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  1. Sanity_is_Relative

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    I could post the good about what any "criminal" has done as well but why? In Medellin Columbia Pablo Escobar took people off the streets, gave them modern homes, an income in honest work, and futures for their kids and grandkids but he is still who he is. Down in Mexico there are several million that were saved and even empowered by the cartels to be strong, fund their own families, to found farms to feed the neighbors and yet they are just drug dealers and rapists to the US.
    Think about this in 1958 Thomas Dolan was killed in a rollover crash and with him burned the first ides of a lunar module returning to Earth, 10 years prior to it happening plus a bit. What could have been?
     
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    Pablo Escobar also was responsible for the deaths of over 5,000 people, murdered to protect his drug kingdom.
     
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    This Day in History: Oct. 21
    Thomas Edison perfects a workable electric light; President Richard Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to Supreme Court

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    On this day, Oct. 21 …

    1975: Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk, batting in the 12th inning of Game 6 of the World Series, hit a dramatic Game 6 home run to help his team beat the Big Red Machine Cincinnati Reds. In a now iconic image, Fisk gestured at the ball, directing its path to stay fair as it approached the Fenway Park foul pole.


    Also on this day:

    • 1892: Schoolchildren across the U.S. observe Columbus Day (according to the Gregorian date) by reciting, for the first time, the original version of "The Pledge of Allegiance," written by Francis Bellamy for The Youth's Companion.
    • 1797: The U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as "Old Ironsides," is christened in Boston's harbor.
    • 1892: Thomas Edison perfects a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.
    • 1917: Members of the 1st Division of the U.S. Army training in Luneville, France, become the first Americans to see action on the front lines of World War I.
    • 1960: Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon clash in their fourth and final presidential debate in New York.
    • 1967: Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters begin two days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C.
    • 1971: President Richard Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Both nominees would be confirmed.)
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    • 1975: Carlton Fisk hits a dramatic home run in the 12th inning to give the Boston Red Sox a 7-6 victory over the Reds in Game 6 of the World Series, forcing a Game 7. The image of Fisk waving - and willing - the ball fair would become one of the most iconic moments in Major League Baseball history.
    • 1976: Saul Bellow wins the Nobel Prize for literature, the first American honored since John Steinbeck in 1962.
    • 1985: Former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White — who'd served five years in prison for killing Mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights advocate — is found dead in a garage, a suicide.
    • 1996: President Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military survives its first Supreme Court test.
    • 2001: Washington, D.C., postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. dies of inhalation anthrax as officials begin testing thousands of postal employees.
    • 2018: A growing caravan of Honduran migrants continues through southern Mexico toward the United States, after getting past Mexican agents who briefly blocked them at the Guatemalan border.
     
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  4. Truthful 1

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    I love this stuff this is a great thread thank you
     
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    This Day in History: Oct. 22
    JFK, in national address, reveals the presence of Soviet-built missile bases under construction in Cuba; the roots of the Iran hostage crisis are planted

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    1979: The U.S. government allows the deposed Shah of Iran to travel to New York for medical treatment — a decision that precipitates the Iran hostage crisis.

    Also on this day:

    • 1797: French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet over Paris.
    • 1934: Bank robber Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd is shot to death by federal agents and local police at a farm near East Liverpool, Ohio.
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    • 1962: In a nationally broadcast address, President John F. Kennedy reveals the presence of Soviet-built missile bases under construction in Cuba and announces a quarantine of all offensive military equipment being shipped to the Communist island nation.
    • 1981: The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization is decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August.
    • 1986: President Reagan signs into law sweeping tax-overhaul legislation.
    • 1991: The European Community and the European Free Trade Association concludes a landmark accord to create a free trade zone of 19 nations by 1993.
    • 1995: The largest gathering of world leaders in history marks the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.
    • 1998: The government advises parents to remove the batteries from their kids' "Power Wheels" cars and trucks, made by Fisher-Price, because of faulty wiring that could cause them to erupt into flame.
    • 2001: A second Washington, D.C., postal worker, Joseph P. Curseen, dies of inhalation anthrax.
    • 2002: A bus driver, Conrad Johnson, is shot to death in Aspen Hill, Md., in the final attack carried out by the "Beltway Snipers."
    • 2018: President Trump declares that the U.S. would start cutting aid to three Central American countries he accuses of failing to stop thousands of migrants heading for the U.S. border.
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    2018: A bomb is found in a mailbox at the suburban New York home of liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros; federal agents safely detonate the device after being summoned by a security officer.
     
