valentine's day October 15 History, Events, Famous Birthdays, Music History, Notable Passings

October 15 History, Events, Famous Birthdays, Music History, Notable Passings

October 15 History

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1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte began his exile on the remote island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.

1844 - German philosopher Friedich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born.

1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.

1883 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It allowed for individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.

1892 - The U.S. government announced that the land in the western Montana was open to settlers. The 1.8 million acres were bought from the Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre.

1914 - The Clayton Antitrust Act was passed by the U.S. Congress.

1917 - Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad. Hari was a Dutch dancer that had spied for Germany.

1931 - "Cat and the Fiddle" opened in New York for the first of 395 performances.

1937 - "To Have and Have Not" by Ernest Hemingway was published for the first time.

1939 - New York Municipal Airport was dedicated. The name was later changed to La Guardia Airport.

1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason.

1946 - Hermann Goering, a Nazi war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution.

1951 - "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS-TV.

1953 - "Teahouse of the August Moon" opened on Broadway. It ran for 1,027 performances.

1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began. It was on this day that U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet medium-range missle sites in Cuba. On October 22 U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that he had ordred the naval "quarantine" of Cuba.

1964 - It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been removed from power. He was replaced with Alexei N. Kosygin.

1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation.

1973 - "Tomorrow" debuted on NBC-TV.

1983 - U.S. Marines killed five snipers who had pinned them down in Beirut International Airport.

1989 - South African officials released eight prominent political prisoners.

1989 - Wayne Gretzky, while playing for the Los Angeles Kings, surpassed Gordie Howe's NHL scoring record of 1,850 career points.

1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent warships to enforce trade sanctions that had been imposed on Haitian military rulers.

1993 - South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress President Nelson Mandela were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the apartheid system in South Africa.

1997 - British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green broke the land-speed record by driving a jet-powered car faster than the speed of sound.

1997 - The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL. On January 14, 2005, a probe sent back pictures of Saturn's moon Titan during and after landing.

1998 - Typhoon Zeb killed 24 people and drove 100,000 more from their homes when it hit the Philippines.

1998 - The U.N. condemned the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba for the seventh year in a row.

1998 - James Woods received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passed within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.

October 15 Birthdays

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Virgil 70 B.C.
Friedrich Nietzsche 1844
Mule (George) Haas 1903
John Kenneth Galbraith 1908
David Carroll 1913
Jan Miner 1917
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 1917
Robert Walker 1918
Mario Puzo 1920
Lee Iacocca 1924
Jean Peters 1926
Peter Haskell 1934
Linda Lavin 1937
Barry McGuire 1937
Marv Johnson 1938
Dick Lotz 1942
Penny Marshall 1942
Don Stevenson (Moby Grape) 1942
Jim Palmer 1945
Victor Banerjee 1946
Richard Carpenter (The Carpenters) 1946
Roscoe Tanner 1951
Tito Jackson (The Jackson 5) 1953
Jere Burns 1954
Tanya Roberts 1955
Sarah Ferguson 1959
Mark Reznicek (Toadies) 1962
Ginuwine 1970

October 15 Music History

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1775 - Composer Bernhard Henrik Crusell was born.

1905 - Composer Dag Ivan Wiren was born.

1955 - "Grand Ole Opry" premiered on ABC-TV.

1955 - Buddy Holly opened a show for Elvis Presley in Lubbock, TX.

1968 - Led Zeppelin made its performance debut in England.

Led Zeppelin Apparel and Gear

1971 - Rick Nelson was booed when he performed new material at an oldies show.

1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a 1971 Federal Communications directive that broadcasters censor from the airwaves songs with drug-oriented lyrics.

1976 - Ike and Tina Turner split their musical act.

1977 - "Slip Slidin' Away," by Paul Simon, was released.

1987 - Jerry Garcia, of the Grateful Dead, opened a series of solo shows on Broadway.

1996 - Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) was charged with attacking a cameraman that was trying to take pictures of him and his wife Pamela Anderson Lee.

Motley Crue Store

1997 - Patricia Ann Richardson filed suit against Snoop Doggy Dogg, his former manager Sharita Knight, and Death Row Records for allegedly tricking her into transporting packages of marijuana to a venue where Snoop Doggy Dogg was performing.

1998 - MCA Records Inc. filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against New Edition members Ralph Tresvant, Johnny Gill, Ricardo Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronald DeVoe for alleged failure to deliver albums.

1998 - Puff Daddy played his first U.K. show. 

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