Saturday, 25 October 2014

Today in History for 25th October 2014

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.


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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


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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)


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