October 5

Film, TV and THEATER

1951 -Jackie Gleason debuts the character of bus driver Ralph Kramden on the first "The Honeymooners" skit on "Cavalcade of Stars"

1961 - "Breakfast at Tiffany's" film based on the novella by Truman Capote, directed by Blake Edwards and starring Audrey Hepburn, Geoorge Peppard, and Buddy Ebsen premieres.


1962 - "Dr, No", the first James Bond film based on the novel by Ian Fleming and starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress (the first Bond girl) premieres in London.

1969 - Latecomer already took great care of "Monty Python's Flying Circus

2004 - The hilarious Rodney Dangerfield passes away.


MUSIC

1963 - Little Richard joins The Everly Brothers tour.


1990 - Columbia Records release "Interiors". Rosanne Cash's seventh studio album was produced by Cash herself

1947 -Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Al Gionfriddo makes a famous catch off Joe DiMaggio in Game six of the Baseball World Series. The Dodgers beat the Yankees 8-6 when the catch inspired back to back to back homers. Will we see a Yankee - Dodgers World Series this year?



1956 - Catcher Yogi Berrra ( how great to have a cartoon character named for you) becomes the fourth Yankeee in history to hit a Baseball World Series grand slam. Dodgers win the game 13-8 but lose the series 4-3.

 

On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a well-planned surprise attack on Israel, which then scrambled to marshall its forces to fight on two fronts - the Sinai and the Golan Heights in the North, where the Israelis defeated a much larger Syrian tank force. In the end, Israel kept the Golan Heights. It is known as both The October War and The Yom Kippur War, because it occurred on that Jewish holy day.

Egyptian combat engineers had ingeniously utilized water cannons to rapidly clear numerous passages through the sand wall lining the eastern bank of the Suez Canal, simultaneously laying bridges and operating ferries that allowed armoured vehicles to cross.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) quickly turned the tide, disabling portions of the Egyptian air defenses, which allowed Israeli forces commanded by General Ariel Sharon to cross the Suez Canal and surround the Egyptian Third Army. On the Golan front, Israeli troops, at heavy cost, repulsed the Syrians and advanced to the edge of the Golan plateau on the road to Damascus.

On October 22 the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 338, which called for an immediate end to the fighting; despite this, however, hostilities continued for several days thereafter, prompting the UN to reiterate the call for a cease-fire with Resolutions 339 and 340. With international pressure mounting, the war finally ceased on October 26.

Yeah, the fucking UN always demands a cease fire when Israel is busy defending itself from unprovoked attacks.

Egypt's 'Operation Badr':



Golan Heights - The Valley of Tears:


Syrians

 

Battle of Passchendaele

1917 Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides


British Royal Field Artillery gunners hauling an 18-pounder field gun out of the mud.

Photographer: John Warwick Brooke
Date taken: August 9, 1917
Location taken: Near Zillebeke, West Flanders, Belgium
Source: Imperial War Museums

Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides.

 

October 6

1499 - French King Louis XII occupies France.


1876 - The American Library Association was formed in Philadelphia.

1889 _ First known ascent on the summit of Mt, Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak, by German climber Hans Meyer and Austrian Ludwig Purtscheller.


1893 - Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat.



1928 - Yugoslav revolutionary Josip Broz Tito is convicted after police find bombs in his apartment and is sentenced to 5 years in prison.


1956 - Scientist Albert Sabin announces his oral polio vaccine is ready for testing, It would soon supplant Jonas Salk's vaccine in many parts of the world.

1961 - JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters.


1972 - Taoiseach(Irish Prime Minister) Jack Lynch closes the Sinn Fein office in Dublin.


1978 - Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person. They sure were correct.


2018 - Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed and sworn onto the Supreme Court amid protests.

 

October 6

FILM and TV

1927 -"The Jazz Singer" directed by Allan Crossland and starring Al Joson and MayAvoy was released . It was the first film with a soundtrack sounding the death knell for silent films. It received an Honorary Academy Award in 1929.


1960 - "Spartacus" directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglass and Laurence Olivier premieres in New York City.


MUSIC

2009 - "The List" is released by Manhattan Studios, the twelfth studio album by Rosanne Cash. It is selected songs from a list of 100 titles that her father Johnny Cash compiled and gave to her when she decided to pursue a career in music.

