Dot the I's and cross the T's©

The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English(with CD) has described the informal use of ''Dot the I's and cross the T's'', to mean' to pay careful attention to all the details when you are finishing something'.When I was tyring to look for a suitable title to this note,I found this just handy! You could give it any title you choose when you find time to read this, but maybe in a momnet from now, yu may av to agree with my topic or still insist on taking your pick...
Growing up for me as left me asking so many questions about why should that be and why it shoudlnt be etc...I have always valued diffrences in things,people ,events,cultures ,dishes etc. I can not totally understand why anyone would think that everyone had to be the same thing ,eat the same kinda food, speak the same language ,agree on the same thing etc... I mean it sure makes life beautiful.And even though I avnt gotten answers to some of those questions(yet) ,I still ask!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In as much as this might sound a bit 'funny 'to some people,especially a very good premise for philosophers and perverts to 'thrive' on, I wont want to be misunderstood!There are some cases of differences that anyone who chooses to differ in those cases will still av to suffer for it! You wanna know some of such? It will be my pleasure to tell you.''SOME DAY EVERY KNEEE SHALL BOW&EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS LORD'' Whether u 'beg to differ or not! U will av to! So , u had berra accept Him!
Anyways, back to my point exactly as far as this note is concerned...Questions,Questions av always been top on my mind growing up and still is. But has anyone ever been beaten as a kid for always wanting to know this and dat? lol! OMG! the pictures are still so clear right now. I sure was!In case you want to know what kinda thought that translated to wanting questions for them,it included seriuos stuffs to mundane stuffs too!For those of us that really know moi and the mischief side of moi wld picture this berra.lol!
BUt really, I' wanted' to know stuffs!One of such questions I intend to throw right here...
Why do(some) ladies not dot the I's and cross the T's? At least the ones that they can and let God do the rest? hun? why?Take for instance,( I wanna share something most ladies I av seen {lately} not take into cognizance.)The back of 'our' hair!Yeah, the back of 'our' hair!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After fixing the hair and the thing looks beautiful in one form of hairstyle or the other, aving put on that cool shoe of urs, dat lovely dress,pair of pants & you av dressed to 'save',a good look at you and one would say,'the lady with the hips,lips&finger tips! and then 'they' check the back of your hair and ...I mean why wont 'we' brush the back of their hair and leave it tangled at d back? With some round looking yucky stuffs dat look like arggghhhhh! That thing sucks you know. In my frustration, I discussed with a friend and she said to me of how a particular (boy)-friend of hers told her that he considers ladies that dont brush dat part of their hair as dirty and dat he would never have anything to do with such ladies! She said to me of how suprised she was that some guys actually look that close?! That is to tell you the seriuosness of this issue that might appear 'mundane' to some. And in case you are married and think it is ok to continue this way, u may just be looking for trouble! This isnt for singles alone. Lemme ask you this, ladies, can u stick a guy who has his hair unkempt? I mean that is just about the same thing.I am aware that bringing this on will be to the fall and rise of many! lol! I mean checking back 'hair' will now be some peeps' vocation! I mean it really isnt a bad idea sha o. It is serious& should be handled as such! U sef take dressing!YOu cant begin to imagine how many ladies av lost a 'prospect' abi na 'suspect' (wink) to this act of negligence. I mean! We no need am. You and I know how much has gone into this looking good business.Therefore we dont need dat just something we could av done something about mess us up! And to even think dat some of us actually carry combs in our bags?! Wat the heck are those combs for? hun? yet anoda question!I charge you ladies, dot the I's and cross the T's! It might not be fasting and prayer that you need after all! Just a little more caution. Hun? feel me, divas? Please, biko, ejo, dau allah,abeg.
More questions? nah. will save it for later! Meanwhile, check the back of your hair!(giggle). No hard feelings ,just hard truths here! Selah!
Cheers.
Bollarnle!©

THis is some great discovery,people!©

...Oh bless our God,you peoples!

And make the voice of His praise to be heard,

Who keeps our soul among the living,

And does not allow our feet to be moved.

For you,O God have tested us;

You have refined us as silver is refined.

You brought us into the net;

You laid affliction on our backs.

You have caused men to ride over our heads;

We went through fire and through water;

But you brought us out to rich fulfilment.

I will go into Your house with burnt offerings;

I will pay You my vows,

Which my lips have uttered

And my mouth has spoken when I was in trouble...

Psalm 66:8-14

NB: Be assured that God is aware of 'wrong stuffs' going on around us and that He is gonna work out the best for us! Rejoice in this ,people...it ROCKS!

Only that man is worthy of my love!©

I mean,what more can I say than to hope that a man who can afford such 'luxury' be mine?lolWell, according to the mail news online,check our what I found out on today's news!Barack Obama denies claim he is to buy rare £20,000 rhodium ring -The Harmony ring is made of rhodium - the world's most expensive metal - and encrusted with diamonds. A spokesman at Italian designer Giovanni Bosco said Mr Obama had asked their American agent about the ring because he wanted it as present for Michelle to thank her for helping over the last two years. It was said to be being hastily made by the top Italian designer in time for January's inauguration ceremony. But Dan Pfeiffer, communications aide for Obama's transition to the Presidency, flatly denied the story in an email to an American political website.The report is 'not true,' said Pfeiffer in the message to Politico.Only about 25 tons of rhodium are mined each year, mostly in South Africa, and as a result its price is typically around £5,000 an ounce. Bosco is based at Valenza Po near Alessandria. The top designer counts a select list of VIPs and celebrities as his clients.The Giovanni Bosco spokesman said: 'Our American distributor has contacted us and has asked us to provide details on the Harmony ring.'It is our top of the range piece and made from rhodium and encrusted with diamonds.'Our agent in the United States was asked by Mr Barack Obama about the ring because he wants it as a thank you gift for his wife Michelle for her support the last two years.'We have a select number of clients both in the United States, Europe, Russia and the Middle East and our prices as a result reflect the wealth of our customers.'For obvious privacy reasons I cannot reveal the cost of the ring but bearing in mind it is made from rhodium or black gold and encrusted with diamonds you can be sure it will cost thousands of pounds.'Rhodium is a very select precious metal. Because of its value and association with wealth, rhodium was chosen as the material for the disc presented to Beatle Paul McCartney for being history's all-time best-selling songwriter and recording artist.Several luxury items such as the world's 'Most Expensive Pen' or 'Most Expensive Board Game' also contain rhodium while the Crown Jewels worn by the Queen are also rhodium plated.Now tell me? What do you think? A rodium ring encrusted with diamonds is it baby... Nothing do us!Seriuosly now, was just messing with you ...lol! Truth is my love dont cost a thang!(wink)

N.B:Work harder sha o...she might just ask for something similar!

That powerful urge to make your man's life better

Glad to be back! Laughing out loud(before I begin to feel like one talk show guru) Well, I dey try,aint?(wink).I got this mail recently from a friend that I would like to call Bob and Mimi(not their real names) and u know ,(throat clearing) it kinda came in the nick of time bcos 'yours faithfully' is in a new season,if u know what I mean, so I really wanna share this with you and I am really ,seriously in dire need of your comments ,constructive criticisms and suggestions...Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Bolanle,Women have a powerful urge to make their man's life better! My friend, the author Bob Grant, has written about this. Bob writes: "When a woman feels bonded to a man, she has a natural desire to please him and make his life more wonderful. She may offer to help him dress better or perhaps clean up after him at his house. She is merely trying to add color, style, and more ambiance to his life. "If he is in pain or distress, it is just natural for her to want to ease his pain through whatever means she can. She delights in seeing him released from his pain. "All her intuition is focused on 'What can I do to be helpful to him?'"She is also more likely to become attuned to his wishes and his moods. She might anticipate what he wants. "This is an empathetic skill that few men master - or, to be honest, really even want to."It might seem that men would appreciate this characteristic and never want to leave [a woman like this]. After all, what could be better than having a woman in your life who is trying to please you? "For a man, the problem arises when a woman overuses this gift."Bob Grant says that women desire to do TWO things:1. We want to create beauty.2. We want to take pain away.The sheer power of our feelings can play a huge role in how we act with the man (even the NEW man) in our lives. For a woman, the feelings are so very strong, and it seems certain that their guy would respond lovingly and gratefully to so much love.But all too often, a woman has taken the relationship much farther in her mind than a man has - yet. This leads to being frustrated, hurt, and confused when a man does not respond.Things get even more upsetting when this same man may take up with a new girlfriend or wife who appears to not care one bit about his needs. So why is he madly in love with her, after all you did, and after how well you know him - and she doesn't? This may have happened to you - or to friends of yours. What's wrong with this picture? Should you deny those glorious feelings of wanting to show your love, of wanting to give? No - that would be denying yourself. The key is to know how soon and how much to give. You also need to know how to give so that men can receive your giving, instead of becoming distant when you give.An email from a reader said in part:"Dear Mimi,"I was that woman. I tried to please my guy too fast and too soon, and I did everything under the sun for him, even lent him money to pay for bills and help him..."
--"Lacey" (not her real name)Dear Lacey, Your giving nature can be an asset in the right situation and at the right time. But just as you already realize, trying to give so much in order to win his love just backfires. You don't want to cause a man to see you as desperate and willing to do anything just to keep him around. Hang in there and keep reading - in time and with lessons like the one you've experienced, you'll soon have instincts which will protect your heart (and your wallet).Men respect a woman who takes care of herself - in every way. Thanks for sharing this.
From another reader:Dear Mimi,"I am one of your new readers and I do like the way you put your words. This one is me: too much giving. It's not that I do it for him to love me more or to keep him; it's always been me since I was a little girl. I love to share and give to anyone for a reason and for no reason."--
"Darla"Dear Darla,Thanks for that email. Giving is important to me too. We women need to take time to examine how we give, when, and how things work out for us when we give. One of the most important ways to make giving work is to choose your recipient wisely, whether we're talking about men or any other situation.What do one do to play 'safe' whilst trying to 'save' a relationship?! Please tell me...
Cheers!
Bollarnle.

