From: kevinle@eb4ts1.EBay.Sun.COM (Kevin Le)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Birthdates Which Occur on October 16
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:01:34 GMT
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 Birthdates Which Occur on October 16: 
1959  33 Gary Kemp rocker (Spandau Ballet - True)
1953  39 Susan Pedersen US 4 x 100-m medley swimmer (Olympic gold 1968)
1951  41 Daniel Gerroll London, actor (Big Business)
1947  45 Bob Weir rock guitarist, vocalist (Grateful Dead - Uncle Joe's Band)
1946  46 Suzanne Somers San Bruno, Calif., actress (3's Company)
1941  51 Tim McCarver baseball catcher, sportscaster (NY Mets, ABC)
1940  52 Dave De Busschere NY Knick, last ABA commissioner
1937  55 Tony Anthony  Clarksburg, WV, actor (Treasure of 4 Crowns)
1932  60 Henry Lewis LA, conductor, bass player (LA Philharmonic 1955-59)
1931  61 Charles W. Colson presidential adviser, Watergate felon
1927  65 G|nter Grass  Danzig, German novelist, poet (The Tin Drum)
1925  67 Angela Lansbury actress (Orient Express, Murder She Wrote)
   and   Dan Evans (R) Washington governor, senator, Evergreen College pres.
1922  70 Max Bygraves London, actor (Tom Brown's School Days)
1921  71 Linda Darnell Dallas, Texas, actress (Unfaithfully Yours, 2nd Chance)
1908  84 Enver Hoxha post-war leader of Albania (1944-85)
1907  85 Pyotr G. Grigorenko Soviet general, dissident, psychiatric prisoner
1900  92 Leon (Goose) Goslin baseball hall of famer (AL bat champ 1928)
1898  94 William O. Douglas Maine, US supreme court justice (1939-75)
1890 102 Paul Strand NYC, photographer (Native Land)
1888 104 Eugene O'Neill NYC, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms) (Nobel 1936)
1886 106 David Ben-Gurion 1st PM of Israel
1863 129 Sir Austen Chamberlain British foreign secretary (Nobel 1925)
1854 138 Oscar Wilde  Dublin, writer, wit (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
1851 141 James Ten Eyck champion rower, coach
1827 165 Arnold Bvcklin Swiss landscape, allegory painter (Island of the Dead)
1803 189 Robert Stephenson English civil engineer, builder of many RR bridges
1792 200 Francisco Morazan (Liberal) president of Central America (1830-40)
1758 234 Noah Webster West Hartford, Conn., lexicographer
1708 284 Albrecht von Haller father of experimental physiology
1620 372 Pierre Puget  Marseille, France, Baroque sculptor, painter, architect
1430 562 James II  Edinburgh, king of Scots (1437-60)

 Deaths Which Occured October 16: 
1793 199 Marie Antoinette queen of France, beheaded
1555 437 Bishops Ridley of London & Latimer of Worcester burnt at Oxford

 Holidays Which Occur October 16: 

 Religious Observances on October 16: 
1755 237 Commemoration of St. Gerard Majella, monk, patron of mothers (RC)
1690 302 Memorial of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (opt) (RC)
1556 436 Commemoration of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury (Ang)
1555 437 Commemoration of Hugh Latimer & Nicholas Ridley, bishops (Ang)
1243 749 Memorial of St. Hedwig, widow, patron of Silesia (opt) (RC)

 Things to Remember for October 16: 
         Flowers - Calendula, Cosmos & Hops        Gems - Opal & Tourmaline
  6 Days Astrological sign:  Libra
         Sweetest Day - help the less fortunate
         World Food Day/World Hunger Day
         National Boss Day

 Highlights in History Which Occur October 16: 
1926  66  Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200.
1942  50  Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta, India
1988   4 Orel Hirsheiser becomes 1st to pitch shutout in playoff & world series
1987   5 Jessica McClure rescued from well shaft in Midland, Texas after 58 hrs
1985   7 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip
1984   8 Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner
1982  10 Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN upon vote to exclude Israel
   and   Mt. Palomar Observatory is 1st to detect Halley's Comet on 30th return
1978  14 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff John Paul II
1973  19 Unbelievably, Kissinger & Le Duc Tho win the Nobel Peace Prize
1970  22 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt to succeed Gamal Abdel Nasser
1969  23 100-1 shot NY Mets beat Orioles 5-3 & win 66th world series in 5
1968  24 During Olympics Tommie Smith & John Carlos give black power salute
1964  28 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
1962  30 Cuban missile crisis begins, as JFK learns of missiles in Cuba
1955  37 "The Alcoa Hour" dramatic anthology premiers on NBC TV (-1957)
1954  38 Montrial Alouette Sam Etcheverry passes for CFL-record 586 yards
1952  40 Woolworth's at Powell & Market (SF) opens
1946  46 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
1945  47 UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence
1943  49 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system
1942  50 Nat'l Boxing Ass'n freezes titles of those serving in armed services
   and   US premier of Aaron Copland's "Rodeo"
1941  51 Germany advances within 96 km (60 mi) of Moscow
   and   Romanians enter Odessa, USSR, begin extermination of 150,000 Jews
1938  54 Aaron Copland's ballet "Billy the Kid" premiers, Chicago
1936  56 1st time president & vice-president are outside the US simultaneously
1934  58 Chinese Red Army leaves Kiangsi, beginning the "Long March"
1925  67 Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1923  69 Disney Company founded
1921  71 Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from
         Frank Coughlin - only mid-game coaching change in NFL history
1916  76 Margaret Sanger opens 1st US birth control clinic (in Brooklyn)
1909  83 Pittsburgh rookie pitcher Babe Adams wins his 3rd game of the series
1869 123 Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
1861 131 Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
1859 133 John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va.
1850 142 Moslem terrorists kill, burn & plunder Christians, Aleppo, Syria
1846 146 Dr. John C. Warren demonstrates painless surgery (with ether), Boston
1829 163 Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
1775 217 British burn Portland, Maine
1629 363 1st American crop limitation law passed, by Virginia (limited tobacco)

 That's all for TODAY!