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October 25 1994:
Susan Smith reports that she was carjacked in South Carolina by a man who took her two small children in the backseat of her car. Although authorities immediately began searching for three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alex, they could find no trace of them or of Smith's car. After nine days of intense national media attention, Smith finally confessed that the carjacking tale was false and that she had driven her Mazda into the John D. Long Lake in order to drown her children. |
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This day
----------------------------------------It's O.K. To celebrate A Holliday 1881 : Shootout at the OK Corral http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihVideoCategory&id=51977 [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 26, 2008 2:41:42 PM] |
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October 26 1955:
Ngo Dinh Diem declares that pursuant to the wishes of the South Vietnamese people, as evidenced in a national referendum a few days before, the Republic of Vietnam is now in existence and that he will serve as the nation's first president. The event marked a crucial step in the deepening U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and gave evidence of some troubling aspects that would characterize Diem's eight years in power. |
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October 27 2004:
The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time since 1918, finally vanquishing the so-called "Curse of the Bambino" that had plagued them for 86 years. "This is for anyone who has ever rooted for the Red Sox," the team’s GM told reporters after the game. "This is for all of Red Sox Nation, past and present." |
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28th October 1918 : German sailors begin to mutiny
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October 28 1965:
Construction is completed on the Gateway Arch, a spectacular 630-foot-high parabola of stainless steel marking the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial on the waterfront of St. Louis, Missouri. The Gateway Arch, designed by Finnish-born, American-educated architect Eero Saarinen, was erected to commemorate President Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and to celebrate St. Louis' central role in the rapid westward expansion that followed. |
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October 29th 1956 : Israel invades Egypt; Suez Crisis begins
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October 29 1858:
The first store opens in a small frontier town in Colorado Territory that a month later will take the name of Denver in a shameless ploy to curry favor with Kansas Territorial Governor James W. Denver. |
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November 2 1947:
The Hughes Flying Boat, the Spruce Goose-- the largest aircraft ever built-- is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight. It flew one mile and then never again. |
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3 November 1957,
The Sovjet Union launches Sputnik II. Onboard is the dog named Laika (meaning litlle barker). Laika was the first living being to make a full cycle around the earth. The US and USSR did launch animals before but they never made it around the earth. Sputnik II wasn't designt for reentry so it burnt up in the atmosphere in may 1958. Laika was dead long before. The scientists had planned to poison her after a few days, but Laika had already died due to overheating and stress. She completed 4 cycles. |
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