From: kevinle@eb4ts1.EBay.Sun.COM (Kevin Le)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Birthdates Which Occur on October 15
Date: 15 Oct 1992 15:07:21 GMT
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What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on
        the facts, not the facts themselves.


 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)

   -70   Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] near Mantua, Italy, poet (The Fneid)

 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

 Holidays Which Occur October 15: 
         Cayenne Holiday (French Guiana)

 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)

 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

 Highlights in History Which Occur October 15:
   -70   Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] near Mantua, Italy, poet (The Fneid)

 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

 Holidays Which Occur October 15: 
         Cayenne Holiday (French Guiana)

 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)

 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

 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
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
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

 That's all for TODAY!


	


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