valentine's day October 16 History, Events, Famous Birthdays, Music History, Notable Passings

October 16 History, Events, Famous Birthdays, Music History, Notable Passings

October 16 History

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1701 - The Collegiate School was founded in Killingworth, CT. The school moved to New Haven in 1745 and changed its name to Yale College.

1758 - Author Noah Webster was born. He was a teacher and journalist whose name is associated with the word "dictionary."

1793 - During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded.

1829 - The first modern hotel in America opened. The Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four meals.

1846 - Ether, the painkiller, was used for the first time. The drug was invented by dentist William T. Morton.

1859 - Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia).

1869 - A hotel in Boston became the first in the U.S. to install indoor plumbing.

1898 - Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas was born. He served for 36 years on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1916 - Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City, NY.

1923 - Walt Disney contracted with M.J. Winkler to distribute the Alice Comedies. This event is recognized as the start of the Disney Company.

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1928 - Marvin Pipkin received a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.

1939 - "Right To Happiness" debuted on the NBC-Blue network.

1939 - "The Man Who Came to Dinner" opened on Broadway.

1941 - The Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians entered Odessa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews.

1942 - The ballet "Rodeo" premiered in New York City.

1943 - Chicago's new subway system was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony.

1944 - "The Robe," by Lloyd Douglas, was published for the first time.

1945 - "His Honor the Barber" debuted on NBC Radio.

1946 - 10 Nazi war criminals were hanged after being condemned by the Nuremberg trials.

1955 - Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley in newspapers using the name Ann Landers.

1962 - U.S. President Kennedy was informed that there were missile bases in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis.

1964 - China detonated its first atomic bomb becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.

1967 - NATO headquarters opened in Brussels.

1970 - Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt to succeed Gamal Abdel Nassar.

1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Vietnamese official declined the award.

1987 - Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. The was trapped for 58 hours.

1989 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed the Gramm-Rudman budget reduction law that ordered federal programs be cut by $16.1 billion.

1990 - Comedian Steve Martin and his wife Victoria Tennant visited U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia.

1990 - The play "Stand Up Tragedy" closed after only 13 performances.

1991 - George Hennard crashed his truck into a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, TX and began a shooting rampage in which he killed 23 people before taking his own life.

1993 - The U.N. Security Council approved the deployment of U.S. warships to enforce a blockade on Haiti to increase pressure on the controlling military leaders.

1994 - German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was re-elected to a fourth term.

1995 - The "Million Man March" took place in Washington, DC.

1997 - Charles M. Schulz and his wife Jeannie announced that they would give $1 million toward the construction of a D-Day memorial to be placed in Virginia.

2000 - It was announced that Chevron Corp. would be buying Texaco Inc. for $35 billion. The combined company was called Chevron Texaco Corp. and became the 4th largest oil company in the world.

2002 - It was reported that North Korea had told the U.S. that it had a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of an 1994 agreement with the U.S.

2002 - The Arthur Andersen accounting firm was sentenced to five years probation and fined $500,000 for obstructing a federeal investigation of the energy company Enron.

2008 - The iTunes Music Store reached 200 billion television episodes sold.

October 16 Birthdays

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Noah Webster 1758

Oscar Wilde 1854

David Ben-Gurion 1886

Eugene O'Neill 1888

Linda Darnell 1921

Bert Kaempfert 1923

Angela Lansbury 1925

Gunter Grass 1927

Charles Colson 1931

Tony Anthony 1937

Nico (Velvet Underground) 1938

Barry Corbin 1940

Fred Turner (Bachman Turner Overdrive) 1943

Dwight Douglas Lewis 1945

Suzanne Somers (Mahoney) 1946

Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) 1947

Bob Collyard 1949

Tim Robbins 1958

Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet) 1959

Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1962

Wendy Wilson (Wilson Phillips) 1969

B-Rock (B-Rock and the Bizz) 1971

Kellie Martin 1975

Jeremy Jackson 1980

October 16 Music History

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1679 - Composer Jan Dismas Zelenka was born.

