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• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Oct 23 2014 7:04 AM

  October 23

  63BC - Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa ~ Roman General ~ Battle of Actium

  1503 - Isabella of Portugal ~ Queen of Spain and Empress of Germany

  1516 - Charlotte de Valois ~ Princess of France

  1698 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel ~ French Architect of Palace de la Concorde

  1752 - Nicolas Appert - inventor of food canning & bouillon cube

  1869 - John Heisman ~ of Football

  1904 - Harvey Penick ~ of Golf & must read "Little Red Book"

  1925 - Johnny Carson

  1935 - Chi Chi Rodriguez

  1940 - Pele

  1962 - Doug Flutie

  2007 - Leighton Richard B ~ My sweet young nephew

  ~ By the Bye ~

  42BC ~ 2nd Battle of Philippi ~ Brutus's army gets whacked by Mark Antony and Octavian....Brutus does his suicide

  1991 ~ Dr. Jack "Jack the Dripper" Kervorkian's suicide machine kills two woman

  ~ see ya ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Fri, Oct 24 2014 8:34 AM

  October 24

      51 - Domitian ~ Roman Emperor

  1378 - David Stewart ~ Duke of Rothesay ~ heir to the throne of Scotland

  1788 - Sarah Josepha Hale ~ author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"

  1817 - Hippolyte Mege-Mouries ~ French chemist invented margerine

  1903 - Melvin Purvis ~ FBI Agent of note

  1926 - *Y. A. Tittle ~ Football Great [*Yelburton Abraham]

  1936 - "an old stone" Bill Wyman [William George Perks] aka Lee Wyman -- born in the posh, very tony Sydanham, in Southeast London...a stone no more

  1960 - Ian Baker-Finch ~ of Queensland

   

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1260 ~ The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX ~ it is now a World Heritage Site

  1492 ~ 24 Jews are burned at the stake in Mecklenburg, Germany  :-{

  1537 ~ Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII <> House of Tudor <> , died 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward VI

  1818 ~ In Berlin, Felix Mendelssohn rolls with his first Concert

  1836 ~ A. Phillips patents instant fire -- the match

  1857 ~ William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel satellites of Uranus

  1871 ~ A Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese

  1901 ~ Anna Taylor does Niagara Falls in a barrel --- I just don't get it

  1926 ~ Harry Houdini's last performance

  1929 ~ BLACK THURSDAY!!! - start of Stock Market Crash ~ Dow Jones down 12.8%

  !931 ~ Al Capone gets 11 years for being a "Tax Cheat"  ;-}

  ~ Peace & Grace ~

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sat, Oct 25 2014 8:51 AM

  October 25

  1360 - Louis ~ Founder of the House of Anjou

  1510 - Renee of France ~ Princess

  1881 - Pablo Picasso ~ of Malaga, Spain

  1904 - [Herman] Denny Shute ~ 3 time PGA majors winner

  1912 - Jack Kent Cooke ~ NFL REDSKINS owner

  1912 - Minnie Pearl [Sarah Ophelia Colley] ~ Grand Old Opry

  1954 - Mike Eruzione ~ 1980 Hockey Olympic Gold

  1981 - Jonathan Vincent M**** ~ My Brother......in Cancun , the dawg

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sun, Oct 26 2014 9:44 AM

  October 26

  1427 - Archduke [meaning: House of Habsburg] Sigismund of Austria

  1473 - Friedrich of Saxony

  1609 - William Sprague ~ English co-founder of Charlestown, Mass

  1854 - C. W. Post ~ American Entrepreneur

  1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim ~ American Businessman

  1914 - Jackie Coogan ~ Actor as a child & as "Uncle Fester" in late life

  1917 - Felix the Cat

  1947 - Hillary Rodhound Clinton ~ Lover of "The School of Sal Alinsky" for the destruction of traditional America into progressive nonsense  :-{

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1492 ~ Lead pencils are first used

  1529 ~ Sir Thomas More is appointed Lord Chancellor of England

  1776 ~ Benjamin Franklin goes to France to gain support for the American Revolution

  1825 ~ The Erie Canal opens

  1861 ~ The Pony Express comes to an end

  1881 ~ GUNFIGHT at the OK CORRAL...yep, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, Ike Clanton & others get into a naughty one in Tombstone, Arizona