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      A very lucky guy old George is
       
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    George Soros. Poster child for all that is wrong with the despicable party.
     
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    This Day in History: Oct. 23
    A BBC report on famine in Ethiopia shocks the world; the Senate rejects Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork
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    Judge Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination was derailed 32 years ago. (Associated Press)

    On this day, Oct. 23 …


    1987: The U.S. Senate rejects the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork in a 58-42 vote.

    On this date:

    • 1910: Blanche S. Scott becomes the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight, reaching an altitude of 12 feet at a park in Fort Wayne, Ind.
    • 1915: Tens of thousands of women parade up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the right to vote.
    • 1925: Longtime "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson is born in Corning, Iowa.
    • 1973: President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings subpoenaed by the Watergate special prosecutor to Judge John J. Sirica.
    • 1983: A suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon kills 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces kills 58 paratroopers.
    • 1984: BBC Television reports on the famine in Ethiopia; the story, which shocks viewers, prompts rock star Bob Geldof to organize "Band Aid," a group of celebrities and recording artists who would record the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for charity.
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    • 1995: A jury in Houston convicts Yolanda Saldivar of murdering Tejano singing star Selena. (Saldivar is serving a life prison sentence.)
    • 2006: Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling is sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to 24 years, four months for his role in the company's collapse.
    • 2009: President Barack Obama declares the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect non-infected patients.
    • 2009: The NBA and the referees union agree on a two-year contract, ending a lockout of more than a month.
    • 2009: Character actor Lou Jacobi dies in New York at age 95.
    • 2018: China opens the world's longest sea-crossing bridge, a 34-mile span connecting Hong Kong to the mainland.
    • 2018: Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, announces she has been diagnosed with "the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's disease."
     
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    The largest tank battle and artillery barrage in history at the time.
     
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      Lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol Italian tanks . Oh there is so much I could say about this lol lol lol lol Italian tanks
       
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      Suzy I love when you post true history. Thsnks
       
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      My father used to say if Italians loved Mussolini as much as they love football the world might look a lot different.
      He also said the the Italians were tough, hard fighting soldiers that had the best of equipment and supplies.
      Their hearts weren’t in the fight, they just wanted to go home. When he got to Sicily and then the Italian boot he said he could see why.
       
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    On October 24, 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to successfully take the plunge over in a barrel.

    After her husband died in the Civil War, the New York-born Taylor moved all over the U. S. before settling in Bay City, Michigan, around 1898. In July 1901, while reading an article about the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, she learned of the growing popularity of two enormous waterfalls located on the border of upstate New York and Canada. Strapped for cash and seeking fame, Taylor came up with the perfect attention-getting stunt: She would go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

    Taylor was not the first person to attempt the plunge over the famous falls. In October 1829, Sam Patch, known as the Yankee Leaper, survived jumping down the 175-foot Horseshoe Falls of the Niagara River, on the Canadian side of the border. More than 70 years later, Taylor chose to take the ride on her birthday, October 24. (She claimed she was in her 40s, but genealogical records later showed she was 63.) With the help of two assistants, Taylor strapped herself into a leather harness inside an old wooden pickle barrel five feet high and three feet in diameter. With cushions lining the barrel to break her fall, Taylor was towed by a small boat into the middle of the fast-flowing Niagara River and cut loose.