Sports

1911 - Boston Rustlers' future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young MLB farewell appearance is a letdown with a 13-3 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers in his 906th game.

1926 - Babe Ruth becomes the first MLB player to hit 3 hme runs in a World Series game. The Yankees beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-5 in game 4.


1963 - Baseball World: LA Dodgers edge the NY Yankees 2-1 at Dodgers Stadium for a 4-0 seep. Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax receives the MVP.

1966 - Baltimore Orioles Jim Palmerat age 20 is the youngest to record a World Series shutout. Baltimore beats LA Dodgers 6-0 in Game 2 at Dodgers Stadium.

 

On October 7, 1996, the conservative Fox News Network premiered on U.S. satellite and cable television.

News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch started the network, hired Roger Ailes to run it, and within five years, it had eclipsed rival CNN in the ratings and went on to become the number one ranked cable news network for over a decade.

In a news and cable landscape dominated by liberal outlets, Fox develpoed a unique tactic: to accelerate its adoption by cable providers, Fox News paid systems up to $11 per subscriber to distribute the channel, which contrasted with the normal practice, in which cable operators paid stations carriage fees for programming.

The first hosts of Fox News were Neil Cavuto and Tony Snow. The network's opinion programming became its primary draw, with shows like The O'Reilly Report and Hannity and Colmes.

Fox is #1 in cable news today.

 

October 7

1492 - Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes curse.

1542 - Explorer Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo, on a voyage from Spain, is the first European to discover Catalina Island off the coast of California.


1571 - Battle of Lepanto: Hly League of Southern European Nations formed by Pope Pius V destroy an Ottoman fleet off of Western Greece.


1763 - King George III of Great Britain issues the Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlement.


1765 Stamp Act Congress (First Congress of the American Colonies) convened in New York City to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.

1777 - Americans defeat Britain in Secnnd Battle of Saratoga. We were just up there visiting my father.


1915 - English nurse Edith Cavell and 34 others were sentenced to death by a German court martial for running an underground network to free Allied soldiers.


1944 - Field Marshall Erwin Rommel ordered back to Berlin. Although he was pro-Germany he was anti-Nazi. There are reports he was involved in attempting to assassinate Hitler.


1944 Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, burning down crematoriums.

1951 - David ben-Gurion forms third Israel government.


1959 - The far side of the moon is seen for the first time, courtesy of the USSR's Luna 3 space probe.


1996 - Rupert Murdoch launches Fox News with Roger Ailes as CEO.

 

October 7

Film and TV
1952 -"Pillow Talk" film directed by Michael London and starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson is first released.


1960 TV series "Route 66" premieres on CBS.


1971 - "The French Connection" directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Schneieder and Fernando Rey premieres in the US. Wins Academy Award Best Picture 1972.



MUSIC


1963 - The Rolling Stones record the Lennon-McCartney song "I Wanna Be Your Man" at Kingsway Sound Studio in London.

1982 - The musical "Cars" opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway. It runs for nearly 18 years and wins 7 Tony Awards and 1 Grammy.


SPORTS

1916 = Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeats Cumberland 222-0, the most lopsided score in the history of US college football.


1928 - Paavo Numi runs world record 10 miles in 50:15.0


1984 _ Walter Payton passes NFL's rushing leader.Payton finished his career with 16,726 and Brown with 16,000. Emmit Smith would surpass them all with 18,355.

 

1870: Gambetta's Balloon Escape
One of the greatest orators in French history, an enemy of his country's imperial rulers, and a political dynamo par excellence, Leon Gambetta escapes a Paris under siege during the Franco-Prussian War by boarding a hot-air balloon and floating to relative safety in the city of Tours.

 

On this day in history, October 7, 1916, Georgia Tech football beats Cumberland 222-0
Led by coach John Heisman, Yellow Jackets humiliated school that had disbanded its program in most lopsided game in college football


A football from Georgia Tech's 222-0 win over Cumberland College, Oct. 7, 1916. It still stands today as the most lopsided game in college football history.

Georgia Tech, led by legendary coach and trophy namesake John Heisman, humiliated Cumberland College 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game on record on this day in history, Oct. 7, 1916.

The football farce pitted national pigskin powerhouse Georgia Tech against a school from Lebanon, Tennessee, that reportedly pulled student volunteers off campus and out of frat houses to fulfill a contractual commitment.