  1916 ~ Margaret Sanger is arrested for obscenity....YIPEE!!  ;-}}

  ~ Sunday ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Mon, Oct 27 2014 7:30 AM

  OMG! 300 days are toast...but 65 remain to be enjoyed!

  also, yesterday, as I'm sure you noticed (LOL) I missed the fact that in 1951 Rocky Marciano defeated Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden....sorry 

  October 27

  1156 - Count Raymond VI of France

  1401 - Catherine Valois ~ Consort of King Henry V <> House of Lancaster and York <>

  1728 - James Cook ~ Yorkshire, England ~ discovered the Sandwich Islands and celebrated with a "BLT"

  1782 - Niccolo Paganini ~ Composer & violin virtuoso

  1811 - Issac Singer ~ inventor of the home sewing machine

  1858 - Theodore Roosevelt ~ 26th President of the United States & Mt. Rushmore viewer of andyson fame

  1896 - Edith Haisman ~ TITANIC SURVIVOR

  1914 - Dylan Thomas ~ Wales Poet....a great one

  1940 - John Gotti ~ Gambino Family low life

  !958 - Patty Sheehan

  ~ By the Bye ~

     312 ~ it is said that Constantine the Great received his famous vision of the Cross on this very day

  1275 ~ Amsterdam is founded

  1651 ~ English troops occupy Limerick, Ireland.....say, that calls for a naughty one

  THERE ONCE WAS THIS STRANGE LAD NAMED DAVE WHO KEPT AN OLD $LUT IN A CAVE.....SHE HAD ONLY ONE T!T AND SHE SMELLED LIKE $HIT BUT LOOK AT THE MONEY HE SAVED

  1682 ~ Philadelphia is founded

  1787 ~ The "Federalist" letters start appearing in New York papers

  1871 ~ Boss Tweed is arrested for corruption  ;-}}

  ~ Happy Day ! ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Tue, Oct 28 2014 8:18 AM

  October 28

  1028 - Henry III ~ Roman Catholic German Emperor

  1510 - Francis Borgia ~ Spanish Duke

  1767 - Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel [or Cassel] ~ Queen of Denmark & Norway

  1793 - Eliphalet Remington ~ US gun maker....very fine ones

  1902 - Elsa Lanchester ~ Frankenstein's little wifey

  1907 - Edith Head ~ MGM Fashion Designer..."Edith Head gives good costumes"

  1914 - Jonas Salk ;-}

  1955 - BILL GATE$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

  ~ By the Bye ~

    306 ~ Mark Aurelius Valerius Maxantius is proclaimed Emperor of Rome

  1492 ~ Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba...and smokes a fine 7x52 Montecristo

  1636 ~ Harvard University is founded..once outstanding, now vastly over-rated

  1793 ~ Eli Whitney applies for a patent on his cotton gin

  1852 ~ R.H. Macy & CO opens 1st store on 6th Ave in the "Apple"

  1886 ~ Statue of Liberty is dedicated by POTUS Grover Cleveland

  1919 ~ Volstead Act is passed....it passed gas

  1948 ~ Flag of Israel is adopted ;-}

  ~ a foine day to ya ! ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Oct 29 2014 6:25 AM

  October 29

  1656 - Edmund Halley ~ The Comet

  1816 - Ferdinand II ~ King of Portugal

  1844 - Albert von Rothschild ~ Austrian Banker

  1859 - Charles Ebbets ~ namesake - Ebbets Field in Brooklyn

  1891 - Fanny Brice ~ The Ziegfield "Funny Girl"

  1897 - Joseph Goebbels ~ NAZI

  ~ By the Bye ~

    439 ~ The Vandals occupy Carthage

  1390 ~ First trial for Witchcraft in Paris

  1618 ~ The Great Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded by King James I of England <> House of Stuart <>

  1811 ~ 1st Ohio River Steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans

  1942 ~ Alaska Highway is completed

  ~ G'day ~

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Oct 30 2014 6:25 AM

  October 30

  1391 - Eduard [Dom Duarte] ~ King of Portugal

  1451 - Christopher Columbus

  1668 - Sophia Charlotte of Hanover ~ queen in Prussia

  1683 - George II <> House of Hanover <> King of Britian

  The reign of George II saw England continue to expand as a military and mercantile power. Though he was often curt and personally difficult, George, like his father, understood the changing nature of British kingship, and under his rule the establishment of Parliment as the true center of power was largely completed. George was the last of England's soldier kings, and if his reign lacked vision it provided the stability and continuity a rapidly growing Britain needed.

