• 1831 – Nat Turner was arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
• 1925 – John Logie Baird created Britain’s first television transmitter.
• 1938 – Orson Wells premiered his radio drama War of the Worlds.
• 1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signed a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the major league baseball color line.
• If you were born on October 30th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 6th (same year)

On October 30, 1938, actor Orson Welles announced that Martians were invading New Jersey, leading horrified listeners to believe that Earth had been attacked by hostile aliens. Instead of a simple dramatization, the program was presented as a real-time news report. Reporters express their horror as they witness the rapidly escalating death and destruction inflicted on helpless Earthlings by the Martians. According to a transcript of the program, the dramatic show, which was created for CBS in collaboration with Mercury Theatre on Air, was the first of its kind in the history of broadcast television. His infamous appearance was part of a series of dramatic broadcasts for the New York Times and other major newspapers.

Instead of a simple dramatization, the program was presented as a real-time news report. Reporters express their horror as they witness the rapidly escalating death and destruction inflicted on helpless Earthlings by the Martians. Although the radio station announced it was a theatrical rendition of the novel, some thought the broadcast was genuine, causing mild panic and a lot of confusion across the country.

Buy a Doughnut Day
Candy Corn Day
Checklist Day
Mischief Night
Radio Drama Day

“There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.”
– John Adams

“Through literacy, you can begin to see the universe. Through music, you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.”
– Grace Slick

“Try something new each day. After all, we’re given life to find it out. It doesn’t last forever.”
– Ruth Gordon

“How you learn has nothing to do with how brilliant you are.”
– Henry Winkler

1735 – John Adams, American lawyer politician, 2nd President of the United States (died in 1826)
1893 – Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder (died in 1972)
1896 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (died in 1985)
1908 – Patsy Montana, American singer-songwriter and actress (died in 1996)
1939 – Grace Slick, American singer-songwriter
1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor
1969 – Snow, Canadian rapper and reggae singer-songwriter
1970 – Nia Long, American actress
1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model, and businesswoman
1988 – Janel Parrish, American actress

1876 – Great Backeganj Cyclone, India (now Bangladesh)

1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signed a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color barrier.

October 30, 1938 (fiction) an alien spacecraft landed in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey, War of the Worlds, Radio Broadcast

1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), later becoming the World Trade Organisation (WTO), was founded.

October 30, 1950 Birthday (fictional) Molly Weasley, Harry Potter

1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and champion George Foreman took place in Kinshasa, Zaire. Ali won by knockout, knocking Foreman down just before the end of the eighth round.

1982 – #1 Hit October 30, 1982 – November 5, 1982: Men at Work – Who Can It Be Now

1987 – NEC released the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, in Japan. It was later sold around the world under the name TurboGrafx-16.

2002 – Warren Zevon was featured on the Late Show with David Letterman as the only guest for the entire hour, performing several songs and spoke about being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.

2003 – Broadway Show – Wicked (Musical) October 30, 2003

2004 – #1 Hit October 30, 2004 – December 10, 2004: Usher and Alicia Keys – My Boo

2010 – #1 Hit October 30, 2010 – November 12, 2010: Far East Movement featuring The Cataracs and Dev – Like a G6

#1 Hit October 30, 2021 – November 26, 2021: Easy on Me – Adele

Marvel Comics and DC comics jointly own a trademark on the word “superhero.”

The Scary Statistic: Natural Forces death odds: 1-in-3,357
What to do: Avoid places affected by the weather.

Film composer John Williams is the second most Academy Award-nominated person in history with 49 nominations, right after Walt Disney.

The Capital of Guinea is Conakry

“Did you think I’d be too stupid to know what a eugoogly is?” – Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) #moviequotes

Queen Victoria was never confirmed to have said “we are not amused”, a phrase commonly attributed to her.

There is an episode of kitchen nightmares that actually shows Gordon enjoying the food. “Season 2 Episode 3 Momma Cherri’s Soul Food Shack”

The last major movie to be released on VHS was “Eragon” – in 2007.

Instagram just announced they would allow celebrities a way to block specific internet trolls. I would like to be able to block mention of specific celebrities.

A group of People who work to achieve a given goal are a Team.

The term “shotgun seat” in a car is derived from the Old West, when stagecoaches employed a man armed with a shotgun to sit next to the driver and fend off bandits.

The Capital of Guatemala is Guatemala City

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• 1618 – English courtier Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
• 1969 – The first, early “internet” connection (ARPANET) was made between Stanford and UCLA Universities.
  By the end of the year, the University of California (Santa Barbara) and the University of Utah were also online.
• 2012 – Superstorm Sandy crashed into the US northeastern shores and the mainland.
• If you were born on October 29th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 5th (same year)

Cat Day
Hermit Day
Internet Day
Pancake Day
Oatmeal Day
World Stroke Day
World Psoriasis Day

“There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle, or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that’s the hardest part – convincing everybody you’re a genius.”
– Fredric Brown

“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?”
– Fanny Brice

“It’s the imperfections that make something beautiful, that’s what makes it different and unique from everything else.”
– Bob Ross

Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he’s noticed.”
– Kate Jackson

“I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.”
– Ralph Bakshi

1837 – Harriet Powers, American folk artist and quilter (died in 1910)
1891 – Fanny Brice, American actress and singer (died in 1951)
1897 – Joseph Goebbels, German politician, Chancellor of Nazi Germany (died in 1945)
1906 – Fredric Brown, American author (died in 1972)
1922 – Neal Hefti, American trumpet player, and composer, TV’s Batman Theme (died in 2008)
1938 – Ralph Bakshi, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1942 – Bob Ross, American painter and television host (died in 1995)
1947 – Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
1948 – Kate Jackson, American actress
1964 – Yasmin Le Bon, English model
1967 – Joely Fisher, American actress
1971 – Winona Ryder, American actress

1618 – Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded for conspiring against James I of England.

