Today in History...Oct 7th

[Prerunner1982]

Events:
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Darbytown Road: the Confederate forces' attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond is thwarted.
1864 – American Civil War: U.S.S. Wachusett captures the C.S.S. Florida Confederate raider ship while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1919 – KLM of the Netherlands is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed from a merger of 5 French airlines.
1940 – World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
1944 – World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down the crematoria.
1949 – German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed.
1952 – The bar code is patented.
1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the far side of the moon.
1962 – U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R.
1963 – John F. Kennedy signs ratification for Partial Test Ban Treaty.
1985 – The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization.
1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2003 – Gray Davis is recalled as Governor of California, three years before the official end of his office term. Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor.

Birthdays:
1884 – Major Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
1897 – Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (d. 1975)
1898 – Joe Giard, American baseball player (d. 1956)
1922 – Grady Hatton, American baseball player
1926 – Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
1927 – Al Martino, American singer and actor
1931 – Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)
1939 – Bill Snyder, American football coach
1943 – Joy Behar, American television personality
1944 – Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)
1949 – Dave Hope, American musician (Kansas)
1951 – John Mellencamp, American singer
1951 – David J. Halberstam, American radio executive
1952 – Mary Badham, American actress
1953 – Tico Torres, musician (Bon Jovi)
1957 – Michael W. Smith, American singer
1958 – Judy Landers, American actress
1959 – Dylan Baker, American character actor
1961 – Matthew Roloff, American reality star
1967 – Toni Braxton, American singer
1969 – Bobbie Brown, American actress, model
1970 – Nicole Ari Parker, American actress
1973 – Priest Holmes, American Football Running Back
1974 – Allison Munn, American actress
1974 – Alexander Polinsky, American actor
1975 – Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
1975 – Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go)
1976 – Taylor Hicks, American musician
1976 – Charles Woodson, American football player
1977 – Brandon Quinn, American actor
1982 – Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
1985 – Evan Longoria, American baseball player
1986 – Lee Nguyen, American footballer
1986 – Chase Daniel, American football player
1986 – Bree Olson, American pornographic actress
1987 – Sam Querrey, American tennis player
1988 – Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley)

Deaths:
1925 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1956 – Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
1966 – Smiley Lewis, American musician (b. 1913)
1991 – Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
2003 – Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)
2004 – Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942)
2005 – Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)

[SMXJ]

A pleasure as always.

[flawlesslydisturbed]

222 - 0 Dang! Imagine how bad a loss like that would feel.

The Governator - First cyborg elected official.