"The rout can be traced back to a 22-0 loss the Georgia Tech baseball team, also coached by Heisman, suffered in the spring of 1915.

 

On October 8, 1918, PFC and Acting Corporal Alvin C. York, a Conscientous Objector, led an attack on a German machine gun nest that was decimating his fellow troops, reportedly killing at least 25 German soldiers, capturing an additional 132 and gathering 35 machine guns. He was part of a small detachment of the 82nd Division in the Argonne Forest near the Meuse River in France.

York was later promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. An investigation resulted in the upgrading of the award to the Medal of Honor. York's feat made him a national hero and international celebrity among allied nations.

After the war, York stayed out of the spotlight until Hollywood screenwriters finally convinced him to make a film about his story. He wanted to tell the story of his life after the war and the work he had done at home. Despite this desire, “Sergeant York” was released in 1941, and focused on his time in France.

Gary Cooper won Best Actor for his portrayal of York in the film, which also won Best Picture and Best Film Editing.

York died at the Veterans Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 2, 1964, of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 76. After a funeral service in his Jamestown church, with Gen. Matthew Ridgway representing President Lyndon Johnson, York was buried at the Wolf River Cemetery in Pall Mall.

Continue to Rest in Peace, Alvin Cullum York, a true American patriot and hero.

 

October 8

314 - battle of Cibalae: Roman emperor in the west Constantine the Great beats Licinius, emperor in the east.

1480 - The Great Stand on the Ugra River: Standoff between forces of Akhmat Khan(Khan of the Great Horde) and Ivan III (Grand Prince of all Rus). Ends with a Tatar-Mongol retreat and the disintegration of the Horde.


1604 - Supernova :Kepler's nova: first sighted byLodovice delle Colobe in Italy.


1645 - The first hospital in Montreal, Quebec founded, The Hotel-Dieu de Montreal by nurse Jeanne Mance.


1769 - Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand for the first time, near Gisborne at Poverty Bay on the East Coast of the North Island. A misunderstanding, possibly over a ceremonial challenge, causes the English to shoot and kill NgauOneone leader Te Maro.


1821 - The government of Jose de San Martin established the Peruvian Navy.


1871 The Great Chicago Fire kills an estimated 300 people and destroys over 4 square miles of buildings and the original Emancipation Proclamation.


1917 - Leon Tolstoy was named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet as Bolsheviks gained control of Russia.


1934 - Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for the murder of Charles Lindbergh's son.


1967 - Guerilla leader Che Guevera and his men are cap7ured in Bolivia,

 

On this day in history, October 8, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire erupts, killing 300 people
Great Chicago Fire burned through heart of Windy City, killing 300 people, leaving thousands homeless

The Chicago Fire Department's training academy is currently located on the site of the O’Leary property where the Great Chicago Fire started.
A devastating fire broke out in a barn on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois on this day in history on Oct. 8, 1871.

Known as The Great Chicago Fire, the blaze burned through the heart of the Windy City, killing 300 people and leaving one-third of the city's population homeless, according to National Geographic.

In addition to the loss of life, the fire burned from Oct. 8 to Oct. 10, 1871, destroying thousands of buildings causing an estimated $200 million in damages, according to History.com.

Legend has it that a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn owned by the O’Leary Family at 137 DeKoven Street on the southwest side of Chicago.

However, other theories said it could have been due to human causes or even a meteor, the same source said.

The exact cause of the original barn fire was never officially determined, according to multiple sources.

The conditions that year included a devastatingly hot and dry summer — which resulted in countless smaller fires across the city, and Wisconsin’s own devastating Peshtigo Fire, according to Smithsonian Magazine.

"The Chicago blaze was so powerful that ‘fire devils,’ or vortexes of flames, would spin across buildings and jump to new blocks setting new structures alight," said the same source.

From there, the fire spread north, leaping across the river not once but twice, according to The Chicago Sun-Times.

"It burned across downtown and then headed for the North Side. Finally, on Oct. 10, firefighters extinguished the inferno," the same source chronicled.

 

1956: Larsen pitches a perfect game
Yankees pitcher Don Larsen starts game five of the World Series at Yankee Stadium against local rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers. Larsen completes the first perfect game in MLB postseason history, retiring 27 batters, and the Bronx Bombers will go on to win their 17th World Series.

 

October 8

FILM and TV

1927 - "The Second Hundred Years " Silent short film is released starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The first film with them appearing as a team.