All Hail Monica Peters!©

Oouch!Forgive me,I actually mean hi!. Now you see what terrible fellow Monica Peters really is. Did I hear someone trying to ask if it is male or female name? Well, u will av to take ur pick after now.But this one thing I know,Monica Peters come visiting only ladies! And gawd! she sucks(guess I already gave the answer away). Anyway, this particular visit of Monica Peters to my domicile at exactly 15:00 GMT on the 24th of November didnt really come as a suprise because though she gate crashes sometimes,she comes at particular days each month that you will only be wise to get ready for her except of course if you are expecting Benjamin Andrew Barbara Yvonne - otherwise known as B.A.B.Y.! So,since I knew that I wasnt expecting one(yet), so I then av to brace up for Monica Peters real quick again this month just like every other one!What a bully she is,she comes with kicks,aches, pains, shoves,slaps,cramps,and all you can ever imagine! So far it has got to do with discomfort...(sobs)As I write this,she is giving me her stuff but av been able to subdue her considerably (I believe) with some cute looking white looking stuff called,''pain killers''. So you bet she is just as gentle as can be bearable for a damsel like me to be relavant in the office at this point in time!Why do I wanna write to hail her? You may wanna ask? Well, with the diarrhoea that she constantly comes along with and the mood swing and all ( and the fact that she took away my sleep, took over my bed and made me lay on the floor of my room!),I can only attribute ...haaaaaaaa....sorry,she hooked me just again...gimme some minutes to get free from this friend enemy...Aiight ,I feel better now...Ok ,where was I? Yes, I would hail her bcos she has got some benefits that she does to my system everyday. The science guys say that this is actually what goes on and why she has to come visiting every month:
DefinitionMenstruation(or Monica Peters if you like) refers to the monthly discharge through the vagina of the blood and tissues that were laid down in the uterus in preparation for pregnancy(note that- if you wanna av Benjamin. Andrew .Barbara .Yvonne. - otherwise known as B.A.B.Y., then you will av to av Monica Peters!).
DescriptionThe cyclic production of hormones that culminates in the release of a mature egg (ovum) is called the menstrual cycle, which begins during puberty and ends at menopause.
The first menstrual cycle is called menarche.Hormones that control the menstrual cycle are produced by the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and ovaries. The beginning of a menstrual cycle is marked by the maturation of an egg in an ovary and preparation of the uterus (womb) to establish pregnancy. Menstruation occurs when pregnancy has not been achieved.The menstrual cycle is divided into four phases and is, on average, 28 days long (21–45 days). The onset of menstruation, called a period, monthly, menses, or menstrual period, begins a new menstrual cycle and is considered day one. This first phase usually lasts five days. Menstruation occurs in response to drops in the level of the hormone progesterone. It is estimated that a woman will have 500 menstrual periods in her lifetime.Oh Lord, 500 Monica Peters!(what?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).
The second phase of the menstrual cycle is called the follicular or proliferative phase. The ovary, in response to increasing levels of follicle stimulating hormone, begins the egg maturation process. Although 10–20 eggs begin to develop within follicles of the ovaries, usually only one egg reaches maturity. Follicles are clusters of cells that encase a developing egg, hence the name "follicular phase." Developing follicles release the hormone estrogen that stimulates the lining of the uterus, called the endometrium, to grow (proliferate) in preparation to receive an embryo (an egg that has been fertilized and begun dividing) and establish pregnancy. This is why the second phase is also called the "proliferative phase." This phase usually lasts through day 13.
The ovulation phase occurs in response to a surge in luteinizing hormone and is marked by the release of a mature egg from the follicle. Ovulation usually occurs on day 14.
The fourth phase is called the luteal, secretory, premenstrual, or postovulatory phase, and usually lasts from days 15–28. During this phase, the empty follicle, now called the corpus luteum, releases the hormone progesterone which further prepares the uterus for implantation of an embryo. The endometrium thickens because of cell growth, changes in blood vessels and glands, and increases in fluid. If pregnancy does not occur, the fall in progesterone levels initiates the onset of a new menstrual cycle. However, if pregnancy does occur, progesterone levels remain high and the endometrium is not shed.
Additional Info:In the United States, menstruation typically begins at 12.8 years of age in Caucasian girls and 12.4 years of age for African American girls. Factors that help to dictate the age at which menarche occurs include race, mother's age at menarche, nutritional status, body fat, as well as climate and elevation. Studies have shown that a body fat level of 17% is necessary for menstruation to begin.Women who live together or work in close proximity tend to find that their cycles begin to coincide. During the menstrual cycle, the body releases hormones called pheromones, which may signal surrounding women's cycles to begin.Puberty signals the maturation of a young woman's reproductive hormones. As a girl reaches puberty, the pituitary gland in the brain starts to produce the hormones that signal the ovaries to begin functioning. The interaction between these hormones and the hormones estrogen and progesterone causes the lining of the uterus to swell and thicken in anticipation of a fertilized egg. If the egg is not fertilized, the lining is discharged through the vagina, resulting in menstrual bleeding.
So, you see what goes on in you every other month! How remarkable! How wow! little wonder you sure av more understanding of life situations and a broader one at that. There is so much that goes in inside of you! You are no ordinary person,Woman! You are a being that is carefully, painstankingly, seriously wired by the creator! I dare say that you are complicated such that you require so much care and understanding of who you really are (from the maker) to totally get His best for you! Feel me? Not just second best,but the number 1 best! Monica Peters is sure not an enemy in all totality,there is still some good in her. The sculptor,potter( if you like),of the heaven and earth,has asked that she comes round to make things work in your beautifully crafted body every other month in preparation for that great assignment of bringing forth! I really used to hate her but not until I GOT the revelation of who and what she stands for-like a means to an end and not an end in itself-feel me?,I began to appreciate the beauty of the whole drama...
As I finish this,I can only wait for the last man standing to come quickly(wink) and in His time. As we explore the journey of the(throat clearing) together! shhh... hope no one is reading this part o''I have written some stuff about the need for my own 'd**k' (Oh Lord,av mercy!, am still born again o& I promise to go for confession on Sunday in dad's church!I promise-all I ask for is my own and u bet that isnt too much to ask now? or is it? I just avnt summoned up enough courage to put the poem up.
Afterall,some married peeps av said that Monica Peters gets weak and in fact loses her power of pain,cramps,and kicks when one is married! Mum say so too!(wink) So, I berra believe it ... and hey! u berra believe it too.And just in case you are like me ,waiting patiently for the tall,dark,handsome(not compulsory),anoited(mandatory),appointed(important),intelligent(necessity),rich(whether physically or spiritually-so far he sells me a vision that he is ready to follow),then hear what the prophet is saying to the church,''YOU ARE WORTH THE WAIT''.
Hang in there some little more...ooouc... h...
Leave me na, u sef?...lol!By the way, I do hope she goes away soon enough so that I can eat some more chocs and sweets and all. I kinda hate the seriuosness that she comes with! Besides, on a more serious note now o, I have a party on Saturday, abeg carry go o bcos I really need to 'free' myself that day and not keep checking my backside and all to be sure that there arent some sudden rush that will make me blush!And whether you like it or not, am wearing the white pants!
Monica Peters, I hail you...
Bollarnle. ©
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Congratulations,Martin Luther KIng, it is you I celebrate!©

Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring to your 'reading' ,the speech that heralded the coming of a new America (we now celebrate). I advise that you read through carefully and rather painstankigly,to be able to get the spirit behind it...I honestly feel it isnt that of trying to pay back for all that has been meted out to the blacks,I feel it is a kinda -of-show-them-how-it-is -being-done! Whether you are black,white,yellow,confused(lol), u sure can make a difference! That was what he talked about... feel me? Please understand that and take it slow... Have fun reading this again and again...I personally cant tire of the speech.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.We There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹cannot turn back.There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring! And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.But not only that:Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.From every mountainside, let freedom ring.And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:Free at last! Free at last!Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Obo ii bo bhi ebi ole le en©

Meaning,''a NATIVE DOCTOR DOESNT CONSULT HIS ORACLE CONCERNING THAT WHICH HE KNOWS''I have been aving sleepless nights (again) and it was just last night that I was able to sleep soundly. I av been aving so many thoughts come to my mind. I guess I av been able to disect the issue, diagnose and am sure of what I would av you comment on. As I was writing this, friend & I were aving a talk and when he asked how I was doing and I replied thus,'I am tired,anxious,giddy,restless, etc'. Now, that was one thing I dread doing;tellling when u arnt asked or telling and not really sure if d person really wanted u to bore him with stuffs! But I did all d same. I also tried to quickly say no be bele I carry sha o. And because the guy too sabi grammar, he began to analyse the definition of all dat I had said was wrong or right (take ur pick) . tired=u re overworked & needs rest , anxious, giddy, restless,anxious=u re expectant & not sure when or howgiiddy:feeling slightly sick and unable to balance, because everything seems to be moving ;dizzyness=either from hunger or .Well, I confirmed to him that he sure was right about the definitions. And men! my beloved friend statred getting statistical, more analytical ,and of course more grammatical on me!I just tried to be polite and not ask him to stop boring me with all d details but as God wld av it, mon ami figured that I was bored! Men, dat guy is my friend indeed and if no be say he don marry, I for just ask am to marry me quick quick!He too sabi me jare!I feel so awful at the mo and it has been lingering for too long such dat I know I wld be needing your help! My reason and point actually for putting this up...See, for very few people who know me, I am sure one of the things they wld say about me is d truth dat I av a problem with hiding my feelings. Recently, av had quite alot of experiences dat are kinda challenging me and( though am not yet registered in dat school of thought )I am contemplating doing so. The school of thought that wants to keep stuffs to themselves and wldnt wanna share.(By d way, I used to be dat way.) Not from being me per say, but to just keeping mute but even as I try to finish dat statement on keeping mute,hear wat the Illustrated Dictionary of Esan Langauge has to say,''odin ii talo,ota ri ole bhi unu''- ( although speechless,the mute has something to say!). Then, u bet that doesnt live me with any choice other than to say something even in my state.I have had my share(fair) of quite some measure of pains in this one life. I have been through such and such ,so I identify basically with that as well. Well, to be fair on the good sides, I can say without an iota of doubt that God has been good to me,I can not over emphasize how really good He has been to me.He sure has been. He has taken&saved me from so much that if u get me started on it,I may not really drive home my point(s) exactly...N.B:Does anyone understand how difficult it is for a christain to be truthful and not faith' ful'? U feel dat part of calling a spade a spade or berra still, caling a problem a problem& and not calling it a challenge? This of course brings to mind a particular phase in my life-wanna read it? I will tell u(wink). Last year, I completed a course in Leadership at the Daystar Leadership Academy(DLA) . At d Advanced level, we av such and such groups that u may join in but that is if d group u want 2 join isnt filled up,in dat case, u will av to join anoda, yours sincerly walked with her eyes opened and her brains intact into the problem- solving group! To think dat at dat time I had almost everything dat cld go wrong ,go wrong!I was really aving it bad such dat at a point I felt jinxed! Yeah, I went into dat group with an assurance& it was to give all those problems, d solutuions dat they require. I walked into dat group with my brians fired up and ready to let God do His part and I do mine! I walked into it! and peeps, I sure got wat I was looking for. maybe some of the things we learnt have prompted me to share this with you ,I dont really know, but one thing I know is dat I require HELP! hello, anyone with me on this?Please dont try to think am not so sure that God is and dat He can handle all issues but hey permit me to tell you this in this manner. Feel me?Again, a part of me is saying, u dont want anybody to read this, do u? Dont worry, I might delete it later if am sober about this but at d mo ,am not.Recently, a friend asked me how I was doing and when I decided to realy tell him how I was doing... To my dismay, he said to me,''no, I dont mean that you should tell me , I dont really want to hear it ,I just asked as a form of greeting''. Immediately, something gave way inside of me. May I add taht I no be oyinbo wey be say them dey cry at every ''supposed ' verbal abuse but truth be told, this one really hit me. By d way, av also had some measure of verbal abuse but it sure remins a part in history and at d mo,I only regard any latest development as being entitled to ur opinion' Not as a form of defence machanism but as a way of saying to precious me that I wolud not carry on waht does not belong to me! And what is more? I av also come to know taht I and only me,av the will power to feel the way I wanna feel. I cant control wat others feel about me ,I can only control mine! But somehow this 'aloofness',' indifference','lackadaisical' approach to the institution of friendship got me really thinking! It sure hit me so hard. I understand taht we humans are all susceptible to mistakes but I jsut want to be clear on this one.Back to my gist, when he said that, I felt a dry bitter taste in my mouth! I felt bile!It was a case of 'Bolanle wanted to call out her shock, but the incoherent cry turned in her throat into a spurt of stomach bile'. I felt pained,my heart began to pound so fast ,I was so hurt and am sure it must av been once dat I felt dat way before-when my dad passed on... I recall I was asked not to cry, so I was trying to please all d folks who said I shouldnt. Just when I was getting to really know him ,he was murdered and someone said I shdlnt cry?!I just swallowed hard and no matter wat anyone said or did, I just stared at them. I guess this was d same way I felt again that day but d only difference was dat I knew dat crying in dis case wld be a worthless venture. This fellow had said wat he wanted to.'' I didnt ask to know ,I just wanted to greet you the way I did my other friends!'' Maybe, am being too serious here, or too 'up -tight' and holding on to wat isnt really worth it. But I sincerly wanna ask you, please tell me. What do u mean when u ask how someone is fairing? Is it really a form of greeting? Does it really mean that it isnt supposed to be detailed,I mean a detailed response isnt really required? right or wrong? pls tell. I really need to. Also when you say,good morning, good afternoon,good nite etc wat do u mean? What does 'how do you do? ' mean. I dont need to know so as to help my forgiveness journey with this 'supposed' friend bcos I already av. And to tell u. I think I appreciate the fellow's sincerity but this is why I av to know: 1. so as to avoid such ' bile -feelings' in the near future2. to really get to greet in such a manner (if it turns out right and you are able to convince me)3. to understand how e-freindship, e-greeting,e-mannerism and all ''e-s'' really work. I sincerly am in dire need of your contributions. This is partly what I feel at the mo.I also feel kinda sick...pls dont tell me to see a doc bcos I wont! but I am sure I feel kinda emotionally drained too. From missing someone to loving someone to talking to another to all of dat! (lol). Am not sure if anyone feels me sha o!(wink)-lol!I am the herbalist in my case and I tell you, I really dont need to consult 'my' oracle, (all I need do is wait some more) I sure know where&how the thing dey do me. However, ladies and gentlemen, I speak of the latter and not the former . I still require your contributions... please!
OMOBOLANLE FASOKUN©

