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Today, October 5, 2025

October 5: World Teachers' Day: -- Almost everybody has a favorite teacher, someone who went above and beyond to encourage you because they could see your potential. On October 5, take time to celebrate World Teachers' Day - a global event launched by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1994. Just as Matilda had Ms. Honey, Harry had Dumbledore, and Cady had Ms. Norbury, maybe you're a teacher working hard to help young people learn and grow. Considering that teachers mold future generations, taking one day every year to say "thank you" is the least we can do. No matter where you are in the world today, remember that teachers matter! Become teacher yourself, educators from around the world fund students to learn and become one of them. Find a scholarship that will fit your education needs on this World Teachers' Day. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/american-art-and-the-metropolitan-museum-165016501914.html

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Today, October 5, 2025

October 5, 1795: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: 13 Vendemiaire: -- Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence by suppressing armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention. 13 Vendemiaire Year 4 (October 5 , 1795 in the Gregorian calendar)) is the name given to a battle between the French Revolutionary troops and Royalist forces in the streets of Paris. This battle was part of the establishing of a new form of government, the so-called Directory, and it was a major factor in the rapid advancement of Republican General Napoleon Bonaparte's career. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/napoleon-bonaparte-documentaries-collection-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

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Today, October 5, 2025

October 5, 1864: #BOTD: #HBD! Louis Lumiere, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. June 6, 1948) is #born Louis Francis Patrick Jean Lumiere in Besancon, France. The Lumiere brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean, were among the first filmmakers in history. They were manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for the short films they produced between 1895 and 1905 they created with their Cinematographe (cinematograph) motion picture system, a motion-picture camera superior to Thomas Edison's kinetograph, which did not have a projector. In contrast to Thomas Edison' "peepshow" kinetoscope, the cinematograph allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties. Their screening for about 200 members of the "Society for the Development of the National Industry" in Paris on March 22, 1895 was probably the first presentation of films on a screen for a large audience. Their first commercial public screening on December 28, 1895 for about 40 paying visitors and invited relations has traditionally been regarded as the birth of cinema. A combination of either the techniques or the business models of earlier filmmakers proved to be less viable than the breakthrough presentations of the Lumieres. Louis Lumiere died in Lyon, France at the age of 91. He is buried in a family tomb in the New Guillotiere Cemetery in Lyon. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/a-moment-in-time-dvd-film-history-narrated-by-gordon-parks.html

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Today, October 5, 2025

October 5, 1914: The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The Western Front Of World War I: Aviation: Military Aviation: Air Warfare Of World War I: -- The first aerial combat victory occurs when French pilot Sgt. Joseph Frantz and his mechanic/gunner Louis Quenault shoot down a two-man German Aviatik biplane near Reims during a morning bombing mission near Jonchery-sur-Vesle using an 8-millimeter Hotchkiss machine gun fixed to the front of the French Voison biplane, resulting in the deaths of both German aviators. Frantz recalled later that he saw the passenger in the enemy airplane ahead of him take out a rifle as Quenault fired a few dozen rounds, finally hitting the Aviatik's fuel tank. The Germans went down, trailing smoke, and crashed in a swamp. The pilot, Wilhelm Schlichting, had been killed by a bullet. His observer, Fritz Von Zangen, died in the crash. Frantz, who lived to the age of 89 (he died in Paris in 1979), would later recall his enemies' deaths without satisfaction, according to Mechin. After the French pilot landed and arrived at the crash scene, souvenir hunters were already going through the wreckage, and someone handed Frantz a picture of one of the Germans. He handed it back moments later. The victory was applauded in the French press, and Frantz was awarded the Legion of Honour, while Quenault got the Medaille militaire. Part of the reason for their fame is that there had been so many witnesses. The engagement took place not far from the trenches; according to an account in the Daily Telegraph reprinted in Flight magazine on October 16, 1914, "All the French troops on the spot forgot the danger of passing shells, and jumped out of the trenches to watch the air fight." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-story-of-aviation-the-story-of-icarus-dvd.html

