseph Finder, American novelist
1959 – Brian Higgins, American politician, Member of US House of Representatives
1959 – Dennis Ray Boyd, American baseball player
1959 – Walter Ray Williams Jr., American bowler and horsehoes champion
1962 – Rich Yett, baseball player
1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American film actress
1963 – Chip Foose, American automobile customizer
1963 – Jsu Garcia, American actor
1964 – Ricky Berry, American basketball player (d. 1989)
1964 – Matthew Sweet, American musician
1965 – Rubén Sierra, Puerto Rican baseball player
1966 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
1966 – Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
1967 – Kennet Andersson, former Swedish footballer
1967 – Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman
1969 – Troy Shaw, English snooker player
1970 – Darren Oliver, American baseball player
1970 – Amy Jo Johnson, American actress and singer
1971 – Phil Bennett, British racing driver
1971 – Lola Dueñas, Spanish actress
1971 – Alan Stubbs, English footballer
1972 – Ko So-young, South Korean actress
1972 – Anders Iwers, Swedish musician
1972 – Ryu Shi-won, South Korean actor and singer
1972 – Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
1973 – Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer
1973 – Jeff Davis, American comedian
1973 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
1973 – Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player
1974 – Jeremy Sisto, American actor
1974 – Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
1975 – Reon King, West Indian cricketer from Guyana
1976 – Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
1977 – Danny Brière, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Melinda Doolittle, American singer and recording artist
1977 – Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
1977 – Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
1977 – Wes Ramsey, American actor
1978 – Ricky Hatton, English boxer
1979 – David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
1979 – Richard Seymour, American football player
1979 – Lex Shrapnel, English actor
1980 – Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer
1981 – Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
1981 – José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
1982 – MC Lars, American hip-hop artist
1982 – Michael Arden, American actor
1982 – William Butler, Musician and member of Arcade Fire
1984 – Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer
1984 – Morne Morkel, South African cricketer
1985 – Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player
1986 – Tereza Kerndlová, Czech singer
1986 – Mohammad Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
1986 – Olivia Thirlby, American actress
1988 – Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress
1995 – Jessica Lunsford, American kidnapping victim (d. 2005)
1998 – Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer
2000 – Amanda and Rachel Pace, American actresses

Deaths

869 – Ermentrude of Orléans, consort of Charles the Bald (b. 823)
877 – Charles the Bald (b. 823)
1014 – Samuil of Bulgaria (b. 958)
1101 – Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order
1413 – Dawit I of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1542 – Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
1641 – Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
1644 – Elisabeth of Bourbon, consort of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
1660 – Paul Scarron, French writer
1661 – Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru (b. 1630)
1688 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
1762 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (b. 1684)
1819 – Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (b. 1751)
1829 – Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
1873 – Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
1891 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
1892 – Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (b. 1809)
1912 – Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1829)
1945 – Leonardo Conti, Nazi physician (b. 1900)
1947 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
1951 – Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
1959 – Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
1962 – Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1880)
1968 – Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (b. 1917)
1973 – François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
1973 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)
1973 – Dennis Price, English actor (b. 1915)
1974 – Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1948)
1976 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
1980 – Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)
1980 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
1981 – Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)
1983 – Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1921)
1985 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
1986 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
1992 – Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
1993 – Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot (b. 1949)
1995 – Benoît Chamoux, French climber (b. 1961)
1997 – Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player (b. 1914)
1998 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1999 – Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
1999 – Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler/commentator (b. 1937)
2000 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
2001 – Arne Harris, American television sports director (b. 1934)
2002 – Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
2003 – Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist (b. 1957)
2004 – Marvin Santiago. Puerto Rican salsa singer (b. 1947)
2006 – Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
2006 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
2006 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2006 – Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
2007 – Bud Ekins, American stuntman (b. 1930); L. M. Singhvi, Indian jurist and writer (b. 1931).
2008 – Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (b. 1985)

Holidays and observances

RC Saints – Saint Bruno, St Faith, Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus, Saint Sagar
Also see October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Egypt – Armed Forces Day; commemorates the October War of 1973.
U.S. – German-American Day observed since 1987
Judaism – Fast of Gedalia (2005)
French Republican Calendar – Âne (Donkey) Day, fifteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

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2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

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Jihad Baby!!!!! 

