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Wednesday,
Oct. 10
282nd
day of the year
Quote
"In
Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror,
murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da
Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love,
they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that
produce? The cuckoo clock." — Orson Welles
Birthdays
In
1731 — Henry Cavendish, England, physicist and chemist (discovered
hydrogen)
1813
— Giuseppe Verdi, Italy, opera composer ("Rigoletto,"
"Aida," "Otello")
1914
— Dorothy Lamour, actress ("Road to Bali," "Road to
Rio")
1924
— James Clavell, author ("Tai Pan," "Shogun")
(or 1920)
1955
— David Lee Roth, rock singer (Van Halen, "Jump")
1958
— Tanya Tucker, Seminole, Texas, country singer and actress
("Follow That Car")
1969
— Brett Favre, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers, Super Bowl XXXI)
1974
— Chris Pronger, NHL defenseman (St. Louis; Team Canada, 1998
Olympics)
Events
Hussein,
grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded
1845
— The Naval School (now called U.S. Naval Academy) opens at
Annapolis
1886
— First dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park,
N.Y.
1938
— Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland
1943
— Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
1959
— Lee Harvey Oswald signs guest book in hotel Helsinki
1980
— William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor ("Little
Rascals"), dies at 49
1981
— Anwar Sadat’s funeral service is held in Cairo
1985
— Orson Welles, actor and director ("Citizen Kane"),
dies of heart attack at 70
1985
— Yul Brynner [Taidje Khan], actor ("The King and I"), dies
of cancer at 65
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