1886 – The first ticker-tape parade took place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets after the Statue of Liberty was dedicated.

1888 – The Convention of Constantinople was signed, guaranteeing maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

1929 – “Black Tuesday” – The New York Stock Exchange crashed.

1955 – #1 Hit October 29, 1955 – November 25, 1955: Roger Williams – Autumn Leaves

1966 – William Hartnell made his last appearance as the First Doctor in the concluding moments of Episode 4 of the Doctor Who serial ‘The Tenth Planet’. No original copies are known to exist.

1966 – #1 Hit October 29, 1966 – November 4, 1966: Question Mark & the Mysterians – 96 Tears

1967 – Montreal’s World Fair – Expo 67 closed, with over 50 million visitors.

1971 – Rock Guitarist Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident.

1983 – #1 Hit October 29, 1983 – November 11, 1983: Kenny Rogers with Dolly Parton – Islands in the Stream

1993- The very first “Got Milk?” commercial was broadcast. It was directed by Michael Bay.

1998 – The Gothenburg discotheque fire in Sweden killed 63 students and injured 200 more.

1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery took off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.

2008 – Delta Air Lines merged with Northwest Airlines.

2012 – Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast of the United States, killing 148 people directly and 138 in the aftermath.

#1 Hit October 29, 2022 – November 4, 20122 – Unholy – Sam Smith and Kim Petras

Sanford and Son was based on the BBC show Steptoe and Son.

During the Great Tea Race of 1866, 3 ships left China at the same time, sailed 14000 miles over 99 days, and docked within 2 hours of each other.

James Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry after seeing Star Wars in 1977.

Most of the gold ever mined is still in circulation today. That gold ring or watch that you’re wearing could have belonged to historic figures like Cleopatra or Alexander the Great

A rumble strip on Route 66 outside Albuquerque, New Mexico plays ‘America The Beautiful’.

The human brain may be able to hold as much information in its memory as is contained on the entire Internet. It’s calculated that the brain could store 1 petabyte (or a quadrillion bytes) of information.

The Capital of Guinea-Bissau is Bissau

“Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.” – Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) in Casablanca, 1942

Susan Sarandon – Real Name: Susan Tomaling

Smokey Bear was created in 1944 in response to the WWII Japanese submarine attacks on Santa Barbara, CA (1942) near Los Padres National Forest.

Whoever put an ‘s’ in the word lisp was an evil genius.

There is no such place as “South Detroit” nor has there ever been one in its history; Downtown Detroit’s southern border is the Detroit River, and the other side of the river is Canadian territory. #DontStopBelievin

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• October 28, 1756 – Birthday (fictional) Alf, TV
• October 28, 1846 – April 21, 1847, The Donner-Reed Party, a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest.
  48 of 90 people survived.
• 1886 – The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in NYC.
• 1949 – Helen Anderson became for first American woman ambassador, to Denmark.
• 1965 – Missouri’s Gateway Arch opened.
• If you were born on October 28th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 4th (same year)

The Gateway Arch National Park, formerly known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, stretches from the old courthouse to the steps over the Mississippi River erected by the National Park Service to mark the 150th anniversary of Jefferson’s first visit to St. Louis in 1804. High above the pioneering spirit of the bold monument, the archway embodies what can be learned about the history of the United States and the Missouri Valley in general, and Missouri in particular.

The arch was erected as a monument to the expansion of the United States to the west and represents the men and women who won the West and the latter – and are now striving for different borders. The memorial also includes the Old Courthouse, where the first two trials leading up to Dred Scott’s decision took place. Visitors can connect with more than 200 years of Missouri history in the newly expanded Gateway Arch Museum. Today, the archway celebrates the diverse people who have shaped the region and country.

American pioneers, led by George Donner and James F. Reed, set out in May 1846 with a California wagon, were the “Donner Party” (sometimes also called the Donners and Reed Party). After a series of mishaps and mistakes, their journey was delayed and they spent the winter from 1846/47 in the Sierra Nevada. The trip should have lasted four to six months, but the party was caught in unusually heavy snowfall in Nevada. Starvation let to cannibalism. When the survivors were rescued on April 21, 1847, 42 of 90 people had died, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Animation Day
Chocolate Day
Saint Jude’s Day
Wild Foods Day

“The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.”
– Caitlyn Jenner

“There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person’s story is as different as his fingertips.”
– Elsa Lanchester

“Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions because the answers pre-exist. It is the question that we must define and discover. You don’t invent the answer-you reveal the answer.”
– Jonas Salk

“Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.”
– Jami Gertz

“I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.”
– Bill Gates

“There’s a rivalry between the Harry Potter fans and the Twilight fans. And Twilight fans think they’re much cooler than the Harry Potter fans. And I’m like, I dunno why they’d all get their butts kicked by the Doctor Who fans.”
– Matt Smith

1793 – Eliphalet Remington, American businessman, founded Remington Arms (died in 1861)
1902 – Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress, Bride of Frankenstein (died in 1986)
1914 – Jonas Salk, American biologist, and physician, Polio Vaccine (died in 1995)
1932 – Suzy Parker, American model, and actress (died in 2003)
1936 – Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter and fiddle-player (died in 2020)
1949 – Caitlyn Jenner, American decathlete
1955 – Bill Gates, American businessman, and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft
1965 – Jami Gertz, American actress
1966 – Andy Richter, American actor, sidekick
1967 – Julia Roberts, American actress
1972 – Trista Sutter, American reality star
1982 – Matt Smith, English actor, 11th Doctor
1998 – Nolan Gould, American actor

1420 – Beijing became officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty in the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat of government, was completed.

