Today....

[DeliriousKris]

August 22 is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of the year.

1827 – Josι de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.
1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1996 – Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history. The combined run total is also Major League record.

[alice44]

Interesting facts but it is no longer Oct 9th 

[jcalexis]

I remember Christopher Reeve. He was a good actor. I liked him in Superman movies.

[gsdoss]

Today is August 23 and it is Sunday a day of rest.

[DeliriousKris]

1776 - The Second Continental Congress changed the name of the nation to the United States of America, from the United Colonies.
1850 - California became the 31st state.
1893 - President Grover Cleveland's daughter, Esther Cleveland, became the first president's child to be born in the White House.
1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America.
1956 - Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show.

[DeliriousKris]

September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of the year.

1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
1955 – The television series Gunsmoke premieres on CBS . It was the second western television series written for adults. The first was the Lone Ranger.
1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
2001 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
2014 – The first Invictus Games took place at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

[DeliriousKris]

September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining until the end of the year.

1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1903 – The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
1947 – Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.

[DeliriousKris]

October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of the year.

1723 – Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17.
1876 – The American Library Association was founded.
1923 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

[DeliriousKris]

October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 81 days remaining until the end of the year.

1767 – Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
1864 – Campina Grande, Brazil, is established as a city.
1929 – J. C. Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1987 – First public display of AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.

[DeliriousKris]

October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 79 days remaining until the end of the year.

1775 – The United States' Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, United States.
1923 – Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago.
1990 – End of the Lebanese Civil War. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.

[DeliriousKris]

October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of the year.

1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
1656 – Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1773 – The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1882 – University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
1964 – Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
2003 – Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins.

[JediJohnnie]

Today, Oct 22nd.....

Curly Howard was born in 1903
Constance Bennett was born in 1905
Joan Fontaine was born in 1917
Derek Jacobi was born in 1938
Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown!) was born in 1938
Annette Funicello was born in 1942
Toby Mac was born in 1964
Zac Hanson was born in 1985

Roland Winters died in 1989
Mary Wickes died in 1995
Soupy Sales died in 2009

[o2bnocn]

This is a really interesting idea. I like the entertainment that you are providing.

[linsanna]

Today, Oct 22nd.....

Curly Howard was born in 1903
Constance Bennett was born in 1905
Joan Fontaine was born in 1917
Derek Jacobi was born in 1938
Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown!) was born in 1938
Annette Funicello was born in 1942
Toby Mac was born in 1964
Zac Hanson was born in 1985

Roland Winters died in 1989
Mary Wickes died in 1995
Soupy Sales died in 2009

Great Scott! I did not not know Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown) was born Oct, 22 1938. Thanks For posting!

[DeliriousKris]

November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 55 days remaining until the end of the year.

1844 – The first Constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
1934 – Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1991 – The last Kuwaiti oil field fire is extinguished.
1999 – Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2012 – Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.