What a Month To be Born!©

oCTOBER 1ST-
Those born on this date include:
- Navy Capt. James Lawrence, hero of the War of 1812, in 1781
- Novelist Faith Baldwin in 1893
- Pianist Vladimir Horowitz in 1903
- Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, in 1924 (age 82)
- U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, also in 1924
- Former major league batting champion Rod Carew in 1945 (age 71)
- Actors Walter Matthau in 1920, James Whitmore in 1921 (age 85), Tom Bosley in 1927 (age 79), George Peppard in 1928, Laurence Harvey in 1928, Richard Harris in 1930, Julie Andrews in 1935 (age 71), Stella Stevens in 1936 (age 70), Stephen Collins in 1947 (age 59), and Randy Quaid in 1950 (age 56)
- And former baseball star Mark McGwire in 1963 (age 43).
Notable Events.
-Nigeria gained her independence from the British government!
-1903, the first World Series opened in Boston. The Boston Pilgrims of the American League defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League in the eighth game of a best-of-nine series.
On October 1st, 1908, Ford introduced the Model T.

oCtober 2nd-
Those born on this date include:
- England's King Richard III in 1452
- Nat Turner, a black slave and leader of the only effective and sustained U.S. slave revolt, in 1800
- German statesman Paul von Hindenburg in 1847
- French World War I military commander Ferdinand Foch in 1851
- Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, in 1869
- Comedians Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx in 1890 and Bud Abbott in 1895
- Child actor George "Spanky" McFarland of "Our Gang" and "Little Rascals" fame, in 1928
- Movie critic Rex Reed in 1938 (age 68)
- Pop singer Don McLean in 1945 (age 61)
- Fashion designer Donna Karan in 1948 (age 58)
- Rock singer Sting (Gordon Sumner) in 1951 (age 55)
- And actress Lorraine Bracco in 1955 (age 51).

oCTOBER 3rd

Those born on this date include:
- Cherokee Chief John Ross, who led opposition to the forced move of his people to what is now Oklahoma, in 1790
- Historian George Bancroft in 1800
- Political cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock) in 1909
- Novelists Thomas Wolfe in 1900 and Gore Vidal in 1925 (age 81)
- Rock 'n' roll singer Chubby Checker in 1941 (age 65)
- Singer/songwriter Lindsey Buckingham in 1949 (age 57)
- Actor/singer Jack Wagner in 1959 (age 47)
- And actress Neve Campbell in 1973 (age 33).

Notable events.
1922, Rebecca Felton, a Georgia Democrat, became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
1962, the Mercury 8 took off for its eight-hour flight.

oCTOBER 4th:
Those born on this date include:
- Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States, in 1822
- Frederic Remington, painter of the American West, in 1861
- Journalist/author Damon Runyan in 1884
- Pioneer movie comedian Buster Keaton in 1895
- Actors Charlton Heston in 1924 (age 82), Clifton Davis in 1945 (age 61), Susan Sarandon in 1946 (age 60), Armand Assante in 1949 (age 57) and Liev Schreiber in 1967 (age 39)
- Authors Jackie Collins and Anne Rice, both in 1941 (age 65)
- And actresses Alicia Silverstone in 1976 (age 30) and Rachel Leigh Cook in 1979 (age 27).

Notable event.
On October 4th, 1883, the first run of the Orient Express took place.

oCTOBER 5th:
Those born on this date include:
- French philosopher Denis Diderot in 1713
- Chester A. Arthur, 21st president of the United States, in 1829
- Rocket pioneer Robert Goddard in 1882
- Restaurant entrepreneur Ray Kroc (McDonald's) and comic Larry Fine of The Three Stooges (the one with the wild wavy hair) in 1902
- Actor Donald Pleasence in 1919
- Political activist and defrocked priest Philip Berrigan and actress Glynis Johns, both in 1923 (age 83)
- Actor/comedian Bill Dana in 1924 (age 82)
- Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, in 1936 (age 70)
- Rock singer/songwriter Steve Miller in 1943 (age 63)
- Actress Karen Allen in 1951 (age 55)
- Irish rock musician Bob Geldof, organizer of the 1985 Live Aid famine relief concert, in 1951 (age 55)
- Race car driver Michael Andretti in 1962 (age 44)
- And actress Kate Winslet in 1975 (age 31).

OCTOBER 6th:
Those born on this date include:
- 1982,World Class Paparazi&CHange Agent&Bolanle's friend, Olawale Olakunle Oluwole was born!
- singer Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," in 1820
- Inventor and manufacturer George Westinghouse in 1846
- Tennis champion Helen Wills Moody in 1905
- Actresses Janet Gaynor in 1906 and Carole Lombard in 1908
- Norwegian ethnologist, archaeologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl in 1914
- Former "60 Minutes" journalist Shana Alexander in 1925
- And actresses Britt Eklund in 1942 (age 64), and Elisabeth Shue in 1963 (age 43).

Notable Events:
1853, Antioch College opened in Yellow Springs, Ohio. It was the first non-sectarian school to offer equal opportunity for both men and women.
- 1927, "The Jazz Singer" -- the first feature-length movie with talking sequences -- premiered.

oCTOBER 7TH:
1913, for the first time, Henry Ford's entire Highland Park automobile factory was run on a continuously moving assembly line.
1916, in the most lopsided football game on record, Georgia Tech humbled Cumberland University, 222-0.
1949, less than five months after Britain, the United States, and France established the Federal Republic of Germany in West Germany, the Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany) was proclaimed within the Soviet occupation zone.
1968, the U.S. movie industry adopted a film ratings system for the first time: G (for general audiences), M (for mature audiences), R (no one under 16 admitted without an adult) and X (no one under 16 admitted).
1989, the Hungarian Communist Party ditched its name and adopted the label of Socialist.
Also in 1989, East Germany celebrated its 40th anniversary as a communist state amid pro-reform demonstrations.
1991, Iran freed U.S. telecommunications engineer John Pattis, ending five years of captivity on charges of spying for the CIA.
1991, U.N. inspectors discovered an Iraqi nuclear weapons research center intact.
1992, U.S. President George H.W. Bush and the leaders of Mexico and Canada signed the North American Free Trade Agreement. The pact would create the world's largest trading bloc.
1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton announced he was sending the Navy and Marines in response to an Iraqi military build-up along the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border.
1997, scientists announced they had found one of the most massive stars known, behind a dense dust cloud in the Milky Way that had previously concealed it. The star was 25,000 light-years from Earth.
1999, American Home Products, the makers of the diet drug combination known as "fen-phen," agreed to a $3.75 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit stemming from the drugs' use, which was linked to heart valve problems.
2000, Vojislav Kostunica was sworn in as Yugoslavia's new president.
2003, Californians voted to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and elected actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, as their new governor.
2004, at least 56 people were killed and about 100 others injured when three bombs exploded at Egyptian resort areas near the Israeli border.
2005, the International Atomic Energy Agency, known as the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, were awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.
Notable event:
1769, Captain Cook discovered New Zealand.

oCTOBER 8TH:
Those born on this date include:
- World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in 1890
- Argentine dictator Juan Peron in 1895
- Composer W.C. Handy in 1904
- Travel guide author Temple Hornaday Fielding in 1913
- Gossip columnist Rona Barrett in 1936 (age 70)
- Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson in 1941 (age 65)
- "Goosebumps" author R.L. Stine in 1943 (age 63)
- And actors Paul Hogan in 1939 (age 67), Chevy Chase in 1943 (age 63), Sigourney Weaver in 1949 (age 57)
- Stephanie Zimbalist in 1956 (age 50), and Matt Damon in 1970 (age 36)

Notable event:
1932, the Indian Air Force was established.

oCTOBER 9TH:
Those born on this date include:
- French composer Camille Saint-Saens in 1835
- Charles Rudolph Walgreen, drug store chain founder, in 1873
- American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson in 1890
- Civil War historian Bruce Catton in 1899
- Convicted Watergate burglar and lecturer E. Howard Hunt Jr. in 1918 (age 88)
- Singer/songwriters John Lennon in 1940 and Jackson Browne in 1948 (age 58)
- Writer/actor Robert Wuhl in 1951 (age 55)
- And actors Scott Bakula in 1954 (age 52) and Zachery Ty Bryan ("Home Improvement") in 1981 (age 25).
Notable event:
On October 9th, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire was brought under control.

oCTOBER 10TH:
Those born on this date include:
- English chemist-physicist Henry Cavendish, discoverer of hydrogen, in 1731
- Composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1813
- Actress Helen Hayes in 1900
- Playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter in 1930 (age 77)
- Entertainer Ben Vereen in 1946 (age 61)
- Actress Jessica Harper in 1949 (age 58)
- Rocker David Lee Roth in 1954 (age 52)
- Country singer Tanya Tucker in 1958 (age 49)
- And pro football star Brett Favre in 1969 (age 38)

Notable Events:
1845, the U.S. Naval Academy was formally opened at Fort Severn, Annapolis, Md., with 50 midshipmen in the first class.
1886, Griswold Lorillard of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., fashioned the first tuxedo for men.
1973, less than a year before Richard Nixon's resignation as president, Spiro Agnew became the first U.S. vice president to resign in disgrace after pleading no contest to income tax evasion.
1991, the United States cut all aid to Haiti.
1993, Greek voters returned former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and his Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement to power.
1994, Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras, commander in chief of the Haitian armed forces, resigned to make way for the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1997, it was announced that the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and its coordinator, Jody Williams of Putney, Vt.
2001, representatives of 56 Islamic nations, in an emergency meeting on Qatar, condemned the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
2002, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was cited for his efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and his commitment to human rights and democratic values around the world.
2003, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Iranian lawyer Shurin Ebadi for her work in promoting democracy and human rights in Iran and beyond. She was the first Muslim woman to win the award and third Muslim.
2003, Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio talk show host, admitted addiction to prescription painkillers and said he would enter a rehabilitation facility.
2004, a videotape of the beheading of British hostage Kenneth Bigley in Iraq was shown on an Islamic Web site.
2005, Angela Merkel became the first woman chancellor of Germany after her Christian Democrats won the parliamentary election. The incumbent, Gerhard Schroeder, said he would play no role in the new governing coalition.
1938, the Blue Water Bridge opened.


oCTOBER 11TH:
Those born on this date include:
- clergyman Mason Locke Weems, who invented the story of George Washington and the cherry tree, in 1759
- Englishman George Williams, founder of the YMCA, in 1821
- Food industry pioneer Henry John Heinz in 1844
- Former first lady and author Eleanor Roosevelt in 1884
- Choreographer Jerome Robbins in 1918
- Country singer Dottie West in 1932
- Actor/singer Ron Leibman in 1937 (age 69)
- Singer Daryl Hall in 1946 (age 60)
- And actors David Morse in 1953 (age 53), Joan Cusack in 1962 (age 44) and Luke Perry in 1965 (age 41).