1492 – Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.

1636 – The Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony established the first college in what would become the United States, now known as Harvard University.

October 28, 1756 Birthday (fictional) Alf, TV

1886 – President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.

1929 – “Black Monday” on Wall Street, preceding the Great Depression.

1943 – The supposed ‘Philadelphia Experiment,’ involving teleportation or invisibility by the US Navy, took place with the destroyer escort ship, the USS Eldridge. The US Navy maintains that no such experiment occurred, and details of the story contradict ‘well-established facts about the Eldridge.’

1948 – Paul Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane).

1950 – The Jack Benny Show Premiered on CBS.

1962 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, ending the “Cuban Missle Crisis.”

1965 – Construction on the 650-foot-high St. Louis Arch was completed.

1978 – #1 Hit October 28, 1978 – November 3, 1978: Nick Gilder – Hot Child in the City

October 27, 1992 – Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1 was released.

2006 – #1 Hit October 28, 2006 – November 10, 2006: Ludacris featuring Pharrell Williams – Money Maker

#1 Hit October 28, 2017 – December 22, 2017: Post Malone featuring 21 Savage – Rockstar

The Capital of Haiti is Port-au-Prince

TV Quotes… “Hey HEY hey!” (Dwayne Nelson) on What’s Happening!!

Whenever I criticize someone’s grammar over the internet, I re-read my sentences over and over again, as I should.

I should start taking pamphlets to hand out any time I have to go to a place I know will be really crowded, not to support a cause or anything, just because I have a big personal bubble and everyone steers clear of the guy handing out pamphlets.

People rarely say “that’s just my luck” when something good happens.

GTA V made $1 Billion in just 3 days, making it the fastest-selling entertainment product in history (including ALL movies, music, and games).

“Tell me what you don’t like about yourself” – Dr. McNamara and Dr. Troy (Nip/Tuck)

Top Gun 2 should feature Maverick and Iceman as older commercial airline pilots with the plot focusing on their continued rivalry and subdued hateful interactions when they cross paths in airports.

US President #24 Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) Hey, wasn’t Grover Cleveland President US President #22? Yes, he was, but since Benjamin Harrison was US President #23, and Grover’s Reign wasn’t consecutive terms, he is the only President (so far) to count twice!

The 7 words that follow ‘primary(1), secondary(2), tertiary(3),’ are ‘quaternary(4),’ ‘quinary(5),’ ‘senary(6),’ ‘septenary(7),’ ‘octonary(8)’ ‘nonary(9),’ and ‘denary(10).’

The Capital of Guyana is Georgetown

“Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” – Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin (Al Jolson) in The Jazz Singer, 1927

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• 1682 – The City of Philadelphia was founded in Pennsylvania.
• 1787 – The First Federalist Papers were published in New York City.
• 1954 – The “Walt Disney” program premiered on ABC. It was later called “Disneyland“, then “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color“.
• 2004 – The Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinals to win their first World Series in 86 years.
• If you were born on October 27th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 3rd (same year)

On the night of October 27, passengers were able to buy a souvenir booklet for 10 cents, which describes the history of the New York subway. The subway opened to the public at 7 p.m. that night, and 110,000 people tried out the new system in the morning, 150,000 by the end of the week.

Before the city built most of the subway lines, they were leased by private companies. At the time of the subway’s first opening, the lines were owned by two private companies, including the New York City Transit Company (NYCT) and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). It was not until the 1940s that the cities bought two private transit companies and built connections between the lines

Today, the New York subway also has the advantage of being the most used system in the world, operating 24 hours a day and all year round. The subway and its subway lines are now a symbol of the city, and they also have a reputation as one of America’s most popular and used public transportation systems.

American Beer Day
Cranky Co-Workers Day
Navy Day
Potato Day

“Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.”
– Dylan Thomas

“Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone’s having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.”
– John Cleese

“There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
– Roy Lichtenstein

“I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.”
– Kelly Osbourne

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course, points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that’s why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that’s kind of the beauty of it.”
– Scott Weiland

“At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.”
– Lee Greenwood

1782 – Nicolo Paganini, Italian violin virtuoso (died in 1840)
1811 – Isaac Singer, American actor, and businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (died in 1875)
1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, American politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1919)
1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet, and playwright (died in 1953)
1920 – Nanette Fabray, American actress, and singer (died in 2018)
1922 – Ruby Dee, American actress (died in 2014)
1923 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter, and sculptor (died in 1997)
1939 – John Cleese, English comedic actor, Monty Python
1940 – John Gotti, American mob boss (died in 2002)
1942 – Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter
1950 – Fran Lebowitz, American author
1951 – Jayne Kennedy, American model, actress, and sportscaster
1958 – Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter, Duran Duran
1967 – Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (died in 2015)
1984 – Kelly Osbourne, English television personality

312 – Constantine the Great saw the Vision of the Cross. “In this sign, you shall conquer”

1275 – Amsterdam, in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, was founded.

1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opened.

1955 – Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean was released. It premiered the night before, at the Astor Theater in New York.

1961 – NASA tested the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.

1964 – Ronald Reagan delivered his “A Time for Choosing” speech on behalf of Republican presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater.

1966 – It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown aired for the first time (on CBS)

1973 – #1 Hit October 27, 1973 – November 9, 1973: Gladys Knight & the Pips – Midnight Train to Georgia

October 27, 1980 Birthday (fictional) Peter Quill, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Cinematic Universe

1990 – #1 Hit October 27, 1990 – November 2, 1990: Janet Jackson – Black Cat

1996 – Pop-Up Video premiered on VH1.

