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.

WOw! and if u read to the end, then u are alos in history as the one who read the longest note on FB till date!
What a month to be born!

Why God Can't Sleep or Slumber©

I had recharged my phone so as to ''extra-cool'' at 2:00 am. I set my alarm and it sure set me up at the time.I dialed his number.Now, this friend of mine is a very busy one,u know,the type that understands the value of a minute.The type that talks for money and all? feel me?So, u had better have what to say and be quick about it or u would be reminded of how precious time is(lol). Anyway,I dialed him and he was on another call.So ,I obviously had to wait my turn.I cut off the line and decided to wait till he probabaly calls me back or something. I tried calling my kid sister as well but that young lady wouldnt pick her call,guess she was fast asleep.After she had previouslyasked me to call her any of such nights!. Later, my friend sent me a text indicating that the coast is clear.When I called and he picked,he was sounding so sleepy that I knew I had to let him be.That I did fast enough and returned to what was more than what got me awake in the first place.Lemme let you in one the major thing that woke me up,Monica Peters came calling(third day at the mo) and u know she usually gate crashes and seeks to have her way no matter what! She sucks ,doesnt she?. Well,back to my gist, I couldnt sleep again and I tried severally and it wouldnt just work.So, I decided to extra cool with the Father. Afterall, I was sure He will be awake and would love to hear me. So, I dialed his number as well(I shld av thought abt it!). Little did I know that it was what would leave an indelible impression in my spirit and an imprint on the tablets of my heart.If I had known...God showed me stuff.Ok,lemme let u in on how the whole thing started,I got talking to Him like I said, and started by thanking Him for all the complications in my life and all...Then I realised the tears just freely flowed from my eyes.I didnt stop it,I just let it flow(it was tears of gratefulness).I thanked Him 4 all my troubles as it had only come to make me better and closer to Him.U see, it has always made me have the need for Him.and what joy that brings to my heart! Then I cried,and at a point I stopped.Then I stared outside the window for some few mins that looked like eternity...Then He began to cuddle me, He began to hold me so close that I felt it more than the hair on my skin.Have u ever been in such a situation b4? If no,please try to experience it,it is so cool. Later,I stopped crying and accepted the warmth of His embrace.I began to appreciate Him for always been there and never sleeping...Then He asked me a question and I didnt even think again before saying ,'yes'. He asked if I wanted to be shown a video clip. Why not, I was bored and coludnt find sleep again ,so bring it on ,Dadddy,bring it on'',I said.You ,mean you really want to see some of why I dont sleep? 'Sure,I said,yet again without thinking...And What did I see?Someone needs a transplant,Someone needs a child,someone needs a friend,someone is about to walk out on his family,someone is crying,someone is about to be raped&her clothes has just been torn & she is screaming for help and really hopes someone comes to her rescue.someone is just being lied to,someone is just being carried away by the beauty of a lady that will cause him pain; he has only seen the hips,the lips and the finger tips,someone's heart just stopped! Oh God,as I write this,I see them all so clearly just like I was seeing a movie at the cinemas. Then I screamed right in my room holding my ears even as I dont only visualise but the audio was so loud! Oh Lord,break the back bone of wickedness ,I heard my self saying.I cried!,I wailed,hot tears streaming down my eyes...It continued...Someone is in trouble,someone needs clothes,someone needs food,someone has no house to live in,someone needs a home&to even think dat a house seems far-fetched?,someone is about to be duped, someone just said,''I love you'' to the other person when in truth they are both thinking of measures to exploit the other! God,please shut down the gates of wickedness,I cried yet again.Someone is discouraged,someone dreads the dawn of another day as the need to live as now become a nightmare,someone needs a hug,someone needs a handshake,someone needs a pat on the back just to be assured that they can do it! I cried,rolled on my bed,tears blurred my eyes even as I write this... Someone needs to be sure it is God's will as he has his own plans lined out,like a friend would say,TDH doesnt mean GPW(wanna decode?-see me in person).Someone needs to be sure God is with them,someone needs to married before the year runs out,someone needs to make only the right decisions,someone needs a job, someoen needs money,soemone needs a spouse,someone needs to buy a car, someone needs to make a confession,someone needs to walk,someone needs to talk,someone needs to hear,someone has just killed a child and claimed it is just a foetus. someone just put harmful chemicals in stuff and sold to the other as harmless and infact useful,someone is deliberately telling a falsehood,someone is being abused; physically,emotionally and sexually and what is worse,they are not to tell anyone,someone isnt sure about everything,someone feels wrong about his marriage ,his carreer &life,someone is confused! Someone is seeing another man's wife,someone is sleeping with one who isnt his wife yet,someone is hell bent on picking that dress at the boutique that will show the cleavages and wont keep private palces private!; dress to kill she says!God,shut down the gates of wickedness,I wept,yet again.someone ,just someone beat his wife and has forgotten the vow he made before witnesses and before God on their wedding,someone just talked her husband down,someone just hired the services of assassins,someone just got even,someone just haboured resentment&bitterness,someone just vowed never to love again,someone just got a wrong message on the esssence of love& loving...At this point,I knew I would lose my mind if I dont stop seeing these! I just knew it.What!Is that some of what you have to watch over? Is that what you have to fix?I asked HIm? God,shut down the gates of wickedness,I wept,yet again.Someone ,just someone has seen a tip& she is sure overwhelmed at the situations of things.Is that what your eyes go through and fro the earth?Is it not you who knows the end of a thing from the beginning? Israel Hwefo? Is dat what u go through per time? I asked as if the answers werent already there! I shared your burden in few mins and I almost felt like losing my mind? Almighty! Only you can fix this. I see now why you cant sleep.But here is what I saw this morning,here is what the Keeper Of Israel goes through. May I make u laugh a little? Somewhere along the clips,I was so moved by a particular one dat I wanted to reach out to help at some point or the other,then He said to me,'You are limited by time,location and accessibility to all these places and things all at once! I am the only one who is all-seeing&all powerful .U can only do what you may within your reach''. Then I paused... I thought He was through with that,but I was wrong cos He went on to ask me ,'what av u done with what you av at your disposal?'' hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Would you co-operate with God and stop your wickedness? Would you co-operate with God and show some love? Would you lose sleep to be of help ,prayerfully that is? Would you let God use you to wipe away tears from weary ,tear -stained eyes? Can you identify the facade ,mask,make-up from such people's eyes when u see them?,Would you love them and want nothing in return? Would you let ur shoulders become soggy sake of someone's tears on them? would you be an accountability partner? ,would you let God trust you on this?Would you let God use you? Would you? Listen carefully,am not asking you to play God in anyone's life,I bet u cant even try it cos u will get your fingers burnt. At this point, I recall my pastor saying that when a man is trying to play God and wants to do everything he would then become ''I -shall-die'' (lol).But this is what am asking? Would you His fire brand right here on earth? would you be His representative right here on earth? Would you be available &ready for His use? Would you do it right? Would you be right no matter how hard? Would you wait till you are sure it is God? Would you ? Would you do your part within your reach? would you stop your wickedness. Would WE stop our wickedness?I ask you in another form,''what is dying on your watch?'' Just what?As I write this,I go on the parade of some scriptures and I dont really know(take ur pick), which one has to do with this msg,but I will give it anyway: Psalm 44&Psalm 46
NB: It is only the LOve of God in you that will melt the wickedness in men's heart.
This is my submission to you on why God cant sleep or slumber.
You wanna share yours with me? It will be my pleasure to read from you.
Bollarnle©