  1735 - John Adams ~ signer of the Declaration of Independence, signer of the US Constitution, the 2nd President of the United States of America

  and on July 4th, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams died. His last words " Jefferson still lives"....he was wrong...Jefferson had past away a few hours earlier...also on July 4th. But, if there is Liberty, Jefferson will always live...

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1485 ~ Henry VII <> House of Tudor <> is crowned King at Westminster Abbey

  1739 ~ Great Britain declares war on Spain

  1866 ~ Jesse James rob a bank in Missouri to the tune of $2,000

  1938 ~ Orson Wells freaks out America with his "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast

  1944 ~ Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belson  :-{

  1974 ~ "RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE" Ali knocks out Foreman in the 8th

  ~ warmin up...  "trick or treat ?" ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Fri, Oct 31 2014 9:25 AM

                                                             ~ BOO !! ~

  October 31

  1345 - Ferdinand I "the wise one" ~ King of Poland

  1424 - Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk ~ King of Poland/Hungary

  1632 - Johannes 'Jan' Vermeer ~ Delft ~ Dutch painter whose work represents some of the most precious art we have in oils. His "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is a masterpiece

  1638 - Meindert Hobbema ~ another of the amazing Dutch Golden Era painters who specialized in landscape ~ a true master

  1795 - John Keats ~ England ~ Romantic Poet....was he ? you judge.......in a private love letter dated October 13, 1819, he wrote these words to Fanny Brawne....." you have absorb'd me. I have the sensation at the present moment as though i was dissolving. " 

  1838 - King Louis of Portugal

  1860 - Juliette Gordon Low ~ founder of Girl Scouts of America 

  1887 - Chiang Kai-shek ~ :-{    "no ticky, no laundry"

  1912 - Dale Evans ~ Roy's Cowgirl

  1933 - Hobart "Hobie" Alter ~ King of Surfboards

  1950 - John Candy

  ~ By the Bye ~

  445BC ~ Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Isralites in Jerusalem

  1541 ~ Michelangelo finishes painting The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel

  1876 ~ GREAT BACKERGANJ CYCLONE !!   it kills 200,000

  ~ Peace & Grace ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sat, Nov 1 2014 7:52 AM

                                                       ~ All Saints Day ~

  November 1                       305 days are dust ~ 60 days aren't

                     1935 - Gary Player ~ Johannesburg, South Africa....aka: Miffyland

  846 - Louis the Stammerer ~ King of West Francia ----- don't ask me 

  1500 - Benvenuto Cellini ~ Florentine Sculptor - Goldsmith ( ;-} ) & writer -  his work is some of the most important and exceptional we have

  1526 - Catherine Jagellenica of Poland ~ Queen of Sweden and Duchess of Finland  ( my, my...this B!TCH gets around )

  1871 - Stephen Crane ~ writer of "Red Badge of Courage"

  1880 - Grantland Rice ~ Sportswriter "extraordinaire"

  ~ By the Bye ~

    835 ~ All Saints Day is made compulsory by Pope Gregory IV

  1210 ~ King John of England <> House of Plantagnet <> begins imprisoning Jews

  1349 ~ Duke of Brabert orders execution of all Jews in Brussels

  1604 ~ Shakespeare's "Othello" first presented

  1611 ~ Shakespeare's "Tempest" first presented

  1800 ~ John & Abigail Adams are the first to move into the White House...but, it was mostly an unfinished, unfurnished shell on unfinished swampy, dirt property within an unfinished, almost "Hooterville" style city where any convenience or comfort existed only in the mind.

  1867 ~ "Harper's Bazaar" is published

  1947 ~ Howard Hughes flies the "Spruce Goose", a moniker he hated. It was a giant, 747 sized airplane made of wood

  ~ crap, we have to do that stupid clock thing tonight---spring forward, fall back ~