Notable Events:
1811, the first steam-powered ferry in the world started its run between New York City and Hoboken, N.J.
1868, Thomas Alva Edison filed papers for his first invention: an electrical vote recorder to rapidly tabulate floor votes in Congress. Members of Congress rejected it.
1950, the Federal Communications Commission issued to CBS the first license to broadcast color television.
1962, Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
1984, financier Marc Rich agreed to pay the U.S. government nearly $200 million, biggest tax fraud penalty in U.S. history.
1991, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution barring Iraq from pursuing any atomic programs.
1993, armed demonstrators in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, prevented U.S and Canadian troops from landing.
1994, the Colorado Supreme Court struck down a law that barred local governments from enacting laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination in employment and housing.
1996, the Nobel Peace Prize went to Jose Ramos-Harta and Carlos Ximenes Belo, who worked for freedom for Timor Leste, where famine and repression had killed one-third of the entire population.
2002, Congress gave U.S. President George W. Bush its backing for using military force against Iraq.
2003, officials in India arrested more than 1,500 Hindu activists in an effort to ward off violence during a protest planned later this week.
2004, Christopher Reeve, who played Superman in the movies and strenuously pushed spinal cord research after he was paralyzed in an accident, died at the age of 52.
1958, NASA launched the lunar probe Pioneer 1.

OCTOBER 12TH:
Those born on this date include:
- Elmer Sperry, who devised practical uses for the gyroscope, in 1860
- English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1872
- Comedian and activist Dick Gregory in 1932 (age 74)
- Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti in 1935 (age 71)
- TV correspondent Chris Wallace in 1947 (age 59)
- Singer/actress Susan Anton in 1950 (age 56)
- Actors Adam Rich in 1968 (age 38) and Kirk Cameron in 1970 (age 36)
- And track star Marion Jones in 1975 (age 31)

Notable Events:
1492, Christopher Columbus reached America, making his first landing in the New World on one of the Bahamas Islands. Columbus believed he had reached India.
1899, the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State in southern Africa declared war on the British. The Boer War was ended May 31, 1902, by the Treaty of Vereeniging.
1915, British nurse Edith Cavell, 49, was executed by a German firing squad in Brussels for helping Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during World War I.
1960, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev removed one of his shoes and pounded it on his desk during a speech before the United Nations.
1964, the Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1 into orbit around Earth, with three cosmonauts aboard. It was the first spacecraft to carry a multi-person crew and the two-day mission was also the first flight performed without space suits.
1973, U.S. President Richard Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald Ford for the vice presidency to replace Spiro Agnew, who had resigned two days earlier.
1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped injury in the bombing of a hotel in Brighton, England. Four people were killed in the attack, blamed on the Irish Republican Army.
1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard died, five days after the 21-year-old gay man was beaten, robbed and left tied to a fence.
1999, the elected government of Pakistan was overthrown in an apparently bloodless military coup. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and several other leaders were arrested.
2002, the terror continued for Washington area residents as the weeklong death toll from a mysterious sniper reached eight.
2003, 2-year-old Egyptian twins joined at the head were successfully separated at Dallas Children's Medical Center.
2003, Uganda says its army rescued more than 400 children held captive by rebels in a remote village north of the capital of Kampala.
2004, a report of the CIA's top weapons investigator said Saddam Hussein thought U.S. officials knew he had no weapons of mass destruction before the invasion.
2005, newly released documents charged that the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Los Angeles allegedly shielded priests accused of sexual abuse by moving them from one parish to another.
2005, a lynch mob of about 500 Indonesians -- on the third anniversary of the Bali terror bombings -- stormed the Denpasar prison where three convicted bombers were held but were turned back by police.
1775, the United States Navy was formed.

oCTOBER 13TH:
Those born on this date include:
- American Revolutionary War heroine Molly Pitcher in 1754
- Actress Lillie Langtry in 1853
- Actor Cornel Wilde in 1915
- Puppeteer Burr Tillstrom in 1917
- Actor/singer Yves Montand in 1921
- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1925 (age 81)
- Comedian Lenny Bruce also in 1925
- Jesse L. Brown, the first black American naval aviator, in 1926
- Actress Melinda Dillon in 1939 (age 67)
- Singer/songwriter Paul Simon in 1941 (age 65)
- Rocker Sammy Hagar in 1947 (age 59)
- Chris Carter, creator of "The X-Files," in 1956 (age 50)
- Entertainer Marie Osmond in 1959 (age 47)
- Actress Kelly Preston in 1962 (age 44)
- And figure skater Nancy Kerrigan in 1969 (age 37).

Notable Events:
1954, the Roman Emperor Claudius was poisoned by his fourth wife, Agrippina.
1775, the Continental Congress ordered construction of America's first naval fleet.
1792, the cornerstone to the White House was laid. It would be November 1800 before the first presidential family (that of John Adams) moved in.
1903, the Boston Red Sox beat the Pittsburgh Pirates to win the first World Series, five games to three.
1943, conquered by the Allies, Italy declared war on Germany, its former Axis partner.
1977, four Palestinians hijacked a Lufthansa airliner in an unsuccessful attempt to force release of 11 imprisoned members of German terrorists called the Red Army Faction.
1987, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize -- the first winner from Central America -- for his Central American peace treaty.
1990, Lebanese Christian military leader Michel Aoun ended his 2-year mutiny, ordered his forces to surrender, and sought refuge in the French Embassy in Beirut after Syrian-backed Lebanese government troops attacked his headquarters.
1991, the Group of Seven industrialized democracies agreed to formulate a Soviet economic reform program with Moscow.
1992, the first pig liver transplant patient died in a Los Angeles hospital 30 hours after surgery and just hours before she was to get a human organ. (what! Pig gini!)
1993, the U.N. Security Council voted to reinstate an oil and arms embargo against Haiti after its military leaders refused to step down as promised.
1993, the Bell Atlantic Corporation and Tele-Communications announced plans for a merger; the deal was worth $33 billion.
1994, two months after the Irish Republican Army announced a cease-fire, Protestant paramilitaries in Northern Ireland did the same.
1999, the Senate rejected a treaty signed by the United States that banned all underground nuclear testing. Despite that, U.S. President Bill Clinton pledged to abide by the treaty's provisions.
1999, a grand jury in Boulder, Colo., announced it had insufficient evidence to charge anyone in the Dec. 26, 1996, slaying of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey.
2002, historian Stephen Ambrose, author of numerous books on World War II, American presidents and America's early westward expansion, died of lung cancer. He was 66.
In 2003, jockey Bill Shoemaker, one of horse racing's most renowned figures who won nearly 9,000 races, died at his home in San Marino, Calif. He was 72.
2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a subpoena ordering U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., to hand over records and documents.


oCTOBER 14TH:
Those born on this date include:
- William Penn, the English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania, in 1644
- Irish political leader Eamon de Valera in 1882
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, World War II military leader and 34th president of the United States, in 1890
- Poet e.e. cummings in 1894
- Actress Lillian Gish in 1893
- Singer Allan Jones in 1907
- Former basketball Coach John Wooden in 1910 (age 96)
- Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop in 1916 (age 90)
- Actor Roger Moore in 1927 (age 79)
- Watergate figure John Dean in 1938 (age 68)
- Designer Ralph Lauren in 1939 (age 67)
- British pop singer Cliff Richard in 1940 (age 66)
- And actors Harry Anderson in 1952 (age 54) and Greg Evigan in 1953 (age 53).
Notable Event:
1812, work on Regent's Canal began.

oCTOBER 15TH:
Those born on this date include:
- Roman poet Virgil in 70 B.C.
- German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche in 1844
- Boxing champion John L. Sullivan in 1858
- English writer and humorist P.G. Wodehouse in 1881
- Mervyn LeRoy, producer of the film "The Wizard of Oz," in 1900
- Picture archivist Otto Bettmann in 1903
- Writer and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in 1917 (age 89)
- Author Mario Puzo in 1920
- Former Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca in 1924 (age 82)
- Actress Linda Lavin in 1937 (age 69)
- Actress/director Penny Marshall in 1942 (age 64)
- Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer in 1945 (age 61)
- Pop singers Richard Carpenter in 1946 (age 60) and Tito Jackson in 1953 (age 53)
- And Sarah, Duchess of York, in 1959 (age 47).

nOTABLE eVEnts:
1917, the most famous spy of World War I, Gertrude Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, was executed by a firing squad outside Paris.
1946, Nazi Reichsmarshal Herman Goering, sentenced to death as a war criminal, committed suicide in his prison cell on the eve of his execution.
1951, "I Love Lucy," TV's first long-running sitcom and still seen regularly in syndication, made its debut.
1964, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was ousted and replaced by Alexei Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev.
1984, astronomers in Pasadena, Calif., displayed the first photographic evidence of another solar system 293 trillion miles from Earth.
1990, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1991, the Senate confirmed Judge Clarence Thomas as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by a vote of 52-48, the closest confirmation vote in court history.
1992, a man who terrorized the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don for more than a decade with a series of more than 50 grisly killings was sentenced to death.
1993, South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1993, the Pentagon censured three U.S. Navy admirals who'd organized the Tailhook Association convention in 1991 during which scores of women had been subjected to abuse and indignities by junior officers.
1993, Russia's ousted vice president, Alekandr Rutskoi, and the speaker of the parliament, Ruslan Khasbulatov, were charged with ordering mass disorders in the bloody street fighting between supporters and opponents of President Boris Yeltsin that left almost 200 people dead.
1994, Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to Haiti three years after being driven into exile by a military coup.
1998, talks that would lead to an agreement to revive the stalled Middle East peace process began at the Wye Conference Center in Queenstown, Md.
1999, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the international group Doctors Without Borders.
2001, a package containing a substance believed to be anthrax was opened in the personal office of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.
2002, the Washington area sniper claimed his ninth fatality, a female FBI analyst, as the massive manhunt continued.
2002, former ImClone Chief Executive Officer Samuel Waksal pleaded guilty to insider trading as part of an ongoing investigation into the trading of shares from his biotech company, which also involved home decor diva and Waksal friend Martha Stewart.
2002, the Dow Jones industrials, which hit a 5-year low four trading days earlier, rebounded strongly and by this date had reached 8,255.68, more than 900 points above that low.
2003, China became the third nation, joining the United States and Russia, to launch a man into space. He landed safely the next day after orbiting the Earth 14 times.
2004, the United Nations said it was getting fresh reports of attacks against internally displaced persons in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region where tens of thousands had been killed and 1.6 million others displaced.
2005, millions of Iraqis went to the polls to vote on a new constitution. There were incidents of violence but they were not widespread.
2005, Russian officials refused to join the international effort to convince Iran to end its nuclear program.
1928, the Graf Zeppelin completed its first trans-Atlantic flight.

