October 20

1097 - The first Crusaders arrive in Antioch, Ancient Syria during the First Crusade.

1774 - The American Continental Congress orders discouragement of entertainment.


1803 - The US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.


1905 - Russian Tsar Nicholas II allowed the Poles to speak Polish to help quell the revolution in the Kingdom of Poland.

1906 - Dr. Lee Deforest demonstrates his electrical vacuum (radio tube).



1917 - US suffragette Alice Paul begins a seven-month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of Women's Suffrage (right to vote) Amendment at the White House in Washington D.C.


1918 - In order to secure a World War I armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions.


1935 -Chinese Communist forces end their Long March at Yan'an,in Shaanxi, China bringing Mao Zedong to prominence.

1944 - I Shall Return" and he certainly does. Forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the
of the US 6th Army at Leyte.


1971 - US Senator Edward Kennedy calls for a withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and all-party negotiations to establish a United Ireland.


1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point in Australia after 14 years of construction.


2011 - The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte while in the custody of NTC fighters.

 

Alice Paul Enters Jail

1917 US suffragette Alice Paul begins a seven-month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of the Women's Suffrage (right to vote) Amendment at the White House in Washington, D.C.


Alice Paul

Profession: Suffragist

Nationality:

American
Biography: Alice Paul's mother was a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and it is through her that Paul learnt about the women's suffrage movement.

After graduating from Swarthmore College, which her grandfather had co-founded, Paul went on to work in social work for a while. Eventually she concluded that this was no way to make a real difference, which led to her seeking other avenues for her efforts.

Paul ended up moving to London to study sociology and economics at the London School of Economics, here she became involved with the English suffrage movement and was a regular participant in demonstrations and marches. It was here that she met Lucy Burns, with whom she was to return to America and establish the National Woman's Party.

Ultimately Paul's spirited involvement in the woman's suffrage movement paid off with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

Later Paul would also contribute to the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment, which asserted: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."

While the ERA movement is still ongoing, Paul was successful in adding protection for women to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Born: January 11, 1885
Birthplace: Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey, USA

Generation: Lost Generation
Star Sign: Capricorn

Died: July 9, 1977 (aged 92)

 

October 220

FILM,TV and Thearer

1911 - The Folies Bergere opened up on Broadway. In 1954 they renamed it the The Helen Hayes Theater after the "First Lady of American Theater. It is still the smallest Broadway theater.


1930 - "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" premieres on NBC radio.

1954 - Leigh, Charlap, Styne, and Green's musical "Peter Pan" , starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard opens at Winter Garden Theater in NYC. It ran for 152 performances.


1955 - "The Return of the King" - the third and final volume of J.R.R Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" is published by George Allen & Unnwin in London.
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1955 - Ira Levin's stage comedy "No Time for Sergeants" starring Andy Griffith and featuring the hilarious Don Knotts opens at Alvin Theater in NYC for 796 performances.


1964—Lee Adams and Charles Strouse's musical adaptation of Clifford Odett's "Golden Boy," starring Sammy Davis Jr., opens at the Majestic Theater for 569 performances.


1977 - Revival of the stage play "Dracula" opens in NYC with Frank Langella as Dracula.

1998 Comedian Richard Pryor receives the first ever Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.


BIRTHS

1882 - Bella Lugosi


1950- Tom Petty


1931 - Mickey Mantle

 

October 20

SPORTS

1934 - MLB team led by Connie Mack and including Babe Ruth, Jimmy Fox and Lou Gehrig sails to Japan for an 18 game series against the Big-Six University League.

1963 - Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record 0f 1,863 yards.


1973 - US President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe to have been the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century.

1976 - NY Nets Julius "Dr. J" Irving sold to Philadelphia 76ers.


MUSIC

1939 - "All the Things You Are" is recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.


1962 - Irving Berlin's final musical Mr. President opens at St.James Theater.

1962 -Peter, Paul and Mary debut folk album "Peter, Paul and Mary" reaches #1 on US album charts.