1997 – Stock markets around the world crashed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 554.26 points (7.18%) to 7,161.15.

October 27, 2006 (fiction) The South Harmon Institute of Technology was granted a one year probation term to stay in business, Accepted, Film

Perrier water is naturally carbonated, but CO2 taken out during purification, and then added back in artificially for bottling.

Is it even possible that a cab company would offer a ride from Philadelphia to Bel-Air?

Roulette Odds: Three number combination: Payoff: 11:1 True Odds: 7.89%

England, Wales, and Scotland are part of Great Britain; Great Britain and Northern Ireland make up the United Kingdom; the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and the eight Channel Islands make up the British Islands; and the British Islands plus the Republic of Ireland make up the British Isles.

The Capital of Honduras is Tegucigalpa

“I’m the King of the World!” – Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) in Titanic, 1997

“A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths.” – Steven Wright

The theme for Star Wars: Episode IV was composed in the same key as the Fox theme. John Williams did this to create continuity between the two fanfares.

A day on Mars is ~40 minutes longer than on earth. Maybe my sleep schedule is from Mars.

Wilt Chamberlain reportedly had sex with as many as 20,000 women but had no documented children.

Mary Catherine Collins is better known as Bo Derek.

Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford and Bill Gates had all, at least once during their lives, been the richest man in the world. They shared one thing in common – a father named William.

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• 1826 – The Erie Canal was completed
• 1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona took place.
• October 26, 2000 – Sony PlayStation 2 released, Video Game Console
• 2001 – The United States passed the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
• If you were born on October 26th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 2nd (same year)

The legendary O.K. Corral shooting, which took place in Tombstone, Arizona is perhaps the most famous and high-profile history of gun battle in the United States. The Clantons and McLaurys were cowboys living in ranch towns, sidelining ranchers, thieves and murderers. Earp, a former Kansas police officer who worked as a security guard for the bank, represented law and order to his brothers, but he also had a reputation for being greedy for power and ruthless.

Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury were on one side; and Town Marshal Virgil Earp, Special Policemen Morgan, and Wyatt Earp, and temporary policeman Doc Holliday on the other side. In what has become known as the “Shooting at the O.K. Corral” Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton made their way through the streets of Tombstone, pulling their guns as Earp’s brother Doc Holliday approached. Billy Clanton and both McLaury brothers were killed.

The original Erie Canal, built between 1817 and 1825, crossed 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo. After completion in 1825, it was a visionary trade route known as the “eighth wonder of the world.” NY Governor Dewitt Clinton opened the Erie Canal in 1825 by taking a package boat, the Seneca Chief, down the canal from Buffalo to Albany. The Erie Canal was the first of its kind in the USA and is one of only three of its kind in North America, along with the Panama Canal and the Mississippi.

In 1724, the inhabitants of New York had proposed to build a canal through northern New York to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes. At the time, however, the so-called Great Rift was considered too dangerous to use the canals as a shipping route. The Erie Canal became so important that it influenced the development of many other waterways in the region, including the Niagara River and the Delaware River.

Howl at the Moon Day and Night
Mincemeat Pie Day
Pumpkin Day

“Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.”
– Mahalia Jackson

“What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling.”
– Bob Hoskins

“We’ve dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.”
– Benjamin Guggenheim

“Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do.”
– Hillary Clinton

“Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn’t mean you will want to be there when the time comes.”
– Jaclyn Smith

“Sometimes you ask God for something and you don’t know what you’re asking.”
– Mahalia Jackson

1854 – C.W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (died in 1914)
1865 – Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (died in 1912)
1911 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (died in 1972)
1914 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (died in 1984)
1942 – Bob Hoskins, English actor (died in 2014)
1945 – Pat Conroy, American author (died in 2016)
1945 – Jaclyn Smith, American actress
1947 – Hillary Clinton, American politician, 44th First Lady of the United States
1961 – Dylan McDermott, American actor
1964 – Tom Cavanagh, Canadian actor
1967 – Keith Urban, New Zealand-American singer-songwriter
1971 – Anthony Rapp, American actor, and singer
1973 – Seth MacFarlane, American voice actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter

1774 – The First Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia.

1775 – King George III of Great Britain went before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to stop the American Revolution.

1776 – Benjamin Franklin went to France to seek French support for the American Revolution.

1825 – From Albany, New York to Lake Erie, the Erie Canal opened.

1861 – The Pony Express officially closed.

1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona. The “OK” probably referred to two families, Ormsby & Kimberly, who owned the nearby corral.

1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into operation.

1957 – #1 Hit October 26, 1957 – December 6, 1957: Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock / Treat Me Nice

1958 – Pan American Airways made the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707, from New York City to Paris, France.

1974 – #1 Hit October 26, 1974 – November 1, 1974: Dionne Warwick and The Spinners – Then Came You

October 26, 1980 – Pac-Man was released in the United States

1984 – V (the series) premiered on NBC

1984 – “Baby Fae” received a heart transplant from a baboon, and died three weeks later.

October 26, 1985 (fiction) Einstein, the dog, became the first time traveler, Back to the Future, Film

1985 – #1 Hit October 26, 1985 – November 1, 1985: Whitney Houston – Saving All My Love for You

October 26, 2000 – Sony PlayStation 2 released, Video Game Console

2001 – The United States passed the first Patriot Act.

October 26, 2012- Windows 8 was released

The Capital of Iceland is Reykjavik

Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues #8 – Justice.

Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

Farrah Fawcett voiced the character of ‘Faucet’ in The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars.

