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1952 The Nobel Prize for Medicine is awarded to Ukranianborn microbiologist Selmart A. Waksman for his discovery of
an effective treatment of tuberculosis.
1983 A truck filled with explosives, driven by a Moslem
terrorist, crashes into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut,
Lebanon. The bomb kills 237 Marines and injures 80. Almost
simultaneously, a similar incident occurs at French military
headquarters, where 58 die and 15 are injured.
1989 The Hungarian Republic replaces the communist
Hungarian People’s Republic.
1998 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace"
agreement.
2002 Chechen terrorists take 700 theater-goers hostage at
the House of Culture theater in
Moscow.
2004 An earthquake in Japan kills 35, injures 2,200, and
leaves 85,000 homeless or displaced.
2011 Libiyan National Transition Council declares the
Libyan civil war is over.
2012 The world’s oldest teletext service, BBC’s Ceefax,
ceases operation.
Born on October 23
1750 Nicolas Appert, the inventor of canning.
1844 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress.
1925 Johnny Carson, American television personality who
hosted the Tonight Show.
1940 Pele, legendary Brazilian soccer player who scored
1,281 goals in 22 years
1942 Michael Crichton, writer (Jurassic Park, The
Andromeda Strain).
1951 Fatmir Sejdiu, first President of the Republic of Kosovo
(2006– ).
1954 Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born American film director; won
Academy Award for Best Director in 2005 (Brokeback
Mountain) and 2012 (Life of Pi).
1959 Alfred "Weird Al" Yankovic, singer, songwriter, satirist;
known for his humorous rewrites of popular songs and
parodies of pop culture.
1962 Doug Flutie, collegiate and pro football quarterback;
won Heisman Trophy and Davey O’Brien National
Quarterback Award (1984).
1991 Princess Mako of Akishino, first-born granddaughter
of Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.
October 24
1836 The match is patented.
1861 Western Union completes the first transcontinental
telegraph line, putting the Pony Express out of business.
1901 Anna Edson Taylor, 43, is the first woman to go safely
over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She made the attempt for the
cash award offered, which she put toward the loan on her
Texas ranch.
1929 Black Thursday–the first day of the stock market crash
which began the Great Depression.
1930 John Wayne debuts in his first starring role in The Big
Trail .
1931 Al (Alphonse) Capone, the prohibition-era Chicago
gangster, is sent to prison for tax evasion.
1945 The United Nations comes into existence with the
ratification of its charter by the first 29 nations.
1970 Leftist Salvador Allende elected president of Chile.
1973 Yom Kippur War ends.
1980 Poland’s government legalizes the Solidarity trade
union.
2003 The supersonic Concorde jet made its last commercial
passenger flight from New York City’s John F. Kennedy
International Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport,
traveling at twice the speed of sound.
2008 Many stock exchanges worldwide suffer the steepest
declines in their histories; the day becomes known as
"Bloody Friday."
Born on October 24
1911 Sonny Terry, blues performer.
1923 Denise Levertov, English poet.
1929 George Henry Crumb, American composer.
1930 The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.), singer,
songwriter, musician; an early star of rock ‘n’ roll ("Chantilly
Lace"), he died in the same plane crash that killed Buddy
Holly, Ritchie Valens and the pilot, Roger Peterson.
1933 Ronald and Reginald Kray, gangsters whose gang, The
Firm, was the most infamous organized crime group in
London’s East End in the 1950s and ’60s.
1941 Dr. William H. Dobelle, biomedical researcher who
developed technology that restored limited sight to blind
patients.
1942 Frank Delany, Irish author, journalist, broadcaster; best
known for his novel Ireland and non-fiction book Simple
Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea.
1958 Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, US Army’s Deputy Director of
Operations during the Iraq War that deposed dictator
Saddam Hussein; presently (2013) commander of Third
Army.
October 25
1415 An English army under Henry V defeats the French at
Agincourt, France.