1979 - Bob Dylan makes his only appearance on "Saturday Night Live". performing three songs from his album "Slow Train Coming:
"When You Gonna Wake UP"
"Gotta Serve Somebody"
I Believe in You"

 

On October 21, 1966, one of my top favorite pop records of the era hit #1 when Lulu reached the top of the US singles chart for five weeks with the song "To Sir With Love", which was the theme song from the film of the same name. It stayed at #1 for 5 weeks.

Lulu also did a fine acting job in the film starring Sidney Poitier, which was a huge success, making over $40 million at the box office, despite a budget of only $640,000.

 

October 21

335 - Roman Emperor Constantine the Great rules that Jews are not allowed to purchase and circumcise Christian slaves.

1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.

1520 - Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes after transiting the Strait of Magellan between the Atlantic and Pacific becoming the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific,


1639 - The Sea Battle of the Dunes : The Dutch fleet under Maarten Tromp defeats the Spanish armada under Antonio De Kyoto.


1774 - The Tauntun Flag of Massachusetts becomes the first flag with the word "Liberty" in defiance to British rule in Colonial America.


1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats the combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson is shot and killed during the battle.


1854 - Florence Nightingale, with a staff of 38 nurses, is sent to the Crimean War,GO NURSES..


1878 - German chancellor Otto von Bismarck delegates the end of Socialism.

1915 - Willian Jenning Bryan's successor as US Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, sends a note to Britain protesting interference with US shipping.


1949 Author of "Brave New World" Aldous Huxley writes to congratulate George Orwell oon his new novel "1984". Both writers were extremely anti-socialists.


1959 - The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in NYC.

 

1949: Huxley writes to Orwell

Seventeen years after writing 'Brave New World,' a masterpiece of dystopian science-fiction, British author Aldous Huxley writes George Orwell to congratulate him on his "profoundly important" new book, '1984.' Orwell had been a student of Huxley's at Eton some three decades earlier.

 

On this day in history, October 21, 1797, legendary warship USS Constitution is launched in Boston
Old Ironsides, America's most famous warship, turns 227 years old, is still afloat and proudly serving the nation


The USS Constitution setting sail in recent times.

 

On This Day In History
October 21, 1941
Germans Massacre Men, Women and Children in Yugoslavia

Between October 18-October 21, 1941, German soldiers go on a rampage, killing thousands of Yugoslavian civilians, including whole classes of schoolboys, in what has become known as the Kragujevac massacre.

Despite attempts to maintain neutrality at the outbreak of World War II, Yugoslavia finally succumbed to signing a “friendship treaty” with Germany in late 1940, finally joining the Tripartite “Axis” Pact in March 1941. The masses of Yugoslavians protested this alliance, and shortly thereafter the regents who had been trying to hold a fragile confederacy of ethnic groups and regions together since the creation of Yugoslavia at the close of World War I fell to a coup, and the Serb army placed Prince Peter into power. The prince—now the king—rejected the alliance with Germany-and the Germans retaliated with the Luftwaffe bombing of Belgrade, killing about 17,000 people.

With Yugoslavian resistance collapsing, King Peter removed to London, setting up a government-in-exile. Hitler then began to carve up Yugoslavia into puppet states, primarily divided along ethnic lines, hoping to win the loyalty of some-such as the Croats-with the promise of a postwar independent state. (In fact, many Croats did fight alongside the Germans in its battle against the Soviet Union.) Hungary, Bulgaria and Italy all took bites out of Yugoslavia, as Serb resisters were regularly massacred. In October of 1941, 2,300 men and boys were murdered in Kragujevac, Kraljevo saw 7,000 more killed by German troops, and in the region of Macva, 6,000 men, women, and children were murdered.

Serb partisans, fighting under the leadership of the socialist Josef “Tito” Brozovich, won support from Britain and aid from the USSR in their battle against the occupiers. “The people just do not recognize authority…they follow the Communist bandits blindly,” complained one German official reporting back to Berlin.

 

Oct 21, 2024 ...

1797: The USS Constitution, also known as “Old Ironsides,” was launched in Boston's harbor. The ship is still afloat in Boston's Charlestown Navy Yard and serves as a symbol of the United States' constitutional foundations.

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October 21

FILM and TV

1954 - Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d'Usseau's black comedy stage play "Ladies of the Corridor" opens at the Longacre Theater in NYC. It runs for 45 performances.