Pompitous – “the pompitous of love” lyric is often credited as coming from Steve Miller’s song, The Joker. Many people don’t know that it was first used by The Medallions’ 1954 R&B almost-hit, The Letter.

There are 255168 possible games of Tic-Tac-Toe.

Disney’s Aladdin on the Sega Genesis is the 3rd best selling Genesis game after Sonic 1 and 2.

The Capital of Hungary is Budapest

“A martini. Shaken, not stirred.” – James Bond (Sean Connery) in Goldfinger, 1964

Cancer cells collected from patient Henrietta Lacks months before her death in 1950 are still alive and being used today for research.

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” – Jim Henson

Vanity Fair magazine is named after a fictional place created by Satan where delights, and lusts are sold daily.

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• 1971 – Taiwan was expelled from the United Nations, and admitted China to the organization.
• 1972 – The FBI hired its first female agents – Joanne Pierce and Susan Roley
• 1983 – US Armed Forces invaded Grenada
• October 25 Birthday (fictional) Squidward, Spongebob Squarepants
• If you were born on October 25th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 1st (same year)

Artist’s Day
Greasy Foods Day
Sourest Day
World Pasta Day

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
– Pablo Picasso

“This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!”
– Marion Ross

“Being beautiful is all in the attitude, it’s about confidence.”
– Ciara

“Take the back roads instead of the highways.”
– Minnie Pearl

“The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy.”
– Billy Barty

“Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.”
– James Carville

1792 – Jeanne Jugan, French nun (died in 1879)
1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, and sculptor (died in 1973)
1912 – Minnie Pearl, American country music comedienne (died in 1996)
1924 – Billy Barty, American actor (died in 2000)
1928 – Marion Ross, American actress
1941 – Helen Reddy, Australian-American singer-songwriter
1944 – Jon Anderson, English singer-songwriter
1944 – James Carville, American lawyer, and political consultant
1957 – Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress, Bart Simpson
1969 – Samantha Bee, Canadian-American comedian, and television host
1971 – Craig Robinson, American actor
1984 – Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter
1985 – Ciara, American singer-songwriter

October 25, 3018 T.A. (fiction) The Council of Elrond was held, Lord of the Rings, Book

1938 – Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounced swing music as “a degenerated musical system, turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people.”

1940 – Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. was named the first African American general in the United States Army.

1962 – Nelson Mandela was sentenced to five years in prison.

1964 – The Rolling Stones appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.

1980 – #1 Hit October 25, 1980 – November 14, 1980: Barbra Streisand – Woman in Love

1982 – Newhart premiered on CBS

1983 – Microsoft released Word, version 1

1986 – #1 Hit October 25, 1986 – November 7, 1986: Cyndi Lauper – True Colors

October 25 Birthday (fictional) Squidward, SpongeBob Squarepants

1993 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show made its television debut on FOX, featured an intercut live cast performance.

October 25, 2001- Windows XP was released

2008 – #1 Hit October 25, 2008 – December 12, 2008: Britney Spears – Womanizer

John Wayne got cancer from a nearby nuclear test while filming The Conqueror. Or maybe it was the six-packs of cigarettes he smoked every day.

The Pareto Principle states that 80% of something is always done or held by 20% of a population.

Lewis and Clark had a dog on their expedition (a Newfie) named “Seaman”.

The Capital of India is New Delhi

“Bond. James Bond.” – James Bond (Sean Connery) in Dr. No, 1962

In Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, three of Jabba’s men are named Klaatu, Barada, and Nikto.

If you are saying and believing the same things at the age of 40 as you were when you were 18 means you were always right (which is rare) or not learning much in your life (more likely).

There is a condition called ‘ergophobia’ – the fear of work or finding employment.

“pornography” derives from the Greek words porni (“prostitute”) and graphein (“to write”). It originates from art and literature depicting the life of prostitutes.

The earliest record of a yodel was in 1545, where it is described as “the call of a cowherd from Appenzell”.

One of the 7 Wonders of the Middle Ages: Leaning Tower of Pisa in Pisa, Italy, constructed 1173-1372 AD

Gustav Mahler was superstitious and strongly believed in the Curse of the Ninth, where composers can only compose nine symphonies before they die. He tried to beat superstition by calling his 9th symphonic work a “song cycle,” then began work on his 10th symphony and died.

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• 1901 – Annie Edison Taylor went over Niagra Falls in a barrel, and survived.
• 1929 – Black Thursday in the stock market.
• 1945 – The United Nations was founded.
• 2007 – China successfully launched its first space probe, Chang’e-1.
• If you were born on October 24th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… January 31st (same year)

On October 24, 1929, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) suffered a catastrophic day of losses known as “Black Thursday,” a day that essentially ushered in the Great Depression. The Wall Street crash of 1929 lasted until October 29, 1930, but two dates can be described as Black Thursday. During the panic selling that day, nearly thirteen million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.6% on October 23, the day before Black Thursday, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The New York Stock Exchange opened at 9: 30 am ET on October 24, 1929, with investors already panicking and the stock market at its lowest level in more than 30 years.