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Today, October 5, 2025

October 5, 1918: The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The Diplomatic History Of World War I: Diplomatic Efforts To End World War I: -- An exchange of diplomatic notes, at the insistence of the Supreme Army Command, begins between the new German government under Prince Max of Baden and President Woodrow Wilson, in which Germany asks the President to mediate an armistice. One of Wilson's preconditions was the cessation of Germany's submarine war. Despite the objections of Chief Of The German Admiralty Staff Admiral Reinhard Scheer, the German government made this concession on October 20. The U-boats at sea were recalled on October 21. In response, on October 22, Scheer ordered Imperial German Navy Commander Of The High Seas Fleet Admiral Franz Von Hipper to prepare for an attack on the British fleet, utilising the main battle fleet, reinforced by the newly available U-boats, in order to provoke a decisive battle between the German High Seas Fleet and the British Grand Fleet in the southern North Sea in order to prevent the new German govenment from negotiating and end to the war. On October 24, Admiral Von Hipper promulgated the order to initiate the German Admiralty's plot, and on October 27, Admireal Scheer approved it. The fleet then began to concentrate at Schillig Roads off Wilhelmshaven to prepare for the battle. The order to prepare for the sortie was issued two days later on October 29, provoking mutiny aboard the German ships. Despite the operation being cancelled, these in turn led to the far more more serious Kiel mutiny, which was the starting point of the November Revolution, the German capitulation to the Allied forces briging an endi to the war, the signing of Armistice Of 11 November 1918 and the proclamation of the Weimar Republic. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/world-war-1-robert-ryan-4-dual-layer-dvds-26-episode-tv-se1426.html

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Today, October 5, 2025

October 5, 1918: #DOTD: #RIP: Roland Garros, French pioneering aviator and fighter pilot during World War I and early days of aviation (b. October 6, 1888) #dies when he is shot down and killed near Vouziers, Ardennes, a month before the end of the war and one day before his 30th birthday; his adversary was probably German ace Hermann Habich from Jasta 49, flying a Fokker D.VII. On April 18, 1915, Eugene Adrien Roland Georges Garros had glided to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I, after his fuel line clogged or his aircraft was hit by ground fire. Garros failed to destroy his aircraft completely before being taken prisoner: most significantly, the gun and armoured propeller remained intact. It was reported that after examining the plane, German aircraft engineers, led by Fokker, designed the improved interrupter gear system. In fact the work on Fokker's system had been going for at least six months before Garros's aircraft fell into their hands. In the early stages of the air war in World War I the problem of mounting a forward-firing machine gun on combat aircraft was considered by several people. As a reconnaissance pilot with the Escadrille MS26, Garros visited the Morane-Saulnier Works in December 1914. Saulnier's work on metal deflector wedges attached to propeller blades was taken forward by Garros; he eventually had a workable installation fitted to his Morane-Saulnier Type L aircraft. The Aero Club of America awarded him a medal for this invention three years later. Garros achieved the first ever shooting-down of an aircraft by a fighter firing through a tractor propeller, on April 1, 1915; two more victories over German aircraft were achieved on April 15 and 18. With the advent of Fokker's interrupter gear, the tables were turned on the Allies, with Fokker's planes shooting down many Allied aircraft, leading to what became known as the Fokker Scourge. After almost three years in captivity in various German POW camps, Garros managed to escape on February 14 1918 together with fellow aviator lieutenant Anselme Marchal. Via the Netherlands they made it to London, England and from there back to France where he rejoined the French army. He settled into Escadrille 26 to pilot a SPAD, and claimed two victories on October 2, 1918, one of which was confirmed. In 1928, the Roland Garros tennis stadium was named in his memory; the French Open tennis tournament takes the name of Roland-Garros from the stadium in which it is held. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/red-baron-dvd-world-war-i-aerial-warfare-documentaries.html