Ono gbi onodeode ohle onodeode vie bhi itolimhin©

Anyone require a meaning? ''IN A FUNERAL EACH MOURNER MOURNS THE FATE THAT BEFALLS HIM,NOT THE DECEASED''I wrote this stuff few months ago with this topic,''Bollarnle is Dead!''LOL. OMG! I didnt realise I was so loved .U needed to av seen the number of people that called my fone that day to confirm.SSome to really just be sure so dat it may form their stats.Some even sent me sms to 'scold' me on such stuff(I mean by the time they read it to the end). It was so funny! All just for one reason or the other, but there was one taht was so profound, I recall my former boss who was some kind of 'Miranda'(Av u seen ,'' The Devil wears Prada'?) If u avnt ,then I cant help you to understand that. But 4 those who av, can u figure out wat it wld look like if Miranda called back dat babe dat walked out on her to confirm if she was dead probably after reading the newspaper headlines or seen it on TV?can u ever picture it? lol. but hey,it sure happened! up Nollywood! even Hollywood no act dat part finish(lol). Or av u seen ,'''Why Did I Get Married?'' if u av, can u picture Sheila's first husband calling her to find if she is still alive?(lol) can u feel it? can U? men, some ppl make forgiveness really hard thing to do.It sure sucks,I tell you. But hey, U are strongly advised to go on forgiving anyway cos unforgiveness kills faster than any cancer known to mankind. but hey, dont take the msg in this lightly. Please read along and I do hope u will get something even more. Death is sure so Life must COUNT. feel me?Here is the ''stuff''...