Bologna Day
Crazy Day
Food Day
Take Back Your Time Day
United Nations Day
World Polio Day

“I’m not a musician, I just play bass.”
– Bill Wyman

“The bipartisan approach filtered up through my typewriter. I used to say, “Mad takes on both sides.” We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. Mad was wide open. Bill (Gaines) loved it, and he was a capitalist Republican. I loved it, and I was a liberal Democrat. That went for the writers, too; they all had their own political leanings, and everybody had a voice. But the voices were mostly critical. It was social commentary, after all.”
– Al Feldstein

“I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.”
– Drake

“I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera – both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.”
– Kevin Kline

“Stay awesome bros, I know you will.”
– PewDiePie

1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (died in 1960)
1915 – Bob Kane, American comic book author and illustrator, co-created Batman (died in 1998)
1925 – Al Feldstein, American comic book author, and illustrator (died in 2014)
1930 – The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter (died in 1959) #thedaythemusicdied
1931 – Ken Utsui, Japanese actor (died in 2014)
1936 – Bill Wyman, English singer-songwriter and bass player, The Rolling Stones
1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor
1947 – Kevin Kline, American actor
1960 – BD Wong, American actor
1986 – Drake, Canadian rapper and actor
1989 – PewDiePie, Swedish YouTuber
1998 – Daya, American singer

1901 – Annie Edson Taylor, at age 63, became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

1902 (Volcano Eruption) Santa María.

1926 – Harry Houdini’s last performance took place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.

1929 – Stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange: “Black Thursday”

1931 – Over the Hudson River, and connecting the Washington Heights, Manhattan in New York City to Fort Lee, New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge opened to public traffic.

1946 – A camera onboard the V-2 No. 13 rocket took the first photograph of earth from outer space.

1947 – Walt Disney testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

1960 – #1 Hit October 24, 1960 – November 13, 1960: Brenda Lee – I Want to Be Wanted

1974 – Broadway Show – Equus (Play) October 24, 1974

1987 – #1 Hit October 24, 1987 – November 6, 1987: Michael Jackson – Bad

2002 – Broadway Show – Movin’ Out (Dance Musical) October 24, 2002

2008 – Presidential candidate Barack Obama aired a 30-minute infomercial on CBS, NBC, Fox, BET, Univision, MSNBC, and TV One.

2008 – Many of the world’s stock exchanges experienced their worst declines in history – “Bloody Friday”

October 24, 2008 – High School Musical 3:Senior Year was released in theaters

2009 – #1 Hit October 24, 2009 – November 6, 2009: Britney Spears – 3

The Capital of Iran is Tehran

TV Quotes… “Don’t make me angry …” (David Banner) on “The Incredible Hulk”

A group of people who work outside of an office together is a Crew.

The term “trailer” comes from their having originally been shown at the end of a feature film screening, but people often left the theater after the films ended.

I wonder how many calories I burn when I run away from my problems.

Ben Folds Five (a trio) released an album titled Party Night: Five Songs About Jesus. The EP had four songs, none mentioning Jesus.

The Susan B. Anthony dollar has 133 ridges around the edge.

US President #23 Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) The first President to watch a baseball game while in office, he watched the Cincinnati Reds beat the Washington Senators 7 to 4 on June 6, 1892

The Watchtower, the illustrated religious magazine distributed by Jehovah’s Witnesses, is the most widely circulated magazine in the world, with a print run of 59 million copies bimonthly.

The Capital of Indonesia is Jakarta

“Here’s Johnny!” – Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) in The Shining, 1980

Piper Laurie – Real Name: Rosetta Jacobs

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• 1973 – President Nixon agreed to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
• 1983 – A terror attack against US armed forces in Beirut, Lebanon killed 240 people.
• 2001 – The iPod was demonstrated. On sale the following week, the retail price was $399.
• If you were born on October 23rd,
  You were likely conceived the week of… January 30th (same year)

According to legend, swallows carry olive branches in their beaks, which they drop into the sea on their journey for the winter. They return in somewhat reduced numbers, blacking out the sky to this day, as it was once said. For years, they were said to have winged and returned to their nest in the Capistrano hills, where they were said to be making their annual trek back to the sea. Traditionally, they reurn to San Juan Capistrano on March 19.

A Mole is defined as the atomic weight of a molecule or chemical in grams and is the same atom found in 12,000 grams of carbon (12), expressed as 6.021023. In other words, a mole defines a substance that contains at least one atom or molecule, of which more than a million atoms are contained in one gram of the substance.

October 23 is the day of the mole because October 23 is 1023 and October 23 is celebrated as the day of the mole in the United States and many other countries around the world.

Chemists, scientists, students and other number lovers are celebrating Mole Day to commemorate the Avogadro number, which is a basic weight – a unit of measurement in chemistry. The AvogADro number defined in the equation 6 – 02 – 1023 shows that for each molecule, one molecule of the substance contains twice as many atoms as its molecular number. To know more about this number and how it is practical, we need to study how chemists determine how many atoms there are in a mole.

Boston Cream Pie Day
Canning Day
Mole Day

“Everything is practice.”
– Pele

“We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often, and never forget.”
– Sarah Bernhardt

“I don’t expect success. I prepare for it.”
– Ryan Reynolds

“As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.”
– Al Yankovic

“Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or chick flick ever.”
– Meghan McCain

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
– Pele

1844 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (died in 1923)
1892 – Speckled Red, American blues/boogie-woogie piano player (died in 1973)
1920 – Bob Montana, American comic book illustrator (died in 1975)
1931 – Diana Dors, English actress (died in 1984)
1940 – Ellie Greenwich, American singer-songwriter (died in 2009)
1940 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer and actor
1959 – “Weird Al” Yankovic, American comedic singer-songwriter
1967 – Walt Flanagan, American actor, and illustrator
1976 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian-American actor, and producer
1984 – Meghan McCain, American journalist and author
1986 – Emilia Clarke, English actress
1986 – Jessica Stroup, American actress

4004 BC is the date when the world’s creation began, according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher.

1850 – The first National Women’s Rights Convention opened in Worcester, Massachusetts.

1861 – President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.