1964 - The film version of "My Fair Laddy" directed by George Cukor and starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison premieres in New York. It wins the Academy Awards Best Picture, 1965.


2018 - Julia Louis-Drefus is presented with the Mark Twain Prize, comedy's top honor.



SPORTS

1964 - AbebeBikila of Ethiopia runs a world record 2:12:11.2 to beat Briton Basil Heatly by more than four minutes and win the Men's marathon at the Tokyo Olympics. He was the first athlete to win the Olympic marathon twice.


1973 - Baseball World Series : Defending champion Oakland A's New York Mets 5-2 in game 7 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum to retain the title. A's manager Dick Williams immediately quits and Reggie Jackson wins the MVP.

1980 Baseball World Series : Philadelphia Phillies beat Kansas City Royals 4-1 at Veterans Stadium to secure the series 4-2. It was the franchise's first championship, Mike Schmidt , Phillies third baseman wins the MVP.




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October 22

362 - A Mysterious fire destroys the Temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch


1721 - Tsar Peter the Great titles himself "Emperor of All Russia".


1836 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first elected President of the Republic of Texas. He started out as the teacher/principle of a one room schoolhouse in Maryville, Tennessee.


1862 - Confederate troops reconquer Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Until recently that and Tail of the Dragon were the only two roads open from Tennessee and North Carolina due to Hurricane Helene.

1907 - A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock leads to a nationwide run on US banks causing the Panic of 1907.


1907 - Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum and Bailey Circus.


1934 - Pretty treat Boy Floyd, notorious bank robber, is shot and killed by FBI agents in East Liverpool, Ohio.
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1948 - The First Arab-Israeli War : Israeli Navy sinks Egyptian Navy flagship "King Farouk" using a explosive-laden motorboat in the Mediterranian Sea near Gaza.

1919 - The deposed Shah of Iran , Mohammed Reza Pahlavi arrives in New York City for "medical treatment.
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1988 - US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor survives breast cancer surgery
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Plenty of interesting stuff has happened on October 22 throught the centuries, from JFK letting America know about the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the first demonstration of a parachute, to the killing of Pretty Boy Floyd, but who cares about all that crap?

Om October 22, 1969, the much anticipated album, Led Zeppelin II (still my favorite), was released on Atlantic Records in the UK. The Jimmy Page produced album, which was recorded over six months between four European and three American tours, peaked at #1 in both the UK and US, going on to sell over 12 million copies in the US alone, (and spending 138 weeks on the UK chart).

The album introduced the monstrously popular Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker (forever married to Livin' Lovin' Maid), The Lemon Song, Ramble On, Bring It On Home, What Is and What Should Never Be, Moby Dick, and Thank You. Soon, every aspiring lead guitarist was copying the Heartbreaker solo.

Recording sessions for the album took place at a wide variety of studios in the UK and US, including Olympic and Morgan Studios in London, England; A&M, Quantum, Sunset, Mirror Sound and Mystic Studios in Los Angeles; Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee; A&R, Juggy Sound, Groove and Mayfair Studios in New York City; and R&D Studios.

The album is now recognized by various writers and music critics as one of the greatest and most influential rock albums ever recorded.

Ramble On - maybe my favorite Zep tune (OMG - that bass!):


The entire album:

 

1797: Parachuting Pioneer

Inspired by his time confined behind the high ramparts of a Hungarian prison, French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin floats 3,200 feet above Paris, releases the hydrogen balloon from his new invention the parachute, and under a 23-foot wide canopy he descends safely to the ground.

 

On this day in history, October 22, 1928, GOP nominee Herbert Hoover gives speech on 'rugged individualism'
'Rugged individualism' amplified Hoover's philosophy of personal freedom and volunteerism


Surrounded by congressional leaders, President Herbert Hoover (seated, center) signs the Farm Relief Bill into law, Washington, D.C., June 15, 1929.

On this day in history, Oct. 22, 1928, Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden, according to multiple sources — coining the term "rugged individualism," which amplified his philosophy of personal freedom and volunteerism, not government intervention.

Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving in that role from 1929‐1933.

He was born in Iowa in 1874 and grew up in Oregon.

