This Day in History

[moreluck]

Pope John Paul II is shot and wounded at St. Peter’s Square in Rome, Italy. Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca, an escaped fugitive already convicted of a previous murder, fired several shots at the religious leader, two of which wounded nearby tourists. Agca was immediately captured.

 

[olroadbeech]

1939 Lou Gehrig's "Luckiest man on the face of the earth" speech at Yankee Stadium

 

[floridays]

1939 Lou Gehrig's "Luckiest man on the face of the earth" speech at Yankee Stadium

Thanks olebeech.

 

[olroadbeech]

Thanks olebeech.

Probably watched the movie with Gary Cooper a dozen times. The book is excellent also. Read it last year. Lou Gehrig was a fine human being and a great role model who kids could look up to.

 

[Covemastah]

October 20th 2004

@MyTripisCut , @floridays

REDEMPTION

 

[Covemastah]

October 20th 2004

@MyTripisCut , @floridays

REDEMPTION

The birth of my children come second to this

 

[olroadbeech]

at 820 tonight it will be 10-20-20-20-20-20 ony time in history

 

[floridays]

October 20th 2004

@MyTripisCut , @floridays

REDEMPTION

Not a good night.

 

[floridays]

The birth of my children come second to this

I hope your wife's deliveries weren't as bloody as Schilling's.
First time a tampon led to a seventh game.
I hope your kids are Yankee fans.

 

[Covemastah]

I hope your wife's deliveries weren't as bloody as Schilling's.
First time a tampon led to a seventh game.
I hope your kids are Yankee fans.

Lol

 

[Covemastah]

10/21/75

 

[Covemastah]

10/21/75

 

[olroadbeech]

10/21/75

To me, that was the most exciting night in Boston sports history. I was working that night and listened to game on radio. People were going nuts for hours. Newspapers reported there was no crime in Boston during the game and afterwards for hours.

Very happy time. We have had countless great Boston sports moments. Celtics, Bruins, all those years in the 60's, the 67 and 75 Red Sox, the Patriots later on but this one is my favorite.

 

[Covemastah]

23 Oct, 1983 - Lebanon Suicide Bomber
October 23rd, 1983 : A suicide bomber drives a truck packed with explosives into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 military personnel.

 

[Covemastah]

23 Oct, 2001 - U.S.A. iPod
October 23rd, 2001 : Apple releases the first iPod capable of storing 1,000 songs. The iPod came with a 5 GB hard drive and was fully Mac compatible. Sales worldwide of the iPod now exceed 150 million and Apple iTunes has now sold over 5 billion songs worldwide.

 

[Covemastah]

10/24.
In 1962, a naval quarantine of Cuba ordered by President John friend. Kennedy went into effect during the missile crisis.

 

[Covemastah]

25 Oct, 1944 - Philippines Kamikaze Bombers
1944 : The Japanese deploy kamikaze suicide bombers against American warships for the first time during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets.

 

[Covemastah]

29 Oct, 1929 - U.S.A. Stock Market Crash
1929 : The Stock Market Crash on Black Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors, and stock tickers ran hours behind because the machinery could not handle the tremendous volume of trading. Partly due to the crash America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression of the 1930's. Some of the closing prices from that day are listed below:
US Steel 175
Westinghouse Electric 125
American Telephone 220
American Can 119

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

29 Oct, 1929 - U.S.A. Stock Market Crash
1929 : The Stock Market Crash on Black Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors, and stock tickers ran hours behind because the machinery could not handle the tremendous volume of trading. Partly due to the crash America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression of the 1930's. Some of the closing prices from that day are listed below:
US Steel 175
Westinghouse Electric 125
American Telephone 220
American Can 119

 

[Covemastah]

30 Oct, 1974 - Zaire Muhammad Ali
1974 : Muhammad Ali regains The Heavyweight Title by knocking out George Foreman in the eighth round during the fight billed as "Rumble In The Jungle."