1915 -Over 25,000 women marched on Fifth Avenue, NYC to advocate their voting rights.

1917 – Lenin called for the October Revolution.

1935 – Mobsters Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard “Lulu” Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey – The Chophouse Massacre.

1946 – The United Nations General Assembly convened for the first time, in Flushing, Queens, New York City.

1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, by Peyo, was serialized in the French weekly Spirou magazine.

1961 – #1 Hit October 23, 1961 – November 5, 1961: Dion – Runaround Sue

1963 – Broadway Show – Barefoot in the Park (Play) October 23, 1963

1972 – Broadway Show – Pippin (Musical) October 23, 1972

1976 – #1 Hit October 23, 1976 – November 5, 1976: Chicago – If You Leave Me Now

1995 – Yolanda Saldívar was found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena earlier in the year.

October 23, 1997 – (fiction) The President’s plane crashed in Escape From New York, Film

1999 – #1 Hit October 23, 1999 – January 14, 2000: Santana featuring Rob Thomas – Smooth

October 23, 2001 – The Apple iPod (1st generation) was pre-released.

2011 – Once Upon A Time premiered on ABC

#1 Hit October 23, 2021 – October 29, 2021: Industry Baby – Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow

October 23, 2077 (fiction) The Great War lasted about two hours after the nuclear weapons launched, Fallout, Video Game

Imagine a world where we get updates to songs we purchased on iTunes. “Next up, Call Me Maybe is being updated to version 1.1 with new lyrics. Fixed some minor bugs and overall better quality.”

Five Card Poker Odds, nothing wild: Straight – Five cards numerically in a row, 1 in 250

After taking fourteen bullets from Al Capone’s gang in the Valentine’s Day Massacre, a Northside mobster, Frank Gusenburg, told police “No one shot me” as he lay dying.

The Capital of Iraq is Baghdad

“Houston, we have a problem.” – Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) in Apollo 13, 1995

“Bits” comes from “Binary” “DigITS”

Half of all sloth deaths occur while they are climbing to and from the forest floor, which is where they poop.

Nanu Nanu! #TVCatchphrase

In the past, many people wouldn’t lift a finger to help someone. Today, the most that people will do is lift a finger to help someone, by liking, retweeting, or upvoting.

“I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem.” – Gloria Gaynor

AT&T was included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average for 99 years before being replaced by Apple in 2015.

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• 1844 – End of World predicted by William Miller and his followers. #falsealarm
• 1883 – New York’s Metropolitan Opera House opened.
• 1962 – President John F. Kennedy addressed the country, demanding that Cuba removed Soviet missiles and equipment that had been secretly placed on the island.
• If you were born on October 22nd,
  You were likely conceived the week of… January 29th (same year)

The clock in the Cuban missile crisis ticked on October 16, 1962, when President Kennedy was informed that a US spy plane had detected medium-range missiles that could target large parts of the United States. On October 22, Kennedy announced the discovery on television, saying he would impose a two-day naval quarantine on Cuba. The missiles were discovered after U-2 spy planes photographed their presence in the west of the island.

Although Kennedy called on Russian Prime Minister Nikita S. Khrushchev to dismantle the missiles, he ordered a naval quarantine and blockade of Cuba to prevent Russian ships from bringing additional missile-building materials to the island. In response to the American naval blockade, Prime Minister Khrushchev authorized his military to launch an attack on US troops who were warned of an invasion of Cuba on October 23, 1962, the eve of the Cuban missile crisis. Stuck in this way, they stared at each other for seven days until Khrushchev blinked.

Cuba’s communist leader Fidel Castro was furious, but he was powerless, and his communist leaders were frustrated. Better reflecting on extending his challenge to the United States, the Russian Prime Minister relented, and ordered Soviet supply ships to leave Cuban waters, and agreed to withdraw the missiles from the Cuban mainland.

The Cuban missile crisis marked the end of the Cold War and the beginning of a new era of peace and cooperation between the United States and Russia. But the crisis also marks the closest the world has ever come to global nuclear war.

Caps Lock Day
Eat a Pretzel Day
Nut Day
Smart is Cool Day
Stuttering Awareness Day

“I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one’s ambitions must be tragic.”
– N.C. Wyeth

“Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult.”
– TobyMac

“I am the creator of my reality.”
– Annette Funicello

“The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.”
– Deepak Chopra

“In life, one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.”
– Franz Liszt

“Something in me wanted to find out how far I could run without stopping.”
– Zac Hanson

1811 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist, and composer (died in 1886)
1882 – N.C. Wyeth, American painter, and illustrator (died in 1945)
1903 – Curly Howard, American comedic actor, Third Stooge (died in 1952)
1917 – Joan Fontaine, British-American actress (died in 2013)
1920 – Timothy Leary, American LSD psychologist (died in 1996)
1942 – Annette Funicello, American actress, and singer (died in 2013)
1943 – Catherine Deneuve, French actress
1946 – Deepak Chopra, Indian-American physician, and author
1964 – TobyMac, American singer-songwriter
1965 – Valeria Golino, Italian actress
1968 – Shaggy, Jamaican singer-songwriter and DJ
1969 – Spike Jonze, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1985 – Zac Hanson, American singer-songwriter and drummer

362 – The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, (in modern-day Turkey) was destroyed in a fire.

1746 – The College of New Jersey (renamed Princeton University in 1896) received its charter.

1836 – Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.

1879 – Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric incandescent light bulb – it lasted 13 1/2 hours.

1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opened (with a performance of Gounod’s Faust).

1926 – J. Gordon Whitehead punched magician Harry Houdini, while he was still preparing for it) in the stomach in Montreal, later causing his death.

