Today in History for 24th October 2014

Historical Events

1856 - Constitution of South Australia adopted

1970 - Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show

1980 - Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar

1986 - Dodgers' Bill Russell, 38, announces his retirement

1987 - NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike

1994 - Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed

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Famous Birthdays

1877 - Rika H E Hopper, Dutch actress (Anastasia)

1897 - Lazar Weiner, composer

1915 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)

1954 - Jaap J Feenstra, Dutch MP (PvdA)

1981 - Tila Tequila, American model

1985 - Wayne Rooney, English footballer

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Famous Deaths

1938 - Ernst Barlach, writer, dies at 68

1940 - Victor Hollaender, composer, dies at 74

1980 - Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33), dies at 30

1983 - Jessica Savitch, news anchor (NBC-TV), dies at 35

2002 - Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)

2005 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist, dies of natural causes at 92

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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Oct 24, 2014)

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What phrase is represented below?



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Scare Your Friends And Family With These Utterly Terrifying Political Halloween Costumes

Yes, it's HuffPost UK Comedy's essential political Halloween costumes for 2014 - courtesy of David Schneider, David Beresford and Handface...

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Man Incredibly Stops His Ford Mustang Convertible From Crashing - Just In The Nick Of Time

Leaving the handbrake off when parking your Mustang convertible?



Not that impressive.



Running after it, leaping into it and managing to put the brake on?



Very impressive indeed.

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This Husky Dog Is Not Impressed With His Owners' Halloween Fake Rat

Atlas the husky has a new nemesis.



It appears to be a Halloween decoration - and it's really, really confusing the hell out of poor Atlas.



Who knew that the natural enemy of the famous Siberian breed was a fake rat?!

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• This Cat Does NOT Want To Play With This Husky

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Brain Teaser 10/23/2014

A boy was in detention from talking too much when the teacher was talking. The detention teacher said, "You have to produce a 1000 word essay in 30 seconds...GO!!"



The boy actually did it. How?



Note: he did not just write "A 1000 word essay" on his paper. You'll have to be a little more clever than that.

Solution

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Amazing Video Shows Hurricane Gonzalo Blowing A Waterfall UPWARDS In The Peak District

It's not just our job to bring you Cat Video LOLZ here at HuffPost UK Comedy. Oh, no. It's also our job to bring you 'Well, I never!' videos. Such as this moment, caught on camera in Derbyshire's Peak District.



The 'Kinder Downfall' - the tallest waterfall in the Peak District - is a point where the River Kinder falls, yes, downwards. 98ft downwards, to be precise.



Only thanks to Hurricane Gonzalo, on this day at least, it fell upwards.



Watch the amazing sight of the wind blowing the water back upstream in this video, filmed by Rod Kirkpatrick.



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