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October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 85 days remaining until the end of the year.
Contents

Today in history

3761 BC – The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
336 – Pope Mark dies, leaving the papacy vacant.
1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off the California coast.
1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) destroys the Turkish fleet.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1763 – George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional french song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août.
1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
1828 – The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Darbytown Road: the Confederate forces' attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond is thwarted.
1864 – American Civil War: U.S.S. "Wachusett" captures the C.S.S. "Florida" Confederate raider ship while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War – Siege of Paris: Leon Gambetta flees Paris in a balloon.
1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1919 – KLM of the Netherlands is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed from a merger of 5 French airlines.
1940 – World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
1944 – World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down the crematoria.
1949 – German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed.
1952 – The bar code is patented.
1955 – Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco.
1958 – President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the far side of the moon.
1962 – U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R.
1963 – John F. Kennedy signs ratification for Partial Test Ban Treaty.
1977 – The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1982 – Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1985 – The "Achille Lauro" is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization.
1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2003 – Gray Davis is recalled as Governor of California, three years before the official end of his office term. Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor.
2004 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.

Births

1471 – King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
1573 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
1576 – John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
1589 – Maria Magdalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1631)
1713 – Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)
1728 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer (d. 1784)
1744 – Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
1748 – King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
1769 – Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
1786 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
1835 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
1841 – King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
1849 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)
1866 – Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
1870 – Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1873)
1879 – Joe Hill, American Labor Activist and Poet (d. 1915)
1881 – Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
1884 – Major Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
1885 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1888 – Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
1892 – Dwain Esper, director (d. 1982)
1894 – Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
1897 – Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (d. 1975)
1898 – Joe Giard, American baseball player (d. 1956)
1900 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official (d. 1945)
1905 – Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)
1907 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001)
1909 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (d. 1990)
1909 – Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983)
1910 – Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)
1911 – Vaughn Monroe, American singer (d. 1973)
1911 – Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)
1912 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
1913 – Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (d. 1987)
1914 – Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992)
1914 – Sarah Churchill, British actress (d. 1982)
1917 – June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006)
1919 – Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician
1920 – Jack Rowley, English footballer (d. 1998)
1921 – Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (d. 2004)
1922 – Grady Hatton, American baseball player
1922 – William Zinsser, American writer
1923 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
1923 – Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps (d. 1945)
1926 – Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
1927 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (d. 1989)
1927 – Al Martino, American singer and actor
1928 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
1929 – Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
1929 – Graeme Ferguson, Canadian filmmaker and executive
1931 – Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)
1931 – Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate
1934 – Amiri Baraka, American writer
1934 – Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (d. 1976)
1935 – Thomas Keneally, Australian author
1936 – Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
1937 – Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
1939 – John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1939 – Clive James, Australian television presenter and writer
1939 – Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1939 – Bill Snyder, American football coach
1940 – Bruce Vento, American politician (d. 2000)
1943 – Joy Behar, American television personality
1943 – José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
1943 – Oliver North, American former military officer
1944 – Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)
1944 – Donald Tsang, current Chief executive of Hong Kong
1945 – Kevin Godley, British musician (10cc)
1946 – Bernard Lavilliers, French singer
1946 – Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
1948 – Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
1949 – Dave Hope, American musician (Kansas)
1950 – Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician
1951 – John Mellencamp, American singer
1951 – David J. Halberstam, American radio executive
1952 – Mary Badham, American actress
1952 – Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister and former President of the Russian Federation
1952 – Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
1952 – Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer
1953 – Tico Torres, musician (Bon Jovi)
1954 – Kenneth Atchley, American composer
1955 – Yo-Yo Ma, French-born American cellist
1955 – Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist
1957 – Michael W. Smith, American singer
1957 – Jayne Torvill, British figure skater
1958 – Judy Landers, American actress
1959 – Dylan Baker, American character actor
1959 – Simon Cowell, English recording executive
1959 – Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
1959 – Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician
1960 – Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
1960 – Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
1961 – Matthew Roloff, American reality star
1961 – Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor
1962 – Dave Bronconnier, Canadian politician
1964 – Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter
1964 – Dan Savage, American sex-columnist and author
1964 – Paul Stewart, English footballer
1965 – Genji Hashimoto, Japanese racing driver
1966 – Sherman Alexie, Native American author and comedian
1966 – Marco Beltrami, Italian-American film composer
1967 – Toni Braxton, American singer
1967 – Luke Haines, English musician (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder)
1967 – Takahiro Izutani, Japanese Composer
1968 – Thom Yorke, English singer (Radiohead)
1969 – Javier Álvarez, Spanish singer-songwriter
1969 – Bobbie Brown, American actress, model
1969 – Malia Hosaka, Hawaiian professional wrestler
1969 – Maria Whittaker, English model
1969 – Benny Chan Ho Man, Hong Kong actor and singer
1970 – Nicole Ari Parker, American actress
1971 – Daniel Boucher, Québécois musician
1972 – Ben Younger, American screenwriter and film director
1973 – Dida, Brazilian footballer
1973 – Sami Hyypiä, Finnish footballer
1973 – Priest Holmes, American Football Running Back
1974 – Allison Munn, American actress
1974 – Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer
1974 – Alexander Polinsky, American actor
1975 – Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
1975 – Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go)
1975 – Tim Minchin, Australian comedian and musician
1976 – Taylor Hicks, American musician
1976 – Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer
1976 – Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
1976 – Charles Woodson, American football player
1976 – Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
1977 – Brandon Quinn, American actor
1977 – Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
1978 – Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq)
1978 – Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
1979 – Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
1979 – Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 – Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 – Tang Wei, Chinese actress
1980 – Edison Chen, Canadian actor
1980 – Tim Cresswell, Hong Kong footballer
1981 – Doni Schroader, American avant garde composer,pop musician
1982 – Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
1982 – Jermain Defoe, English footballer
1982 – Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
1982 – Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist
1983 – Scottie Upshall, Canadian Hockey Player
1984 – Toma Ikuta, Japanese singer and actor
1984 – Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
1985 – Evan Longoria, American baseball player
1986 – Lee Nguyen, American footballer
1986 – Chase Daniel, American football player
1986 – Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
1986 – Bree Olson, American pornographic actress
1987 – Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer
1987 – Sam Querrey, American tennis player
1988 – Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley)
2001 – Princess Senate Seeiso, daughter of King Letsie III of Lesotho