oCTOBER 16TH:
Those born on this day include:
- lexicographer Noah Webster in 1758
- Irish author and dramatist Oscar Wilde in 1854
- David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, in 1886
- Playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1888
- Irish revolutionist Michael Collins in 1890
- Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas in 1898
- German novelist Gunter Grass in 1927 (age 79)
- Actor Barry Corbin ("Northern Exposure") in 1940 (age 66)
- Actresses Linda Darnell in 1923
- Angela Lansbury in 1925 (age 81) and Suzanne Somers in 1946 (age 60)
- Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir in 1947 (age 59)
- Actor Tim Robbins in 1958 (age 48)
- And actress Kellie Martin in 1975 (age 31).

nOTABLE eVENTS:
1701, Yale University was founded.
1793, French Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
1859, abolitionist John Brown led an abortive raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va. He was convicted of treason and hanged.
1868, America's first department store, ZCMI, opened in Salt Lake City.
1916, the nation's first birth control clinic was opened in New York by Margaret Sanger and two other women.
1946, at Nuremberg, Germany, 10 high-ranking Nazi officials were executed by hanging for World War II war crimes. Hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force, was to have been among them but he committed suicide in his cell the night before.
1964, China detonated its first atomic bomb.
1972, a light plane carrying House Democratic leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana and three other men was reported missing in Alaska. The plane was never found.
1984, black Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa won the Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle against apartheid.
1989, the New York stock market bounced back from staggering losses, with the Dow Jones industrial average gaining more than 88 points after a 190-point plunge on Friday the 13th.
1991, George Hennard reportedly shot and killed 22 people and then took his own life after driving his pickup truck through the front window of Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas.
1994, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl narrowly retained his office in parliamentary elections.
1995, hundreds of thousands of black men from across the nation gathered at the Mall in Washington to take part in the "Million Man March."
1998, Protestant David Trimble and Roman Catholic John Hume, both political leaders in Northern Ireland, were named as co-winners of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize for their work toward bringing peace to Ulster.
2002, U.S. President George Bush signed into law the joint congressional resolution authorizing him to use military force if necessary to rid Iraq of its suspected weapons of mass destruction.
2003, the U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution endorsing a U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq.
2004, the World Health Organization said smoke from home stoves and fires in developing countries had become a major cause of death and disease.
2004, in a letter to fans on her Web site, homemaking guru Martha Stewart assured all she was adjusting to life in a West Virginia federal prison which she described as "like an old-fashioned college campus -- without the freedom of course."
2005, unofficial preliminary reports said Iraqi voters had approved a new constitution.
2005, Louisiana state officials were investigating the possibility of euthanasia in 215 deaths at 19 New Orleans hospitals and nursing homes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
1869, the Cardiff Giant hoax -- an elaborate prank to prove the existence of a petrified giant in Wales -- was discovered.

oCTOBER 17TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:
-Fasokun Omobolanle Agnes,renowned terrorist of and to the Kingdom of darkness, a light in the dark world,a solution to problems,a doting mother and caring wife,an anointed preacher of the word of God,a change agent was born in 1982.
-Jupiter Hammon, America's first published black poet, in 1711
- Actress Irene Ryan in 1902
- Big band trombonist and wide-eyed comic Jerry Colonna, best remembered as a featured comedian on Bob Hope shows, in 1905
- Playwright Arthur Miller in 1915
- Actress Rita Hayworth in 1918
- Actor Tom Poston in 1921 (age 85)
- Actor Montgomery Clift in 1920
- Newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin in 1930 (age 76)
- Daredevil Robert "Evel" Knievel in 1938 (age 68) actors Michael McKean in 1947 (age 59), and Margot Kidder and George Wendt, both in 1948 (age 58)
- And former astronaut Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, in 1956 (age 50)
- Rapper Eminem in 1972 (age 34).
-Wyclef Jean born Nelust Wyclef Jean in 1972 , Haitian American musician, actor, producer and former-member of the hip hop trio The Fugees was born.

Notable Events
1777, at one of the turning points of the American Revolution, British Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American Gen. Horatio Gates at Saratoga, N.Y.
1945, Juan Peron became dictator of Argentina. He remained in power for 11 years before being overthrown.
1973, the Arab-dominated Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said it would cut oil exports to the United States and other nations that provided military aid to Israel in the Yom Kippur War of October 1973. A full oil embargo hit the United States in December causing a serious energy crisis.
1979, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a Roman Catholic nun who cared for the sick and poor, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1986, Congress passed a landmark immigration bill, the first U.S. law authorizing penalties for employers who hire illegal aliens.
1989, the most powerful California earthquake since the legendary temblor of 1906 struck the San Francisco Bay Area at evening rush hour, just before the scheduled start of Game Three of the World Series in San Francisco between the Giants and the Oakland A's. At least 67 people were killed.
1990, U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said military force would be a legitimate response to the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait if sanctions did not work.
1994, North Korea agreed to freeze its nuclear weapons program and allow international inspections of its facilities.
1996, O.J. Simpson, who had been acquitted in a highly publicized trial of killing his estranged wife and her friend, went on trial in civil court in a suit brought by the victims' families and accusing him of responsibility for the deaths.
1998, by request of Spanish authorities, British police arrested former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet for questioning about "crimes of genocide and terrorism that include murder."
2001 the anthrax scare continued as the U.S. Congress began closing down for security sweeps after 321 staff members and police tested positive for exposure to anthrax.
2003, the U.S. hostile fire death toll in the Iraqi war reached 100 since U.S. President George Bush announced the end of major combat in May.
2004, Brazil authorized its air force to shoot down planes suspected of smuggling drugs.
2005, General Motors estimated it would save about $1 billion a year under an agreement with the United Auto Workers Union to cut annual health benefits for workers and retirees.
2005, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a government demand for $280 billion in penalties from American cigarette makers.
2006, North Korea termed U.N. sanctions to punish it for its recent nuclear test a declaration of war. Reports meanwhile said there was evidence a second nuclear test was planned.
2007, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Israel did not intend to split Jerusalem, a matter often brought up during Palestinian peace talks. But, the minister in charge of strategic affairs said he did not believe Israel needed to retain control over certain parts of the city if future peace agreements call for such an arrangement.

oCTOBER 18TH:
-Olufunke Idowu Ojo,the greatest geologist in the 21st century&Bolanle's friend was born in 1981!
-novelist Fannie Hurst in 1889
- Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1919
- Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, in 1921 (age 85)
- Greek actress Melina Mercouri in 1925
- Rock 'n' roll legend Chuck Berry in 1926 (age 80)
- Actors George C. Scott in 1927 and Peter Boyle in 1935 (age 71)
- Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in 1939
- Former pro football star and coach Mike Ditka in 1939 (age 67)
- Actor Joe Morton in 1947 (age 59)
- Actress Pam Dawber in 1951 (age 55)
- Musician Wynton Marsalis in 1961 (age 45)
- And actor Jean-Claude Van Damme and actress Erin Moran ("Happy Days"), both in 1960 (age 46).

Notable events:
1776, the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania was settled. Dubbed the "Mason-Dixon" line, it became the unofficial boundary between North and South.
1898, the United States took control of Puerto Rico one year after Spain had granted self-rule to the Caribbean nation.
1922, the British Broadcasting Corp. was established.
1931, Thomas Alva Edison, one of the most prolific inventors in history, died in West Orange, N.J., at the age of 84.
1959, the Soviet Union announced an unmanned space vehicle had taken the first pictures of the far side of the moon.
1974, the jury in the Watergate cover-up trial heard a tape recording in which U.S. President Richard Nixon told aide John Dean to try to stop the Watergate burglary investigation before it implicated White House personnel.
1984, U.S. President Ronald Reagan ordered an investigation of a CIA handbook for Nicaraguan rebels that suggested assassination as a political tactic.
1990, Iraq, pinched by economic sanctions, offered to sell oil to anyone at half the going price.
In 1991, Israel and the Soviet Union agreed to renew full diplomatic relations for the first time since 1967.
1991, the United States and Soviet Union formally invited Israeli and Arab leaders to a conference in Spain to initiate direct bilateral peace talks.
1992, numerous civilians were killed or wounded when Serbian forces unleashed a citywide artillery barrage on Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2001, as anthrax incidents continued, FBI Director Robert Mueller announced a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for sending anthrax-laden mail which he called a terrorist act.
2002, North Korea revealed it was working on a secret nuclear weapons program and U.S. intelligence officials concluded that Pakistan was a major supplier of critical equipment for it.
2003, a published report said British authorities foiled a plot to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin.
2003, although homemaking guru Martha Stewart faced trial on illegal stock trading, sales of her Everyday brand were described as "great."
2004, in perhaps the first concrete development in the 2008 presidential election campaign, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, younger brother of the president, said he was not running for the White House.
2004, exhumation orders were issued for 42 bodies in Sonthofen, Germany, where a hospital orderly admitted to giving lethal injections to 16 patients.
2005, Iraqi election officials said parliamentary election results would be delayed "a few days" while procedures were checked at 12 voting sites where as many as 99 percent of ballots favored a new constitution.
2005, Iran wants former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein charged also with genocide and the use of chemical weapons in the war with Iran when he goes on trial for war crimes in Baghdad.
2005, only a concerted global effort can stop bird flu from becoming a global problem, EU foreign ministers concluded at an emergency meeting.
-1922, the BBC was founded.

October 19th:
-Adenaiye Olaniyi ,the apple of God's eye and Bolanle's friend was born in 1980!
English physician and scholar Thomas Browne in 1605
- Abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay in 1810
- Historian and city planner Lewis Mumford in 1895
- Actress LaWanda Page ("Sanford and Son") in 1920
- Newspaper columnist Jack Anderson in 1922
- English spy novelist John Le CarrA(c), whose real name is David Cornwell, in 1931 (age 75)
- Pop artist Peter Max in 1937 (age 69)
- Actor John Lithgow and feminist Patricia Ireland, both in 1945 (age 61)
- Former heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield in 1962 (age 44) and Amy Carter, daughter of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in 1967 (age 39).

