From: mdo@socrates.umd.edu ("Mike T. Do")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Re: Birthdates Which Occur on October 15
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:55:03 GMT
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>  Birthdates Which Occur on October 15:
> 1961  31 Stephone Paige Kansas City Chief wide receiver
> 1959  33 Sarah Ferguson (Fergie) Duchess of York
> 1954  38 Tanya Roberts  Bronx, NY, actress (View to Kill, Sheena)
> 1953  39 Tito Jackson singer (Jackson 5 - ABC, Never Can Say Goodbye)
> 1951  41 Roscoe Tanner tennis player (Wimbledon finals 1979)
> 1948  44 Dave Cowens Boston Celtic forward
> 1946  46 Richard Carpenter singer (Carpenters - Close to You)
> 1945  47 Jim Palmer Oriole pitcher, sportscaster, jockey underwear salesman
> 1942  50 Penny Marshall NYC, actress (Laverne & Shirley)
> 1937  55 Barry McGuire Oklahoma City, singer (Eve of Destruction)
>    and   Linda Lavin  Portland, Maine, actress ("Alice" TV show)
> 1935  57 Bobby-Joe Morrow US 100-m/200-m dasher (Olympic gold 1956)
> 1930  62 Phillipe Leroy  Paris, actor (Night Porter)
> 1926  66 Jean Peters actress (Viva Zapata, Apache, Deep Waters)
>    and   Michel Foucault  Poitiers, France, philosopher (History of Sexuality)
> 1925  67 Evan Hunter NYC, novelist (The Blackboard Jungle)
> 1924  68 Lee A. Iacocca CEO of Chrysler Corp.
> 1923  69 Italo Calvino Cuba, Italian journalist, novelist (Our Ancestors)
> 1921  71 Angelica Rozeanu Romania, world women's table tennis champion
> 1920  72 Mario Puzo NYC, author (The Godfather)
> 1917  75 Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian, author (Age of Jackson)
> 1912  80 Rep. Carl Perkins (D-Kentucky 1949-84)
> 1908  84 John Kenneth Galbraith Ont., economist, writer (The Affluent Society)
> 1905  87 C.P. Snow English writer, scientist (The 2 Cultures)
> 1900  92 Mervyn LeRoy movie producer, director (Tugboat Annie, The Bad Seed)
>    and   Fritz Feld actor (The Jack Benny Show, At the Circus)
> 1893  99 Saunders Lewis Welsh poet, playwright (Gymerwch chi sigaret?)
> 1892 100 Ina Claire Washington, DC, actress, comedienne (Ninotchka)
>    and   Phyllis Neilson-Terry  London, actress (Separate Tables)
> 1881 111 P.G. Wodehouse  Surrey, comic novelist, playwright (Author! Author!)
> 1858 134 John L. Sullivan heavyweight boxing champ (1882-92)
> 1844 148 Friedrich Nietzsche Germany, philosopher, anti-Semite, \bermensch
> 1831 161 Helen Maria Hunt Jackson author (Ramona)
> 1829 163 Asaph Hall discoverer of Martian moons Phobos & Deimos
> 1795 197 Frederick William IV king of Prussia (1840-61)
> 1785 207 Josi Miguel Carrera president of Chile (1811-14)
> 1608 384 Evangelista Torricelli Italian physicist, inventor of the barometer
> 1542 450 Akbar Indian Mughal emperor (1556-1605)
>    -70   Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] near Mantua, Italy, poet (The Fneid)
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>    -70   Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] near Mantua, Italy, poet (The Fneid)
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>  Deaths Which Occured October 15:
> 1971  21 Sylvester Magee last surviving US slave (?), dies in Miss. at 130
> 1967  25 Florence Beaumont burns herself to death to protest Vietnam War LA
> 1946  46 Hermann Gvring  Nazi Reichsmarshal, poisons himself in prison
> 1945  47 Pierre Laval former premier of Vichy France, executed
> 1917  75 Mata Hari Dutch dancer, German spy, executed by firing squad, Paris
> 1564 428 Andreas Vesalius anatomist, dies at about 49
>    961   'Abd ar-Rahman III 1st caliph of Umayyad dynasty of Spain, dies
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>  Holidays Which Occur October 15:
>          Cayenne Holiday (French Guiana)
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>  Religious Observances on October 15:
> 1582 410 Memorial of St. Teresa of Avila, 1st woman doctor of the church (RC)
>          Commem. of Samuel I.J. Schereschewsky, bishop of Shanghai, 1906 (Ang)
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>  Things to Remember for October 15:
>          Flowers - Calendula, Cosmos & Hops        Gems - Opal & Tourmaline
>   7 Days Astrological sign:  Libra
>          World Poetry Day
>          Mushroom Day - National Grouch Day - White Cane Safety Day
>          Id. Oct. in the Roman calendar
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>  Highlights in History Which Occur October 15:
>    -70   Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] near Mantua, Italy, poet (The Fneid)