Deaths

336 – Pope Mark
929 – Charles the Simple, King of France (b. 879)
1368 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)
1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. c.1500)
1555 – Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488)
1577 – George Gascoigne, English poet
1612 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat, (b. 1538)
1620 – Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547)
1637 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
1651 – Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)
1653 – Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581)
1708 – Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
1772 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
1787 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
1792 – George Mason, American statesman (b. 1725)
1793 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718)
1796 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
1849 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (b. 1809)
1894 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
1896 – Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist, wife of Charles Darwin, (b. 1808)
1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
1906 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
1911 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
1919 – Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
1925 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1926 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
1943 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
1943 – Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
1944 – Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (b. 1918)
1956 – Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
1959 – Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
1966 – Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer and songwriter. (b. 1890)
1966 – Smiley Lewis, American musician (b. 1913)
1967 – Norman Angell, British politician and Nobel Laureate (b. 1872)
1969 – Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
1981 – Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (b. 1895)
1991 – Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
1992 – Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)
1992 – Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
1993 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born Danish immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
1998 – Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915)
2001 – Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)
2001 – Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
2001 – Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
2002 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
2003 – Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate (b. 1932)
2003 – Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
2003 – Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)
2004 – Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942)
2005 – Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
2006 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
2006 – Abraham Afewerki,Eritrean Singer(b.1966)
2007 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
2007 – George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931)
2008 – Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)

Holidays and observances

RC Saints – Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary; formerly Saint Justina, Saint Osyth
Feast day of Pope Mark.
Saints Sergius and Bacchus; also see October 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
French Republican Calendar – Sixteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
Brazil – Composer Day

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1963 – John F. Kennedy signs ratification for Partial Test Ban Treaty.

Fucking hippie was ruining my fun even before I was born

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probably one of the coolest pics for a partial test...

good thing those boats aren't parked to close.... oh wait..

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probably one of the coolest pics for a partial test...

good thing those boats aren't parked to close.... oh wait..

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