1821 - Composer Albert Franz Doppler was born.

1951 - Little Richard held his first recording session in Atlanta, GA.

1954 - Elvis Presley made his first radio appearance on the "Louisiana Hayride."

1956 - The Elvis Presley film "Love Me Tender" premiered.

1957 - "You Send Me," by Sam Cooke, was released by Keen Records.

1965 - The Beatles were decorated with the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.

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1966 - Joan Baez and 123 other anti-draft demonstrators were arrested for blocking the entrance to the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, CA.

1968 - The New Yardbirds played their first concert. The band later changed their name to Led Zeppelin.

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1971 - Isaac Hayes' "Theme From Shaft" was released.

1972 - A statement was released by Creedance Clearwater Revival that announced the group's break up.

1976 - Stevie Wonder's "Song in the Key of Life" was released.

1982 - RCA Records released "H2O" by Daryl Hall and John Oates.

1989 - The single "The Arms Of Orion" was released by Prince.

1992 - Sinead O'Connor was booed off stage at Madison Square Garden during a show to honor Bob Dylan. 

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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.

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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.

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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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valentine's day 15 Most Amazing Ways to Tie Your Sneakers

Amazing Way to Tie Your Sneakers

valentine's day

1. The lace is run straight across the bottom and emerges through both bottom eyelets

2. The laces then go straight up and are fed into the next set of eyelets up the shoe

3. The ends are crossed over and are fed under the vertical lace section on the opposite sides of the shoe before going straight up and into the next set of eyelets up the Shoe

4. At the top set of eyelets, the laces can once again cross over and pass under the straight section as shown. This not only looks consistent with the rest of the lacing but also forms a High Lace Lock, which tightens the lacing even more firmly.

valentine's day

1. The lace is run straight across the bottom and emerges through both bottom eyelets

2. The ends are looped back under the lace where it feeds under the side of the shoe

3. The ends are then crossed over each other, then they go under and out through the next set of eyelets up the shoe

4. Steps 2 and 3 are repeated until both ends reach the top eyelets.

valentine's day

1. The lace runs straight across the second set of eyelets from the top of the shoe

2. Cross the ends over and feed into the fourth set of eyelets, skipping the third set

3. Continue down the shoe, two sets of eyelets at a time

4. At the bottom, run the laces vertically between the bottom and second from bottom eyelets

5. Double back and work your way back up the shoe through the vacant sets of eyelets.

valentine's day

1. The lace is run straight across the bottom and emerges through both bottom eyelets

2. The left (red) end is spiralled up the left side of the shoe, with the end fed under and emerging from each eyelet

3. The right (orange) lace is spiralled up the right side of the shoe, at each eyelet looping through the left (blue) lace in the middle of the shoe before feeding under and emerging from the next eyelet.

valentine's day

1. The lace is run straight across the bottom and emerges through both bottom eyelets

2. One end of the lace (orange end) runs straight up the right side, is fed into and runs straight across the second set of eyelets

3. Both ends now run straight up the left side, each skipping one eyelet before feeding in two eyelets higher up

4. Continue running both ends across the shoe, then straight up two eyelets at a time

5. At the top of the shoe, the laces end up on the same side and the shoelace knot is tied at that point.

valentine's day

1. The lace runs straight across the bottom and the ends are fed into both bottom eyelets

2. One end of the lace (orange end) runs straight up the right side, emerges from and runs straight across the second set of eyelets

3. The other end (red end) runs diagonally underneath and, skipping the 2nd set of eyelets, emerges from and runs straight across the 3rd set of eyelets

4. Continue running each lace diagonally across and up 2 sets of eyelets until one end (orange in my example) reaches the top right eyelet

