Today is Friday October 16, 2015 289 day of 2015, 76 remaining Sunrise: 7:19 a.m. Sunset: 6:30p.m. 11 hours and 10 minutes of daylight today Moonrise 10:36 A.M. Moonset: 9:08 P.M. Special Celebrations today: Today is World Food Day, National Liquer Day, Bosses Day, Dictionary Day and Oatmeal Day On This Day In: 1701 - The Collegiate School was founded in Killingworth, CT. The school moved to New Haven in 1745 and changed its name to Yale College. 1793 - During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded after being convicted of treason. 1829 - In Boston, MA, the first modern hotel in America opened. The Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four meals. 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. 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. Disney movies, music and books 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. 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. 1982 - China announced that it had successfully fired a ballistic missile from a submarine. 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. 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.. If today is your birthday you share your special day with: 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 Tags: Daily Almanac/tides
October 16, 2015