 

October 22

FILM, TV, and THEATER
1926 Boxer J, Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in the dressing room at the Princess Theater in Monreal. The attack started or helped start the cause of appendicitis that would take Houdini's life nine days later.

1932 - The film "Red Dust" directed by Victor Fleming, starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Mary Astor premieres.


1942 - "Now, Voyager" film directed by Irving Raptor, and starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Reins premiers in New York. It goes on to win three Academy Awards.


1979 - Walt Disney World receives its 100-millionth guest.


SPORTS

1939 - NBC becomes the first television network to televise a pro football game, Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Eagles 23-14 at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field.

1966 - Ice Hockey legend Bobby Orr scores his first career goal versus Montreal Canadiens.


1967 - Joe DiMaggio is hired as executive VP of the Oakland A's by Charlie Finley.


1984 - Future Pro Football Hall of Famer quarterback Kenny Stabler retires after 17 seasons with the Oakland Raiders, Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints. Most noted for Oakland.


MUSIC

1883 - New York's original Metropolitan Opera House has its grand opening with a performance of Charles Gounod's opera "Faust".


1884 Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack.


1962 - Zeppelin II has been covered by lateccomer. Once again thank you and great job.

1964 - EMI rejects audition by ""High Numbers" who go on to become "The Who"

 

October 23

42BC - Roman Republican civil war: The second Battle of Philippi -Brutus's army is decisively defeated y Mark Antony and Octavia. Brutus commits suicide,


425 - Valentinian IIIis elevated to Roman Emporor at the age of six.

1642 - The Barrle of Edgehill (Warwickshire) : King Charles I defeats English parliamentarian forces.


1684 - English King Charles II revokes theMassachusets Bay Colony charter due to repeated violalations of the charter's terms including trading with other countries and running an illegal mint.

1739 - War of Jenk Ear starts : Britis Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declres war on Spai,


1813 - The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astorta, Oregon is turned over to the British North West Company.The fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom.


1814 - The first boat(Senaca Chier) is the first ship to sail through the Erie Canal, from Rome, NY to Utica, NY..


1864 - Battle of Westport, Missouri Union General Samuel R. Custis defeats Confederare Ceneral Stirling Price.


1915 - An estimated 25,000 supporters in a womans' suffrage march on New York City's 5th Avenue. They are led by Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters.


1935 - American Mobsters Dutch Schults, AbeLandau, Otto Bernman and Benard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot by organized crime hitmen at a saloon in Newark, New Jessey, It comes known as the "Chophouse Massacre. It occurred to prevent them from killing the US Attorney from for prosecating Schultz for tax evasion.

1973 - Richard Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge JohSirica.

1998 - Israeli--Palestinean Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasar Arafat agree to the Wye River Memorandum, resu which established a level of the Oslo II Accord, which it established a level of self-government for Palestine. It was signed at the White House in Washington,D>C..

 

October 23

FILM, TV and THEATR

1932 The radio comedy program "The Fred Allen Show" premieres.


1941 - Walt Disney's animated cartoon "Dumbo" is released.


1952 - Charlie Chaplin's "Limelight" starring himself and Charle Bloom, with an appearance by Buster Keaton, premieres in New York City, Los Angeles not until 1972. Chaplin wins his only competitive Academy Award (for Best Score.

 

October 23 commemorates the sad day in 1983 when Hezbollah suicide bombers drove truckloads of high explosives into the barracks of U.S. Marines and French paratroopers in Beirut, Lebanon, and detonated, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French troops.

Here's why those troops were there: In 1975, a bloody civil war erupted in Lebanon, with Palestinian and leftist Muslim guerrillas battling militias of the Christian Phalange Party, the Maronite Christian community, and other groups. During the next few years, Syrian, Israeli, and United Nations interventions failed to resolve the factional fighting, and on August 20, 1982, a multinational force including 800 U.S. Marines was ordered to Beirut to help coordinate the Palestinian withdrawal.

The Marines had actually left Lebanese territory on September 10 but returned in strengthened numbers on September 29, following the massacre of Palestinian refugees by a Christian militia.

In eras past, Beirut had been called 'The Paris of the Middle East' until it all went to shit.

Rest in Peace, and bless our troops.



An early tally of the dead: