On This Day In History
10 October 1971. The old London Bridge reopened in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA. It was purchased by Robert P. McCulloch from the City of London, dismantled in 1967, relocated to Arizona, and rebuilt. pic.twitter.com/KQm5LSi79S
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 10, 2022
10 October 1985. Legendary Hollywood director and actor, Orson Welles, died (aged 70). His first film was Citizen Kane, which is ranked as one of the greatest films ever made. His other films include: The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, The Trial, and Chimes at Midnight. pic.twitter.com/jeCjn8Irrb
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 10, 2022
10 October 1985. Hollywood legend, Yul Brynner, died (aged 65). He played the King of Siam 4,625 times on stage in The King and I, and in the successful film of the musical. Other films include: The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Brothers Karamazov, and Westworld. pic.twitter.com/RPYkBpnwfF
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 10, 2022
10 October 2004. Hollywood legend, Christopher Reeve, died (aged 52). He’s best known for playing Superman in 4 films. Other films include: The Bostonians, and Remains of the Day. He became severely disabled after a riding accident in 1995 and campaigned for disability rights. pic.twitter.com/BYniyyn6Mv
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 10, 2022
October 11th
1138 Earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000
1634 Burchardi flood - "the second Grote Mandrenke" kills about 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany
1737 Earthquake reported to have killed 300,000 and destroyed half of Calcutta in India. Now thought to have been an exaggerated account of a hurricane which claimed 3,000 of the city's estimated 20,000 residents. [1]
1797 Battle of Camperdown (Kamperduin): British navy defeats Dutch fleet
1945 Chinese civil war begins between Kuomintang government led by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong's Communist Party
1962 Second Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
1986 Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
Did You Know?
Albert Einstein informs FDR of the possibilities of an atomic bomb
Today in History in 1939
Would You Believe?
First woman FBI "special investigator", Alaska Davidson, appointed
Today in History in 1922
This day 119 years ago – 11 October 1899 – the Second Boer War began in South Africa in which the Irish Transvaal Brigade, comprised of about 300 Irish miners living in the region, fought alongside the Boers against the British Army.
They were led by John Blake and John MacBride pic.twitter.com/TycK0vW03v
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) October 11, 2018
...showing, for instance, that 'Anglo-Saxon' migrants were not just male warriors, but included many women and children too. Hear @DuncanSayer explain this in a fascinating podcast - 2/2 https://t.co/U2ACqCjXP4
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) October 11, 2022
On this day in 1921, Texas Sheriffs Carl Smith and Tom Snow shot David Bunn, a handcuffed Black man, as he fled from a white lynch mob. The sheriffs faced no accountability for Mr. Bunn’s murder. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/gKrvWxUThT
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) October 11, 2022
11 October 1649. New Model Army troops (led by Oliver Cromwell), stormed Wexford, as part the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, with an estimated 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians killed, though these figures have been disputed. pic.twitter.com/wWZuLz9buo
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 11, 2022
11 October 1872. Suffragette, Emily Davison, was born in London. She was hit by the King’s horse during the 1913 Epsom Derby as she protested in favour of votes for women. She died from a fractured skull a few days later. Historians are divided as to whether she intended to die. pic.twitter.com/QUAj6OygpM
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 11, 2022
11 October 1937. England and Man Utd football legend, Bobby Charlton, was born in Ashington. He played 606 league games for the club, scoring 199 goals, and played 106 times for England, notching up 49 goals. He was also a key member of the 1966 England World Cup winning team. pic.twitter.com/62B0EQ5kPF
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 11, 2022
11 October 1957. The largest radio telescope in the world was switched on at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire. pic.twitter.com/uTMiUOVO0H
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 11, 2022
11 October 1968. Apollo 7 was launched. It was the first manned Apollo mission to send back live TV pictures. It also fulfilled Its main mission objective, which was to test the Apollo command and service module (CSM) in low Earth orbit. pic.twitter.com/wFU1y9bMZa
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 11, 2022
11 October 1982. Mary Rose, the pride of Henry VIII’s English fleet, which sank on 19 July 1545, was raised in the Solent. The warship is now preserved at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth. pic.twitter.com/MZbiNVRgU3
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 11, 2022
11 October 1984. American, Kathryn D. Sullivan, became the first American woman astronaut to space walk, from the space shuttle, Challenger. The aim was to demonstrate the feasibility of an orbital refuelling system. She went on to take part in two more shuttle missions. pic.twitter.com/Nl5Ia7mHrf
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 11, 2022
11 October 1987. A huge sonar exploration of Loch Ness (“Operation Deepscan”), spent a week on the loch using £1-million worth of equipment to scan the Scottish lake, but the mission failed to find any evidence of the legendary “Loch Ness Monster”. pic.twitter.com/2TvOeewOfT
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 11, 2022
11 October 1988. Women began to study at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for the first time. A Magdalene flag was flown at half mast, as women first entered the college, with some undergraduate students choosing to wear black arm bands. pic.twitter.com/4fbeSW2V6S
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 11, 2022
11 October 2012. West German football legend, Helmut Haller, died (aged 73). He played 33 times for West Germany, and scored the first goal in the 1966 World Cup Final. He played mostly at club level in Italy for Bologna and Juventus. pic.twitter.com/uoR6NbtS0j
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 11, 2022
PHOTO OF THE DAY: This factory worker in California soon changed her name to Marilyn Monroe (1944). pic.twitter.com/tK7BpTBq41
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) October 11, 2022