    Knocked violently from side to side by the rapids and then propelled over the edge of Horseshoe Falls, Taylor reached the shore alive, if a bit battered, around 20 minutes after her journey began. After a brief flurry of photo-ops and speaking engagements, Taylor’s fame cooled, and she was unable to make the fortune for which she had hoped. She did, however, inspire a number of copy-cat daredevils. Between 1901 and 1995, 15 people went over the falls; 10 of them survived. Among those who died were Jesse Sharp, who took the plunge in a kayak in 1990, and Robert Overcracker, who used a jet ski in 1995. No matter the method, going over Niagara Falls is illegal, and survivors face charges and stiff fines on either side of the border.

    https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-barrel-ride-down-niagara-falls
     
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    This Day in History: Oct. 24
    Two civil rights icons pass away: Jackie Robinson in 1972, Rosa Parks in 2005
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    In this Nov. 28, 1999 file photo, Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the Congressional Medal of Freedom in Detroit. (AP)

    On this day, Oct. 24 …


    2005: Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies in Detroit at age 92.

    Also on this day:

    • 1861: President Abraham Lincoln, in Washington, receives the first transcontinental telegraph message, sent by Chief Justice Stephen J. Field of California from San Francisco, over a line built by the Western Union Telegraph Co.
    • 1931: The George Washington Bridge, connecting New York and New Jersey, is officially dedicated. (It would open to traffic the next day.)
    • 1940: The 40-hour workweek goes into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
    • 1945: The United Nations officially comes into existence as its charter takes effect.
    • 1962: A naval quarantine of Cuba ordered by President John F. Kennedy goes into effect during the missile crisis.
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    Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson poses in his batting stance. Robinson broke baseball's color barrier when he joined the Dodgers in April 1947, going on to be named National League Rookie of the Year. Two year's later, Robinson was named National League Most Valuable Player.

    • 1972: Jackie Robinson, who'd broken Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, dies in Stamford, Conn., at age 53.
    • 1989: Former television evangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced by a judge in Charlotte, N.C., to 45 years in prison for fraud and conspiracy. (The sentence would later be reduced to eight years and then further reduced to four for good behavior.)
    • 1991: "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry dies in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 70.
    • 1992: The Toronto Blue Jays become the first non-U.S. team to win the World Series as they defeat the Atlanta Braves, 4-3, in Game 6.
    • 1997: In Arlington, Va., former NBC sportscaster Marv Albert is spared a jail sentence after a courtroom apology to the woman he'd bitten during a sexual romp.
    • 2002: Authorities apprehend Army veteran John Allen Muhammad and teenager Lee Boyd Malvo near Myersville, Md., in the Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks. (Malvo would be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole; Muhammad would be sentenced to death and executed in 2009.)
    • 2008: Singer-actress Jennifer Hudson's mother and brother are found slain in their Chicago home; the body of her 7-year-old nephew would be found three days later. (Hudson's estranged brother-in-law would be convicted of the murders and sentenced to life in prison.)
    • 2018: Authorities intercept pipe bombs packed with shards of glass that were sent to several prominent Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama; none of the bombs went off.
     
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      Rosa was as beautiful as she was brave.
       
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    • A Devry 35-millimeter movie camera attached to a V2 rocket took the first photograph from space at the altitude of 65 miles. The rocket was captured in Germany in 1945, and was launched by the US Army at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, United States.
     
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    This Day in History: Oct. 25
    'America the Beautiful' is first published; the Rolling Stones make a debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
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    On this day, Oct. 25 …


    1964: The Rolling Stones appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the first time.

    Also on this day:

    • 1400: Geoffrey Chaucer, "the Father of English literature," dies in London.
    • 1760: King George III of Britain is crowned.
    • 1910: "America the Beautiful," with words by Katharine Lee Bates and music by Samuel A. Ward, is first published.
    • 1917: The Bolsheviks under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seize power in Russia.
    • 1929: Albert B. Fall, who was U.S. secretary of the interior under President Harding, is found guilty of taking a bribe. He is sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000.
    • 1935: A major hurricane strikes Haiti, leaving more than 2,000 people dead and many thousands homeless and hungry.
    • 1954: A U.S. Cabinet meeting is televised for the first time.
    • 1955: The microwave oven, for home use, is introduced by The Tappan Company.
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    John Steinbeck (AP)

    • 1962: John Steinbeck is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
    • 1964: Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jim Marshall recovers a fumble and runs 66 yards the wrong way into his own end zone for a safety. Despite the gaffe, the Vikings defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 27-22.
    • 1971: The United Nations recognizes the communist People's Republic of China and expels the Nationalist Chinese government of Taiwan.
    • 1983: U.S. troops and soldiers from six Caribbean nations invade Grenada to restore order and provide protection to U.S. citizens after a recent coup within Grenada's Communist (pro-Cuban) government.
    • 1994: Susan Smith of South Carolina claims that a Black carjacker drove off with her two young sons. (Smith would confess to drowning the children in John D. Long Lake, and be convicted of murder).
    • 1999: Golfer Payne Stewart and five others are killed when their Learjet flew uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota.
    • 2000: AT&T Corp. announces it will restructure into four separately traded companies (consumer, business, broadband and wireless).
    • 2001: The Senate sends President Bush the USA Patriot Act, a package of anti-terror measures giving police sweeping new powers to search people’s homes and business records secretly and to eavesdrop on telephone and computer conversations.
    • 2014: The World Health Organization says more than 10,000 people have been infected with Ebola and that nearly half of them died.
     
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  13. Truthful 1

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    The Payne Stewart accident was tragic . They left the ground and they flew silently , Unconscious till The jet ran out of fuel . I watched that on Television . Truly a shame
     
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    October 25, 1944...
    The Japanese are defeated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the world's largest sea engagement. From this point on, the depleted Japanese Navy increasingly resorts to the suicidal attacks of Kamikaze fighters.
     
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    Re Leyte Gulf:
    In 1967 when we were purchasing the home we now live in from an older woman, a widow. She had a framed picture of her son with a medal and letter from the Navy dept. He had served and died on the Destroyer the Samuel B Roberts in the battle of Leyte Gulf.
    There is a stone memorial for him in a park near our home, and on our concrete walk are the initials he and his brother had put in the walkway as kids many years ago.
    His name is in a book about the battle "Tin can....???" I can't remember the name dammit?
     
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      His parents were both immigrants from Poland, came here as a young couple to build a life in America, and their two sons were just boys living in a small farm house.
      Probably the first time they ever left the county in New Jersey when they joined the Navy to fight in WWII
       
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      Millions of young men who had spent the first 18+ years of their lives not going more then 5-10 Miles from the house they were born in did the same thing during the War... I thank my gods they did...
       
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      What great guys they were, grew up most of them during hard times, never asked for anything but stood tall, and served our country.
       
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      Unlike the soy boi sissies that we see everyday talking about their FEELINGS..
       
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    This Day in History: Oct. 26
    'Baby Fae,' a newborn with a severe heart defect, is given the heart of a baboon; President George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act
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    On this day, Oct. 26 ...


    2001: President George W. Bush signs the USA Patriot Act, giving authorities unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.

    Also on this day:

    • 1774: The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
    • 1825: The Erie Canal opens in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River.
    • 1881: The “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” takes place in Tombstone, Ariz., as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and “Doc” Holliday confront Ike Clanton’s gang. Three members of Clanton’s gang are killed; Earp’s brothers and Holliday are wounded.
    • 1944: The World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf ends in a major Allied victory over Japanese forces, whose naval capabilities are badly crippled.
    • 1949: President Harry S. Truman signs a measure raising the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.
    • 1965: The Beatles receives MBE medals as Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
    • 1979: South Korean President Park Chung-hee is shot to death by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, Kim Jae-kyu.
    • 1980: Israeli President Yitzhak Navon becomes the first Israeli head of state to visit Egypt.