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Today, October 5, 2025

October 5, 1882: #BOTD: #HBD! Robert H. Goddard, American rocketry pioneer, physicist, inventor and engineer, one of the founding father of modern rocketry, credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket (d. August 10, 1945) is #born Robert Hutchings Goddard in Worcester, Massachussetts. Robert Goddard successfully launched his model on March 16, 1926, ushering in an era of space flight and innovation. He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as fast as 885 km/h (550 mph). Goddard's work as both theorist and engineer anticipated many of the developments that were to make spaceflight possible. He has been called the man who ushered in the Space Age. Two of Goddard's 214 patented inventions-a multi-stage rocket (1914), and a liquid-fuel rocket (1914)-were important milestones toward spaceflight.His 1919 monograph A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is considered one of the classic texts of 20th-century rocket science. Goddard successfully applied three-axis control, gyroscopes and steerable thrust to rockets to effectively control their flight. Although his work in the field was revolutionary, Goddard received very little public support for his research and development work. The press sometimes ridiculed his theories of spaceflight. As a result, he became protective of his privacy and his work. Years after his death, at the dawn of the Space Age, he came to be recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Hermann Oberth. He not only recognized the potential of rockets for atmospheric research, ballistic missiles and space travel but was the first to scientifically study, design and construct the rockets needed to implement those ideas. Robert Goddard died of throat cancer aged 62 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is buried at Hope Cemetery in Worcester, Massachusetts. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center was named in Goddard's honor in 1959. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/perspective-on-greatness-who-is-doctor-goddard-dvd.html

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Today, October 5, 2025

October 5, 1936: #BOTD: #HBD! Vaclav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, dissident, politician, statesman, last President of Czechoslovakia, 1st President of the Czech Republic (d. December 18, 2011) is #born in Prague, Czeechoslovakia. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs. His educational opportunities having been limited by his bourgeois background, Havel first rose to prominence as a playwright. In works such as The Garden Party and The Memorandum, Havel used an absurdist style to critique communism. After participating in the Prague Spring and being blacklisted after the invasion of Czechoslovakia, he became more politically active and helped found several dissident initiatives, including Charter 77 and the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted. His political activities brought him under the surveillance of the secret police and he spent multiple stints in prison, the longest being nearly four years, between 1979 and 1983. Havel's Civic Forum party played a major role in the Velvet Revolution that toppled communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989. He assumed the presidency shortly thereafter, and was re-elected in a landslide the following year and after Slovak independence in 1993. Havel was instrumental in dismantling the Warsaw Pact and expanding NATO membership eastward. Many of his stances and policies, such as his opposition to Slovak independence, condemnation of the Czechoslovak treatment of Sudeten Germans after World War II, and granting of general amnesty to all those imprisoned under communism, were very controversial domestically. As such, at the end of his presidency, he enjoyed greater popularity abroad than at home. Havel continued his life as a public intellectual after his presidency, launching several initiatives including the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, the VIZE 97 Foundation, and the Forum 2000 annual conference. Havel's political philosophy was one of anti-consumerism, humanitarianism, environmentalism, civil activism, and direct democracy. He supported the Czech Green Party from 2004 until his death in the morning at his country home in Hradecek at the age of 75. A week before his death, he met with his longtime friend, the Dalai Lama, in Prague; Havel appeared in a wheelchair. Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas announced a three-day mourning period from December 21 to 23, the date announced by President Vaclav Klaus for the state funeral. The funeral Mass was held at Saint Vitus Cathedral, celebrated by the Archbishop of Prague Dominik Duka and Havel's old friend Bishop Vaclav Maly. During the service, a 21 gun salute was fired in the former president's honour, and as per the family's request, a private ceremony followed at Prague's Strasnice Crematorium. Havel's ashes were placed in the family tomb in the Vinohrady Cemetery in Prague. On December 23, 2011, the Vaclav Havel Tribute Concert was held in Prague's Palac Lucerna. He received numerous accolades during his lifetime including the Presidential Medal Of Freedom, the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the Four Freedoms Award, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, and the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award. The 2012-2013 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour. He is considered by some to be one of the most important intellectuals of the 20th century. The international airport in Prague was renamed to Vaclav Havel Airport Prague in 2012. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/largo-desolato-dvd-vaclav-havel-semiautobiographical-play.html

