Historical Events
1870 - Postcards first used in USA
1900 - Great Britain annexes the former Boer South African Republic, renaming it the Transvaal Colony
1930 - 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
1968 - Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby
1977 - Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
2009 - The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.
Famous Birthdays
1904 - [Herman] Denny Shute, Cleveland Ohio, American golfer and three-time major champion
1912 - Jack Kent Cooke, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
1964 - Nicole, German singer
1970 - Ed Robertson, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
1975 - Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian musician
1979 - Tony Torcato, American baseball player
Famous Deaths
1892 - Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1892), dies at 60
1929 - James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (two Tests for England 1877), dies
1936 - Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet, dies at 76
1988 - Bill Cody, actor (Blazing Justice, Ghost City), dies at 75
1993 - Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54
2010 - Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951)
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://ift.tt/PsYu7P
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