Notable events:
1781, Britain's Lord Cornwallis surrendered with more than 7,000 troops to Gen. George Washington at Yorktown, Va., effectively ending the American War of Independence.
1812, Napoleon's beaten French army began its long, disastrous retreat from Moscow.
1982, carmaker John DeLorean was arrested in Los Angeles and charged in a $24 million cocaine scheme aimed at salvaging his bankrupt sports car company. He was tried and acquitted.
1987, the New York stock market suffered its biggest setback, with the bellwether Dow Jones industrial average nose diving 508 points in one session.
1993, a U.N. oil-and-arms embargo against Haiti was reinstated in an effort to return the exiled Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president of Haiti.
1994, more than 20 people were killed in the terrorist bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel. Islamic militants claimed responsibility.
2000, independent counsel Robert Ray said in his final report about the White House travel office scandal dubbed "Travelgate" that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton gave "factually false" sworn testimony. But, he said, there was not enough evidence to bring criminal charges.
2002, after four days of inactivity, the Washington-area sniper reappeared and seriously wounded a man in a restaurant parking lot, triggering a massive response from police forces already on high alert.
2003, Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa before hundreds of thousands of pilgrims packed into St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, the last formal step to sainthood.
2004, a Pentagon survey of U.S. Army reservists indicated they had increasing doubts about their units' war readiness and less enthusiasm for re-enlisting.
2005, a defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent as he went on trial in Baghdad on charges of murder and torture during his reign as president of Iraq. The initial session, with the one-time dictator questioning the court's legitimacy and scuffling with guards, lasted three hours before the judge ordered an adjournment until Nov. 28.

OCTOBER 20TH:
-Sinyanbola Olatunde ,God's battle axe&Bolanle's friend was born!
-English astronomer and architect Christopher Wren in 1632
- French poet Arthur Rimbaud in 1854
- James Robert Mann, Illinois congressman and author of the "White Slave Traffic Act," also known as the "Mann Act," in 1856
- Educator John Dewey in 1859
- Composer Charles Ives in 1874
- Actor Bela Lugosi ("Dracula") in 1882
- Singer/pianist/composer Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton in 1890
- Mystery writer Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay) in 1905
- TV personality Arlene Francis in 1907
- Country singer Grandpa (Louis Marshall) Jones in 1913
- Actor Herschel Bernardi in 1923
- Newspaper columnist Art Buchwald in 1925 (age 81)
- Former New York Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle in 1931
- Actors William Christopher ("M*A*S*H") in 1932 (age 74) and Jerry Orbach in 1935
- And rock singer Tom Petty in 1950 (age 56).

Notable events:
1818, the United States and Britain agreed to establish the 49th parallel as the official boundary between the United States and Canada.
1918, Germany accepted U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's terms to end World War I.
1944, U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur kept his promise to return to the Philippines Islands when landed with U.S. forces during World War II.
1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee opened public hearings into communist influence in Hollywood.
1973, U.S. President Richard Nixon fired special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox.
1982, the world's worst soccer disaster occurred in Moscow when 340 fans were crushed to death in an open staircase during a game between Soviet and Dutch players.
1990, the rap group 2 Live Crew was acquitted in Miami of obscenity charges arising from a performance of selections from the album "As Nasty As They Wanna Be."
1992, one of Europe's leading environmentalists, Germany's Greens Party founder Petra Kelly, was found shot to death by her companion, Gert Bastian, who then committed suicide.
1994, Hollywood heavyweight Burt Lancaster died at the age of 80.
2000, a former U.S. Army sergeant pleaded guilty to joining in a terrorist plot against the United States, linking Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden to the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
2001, anthrax scares continued across the world as reports of letters with white powder possibly containing anthrax -- nearly all false alarms so far -- were found. Work resumed in Washington where an anthrax discovery had temporarily closed the U.S. Congress.
2002, showing its displeasure with North Korea for restarting its nuclear program, the United States was reported to be considering cutting off vital fuel oil supplies to that country.
2003, The London Mirror said that British Princess Diana claimed there was a plot to kill her in a car crash in a handwritten letter 10 months before she died in an auto accident.
2004, Margaret Hassan, chief of operations for the British-based CARE charity, was kidnapped on her way to work in Iraq by unknown armed militants. CARE suspended its work in Iraq soon after.
2004, retired Gen. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was sworn in as Indonesia's sixth president after winning the country's first direct elections for head of state.
2005, former U.S. House Majority Leader Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, was booked in Houston after his indictment on conspiracy and money laundering charges. He was freed on $10,000 bond.
2005, Pakistan set the official death toll of the Oct. 8 quake at 47,000, but various aid officials claim it was closer to 80,000. Three million people were reported without shelter as winter approached the Himalayan region.
1910, the RMS Olympic -- sister ship to the Titanic -- was launched.

oCtober 21st:
Those born on this date include
-English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1772
- Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize, in 1833
- Dancer/choreographer Ted Shawn in 1891
- Conductor Georg Solti in 1912
- Jazz trumpeter John "Dizzy" Gillespie, in 1917
- Former pitcher Whitey Ford in 1928 (age 78)
- Author Ursula K. Le Guin in 1929 (age 77)
- And actress-author Carrie Fisher in 1956 (age 50).

Notable Events:
1879, after 14 months of experiments, Thomas Edison invented the first practical electric incandescent lamp.
1950, Chinese troops occupied Tibet.
1959, rocket designer Wernher von Braun and his team were transferred from the U.S. Army to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
1987, the Senate rejected Judge Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court by the biggest margin in history, 58-42.
1990, gunmen stormed the home of a key supporter of Lebanese Christian military leader Michel Aoun, killing him, his wife and their two sons.
1991, Beirut University College professor Jesse Turner, a hostage since January 1987, was released by his captors in Lebanon.
1992, former New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, whose investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy became the subject of the movie "JFK," died at 71.
1992, New York protesters upset with Sinead O'Connor for ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II on "Saturday Night Live" used a steamroller to crush dozens of the Irish singer's CDs, records and tapes.
1994, Rosario Ames, wife of confessed spy Aldrich Ames, was sentenced to 63 months in prison for her role in collaborating with her husband.
1996, the Dow Jones industrial average of 30 major stocks topped the 6,000 mark for the first time.
2004, the most senior soldier accused in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq, Staff Sgt. Ivan "Chip" Frederick, was sentenced to eight years in prison.
2005, a day after being abducted, an Iraqi lawyer defending an associate of Saddam Hussein was found shot to death in Baghdad.
2005, results from the Afghanistan parliamentary elections showed that Islamic conservatives and former jihad fighters made up at least half of the lower house.
-1959, the Guggenheim Museum opened in New York.

oCTOBER 22nd
Those born on this date include:
- Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in 1811
- Actresses Sarah Bernhardt in 1844 and Joan Fontaine in 1917 (age 89)
- English author Doris Lessing in 1919 (age 87)
- Psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary in 1920
- Artist Robert Rauschenberg in 1925 (age 81)
- Actors Derek Jacobi and Christopher Lloyd, both in 1938 (age 68), Annette Funicello in 1942 (age 64), Catherine Deneuve in 1943 (age 63), and Jeff Goldblum in 1952 (age 54)
- And champion skater Brian Boitano in 1963 (age 43).

nOTAble Events:
1797, the first parachute jump was made by Andre-Jacques Garnerin, who dropped from a height of about 6,500 feet over a Paris park.
1836, Gen. Sam Houston was sworn in as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1938, inventor Charles Carlson produced the first dry, or xerographic, copy, but had trouble attracting investors.
1962, U.S. President John Kennedy announced that Soviet missiles had been deployed in Cuba and ordered a blockade of the island.
1966, The Supremes became the first all-female group to score a No. 1 album, with "Supremes a Go-Go."
1978, Pope John Paul II was installed as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1990, U.S. President George H.W. Bush vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1990, saying it would lead to a quota system.
1991, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir warned that Israel would refuse to negotiate with any Palestinians who claimed alliance to the PLO.
1992, pioneer sportscaster Red Barber died at age 84.
2001, anthrax spores were found in a mail-opening machine serving the White House. Preliminary tests on 120 workers who sort mail for the executive mansion were negative.
2001, the Pentagon announced nearly 200 U.S. jets struck Taliban and al-Qaida communications facilities, barracks and training camps and disputed Taliban claims that 100 civilians died when a bomb hit a hospital in western Afghanistan.
2001, an estimated 500 people were killed when the Nigerian army attacked villages throughout the eastern state of Benue.
2003, a poll showed 59 percent of Palestinians wanted attacks against Israel to continue even if Israel leaves the West Bank and Gaza.
2004, British hostage Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped head of CARE International operations in Iraq, pleaded with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to save her life by pulling troops out of Iraq.
2004, rescuers confirmed 64 dead following an explosion in a central China coal mine. Eighty-four miners were missing in the toxic gas-filled shaft.
2005, storm warnings were posted for south Florida and the Florida Keys as Hurricane Wilma moved into the Gulf of Mexico with sustained winds of 100 mph.
2005, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai ordered an internal investigation into the reported desecration of bodies by U.S. troops said to be captured on tape by a TV crew.
1964, Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature; he turned it down.

oCTOBER 23RD:
Those born on this date include:
- French chef Nicholas Appert, inventor of the canning process, in 1752
- Adlai E. Stevenson, vice president under Grover Cleveland from 1893-1897, in 1835
- Pioneering college football coach John Heisman in 1869
- William Coolidge, inventor of the X-ray tube, in 1873
- Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, in 1906
- Former "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson in 1925
- Pro golfer Juan "Chi Chi" Rodriguez in 1935 (age 71)
- Brazilian soccer star Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento) in 1940 (age 66)
- Author Michael Crichton in 1942 (age 64)
- Filmmaker Ang Lee in 1954 (age 52)
- Singers Dwight Yoakam in 1956 (age 50) and "Weird Al" Yankovic in 1959 (age 47)
- And football players Doug Flutie and Mike Tomczak, both in 1962 (age 44).

Notable Events:
1707, the British Parliament met for the first time.
1942, the British Eighth Army launched an offensive at El Alamein in Egypt, a World War II battle that eventually swept the Germans out of North Africa.
1945, Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player hired by a major league team, was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and sent to their Montreal farm team.
1989, Hungary formally declared an end to 40 years of communist rule and proclaimed itself a republic, setting the stage for creation of Western-style democracy in the Eastern Bloc state.
1990, Iraq released 64 British hostages.
1993, the Toronto Blue Jays won baseball's World Series for the second year in a row.
1995, the U.S. Defense Department announced it was ending a program designed to help minority-owned firms secure government contracts.
1998, after nine days of tense negotiations at the Wye Conference Center in Queenstown, Md., Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed an agreement to revive the stalled Middle East peace process.
1998, Dr. Barnett Slepian, an obstetrician who performed abortions, was shot to death by a sniper who fired a bullet through a widow of Slepian's home in Amherst, N.Y.
2001, U.S.-led forces maintained their intense pressure on the Taliban, pounding positions around the Afghan capital of Kabul and the militia's southern stronghold of Kandahar for the 17th consecutive day.
2002, a group of 20 Chechen gunmen stormed a Moscow theater, taking hostage more than 700 members of the audience, actors and theater staff, and demanding an end to the war in the separatist republic.
2002, authorities say the sniper who has terrorized the Washington region for the past three weeks -- killing 10 people and wounding three others -- has demanded $10 million in cash and threatened to begin attacking children of the area if demands are not met.
2003, the U.S. Congress passed a bill banning late-term abortions, a procedure critics refer to as partial-birth abortions.
2004, with the U.S. presidential election less than two weeks away, a Time survey had President George W. Bush holding a 5-point lead over Democratic challenger John Kerry.
2004, insurgents struck at three minibuses carrying U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers, reportedly killing about 50 of them.
2005, Hurricane Wilma picked up strength and speed as it crossed the Gulf of Mexico and headed for Florida.
2005, all 117 people aboard were reported killed in the crash of a Nigerian plane crash shortly after takeoff from Lagos.
2001, the iPod was released on the market in the United States.

oCTOBER 24TH:
Those born on this date include:
- pioneering Dutch microscope maker Anton Van Leeuwenhoek in 1632
- Journalist Sarah Josepha Hale, author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," in 1788
- Attorney Belva Lockwood, the first woman candidate for U.S. president, nominated by the National Equal Rights Party, in 1830
- Film producer-director Merian Cooper (the original "King Kong") in 1893
- Former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman in 1936 (age 70)
- Former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume in 1948 (age 58)
- Actors David Nelson in 1936 (age 70), F. Murray Abraham in 1939 (age 67) and Kevin Kline in 1947 (age 59)
- And singer Monica (Arnold) in 1980 (age 26).