Bollarnle Is Dead!
Yes.did that hit u below the belt? maybe u av even heard enof of deaths recently to feel anything.-well,it is just anoda of such... but u cld u just take a few minutes to reflect on wat u're doing now and pause a bit. and ask urself these questions:1.wat will u do with ur life ?2.wat are u doing wit ur life now?3.wat wil God say of ur life when u cross over to d other side?- I mean dat time when d news of ur death will filter in just like this one....wat are u going to av lived for?who will u av lived for?wat will ppl say of u?and most of all,wat will God say of u? does this sound like any of those sermon u hear @a funeral? Esp of the kind that u hear @ d funeral of young ppl,that young,promising,handsome,rich,educatted with all the degres(more than that of the one on a thermometer) man or woman,or is it sammy needle whose birthday was supposed to be av been 21st of June and who was to av an album release on dat day or ok, let me come down a bit to one who most of us reading this mail might know,Tunde Morgan,Tope,or is it Lekan? The list seem endless these days.... it doesnt even seem to make sense anymore! I mean,this whole death issue. now think....Who are u passing that thing to?that idea,that wealth,etc.to?who will be able to carry on when u are gone? more than u are doing now,guess u shld pass it on more . bcos this death issue seems like one 'mini-epidemic' or something these days!this is not to scare u- no ,not at all. but these things happen,and we nid to address this.It got to me during the course of the week that passed and am led to share this with u. wat will u just do? of u're d next? well,i must remind u that the fact dat u're still hearing d news is just bcos u are stilll alive(lord,i thank u 4 d gift of life)so, u av d call to make to make ur life count again! yea, someone hurt u? someone disappointed u? someone betrayed ur trust? someone broke ur heart?or u broke someone's heart? someone bought a car? someone works in a multinational and earns wat some HR ppl call,'thief salary'?,someone married a beautiful wife? someone got married to dream guy-TDH? someone got her masters degree or even Phd? someone did this someone did that? yea, all stuffs for d living!but wat is d essence, i mean d substance in all of that? wat value can anyone get in u or even after u av done all? who are u making happy each day? who prays to God fro u(even when u are gone or not),who goes to bed happy and filled? who do u clothe? who has ur shoulder to cry on? who can find a friend in u? who , just who? or isnt that the essence of life or isnt that wat Jesus said will count for us in heaven(matt 25:31-46)? just wat ,will u give account of or for?just wat?pls stop to think. I know this is going out to very busy,rich,righteous , demon chasing,tongue speaking ppl,but this is from one of u who has taken time as well to ponder on this all-important-issue.let's disect this 2geda.,ppl of God.let's do this individually first-bcos we're going to give account one-on-one. death is sure.surer than sure.so, wat are u going to do while u are still alive. dont take this as one of those stuffs written or sent for sober reflection which is just for a while or evn for some days then evryone goes back to normal business-business as usual!.but instead, let this serve as a guide to u, to me, to us daily on how we live our lives.u know,these days,it is like we are so used to some bad stufss that it gets so difficult to draw d line btw wat is right or wrong. we just do-u know, anything goes.but hey, let's check, let's check!time is ticking away....bcos d truth is, if we live up to 80,100 or evn 200, d end is sure going to come.my sincere prayer is this, we will all live to fulfil destiny. we will all live to do wat God has in store 4 us. and we will be able to do all we intend, dream of etc. but guess wat, we go still die o.so, it all still boils down to wat wld av counted for our lives.well, dear friends,I pray God broadens our heart and open our eyes to see the depth of this. meanwhile, I will like to ask that we pray for the souls departed and more than the one minute silence in their honor, av a one min silence in honor of ur self, who has at least read this to the very end. but this time,as one who is alive and well and thinking and going to do wat counts for thus life and for all ETERNITY.as for whether Bolanle is dead or not, she isnt (yet) bcos she is the one who is making this clarion call to life.She till dey kampe aving fun!and getting d devil madder!I av u in my prayers always. PLS pray with me as well.
One love,
Omobolanle Agnes Fasokun. ©
22062008
11:50 am.

The walk that will herald...©

Yesterday,I walked awayfrom all that caused me pain
I received instead all that I stand to gain
I walked the same path
I walked that brought me shame
but am resolved to get out of it only the fame in't
I walked away from it all...
Yesterday , I walked BOLDLY away from all that caused me 'dearth' of opportunities
Yesterday,I walked away from all the ''OKs'' and ''REALLYs''that were locked somewhere inside.. .
The facade
The masks
The cover-up
The pretense
The 'limp'
I walked away
and I walked right into
newness
experience
renewned vigour
discovery
and more discoveries...
I walked right into hope
I walked right into the joy
I walked right into openness
I walked right into the embrace
I walked right into strength
I walked the walkI worked the work
and am talking the talk
...phew!
I walked away,for a new 'me' to emerge
for a new 'me' to evolve
for a new 'me' to come forth
for a new 'me'!
I walked away to ask the bread-and-butter questions
I walked away from the sobbing tissues
right into the key issues
I walked away critically
I walked away seriously
I walked away,people...bcos my 'me' depends solely on it
and only me is solely responsible for this one!
and I dare say to U,''it doesnt matter if u arent coming with me!''

Bollarnle ©
17102008