1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents shot and killed bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.

1962 – US President John F. Kennedy announced that American reconnaissance planes had found Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval “quarantine” of the Communist nation.

1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turned down the honor because “a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution”.

1976 – Red Dye No. 4 was banned by the US Food and Drug Administration.

1978 – The inauguration of Pope John Paul II took place in Saint Peter’s Square.

1988 – #1 Hit October 22, 1988 – November 4, 1988: Phil Collins – A Groovy Kind of Love

October 22, 1995 Birthday (fictional) Daphne Vasquez and Bay Kennish, Switched at Birth, TV

October 22, 2009 – Windows 7 was released

Bruce Lee died at the young age of 32 from what doctors ruled a “misadventure.”

“There’s no crying in baseball!” – Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) in A League of Their Own, 1992

If I had a dime for every time I didn’t know what was going on…

I’d be like, “Why ya’ll keep giving me all these dimes?”

The English word “warranty” was borrowed from French, then after the French word evolved (replacing ‘w’ with ‘g’) it was borrowed again as the word “guarantee”. Thus the same word was borrowed twice and given different meanings.

All of Bill Murray’s lines in Caddyshack were improvised.

Literally everything you’ve ever seen was an interaction with gravity somehow. Your thoughts, even, are physical phenomena with a relationship to gravity.

The Capital of Ireland is Dublin

Sonic pitchmen T.J. Jagodowski (the passenger) and Peter Grosz (the driver) like to talk about Sonic while sitting in the car.

God Save the Queen royal anthem can also be called “God Save the King”, depending on the gender of the monarch.

The US Postal Service handles 47% of the entire world’s mail.

The color is now known as “School bus yellow” and was specially formulated for use on school buses in North America because this yellow is noticed quicker in peripheral vision than any other color.

Prince – Real Name: Prince Rogers Nelson

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• 1797 – Old Ironsides, the USS Constitution, launched.
• 1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrated his Incandescent Lightbulb.
• 1967 – 250 protestors stormed The Pentagon in Washington, DC.
• October 21, 2015 (fictional) Marty McFly and Doc Brown visited this year from 1985 in Back to the Future, Film
• If you were born on October 21st,
  You were likely conceived the week of… January 28th (same year)

Celebration of the Mind Day
Count your Buttons Day
Pumpkin Cheesecake Day
Reptile Awareness Day

“Contentment is the only real wealth.”
– Alfred Nobel

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
– Carrie Fisher

“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”
– Alfred Nobel

“You get an education in school and in college. And then you start to work… and that’s when you learn!”
– Mary Blair

“If I don’t like something that’s going on in my life, I change it. And I don’t sit and complain about it for a year.”
– Kim Kardashian

“When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed.”
– Rich Mullins

“The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.”
– Ken Watanabe

1833 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (died in 1896)
1911 – Mary Blair, American illustrator, and animator (died in 1978)
1917 – Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (died in 1993)
1925 – Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer, Queen of Salsa (died in 2003)
1940 – Manfred Mann, South African-English keyboard player
1941 – Steve Cropper, American guitarist
1949 – Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician, 9th Prime Minister of Israel
1951 – Carrie Fisher, American actress, Princess Leia (died in 2016)
1955 – Rich Mullins, American singer-songwriter (died in 1997)
1956 – Carrie Fisher, American actress, and screenwriter (died in 2016)
1959 – Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
1980 – Kim Kardashian, American reality television personality

1520 – Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan in South America.

1797 – In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution was launched. It was the third such vessel completed for the US Navy.

1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.

1921 – The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiered in Los Angeles

1921 – President Warren G. Harding delivered the first speech by a sitting US President against lynching in the Deep South.

1940 – For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway was published.

1959 -The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City.

1967- #1 Hit October 21, 1967 – November 24, 1967: Lulu – To Sir With Love

1969 – Broadway Show – Butterflies Are Free (Play) October 21, 1969

1972 – #1 Hit October 21, 1972 – November 3, 1972: Chuck Berry – My Ding-a-Ling

1973 – John Paul Getty III’s ear was cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome, with a note – “This is Paul’s ear. If we don’t get some money within 10 days, then the other ear will arrive. In other words, he will arrive in little bits.”

1978 – Frederick Valenteich (flying a Cessna 182 airplane) disappeared over Melbourne, Australia right after describing a UFO to the control tower. The last seventeen seconds of his transmission was described as ‘metallic scraping.’

October 21, 1991 – The Apple Powerbook was released.

1994 – North Korea and the United States signed an agreement that required North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections. On October 9, 2006, North Korea announced it had successfully conducted its first nuclear test.

1995 – Blind Melon’s Shannon Hoon died of a cocaine overdose

October 21, 2015 (fictional) Marty McFly and Doc Brown visited this year from 1985 in Back to the Future, Film

“You say tomato I say tomato.”

“Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.” – Phil Connors (Bill Murray) #moviequotes

A group of Beavers is called a Colony or Family.

David Bowie – Real Name: David Jones

Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins also wrote for Clarissa Explains It All.

Life is ephemeral – don’t waste it looking up big words.

If your sister hits you, don’t hit her back. They always catch the second person. #childlore

US President #22 Grover Cleveland 1885-1889) The Baby Ruth candy bar was named for his daughter, who was the first child born in the White House.

That old man who appears in all the different Marvel movies is actually an original writer/editor for a bunch of different Marvel Characters!

The Capital of Israel is Jerusalem, embassies in Tel Aviv

“His deeds will not be forgiven until he merits.” #moviequotes

There was a 5th element along with earth, wind, fire and water which was called an æther. An aether was referred to as anything of natural phenomena, such as light or gravity.

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