    • 1984: “Baby Fae,” a newborn with a severe heart defect, is given the heart of a baboon in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda, Calif. (Baby Fae would live 21 days with the animal heart.)
    • 2000: The New York Yankees become the first team in more than a quarter-century to win three straight World Series championships, beating the New York Mets 4-to-2 in game five of their “Subway Series.”
    • 2009: Bill Cosby receives the 12th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor during a salute at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
    • 2018: Federal authorities capture a Florida man with a criminal history and accused him of sending at least 13 mail bombs to prominent Democrats. (Cesar Sayoc would be sentenced to 20 years in prison by a judge who concluded that the bombs purposely were not designed to explode.)
    • 2018: The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox take the field for what would become the longest World Series game in history, an 18-inning marathon lasting 7 hours and 20 minutes; the Red Sox win 3-2 on a home run by Max Muncy.
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    FILE - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Al-Furqan media via AP, File)

    • 2019: Islamic State mastermind Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is killed by U.S.-led forces in Syria.
     
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    This Day in History: Oct. 27

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    Authorities say a gunman opened fire during a baby naming ceremony Saturday morning at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood.

    On this day, Oct. 27 ...


    2018: A gunman shoots and kills 11 congregants and wounds six others at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history; authorities say the suspect, Robert Bowers, raged against Jews during and after the rampage. (Bowers, who is awaiting trial, has pleaded not guilty; prosecutors are seeking a death sentence.)

    Also on this day:

    • 1787: The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the United States Constitution, is published.
    • 1858: The 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is born in New York City.
    • 1904: The first rapid transit subway, the IRT, is inaugurated in New York City.
    • 1914: Author-poet Dylan Thomas is born in Swansea, Wales.
    • 1947: “You Bet Your Life,” a comedy quiz show starring Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC Radio. (It later would become a television show on NBC.)
    • 1954: U.S. Air Force Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. is promoted to brigadier general, the first black officer to achieve that rank in the USAF.
    • 1954: Walt Disney’s first television program, titled “Disneyland” after the yet-to-be completed theme park, premieres on ABC.
    • 1962: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft is shot down while flying over Cuba, killing the pilot, U.S. Air Force Maj. Rudolf Anderson Jr.
    • 1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin are named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.
    • 1995: A sniper kills one soldier and wounds 18 others at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. (Paratrooper William J. Kreutzer would be convicted in the shootings, and condemned to death; the sentence would be later commuted to life in prison.)
    • 2004: The Boston Red Sox win their first World Series since 1918, sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 4, 3-0.
    • 2009: Michael Jackson’s last work, the documentary “Michael Jackson: This Is It,” opens.
    • 2013: Lou Reed, 71, who radically challenged rock’s founding promise of good times and public celebration as a leader of the Velvet Underground, was a solo artist and was a founder of indie rock, dies in Southampton, N.Y.
    • 2018: Hundreds of Mexican federal officers carrying plastic shields block a Central American caravan from advancing toward the United States after several thousand migrants turn down the chance to apply for refugee status in Mexico and obtain a Mexican offer of benefits.
     
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    This Day in History: Oct. 28

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    On this day, Oct. 28 …


    1886: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, is dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.

    Also on this day:

    • 1726: The original edition of “Gulliver’s Travels,” a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift, is first published in London.
    • 1858: Rowland Hussey Macy opens his first New York store at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan.
    • 1922: Fascism comes to Italy as Benito Mussolini takes control of the government.
    • 1940: Italy invaded Greece during World War II.
    • 1962: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informs the United States that he has ordered the dismantling of missile bases in Cuba; in return, the U.S. secretly agrees to remove nuclear missiles from U.S. installations in Turkey.
    • 1976: Former Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman enters a federal prison camp in Safford, Ariz. to begin serving his sentence for Watergate-related convictions. (He would be released in April 1978).
    • 1980: President Jimmy Carter and Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan face off in a nationally broadcast, 90-minute debate in Cleveland.
    • 2013: Penn State says it would pay $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
     
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    This Day in History: Oct. 29
    'Black Tuesday' rocks the New York Stock Exchange; John Glenn returns to space at age 77
    By Bryan Robinson

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    (AP Photo)

    On this day, Oct. 29 ...


