It's October, and everyone's thoughts immediately go to Halloween, especially if you're a kid of 'trick or treating' age. For the rest of us, October means different things. Fall weather, the World Series in baseball, football season, pumpkins, sweatshirts, and the holidays just around the corner.
But what does October 5 mean? What happened this day in history? If you were born today, then that's obviously the highlight. Here are a few other tidbits.
1877 Chief Joseph surrendered to the U.S. Army.
1910 King Manuel II was overthrown in a revolution and Portugal became a republic.
1921 The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1930 Great Britons largest dirigible the R-101 Airship crashes in Beauvais, France, killing all on board.
1933 Machine Gun Kelly has pleaded not guilty to charges of
a being a co conspirator in the Urschel kidnapping.
1947 In the first televised White House address, President Truman urged Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Sundays to help starving people in other countries.
1953 Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1962 The Beatles released their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus makes its debut on
BBC Television, there were only 45 episodes aired over four seasons
featuring the zany comedy sketches with John Cleese, Terry Gilliam,
Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Eric Idle.
1990 Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center and its director were acquitted of obscenity charges resulting from an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs.
2001 Barry Bonds broke Mark McGwire's record of 71 home runs in one season when he hit his 71st and 72nd homers.
2011 Visionary co-founder of Apple Computers, Steve Jobs,
died after battling pancreatic cancer for several years. The
56-year-old former CEO had resigned prior to his death leading to
speculation that his health had made a turn for the worse. Fans of him
and his company immediately set up memorials and tributes at Apple
stores and on the internet upon hearing the news.
And just because they're interesting, here are two Oct. 2 facts: Elvis Presley performed only once on Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry stage, on Oct. 2, 1954.
The first “Peanuts” comic strip written by Charles Schulz was published on Oct. 2, 1950.
Some general trivia: University of Chicago researchers have found that people born in
the fall have the highest chance of living to be 100 years old.
And finally, according to a national survey done by the US Social Security
Administration of 12,000 Americans the most common date of
birth was Oct. 5.
There, now doesn't that make today feel so much more special?
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Until next time, have a great October!
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