Notable Events:
1648, the Treaty of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War in Europe.
1861, the first telegram was transmitted across the United States from California Chief Justice Stephen Field to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in Washington.
1901, daredevil Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1945, following Soviet ratification, U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes announced the U.N. charter was in effect. Establishment of the United Nations came less than two months after the end of World War II.
1984, the FBI arrested 11 alleged chiefs of the Colombo crime family on charges of racketeering in New York City.
1989, TV evangelist Jim Bakker was sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $500,000 for fleecing his flock.
1990, U.S. Rep. Donald Lukens, R-Ohio, resigned over sex charges.
1993, the death of Burundi President Melchior Ndadaye in a military coup was confirmed.
1995, the United Nations marked its 50th anniversary with the largest gathering of world leaders in history.
2001, Pakistan officials said they needed no help in securing the nation's nuclear weapons despite fears they might fall into the hands of Islamic extremists.
2001, an estranged sister-in-law of Osama bin Laden told a U.S. television show that she believed some members of the Saudi royal family supported the suspected terrorist.
2002, police arrested two suspects in the 3-week series of sniper attacks in the Washington area that killed 10 and wounded three others. John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, were found sleeping in a car at a rest stop outside Frederick, Md.
2003, an era in aviation history ended when the supersonic Concorde took off from New York to London on its final flight.
2005, Hurricane Wilma roared into Florida, packing 125 mph winds and lashing rain, inflicting heavy damage to beaches and buildings. Ten deaths were reported and some 2.5 million South Floridians were without power.
2005, U.S. President George Bush nominated Ben Bernanke, his chief economic adviser, to replace Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve Board chairman.
1929, "Black Thursday" marked the beginning of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

oCTOBER 25TH:
Those born on this date include:
- British historian Thomas Macaulay in 1800
- Austrian composer Johann Strauss in 1825
- French composer Georges Bizet in 1838
- Artist Pablo Picasso in 1881
- Explorer Richard Byrd in 1888
- Country comedian Minnie Pearl in 1912
- Actors Tony Franciosa in 1928 and Marion Ross in 1928 (age 78)
- Basketball coach Bobby Knight in 1940 (age 66)
- Author Anne Tyler and pop singer Helen Reddy, both in 1941 (age 65)
- And violinist Midori in 1971 (age 35).

Notable Events:
1825, the Erie Canal, America's first man-made waterway, was opened, linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River.
1854, known to history as the Charge of the Light Brigade, 670 British cavalrymen fighting in the Crimean War attacked a heavily fortified Russian position and were wiped out.
1881, Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, was born in Malaga, Spain.
1929, during the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert B. Fall, who served as Interior secretary in President Warren G. Harding's Cabinet, was found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office, first individual convicted of a crime committed while a presidential Cabinet member.
1971, the United Nations admitted China as a member, ousting the Nationalist Chinese government of Taiwan.
1983, U.S. troops, supported by six Caribbean nations, invaded the tiny, leftist-ruled island of Grenada. Nineteen Americans died in the fighting.
1986, the International Red Cross ousted South African delegates from a Geneva meeting because of Pretoria's policy of apartheid. It was the first such ejection in the organization's 123 years.
1990, employees struck the New York Daily News, the nation's largest general-circulation daily newspaper at the time.
1993, Canadian voters rejected the Progressive Conservative party of Prime Minister Kim Campbell and gave the Liberal Party, led by Jean Chretien of Quebec, a firm majority in Parliament.
1994, Susan Smith reported to police in Union, S.C., that her two young boys had been taken in a carjacking. Nine days later, she confessed she had rolled her car into a lake, drowning the children.
2000, AT&T announced it would break itself into four separate businesses in a bid to renew investor support.
2001, the U.S. Senate, by a 90-1 vote, approved a final package of anti-terror reforms designed to help law enforcement monitor, observe and detain suspected terrorists.
2002, Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and seven others were killed in the crash of a small plane near the Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, about 180 miles northeast of Minneapolis.
2003, California wildfires, fueled by fierce Santa Ana winds, destroyed 60 homes near Los Angeles and threatened dense housing tracts.
2004, at least 78 Muslim detainees suffocated or were crushed to death in southern Thailand after the police rounded up 1,300 people and packed them into trucks following a riot.
2004, a top civilian at the U.S. Department of Defense Pentagon called for a federal investigation into how contracts in Iraq and the Balkans were awarded to the Halliburton company, formerly run by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney.
2005, Iraq's draft constitution was reported approved by more than three-quarters of the voters in the Oct. 15 referendum.
2005, civil rights icon Rosa Parks died in Detroit at age 92. Parks, an African-American woman, gave new impetus to the rights movement when in 1955 she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., bus.
1828, the St. Katharine Docks opened in London.

oCTOBER 26TH:
Those born on this date include:
- Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1879
- Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in 1911
- Bandleader Charlie Barnet in 1913
- French President Francois Mitterrand in 1916
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, in 1919
- Actor Bob Hoskins in 1942 (age 64)
- Author Pat Conroy in 1945 (age 61)
- TV personality Pat Sajak in 1946 (age 60)
- U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., wife of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, in 1947 (age 59)
- And actors Jaclyn Smith in 1945 (age 61) and Cary Elwes and Dylan McDermott, both in 1962 (age 44)
- And singer Natalie Merchant in 1963 (age 43).

Notable Events:
1906, workers in St. Petersburg set up the first Russian "soviet," or council.
1920, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland, Terence McSwiney, died after a 2 1/2-month hunger strike in a British prison cell, demanding independence for Ireland.
1942, Japanese warships sank the aircraft carrier USS Hornet off the Solomon Islands.
1944, after four days of furious fighting, the World War II battle of Leyte Gulf, largest air-naval clash in history, ended with a decisive U.S. victory over the Japanese.
1965, The Beatles were presented the prestigious Member of the Order of the British Empire medals by Queen Elizabeth.
1979, South Korean President Park Chung Hee was assassinated by the director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
1984, Dr. Leonard L. Bailey performed the first baboon-to-human heart transplant, replacing a 14-day-old infant girl's defective heart with a healthy, walnut-sized heart of a young baboon at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California.
1990, District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $5,000 for his conviction on misdemeanor drug charges.
1992, besieged GM Chairman Robert Stempel resigned as head of the No. 1 U.S. automaker.
1994, Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty at a desert site along the Israeli-Jordanian border.
1995, Russian President Boris Yeltsin was hospitalized with heart trouble for the second time in less than four months.
1995, Islamic Jihad leader Fathi ash-Shiqaqi was assassinated in Malta.
1998, just one day before threatened NATO airstrikes were to begin, Serbian soldiers and police began what was said to be a significant pullback from positions in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, where they reportedly were massacring ethnic Albanians.
1998, the presidents of Ecuador and Peru signed a peace treaty, ending a decades-long border dispute between the two countries.
2001, six weeks after the worst terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil, U.S. President George Bush signed into law a tough new measure giving law enforcement agencies expanded authority in their battle against terrorism.
2002, Moscow's 4-day hostage crisis came to a bloody end when Russian soldiers stormed a theater where Chechen rebels had held 700 people for ransom. Ninety hostages and 50 rebels were killed.
2003, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz escaped a rocket attack on a heavily guarded Baghdad hotel.
2004, a U.N. investigation into Iraq's oil-for-food program reportedly turned up names of several prominent politicians in France, Russia and elsewhere said to have received illegal Iraqi oil from Saddam Hussein.
2005, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ignited international outrage when he said Israel should be wiped off the map.
2005, Florida officials estimated Hurricane Wilma caused more than $1 billion damage to the state's agriculture industry.
1825, the Erie Canal opened.

oCTOBER 27TH:
Those born on this date include:
- Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus in 1466
- English explorer Capt. James Cook in 1728
- Italian violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini in 1782
- Isaac Singer, developer of the first practical home sewing machine, in 1811
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States, in 1858
- Etiquette arbiter Emily Post in 1872
- Longtime "Tonight Show" producer/director Fred De Cordova in 1910
- Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in 1914
- Actresses Nanette Fabray in 1920 (age 86) and Ruby Dee in 1924 (age 82)
- Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in 1923
- Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher in 1925 (age 81)
- Pop pianist Floyd Cramer in 1933
- Comedian John Cleese in 1939 (age 67)
- Filmmaker Ivan Reitman in 1946 (age 60)
- Actors Carrie Snodgress in 1945, Roberto Benigni ("Life Is Beautiful") in 1952 (age 54), and Robert Picardo ("Star Trek: Voyager") in 1953 (age 53), and singer Simon LeBon in 1958 (age 48).

Notable Events:
1659, William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, two Quakers who came from England in 1656 to escape religious persecution, were executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for their outlawed religious beliefs.
1787, a New York newspaper published the first of 77 essays explaining the new Constitution and urging its ratification, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay and later combined as "The Federalist Papers."
1795, a treaty with Spain settled Florida's northern boundary and gave navigation rights on the Mississippi River to the United States.
1904, the first rapid transit subway system in America opened in New York City.
1946, the travel show "Geographically Speaking," sponsored by Bristol-Myers, became the first television program with a commercial sponsor.
1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were divorced, reportedly after a blowup over her famous "skirt scene" in "The Seven Year Itch," in which a blast of air lifts her skirt.
1981, the National Labor Relations Board withdrew recognition of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for an illegal strike by its members.
1990, CBS founder William S. Paley died at age 89. And rumba king Xavier Cugat died at 90.
1991, Poland had its first fully free parliamentary elections.
1992, Israeli tanks rolled into Lebanon as air force jets staged renewed raids in an effort to crush Muslim fundamentalist guerrillas.
1993, U.S. President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton presented Congress with the administration's new plan for healthcare reform in a ceremony at the Capitol.
1993, Southern California was hit by dozens of brush fires -- the worst in six years. Hundreds of homes were destroyed and thousands of people were forced to flee the flames.
1994, the U.S. Justice Department announced that the U.S. prison population topped the 1 million mark for the first time.
1998, Hurricane Mitch, one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded, began its four-day siege of Central America, causing at least 10,000 deaths.
2003, as many as 40 civilians and U.S. soldiers were killed in a flurry of terrorist bombings in Baghdad. Among the targets was the 3-story headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
In 2004, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat was reported to be dying. A Palestinian minister said doctors were frantically trying to save the 75-year-old Mideast leader's life.
In 2005, after weeks of blistering criticism from both Democrats and Republicans about her qualifications, Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Also in 2005, ExxonMobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said its earnings were up 75 percent during the third quarter on higher energy prices before and after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
1904, the first New York City Subway line opened.

oCTOBER 28TH:
Those born on this date include:
- rifle maker Eliphalet Remington in 1793
- Actress Elsa Lanchester in 1902
- English novelist Evelyn Waugh in 1903
- Dr. Jonas Salk, a developer of the polio vaccine, in 1914
- Former baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn in 1926 (age 80)
- Country musician Charlie Daniels in 1936 (age 70)
- Actors Jane Alexander in 1939 (age 67) and Dennis Franz in 1944 (age 62)
- Singer/actress Thelma Hopkins in 1948 (age 58)
- Olympic decathlon champion-turned-sportscaster Bruce Jenner in 1949 (age 57)
- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 1955 (age 51)
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 1956 (age 50)
- Actresses Annie Potts in 1952 (age 54), Lauren Holly in 1963 (age 43), Jami Gertz in 1965 (age 41)
- And Julia Roberts in 1967 (age 39).