    1929: "Black Tuesday" descends upon the New York Stock Exchange. Prices collapse amid panic selling and thousands of investors are wiped out as America’s “Great Depression” begins.

    Also on this day:

    • 1901: President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, is electrocuted.
    • 1911: Hungarian-born American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer, 64, dies in Charleston, S.C.
    • 1956: "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premieres as NBC’s nightly television newscast.
    • 1987: Following the confirmation defeat of Robert H. Bork to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan announces his choice of Douglas H. Ginsburg, a nomination that would fall apart over revelations of Ginsburg’s previous marijuana use.
    • 1998: Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, roars back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he’d blazed for America’s astronauts 36 years earlier.
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    The Hudson River swells and rises over the banks of the Hoboken, N.J., waterfront as Hurricane Sandy approaches on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

    • 2012: Superstorm Sandy slams ashore in New Jersey and slowly marches inland, devastating coastal communities and causing widespread power outages; the storm and its aftermath would be blamed for at least 182 deaths in the U.S.
    • 2014: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the military men and women helping fight Ebola in West Africa have to undergo 21-day quarantines upon their return, longer than required for many civilian health care workers.
    • 2014: The San Francisco Giants win Game 7 on the road for their third World Series title in five years as they defeat the Kansas City Royals 3-2.
    • 2017: All but 10 members of the Houston Texans take a knee during the national anthem, reacting to a remark from team owner Bob McNair to other NFL owners that “we can’t have the inmates running the prison.”
     
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      I remember Sandy very well. The Devastation that caused here in New Jersey are you still seeing in some towns , and today is Raining incredibly in my area for the next 2 ays Interesting . This makes you notice things
       
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    This Day in History: Oct. 30
    Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the 'Rumble in the Jungle'
    By Bryan Robinson

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    This is a Oct. 30, 1974 file photo of Muhammad Ali, right, as he stands back as referee Zack Clayton calls the count over opponent George Foreman, red shorts, in Kinshasa, Zaire. (AP Photo, File)

    On this day, Oct. 30 …


    1974: Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), known as the “Rumble in the Jungle,” to regain his world heavyweight title.

    Also on this day:

    • 1944: The Martha Graham ballet “Appalachian Spring,” with music by Aaron Copland, premieres at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in a leading role.
    • 1945: The U.S. government announces the end of shoe rationing, effective at midnight.
    • 1961: The Soviet Union tests a hydrogen bomb, the “Tsar Bomba,” with a force estimated at about 50 megatons.
    • 1972: An Illinois Central Gulf commuter train is struck from behind by another train on Chicago’s South Side; 45 people are killed.
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    • 1975: The New York Daily News runs the headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” a day after President Gerald R. Ford says he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
    • 1979: President Carter announces his choice of federal appeals judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created Department of Education.
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    Jam Master Jay, shot dead in 2002 in a Queens, New York recording studio (AP)

    • 2002: Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell) of the pioneering hip-hop group Run-DMC is killed in a shooting in New York at age 37. (Two men would be charged in his death in August 2020.)
    • 2009: A federal jury in Miami convicts the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor in the first case brought under a 1994 U.S. law allowing prosecution for torture and atrocities committed overseas. (Charles McArthur Emmanuel would be sentenced to 97 years in prison.)
    • 2018: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a former Manafort business associate, Rick Gates, are indicted on felony charges, including conspiracy against the United States, as Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election reveals its first targets.
    • 2018: At his sentencing hearing, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl apologizes to the military personnel who were wounded searching for him after he walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
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    • 2019: The body of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein bore telltale signs of homicide despite an official ruling that he killed himself, pioneering forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden tells Fox News.
     
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