A bit of October 23rd history…

42 BC - Roman Republican Civil Wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus’ army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian; Brutus commits suicide

1915 - An estimated 25,000 supporters in a women’s suffrage march on NY’s 5th Ave, led by Dr Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voter

1941 - “Dumbo” released

1958 - The Smurfs 1st appear in the story “Johan and Pirlouit” by Belgium cartoonist Peyo

1977 - Discovery of a 3.4 billion year old one celled fossil, one of the earliest life forms on earth

1986 - Artist Keith Haring commissioned to paint a mural on the Berlin Wall by Checkpoint Charlie Museum - 300 meters long (pictured)

2015 - Adele releases “Hello”; becomes the 1st song with more than a million downloads in its 1st week 

2018 - Microplastics found in human stools for 1st time

2019 - Google research lab claims it has achieved Quantum Supremacy performing calculation in 3 minutes that would take a supercomputer 10,000 years 

The Senate passed a $5.98 billion supplemental Lend-Lease Bill on October 23, 1941, bringing the United States one step closer to direct involvement in World War II.  Continue reading.

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A bit of October 22nd history…

1836 - Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of the Republic of Texas 

1884 - International Meridian Conference in Washington DC adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich Meridian

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

1926 - J Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach - which leads to his death (pictured)

1934 - In Ohio, notorious bank robber Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd is shot and killed by FBI

1938 - Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine

1976 - Red Dye No 4 id banned by US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs, dye is still used in Canada

2018 - Pipe bomb sent to George Soros’ NY home address; 1st democrat to receive series of pipe bombs in US

2019 - Tope US diplomat to Ukraine testifies President Trump tied aid to Ukraine to demands the country open an investigation into the Biden family 

The Metropolitan Opera House (the Met), then located on Broadway at 39th Street in New York City, opened on October 22, 1883, with a performance of Charles Gounod's Faust.   Continue reading.

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A bit of October 21st history…

1520 - Explorer Magellan and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become the 1st Europeans to sail into the Pacific Ocean

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

1854 - Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War (pictured)

1948 - UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons

1967 - Tens of thousands of anti-Vietnam War protestors march on the Pentagon, lasts 2 days

2001 - “United We Stand” benefit concert for 9/11 terrorist attack victims held in Washington DC; organized and headlined by Michael Jackson and featuring Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, and The Backstreet Boys 

On October 21, 1960, American viewers were riveted to their television sets for the broadcast of the fourth and final debate between Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy. Continue reading.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of modern and contemporary art opened in New York City on October 21, 1959.  Continue reading.

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A bit of October 20th history…

1097 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch during the First Crusade

1803 - US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase

1864 - US President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday

1918 - In order to secure WWI armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions 

1955 - Harry Belafonte records “Day-O” (Banana Boat Song)

1967 - Famous Bigfoot footage is filmed by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in Northern California (pictured)

1975 - Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning 

On October 20, 1803, the Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase Treaty by a vote of twenty-four to seven.
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A bit of October 19th history…

202 BC - Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca and the Carthaginian army are defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus, ending 2nd Punic War

1781 - British forces under General Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to Washington and de Rochambeau at Yorktown, ending the US Revolutionary War (pictured)

1901 - Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance March” premiers in Liverpool

1943 - Streptomycin, the 1st antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated

2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity

2014 - A working human intestine is generated in a lab from stem cells in the US

2019 - UK parliament votes for the Letwin Amendment in a special Saturday sitting, which forces Boris Johnson to ask the EU for an extension and delays vote on his Brexit deal 

British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of some 8,000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown on October 19, 1781.  Continue reading.

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