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| On this day in history .. |
- 1805 - Lewis & Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean
- 1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe gave Harrison a presial slogan
- 1837 - Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy murdered by mob at Alton Ill
- 1865 - London Gazette oldest surviving journal is founded
- 1872 - Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later
- 1874 - 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol
- 1875 - Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa
- 1885 - Canada completes its own transcontinental railway
- 1914 - Bolsheviks overthrew Russian govt in St Petersburg;
- 1916 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana 1st women Representative
- 1917 - October Revolution overthrows Russian Provisional Govt
- 1918 - Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
- 1918 - USSR Natl Day
- 1940 - Galloping Gertie bridge collapses Tacoma Wash
- 1943 - Detroit Lions 0 NY Giants 0 -- last scoreless tie in NFL
- 1962 - Richard Nixon quits politics - You won't have Nixon to kick around
- 1972 - Republican Nixon re-elected to 2nd term defeating George McGovern
- 1976 - Gone With the Wind televised
- 1983 - Bomb explodes in US Capitol causing heavy damage but no injuries
- 1985 - Colombian troops ends 27-hour siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
| Famous birthdays for this day .. |
- 0994 - Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian jurist writer of Islamic Spain
- 1598 - Francisco de Zurbar n, Spanish Baroque painter
- 1867 - Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie, discovered radium (Nobel 1903 1911)
- 1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist theorist Bolshevik
- 1903 - Konrad Lorenz, zoologist ethologist writer (Nobel 1973)
- 1913 - Albert Camus, French novelist playwright (Plauge) (Nobel 1957)
- 1918 - Billy Graham, evangelist
- 1922 - Al Hirt, trumpet player
- 1926 - Joan Sutherland, in Sydney Australia
- 1943 - Joni Mitchell, in Alberta Canada singer (Clouds)
- 1943 - Judith Frost, in British Columbia
- 1944 - Joe Niekro,
- 1957 - Kathy McMillan, track star
- 1964 - Dana Plato, in Maywood California
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