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1910 M. Baudry is the first to fly a dirigible across the English Channel–from La Motte-Breil to Wormwood Scrubs.. 1919 Madrid opens a subway system. 1950 The First Turkish Brigade arrives in Korea to assist the U.N. forces fighting there. 1967 A Russian unmanned spacecraft makes the first landing on the surface of Venus. 2007 Suicide attack on a motorcade in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 139 and wounds 450; the subject of the attack, Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, is not harmed. Born on October 18 1926 Chuck Berry, rock ‘n’ roll performer. 1939 Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
1926 Ntozake Shange (Paulette Williams), poet, playwright and novelist. 1950 Wendy Wasserstein, playwright (The Heidi Chronicles). 1951 Terry McMillan, novelist (Waiting to Exhale). 1956 Craig Bartlett, animator, writer; known for his work on Rugrats , Hey Arnold! and Dinosaur Train animated TV series. 1956 Martina Navratilova, Czechoslovakian-born tennis player; won a record 9 Wimbledon singles competitions. 1960 Erin Moran, actress; best known for her role as Joanie Cunningham on Happy Days TV series and its spinoff Joanie Loves Chachi. 1960 Jean-Claude Van Damme, martial artist, actor, director (Bloodsport, The Expendables 2). October 19 1914 The German cruiser Emden captures her thirteenth Allied merchant ship in 24 days. 1917 The first doughnut is fried by Salvation Army volunteer women for American troops in France during World War I. 1942 The Japanese submarine I-36 launches a floatplane for a reconnaissance flight over Pearl Harbor. The pilot and crew report on the ships in the harbor, after which the aircraft is lost at sea.
1973 President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes. 1987 In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U. S. navy disables three of Iran’s offshore oil platforms. 1988 British government bans TV and radio interviews with members of Irish political group Sinn Fein and 11 paramilitary groups. 1989 The 1975 conviction of the Guildford Four is overturned by British courts; the 4 men had been convicted in the 1974 Guildford pub bombings. 2003 Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II for her work among “the poorest of the poor” in India. 2005 Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s trial
for crimes against humanity begins in Baghdad. Born on October 19 1784 Leigh Hunt, English journalist, essayist, poet and political radical. 1817 Tom Taylor, British playwright whose play Our American Cousin was being performed at Ford’s Theater when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. 1931 John Le Carré, English suspense and spy novelist. 1937 Peter Max, illustrator and graphic artist whose use of psychedelic shapes and bright colors made him popular in the 1960s. 1944 Peter Tosh, reggae musician; member of The Wailers before establishing a successful solo career. 1945 John Lithgow, actor (The World According to Garp; Terms of Endearment; 3rd Rock from the Sun TV sitcom). 1948 Patrick Simmons, guitarist and vocalist for The Doobie Brothers band. 1962 Evander Holyfield, professional boxer; held the Undisputed World Champion title in both cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions; known as “The Real Deal.” In a 1997 bout, challenger Mike Tyson bit off part of one of Holyfield’s ears. 1969 Trey Parker, actor, animator, screenwriter, director, musician; co-creator of animated TV series South Park; co-wrote, co-directed multiple–Tony Award winning musical The Book of Mormon. October 20 1818 The United States and Britain establish the 49th Parallel as the boundary between Canada and the United States.
1870 The Summer Palace in Beijing, China, is burnt to the ground by a Franco-British expeditionary force. 1903 The Joint Commission, set up on January 24 by Great Britain and the United States to arbitrate the disputed Alaskan boundary, rules in favor of the United States. The deciding vote is Britain’s, which embitters Canada. The United States gains ports on the panhandle coast of Alaska. 1941 German troops reach the approaches to Moscow. 1944 U.S. troops land on Leyte in the Philippines, keeping General MacArthur’s pledge “I shall return.” 1968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis. 1977 A charter plane crashes in Mississippi, killing three members of popular Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, along with their assistant road manager, the pilot and co-pilot. 1991 The Oakland Hills firestorm destroys nearly 3,500 homes and apartments and kills 25 people. 2011 In the Libyan civil war, rebels capture deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte, killing him soon afterward. Born on October 20 1632 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer and architect. 1854 Arthur Rimbaud, poet. 1874 Charles Ives, composer. 1884 Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born film actor famous for his portrayal of Count Dracula (1931). 1891 Sir James Chadwick, physicist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the neutron. 1931 Mickey Mantle, baseball great who played for the New York Yankees 1932 Michael McClure, beat poet. 1948 Tom Petty, singer, songwriter, musician; lead singer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a
Gardening45 founder of the Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch bands; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2002. 1971 Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus, Jr.), rapper, songwriter, actor; his debut album, Doggy style, came in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot R&B / Hip-Hop charts. October 21 1879 After 14 months of testing, Thomas Edison first demonstrates his electric lamp, hoping to one day compete with gaslight. 1939 As war heats up with Germany, the British war cabinet holds its first meeting in the underground war room in London.
1940 Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published. 1942 Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation Torch landings. 1950 North Korean Premier Kim Il-Sung establishes a new capital at Sinuiju on the Yalu River opposite the Chinese City of Antung. 1959 The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in Manhattan. 1961 Bob Dylan records his first album in a single day at a cost of $400. 1967 The “March on the Pentagon,” protesting American involvement in Vietnam , draws 50,000 protesters. 1969 Israel’s Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan resigns over disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policies related to the Palestinians. Born on October 21 1760 Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese print-maker. 1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,”“Kubla Khan”).
1833 Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prizes. 1917 Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter. 1929 Ursula K. Le Guin, science fiction writer (The Left Hand of Darkness) 1950 Ronald McNair, astronaut; died when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launch on Jan. 2, 1986. 1952 Patti Davis, actress, author; daughter of former US Pres. Ronald Reagan. 1956 Carrie Fisher, actress, author, screenwriter; best known as Prince Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy and he bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge; daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. 1969 Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain; presently (2016) First Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Supreme Commander, he is heir apparent to the Bahrain kingdom.