1942 - Comedy dou Abbott and Costello launch their weekly radio show.


1982 - MGM releases comedy film "My Favorite Year. Directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Peter O'Toole, Mark-Lynn Baker, Jessica Harper and Joseph Bologna.


2004 - Martha Stewart begins 5 months incarcerated at a Federal Prison Camp for insider trading.


MUSIC

1928 - Cole Porter and E. Ray Goetz musical "Paris" a t the Music Theater in New York City. It runs for 195 performances.




1988 - Finishing 741 week stay, Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon " makes it final appearance of initial run on Billboard 200 Albums Chart



SPORTS

1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles.

1951 - NY Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford beats Babe Ruth's record of 29-2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in a World Series. He goes on to extend it to 33-2/3 innings.

1995 - Dolphins Dan Marino breaks Fran Tarkenton's NFL career completion record.

 

Two things happened centuries apart on October 9 (well, plenty of other stuff as well).

1888: The Washington Monument opened to the public on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The marble-faced granite obelisk rises precisely 554 feet, 11/32 inches honors the first U.S. president, George Washington (Duh...).

It was built in 2 phases between 1848 and 1884, it was dedicated in 1885. The interior is occupied by iron stairs that spiral up the walls, with an elevator later added in the center, each supported by four iron columns. The stairs are in fifty sections, most on the north and south walls, with many long landings stretching between them along the east and west walls. These landings allowed many inscribed memorial stones of various materials and sizes to be easily viewed while the stairs were accessible - until 1976.






1981: On a stranger note, during their North American tour The Rolling Stones played the first of two nights at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The supporting act was Prince, who was dressed in his controversial bikini briefs and trench coat. He ran off stage after 15 minutes due to the crowd booing and throwing beer cans at him.

I guess the public had to catch up to the genius superstar...

 

October 9

768 - Charlemagne and his brother Carlos and I are both crowned King of Freanks.


1000 - Leif Ericson reaches Vinland(Canada) reputed becoming the most first European to reach North America.


1192 - King Richard I leaves the Holy Land for England. He initiated a three year truce to end the Third Crusade.


1410 - Earliest mention of Prague 's astronomical clock, the world's oldest still operating. Built by Mikulas of Kadan and Jan Sindel.


1781 - Americans under General George Washington and French under Comte de Rochambeau begin bombardment of Yorktown, the last battle of the American Revolution.


1855 - American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.


1864 - Battle of Tom's Brook: Confederate Cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is beaten by General George A. Custer and Merrit's Cavalry division.


1941 - UU President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project.

 

Great Plague of London

Drivers of death carts in London would go street-to-street extolling people to "bring out your dead" at the height of the London plague outbreak in 1665

In 1665 and 1666, the last great outbreak of bubonic plague to hit England swept through the capital, London. The outbreak was much smaller in scale than the Black Death of the 14th century, but was still notable for having killed as many as 100,000 people - about a quarter of the city's population - in eighteen months.

By July 1665 the plague was spreading rapidly in London. Many fled, including the King Charles II, if they were wealthy enough to afford it. Parliament was moved to Oxford University from Westminster Palace. Many of the city's businesses closed. Diarist Samuel Pepys wrote much about life in the city during the plague, and of empty streets.

By September, as many as 7,000 people a week were dying, and many were thrown into mass graves. The true toll was likely to be much higher, since the deaths of poor were not recorded.

The University of Cambridge closed down during the outbreak, forcing a young Isaac Newton to continue his studies from home - during this time he expanded significantly on his new idea about the laws of gravity, among other things.

By November the outbreak started to taper off, and the King returned in February the next year when it was considered to be safe enough. Disaster would strike London again in 1666, with much of it being destroyed in the Great Fire of London that September.

 

1985: Strawberry Fields in NYC

On what would've been John Lennon's 45th birthday, his widow Yoko Ono dedicates an area of New York City's Central Park to the memory of her slain husband. 'Strawberry Fields,' named for one of Lennon's songs, opens almost five years after the beloved musician's death shocked the world.

 

October 9

U.S. It's National Moldy Cheese Day on October 9 which is the equivalent of Christmas time for all the cheese lovers out there. There are over a thousand types of cheese ranging in different styles, textures, and flavors depending on the origin of the milk, butterfat content, bacteria, and mold