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Friday,
Oct. 12
284th
day of the year
Quote
"When
you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth." — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as
Sherlock Holmes
Birthdays
In
1537 — Edward VI, Tudor, King of England (1547-53)
1813
— Lyman Trumbull, Illinois senator in Congress, died in 1896
1815
— William Joseph Hardee, lieutenant general (Confederate Army),
died in 1873
1822
— Joseph Haydn Potter, brigadier general (Union volunteers), died
in 1892
1923
— Jean Nidetch Brooklyn, founded Weight Watchers
1932
— Dick Gregory, comedian, political activist, dietitian (Bahamian
Diet)
1932
— Jake Garn, senator, R-Utah, and astronaut (STS 51D)
1935
— Luciano Pavarotti, Modena, Italy, operatic tenor ("Yes,
Giorgio")
1936
— Tony Kubek, shortstop (N.Y. Yankees), sportscaster (NBC-TV)
1947
— Chris Wallace, Chicago, newscaster (NBC Weekend News)
1969
— Nancy Ann Kerrigan, Woburn, Mass., figure skater (Olympics,
silver, 1994)
Events
1492
— Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day
1518
— Pontifical ambassador interrogates Martin Luther
1609
— Children’s rhyme "Three Blind Mice" published in
London
1654
— Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, painter, dies in an accident
1775
— U.S. Navy forms
1861
— Confederate ironclad Manassas attacks Union’s Richmond on
Mississippi
1862
— JEB Stuart completes his "Second ride around
McClellan"
1870
— Robert E. Lee, general of the Confederate Army, dies at 63
1879
— British troops occupy Kabul, Afghanistan
1886
— Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Second
Stain" (BG)
1892
— Pledge of allegiance first recited in public schools
1901
— Theodore Roosevelt renames Executive Mansion as the White House
1933
— Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
1933
— John Dillinger escapes from Allen County, Ohio, jail
1960
— Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at U.N. General Assembly
session
1997
— John Denver, singer ("Country Boy"), dies in plane
crash at 53
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