5. The other end (red in my example) then runs straight up the left side to emerge from the top left eyelet.

valentine's day

1. The lace runs straight across and emerges from the third set of eyelets from the bottom

2. Both ends run straight down and are fed into the second set of eyelets from the bottom

3. Both ends again run straight down and emerge from the bottom set of eyelets

4. Both ends now run straight up along the outside and are fed into the fourth set of eyelets (the first vacant pair)

5. The ends are crossed over each other, then they go under and out through the next set of eyelets up the shoe 6. Repeat step (5) until both ends reach the top.

valentine's day

1. The lace is run straight across the bottom and is fed into rather than emerging from both bottom eyelets

2. The ends are crossed over, then inserted into the next set of eyelets u the shoe

3. This process is repeated until both ends each the top eyelets and end up inside.

valentine's day

1. The lace runs straight across the bottom and emerges through both bottom eyelets

2. Skipping two sets of eyelets, cross the ends over and feed into the fourth set of eyelets

3. Both ends now run straight down one eyelet and emerge from the third set of eyelets

4. Continue up the shoe, each time crossing over and going up three sets of eyelets, then straight down to emerge from the next set of eyelets below.

valentine's day

1. The lace is run straight across the bottom and emerges through both bottom eyelets

2. The ends are twisted together with one complete twist in the middle of the shoe

3. The ends then continue across to the opposite sides, where they go under and out through the next set of eyelets up the shoe

4. This process is repeated until both ends reach the top eyelets.

valentine's day

1. The lace runs straight across the bottom and emerges from both bottom eyelets

2. Cross the ends over and feed into the 4th set of eyelets up the shoe (skip past 2 sets of eyelets)

3. Both ends now run straight up and emerge from the 5th set of eyelets

4. Cross the ends over and feed into the 2nd set of eyelets up the shoe (skip past 2 sets of eyelets)

5. Both ends now run straight up and emerge from the 3rd set of eyelets

6. Cross the ends over, feed under and emerge from the top set of eyelets (skip past 2 sets of eyelets).

valentine's day

1. The lace is run diagonally and emerges from the bottom left and the top right eyelets

2. The top (red) end of the lace is zig-zagged from the top set of eyelets down to the middle eyelets in a similar manner to the Shoe Shop Lacing

3. The bottom (orange) end of the lace is similarly zig-zagged from the bottom set of eyelets up to the middle eyelets.

valentine's day

1. Start with two pairs of different colour laces, preferably the wide, flat variety (I was lucky to receive two such pairs with my last runners!)

2. With one colour (orange in my example), lace the shoe using either Straight (Fashion) or Straight (Lazy) Lacing

3. With the other colour (red in my example), start at the bottom of the shoe and weave the lace in and out of the other lace until you reach the top

4. Fold around the top lace and head back down, weaving out and in until you reach the bottom

5. Continue across the shoe until you're out of room or out of lace, whichever comes first

6. Tuckall the loose ends of the laces into the shoe.

valentine's day

1. The lace runs straight across the bottom and emerges from both bottom eyelets

2. Cross the ends over and feed into the 4th set of eyelets up the shoe (skip past 2 sets of eyelets)

3. Both ends now run straight up and emerge from the 5th set of eyelets

4. Cross the ends over and feed into the 2nd set of eyelets up the shoe (skip past 2 sets of eyelets)

5. Both ends now run straight up and emerge from the 3rd set of eyelets

6. Cross the ends over, feed under and emerge from the top set of eyelets (skip past 2 sets of eyelets).

valentine's day

1. Take two different colour laces, each a tiny bit longer than the correct length for the shoes

2. Cut them not quite in half, but offset by two or three centimetres. See below for how to calculate the difference in length between the two halves

3. Tie one shorter piece of one colour (orange in my example) and one longer piece of the other colour (red in my example) firmly together and trim off the excess. For extra security, add a dab of glue. Use the remaining pieces to make the bi-colour lace
for the other shoe

4. Pull the longer (red) end out through the bottom right eyelet, feeding from inside the shoe, until you reach the joining knot 5. Now lace the rest of the shoe as per
Straight (Fashion) Lacing.