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>  Deaths Which Occured October 15:
> 1971  21 Sylvester Magee last surviving US slave (?), dies in Miss. at 130
> 1967  25 Florence Beaumont burns herself to death to protest Vietnam War LA
> 1946  46 Hermann Gvring  Nazi Reichsmarshal, poisons himself in prison
> 1945  47 Pierre Laval former premier of Vichy France, executed
> 1917  75 Mata Hari Dutch dancer, German spy, executed by firing squad, Paris
> 1564 428 Andreas Vesalius anatomist, dies at about 49
>    961   'Abd ar-Rahman III 1st caliph of Umayyad dynasty of Spain, dies
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>  Holidays Which Occur October 15:
>          Cayenne Holiday (French Guiana)
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>  Religious Observances on October 15:
> 1582 410 Memorial of St. Teresa of Avila, 1st woman doctor of the church (RC)
>          Commem. of Samuel I.J. Schereschewsky, bishop of Shanghai, 1906 (Ang)
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>  Things to Remember for October 15:
>          Flowers - Calendula, Cosmos & Hops        Gems - Opal & Tourmaline
>   7 Days Astrological sign:  Libra
>          World Poetry Day
>          Mushroom Day - National Grouch Day - White Cane Safety Day
>          Id. Oct. in the Roman calendar
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>  Highlights in History Which Occur October 15:
> 1989   3 Wayne Gretsky passes Gordie Howe as NHL career leading scorer
> 1988   4 Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires
>    and   NCAA team-record rushing yardage (768 yards - Oklahoma)
> 1986   6 Martina Navratilova wins her 1,000th tennis match
>    and   Longest postseason game - Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 & win NL pennant
> 1978  14 Miller & Komarkova are 1st women & 1st Americans atop 8091-m Annapurna
> 1977  15 Donald Ritchie sets world record for 100-mi run, 11 h 30 m 51 s
>    and   Arkansas' Steve Little kicks an NCAA record-tying 67-yard field goal
> 1975  17 Joao de Oliveira (Brazil) sets world record for triple jump, 17.89 m
> 1973  19 Chet Atkins & Patsy Cline elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame
> 1972  20 Kevin Seaman completes parachute jump in his 50th state in 3 months
> 1969  23 Gene Autry elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame
>    and   Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war
     and Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
> 1965  27 David Miller becomes 1st US war protester to burn his draft card
> 1964  28 Leonid Brezhnev replaces Nikita Khrushchev as 1st party secretary
>    and   Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph (526.28 mph)
> 1962  30 Hamilton Tiger-Cat Joe Zuger passes for CFL-record 8 TDs v. Sask.
> 1960  32 Loretta Lynn's 1st appearance on the Grand Ole Opry
> 1959  33 Robert Crumb's "Fritz the Cat" comic strip premiers
>    and   "The Untouchables" starring Robert Stack premiers on ABC TV (-1963)
> 1951  41 "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV (-1961)
> 1945  47 British launch the 1st of their captured German V-2 rockets
> 1941  51 1st mass deportation of German Jews to East European ghettos begins
> 1939  53 Frank Filchock completes 1st 99-yd pass in NFL, to Andy Farkas (Wash.)
> 1937  55 Ernest Hemingway's novel "To Have & Have Not" is published
> 1933  59 Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0
> 1924  68 1st air transport of merchandise to US - dirigible ZR3 carries toys
> 1923  69 NY Yankees win their 1st world series, beating the NY Giants in 6
> 1914  78 Clayton Antitrust Act passed
> 1905  87 Debussy's "La Mer" premiers, gets a violently negative reception
> 1894  98 French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus arrested & charged with espionage
> 1885 107 Hoss Radbourne, Prov., pitches his 60th win of 1885, against 12 losses
> 1881 111 1st US fishing magazine, "American Angler," published
> 1878 114 Edison Electric Light Company incorporated
  1863     Cliff House opens (1st of many on the site)
> 1860 132 11-yr-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
> 1845 147 1st set of rubber billiard cushions installed, for Queen Victoria
> 1835 157 Beginning date of Thomas Mann's novel "Buddenbrooks" (housewarming)
> 1582 410 Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days
> 1565 427 French Huguenot settlers surrender to Spanish, are massacred - Florida
> 1520 472 King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall
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