Notable Events:
- 2008,Awemoreborelanlay posted the longest,bestest,most educative, most informative note on FB!
In A.D. 312, in a battle that marked the beginning of the Christian era in Europe, Constantine's army, wearing the cross, defeated the forces of Maxentius at Mulvian Bridge in Rome.
In 1636, Harvard College, now Harvard University, was founded in Massachusetts.
In 1846, the pioneering Donner Party of 90 people set out from Springfield, Ill., for California.
In 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States, was dedicated in New York Harbor by U.S. President Grover Cleveland.
In 1919, the U.S. Congress passed the Volstead Act, over U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's veto, enforcing the constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of alcoholic beverages.
In 1962, Russian chief Nikita Khrushchev announced that all Soviet offensive missiles would be removed from Cuba.
In 1985, the leader of the so-called "Walker family spy ring," John Walker, pleaded guilty to giving U.S. Navy secrets to the Soviet Union.
In 1986, the Statue of Liberty reached the actual 100th anniversary of its dedication, without the hoopla of the July 4th ceremonies.
In 1989, the Oakland A's wrapped up an earthquake-delayed sweep of the World Series over the San Francisco Giants.
In 1992, scientists using sonar to map Scotland's Loch Ness made contact with a mysterious object, but declined to speculate what that implies about whether legendary monster "Nessie" exists.
In 1993, a U.S. budget deficit of $254.9 billion was reported for fiscal year 1993.
In 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton visited U.S. troops in Kuwait during a Middle Eastern trip.
In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a third New Jersey postal worker had an anthrax inhalation infection, bringing the total number to eight, including three people who died from the most serious form of the disease.
Also in 2001, on this date, U.S.-led forces resumed airstrikes against targets in Afghanistan, bombing the Taliban's southern stronghold of Kandahar.
In 2002, U.S. diplomat John Foley was slain in Amman, Jordan. An unknown group called the Honest People of Jordan claimed responsibility, calling it a response to U.S. support of Israel and actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush warned Iran and Syria not to allow terrorists to cross into Iraq from their territory.
In 2004, insurgents executed 11 Iraqi soldiers in what they said was revenge for women and children killed in U.S. strikes on the guerrilla stronghold of Fallujah.
In 2005, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, chief of staff and national security adviser to the vice president, resigned after he was indicted on multiple counts in the CIA leak case in which a covert operative's name was revealed to the media.

oCTOBER 29TH:
Those born on this date include:
- Scottish biographer James Boswell in 1740
- Singer/composer Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the words and music for "Dixie," in 1815
- Comedian/singer Fanny Brice in 1891
- Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in 1897
- Political cartoonist Bill Mauldin in 1921
- Singer Melba Moore in 1945 (age 61)
- Actor Richard Dreyfuss in 1947 (age 59)
- And actresses Kate Jackson in 1948 (age 58), Finola Hughes in 1960 (age 46), Joely Fisher in 1967 (age 39) and Winona Ryder in 1971 (age 35).

Notable events:
In 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded in London. He had been charged with plotting against King James I.
In 1901, Leon Czolgosz was electrocuted for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley.
In 1923, the musical "Runnin' Wild," which introduced the Charleston, opened on Broadway.
In 1929, the sale of 16 million shares marked the collapse of the stock market, setting the stage for the Great Depression.
In 1969, the first connection on what would become the Internet was made when bits of data flowed between computers at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute. This was the beginning of ARPANET, the forerunner to the Internet developed by the Department of Defense.
In 1991, in a first meeting between Soviet and Israeli heads of state, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Israeli Prime Minister Yizhak Shamir conferred at the Soviet Embassy.
In 1992, Alger Hiss said Russia had cleared him of the charge of being a Communist spy that sent him to prison for four years and helped propel Richard Nixon's political career.
In 1994, a Colorado man was arrested after he sprayed the White House with bullets from an assault rifle. U.S. President Bill Clinton was inside at the time, but no one was injured.
In 1998, Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, who in 1962 became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, returned to space aboard the shuttle Discovery. At 77, he was the oldest person to travel in space.
In 2001, the U.S. Justice Department issued a warning against new terrorist attacks, the second such warning in less than a month. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the intelligence leading up to the warning was credible but not specific.
In 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush, elected in a chaotic tableau of ballot mishaps and court challenges, signed legislation said to help reduce ballot-counting errors and ensure greater citizen participation in the election process.
In 2003, digging through more than 164 feet of rock, rescuers liberated 11 of 13 Russian miners trapped underground for six days after a methane gas explosion.
Also in 2003, the third-largest recorded solar blast slammed into the Earth causing a severe but short-lived geomagnetic storm.
In 2004, Osama bin Laden, in a videotape to the American people, admitted publicly that he ordered the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Also in 2004, in a poll of new voters taken a few days before the presidential election, 40 percent said they believed the United States was headed in the right direction.
And in 2004, EU leaders signed the European Union's first constitution.
In 2005, three deadly explosions in India's capital of New Delhi hit a bus and markets crowded with holiday shoppers, killing at least 65 people.
Also in 2005, a reported 102 people died in a train wreck in southern India, where heavy rains caused major flooding.
1886, the ticker-tape parade first took place in New York City.

oCTOBER 30TH:
Those born on this date include:
- John Adams, second president of the United States, in 1735
- French Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley in 1839
- French poet Paul Valery in 1871
- Poet Ezra Pound in 1885
- Strongman Charles Atlas in 1894
- Actress Ruth Gordon in 1896
- Film director Louis Malle in 1932
- Rock singer Grace Slick in 1939 (age 67)
- Actor/director Henry Winkler in 1945 (age 61)
- News correspondent Andrea Mitchell in 1946 (age 60)
- And actor Harry Hamlin in 1951 (age 55).

Notable events:
1817, Simon Bolivar established the independent government of Venezuela.
1938, Orson Welles triggered a national panic with a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion, based on H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds."
1941, more than a month before the United States entered World War II, an American destroyer, the Reuben James, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine.
1975, as dictator Francisco Franco was near death, Prince Juan Carlos assumed power in Spain.
1983, the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced plans to become the first African-American to mount a full-scale campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in the United States.
1991, the Middle East peace conference convened in Madrid, Spain with participants including Israel, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied territories.
1992, Muslim Slav, Croatian soldiers and civilians were driven from the strategic Bosnian town of Jajce in fierce street battles with Serbian forces.
1993, the U.N. Security Council condemned Haiti's military leaders for preventing the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995, by a narrow margin, Quebec voters decided to remain a part of Canada.
2000, entertainer Steve Allen died at age 78. He emceed the original "Tonight Show" and composed more than 4,000 songs.
2001, terrorist strikes, coupled with the parade of bleak corporate news and a slew of layoff announcements since Sept. 11, slashed October's U.S. consumer confidence to its lowest level in more than seven years.
2001, Tropical Storm Allison, which caused $5 billion in damage, was the costliest storm in the nation's history at the time, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
2002, Russia broke four days of official silence on the composition of gas used by special forces in the raid on a Moscow theater that killed more than 100 hostages and said an opiate had been used in the operation.
2003, the death toll in the Southern California wildfire outbreak was set at 20 with 2,605 homes destroyed and 657,000 acres seared.
2003, Israeli security officials said Palestinian terror organizations had the ability to carry out chemical attacks in Israel.
2004, Yasser Arafat's closest aides said the 75-year-old, long-time Palestinian leader had lost control of his mental faculties and could not communicate clearly. Arafat was flown to Paris for treatment of what was believed to be an acute blood disorder.
2005, Indian authorities sent army divers to look for people trapped in a derailed train near Veligonda, the result of massive flooding. Officials said 112 died in the train wreck while another 100 perished in the flood.
2005, an obscure radical Islamic group in India claimed responsibility for the bombings at two crowded New Delhi markets and on a bus that killed more than 60 people and injured close to 200.

oCTOBER 31ST
-David,Bolanle's 'son' ,the child of promise and God's gift to his generation was born in 2005!
Those born on this date include:
- Dutch painter Jan Vermeer in 1632
- English poet John Keats in 1795
- Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low in 1860
- Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, the first leader of Nationalist China, in 1887
- Actress/singer Ethel Waters in 1900
- Actresses Dale Evans in 1912 and Barbara Bel Geddes in 1922
- Astronaut Michael Collins in 1930 (age 76)
- TV news anchorman Dan Rather in 1931 (age 75)
- Actor/producer Michael Landon in 1936
- Folk singer/songwriter Tom Paxton in 1937 (age 69)
- Actors David Ogden Stiers in 1942 (age 64) and Stephen Rea in 1946 (age 60)
- actress Deidre Hall in 1947 (age 59)
- Comic actor John Candy in 1950
- Broadcaster Jane Pauley also in 1950 (age 56)
- Comic actor Rob Schneider in 1963 (age 43)
- And rapper Vanilla Ice in 1968 (age 38).

Notable Events:
1517, Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation by nailing a proclamation to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany.
1864, Nevada was admitted to the Union as the 36th state.
1926, magician, illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini died of peritonitis in a Detroit hospital following a blow to the abdomen.
1931, with the Great Depression in full swing, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that 827 banks had failed during the past two months.
1941, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota -- consisting of the sculpted heads of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt -- was completed.
1968, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson announced a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam.
1984, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by Sikh guards. Her son, Rajiv, succeeded her.
1985, salvage divers located the remains of the booty-laden pirate ship Whydah, which sank Feb. 17, 1717, off Cape Cod, Mass.
1988, former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos pleaded innocent to charges that she and her husband, deposed President Ferdinand Marcos, embezzled more than $100 million from the Philippine government.
1990, Egypt rebuffed a call by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for a peaceful settlement to the Gulf crisis but a key Soviet diplomat said his government had not ruled out military force.
1992, more than 300 people were killed in renewed fighting as Angola slid back into civil war.
2001, U.S.-led forces resumed air strikes in Afghanistan, hitting Taliban positions in the northern part of the country and outside the capital, Kabul. The Taliban claimed 1,500 people were killed.
2002, Andrew Fastow, former Enron chief financial officer, was indicted on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy in the collapse of the Houston energy trading company.
2003, a rebel group known to kidnap children and sell them in Sudan as slaves struck a village in northern Uganda, killing 18 and abducting many more.
2004, Iranian lawmakers chanted, "Death to America!" after a unanimous vote to allow their government to resume uranium enrichment activities.
2004, Japan confirmed a Japanese man taken hostage in Baghdad had been beheaded. The kidnappers had demanded Japan pull its troops out of Iraq.
2005, Samuel Alito, a 55-year-old conservative federal appeals judge, was nominated by U.S. President George Bush to the U.S. Supreme Court to succeed the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor.
2005, the U.N. Security Council, in a unanimous vote, warned Syria to stop obstructing the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
1892, Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" was first published.

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