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October 5, 1938: The Interwar Period (The Aftermath Of World War I, The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Road To War: Nazi Germany (The German Reich, The Third Reich): The History Of The Jews In Germany: Anti-Jewish Legislation In Pre-War Nazi Germany: Nazi Germany: The Nuremberg Laws: -- The passports belonging to Jews are invalidated; at this same time, it had already become almost impossible for potential Jewish emigrants to find a country that would take them in any event. The Nuremberg Laws (German: Nurnberger Gesetze) were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on September 15, 1935, at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. The two laws were the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, which forbade marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans and the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish households; and the Reich Citizenship Law, which declared that only those of German or related blood were eligible to be Reich citizens. The remainder were classed as state subjects without any citizenship rights. A supplementary decree outlining the definition of who was Jewish was passed on 14 November, and the Reich Citizenship Law officially came into force on that date. The laws were expanded on November 26, 1935 to include Romani and Black people. This supplementary decree defined Romanis as "enemies of the race-based state", the same category as Jews. Out of foreign policy concerns, prosecutions under the two laws did not commence until after the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin. After Hitler rose to power in 1933, the Nazis began to implement antisemitic policies, which included the formation of a Volksgemeinschaft (people's community) based on race. Chancellor and Fuhrer (leader) Adolf Hitler declared a national boycott of Jewish businesses on April 1, 1933, and the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, passed on April 7, excluded the so-called non-Aryans from the legal profession, the civil service, and from teaching in secondary schools and universities. Books considered un-German, including those by Jewish authors, were destroyed in a nationwide book burning on May 10. Jewish citizens were harassed and subjected to violent attacks. They were actively suppressed, stripped of their citizenship and civil rights, and eventually completely removed from German society. The Nuremberg Laws had a crippling economic and social impact on the Jewish community. Persons convicted of violating the marriage laws were imprisoned, and (subsequent to March 8, 1938) upon completing their sentences were re-arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Nazi concentration camps. Non-Jews gradually stopped socialising with Jews or shopping in Jewish-owned stores, many of which closed due to a lack of customers. As Jews were no longer permitted to work in the civil service or government-regulated professions such as medicine and education, many middle-class business owners and professionals were forced to take menial employment. Emigration was problematic, as Jews were required to remit up to 90% of their wealth as a tax upon leaving the country. By 1938 it was almost impossible for potential Jewish emigrants to find a country willing to take them. Mass deportation schemes such as the Madagascar Plan proved to be impossible for the Nazis to carry out, and starting in mid-1941, the German government started mass exterminations of the Jews of Europe. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/from-nuremberg-to-nuremberg-2-part-wwii-tv-series-dvd-mp4-usb-dri24.html

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October 5, 1947: The History Of Broadcasting: The History Of Television Broadcasting: The Presidency Of Harry S. Truman: Addresses To The Nation: Oval Office Addresses: The Oval Office Address Of October 5, 1947: -- The first televised White House Oval Office Address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who asks Americans to reduce grain consumption to help starving Europeans in the difficult extended Aftermath Of World War II. An Oval Office address is a speech made from the Oval Office in the White House by the President of the United States. It is considered among the most solemn settings for an address made by the President, and is most often delivered to announce a major new policy initiative, on the occasion of a President's departure from office, or during times of national emergency (natural disaster, war, etc). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/harry-s-truman-days-of-decision-dvd.html

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October 5, 1969: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Television Premieres: British Television Premieres: -- Monty Python's Flying Circus is first broadcast, appearing on BBC One with the episode "Whither Canada?", a title initially proposed as the name for the comedy group itself. Recorded September 7, 1969, its contents include: It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Famous deaths; Italian lesson; Whizzo Butter; "It's the Arts"; Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson; Picasso Cycling Race; The Funniest Joke in the World. The lattermost sketch became a springboard for their fame; the nonsense-German text of the joke, ""Wenn ist das Nunstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!" translates as "When is the now piece git and slotermeyer? Yes! At hand the or the Flipperwaldt gersput!" On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/life-of-python-dvd-monty-python39s-flying-circus-documenta39.html

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October 5, 1970: The History Of Broadcasting: The History Of Television Broadcasting: The History Of American Television Broadcasting: The History Of Public Broadcasting: The History Of Public Television: The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS): -- The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded by Hartford N. Gunn Jr., taking over many of the functions of its predecessor, National Educational Television (NET), which later merged with Newark, New Jersey station WNDT to form WNET; in 1973, it merged with Educational Television Stations (ETS). PBS is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor. It is a non-profit organization and is the most prominent provider of educational television programming to public television stations in the United States. PBS is funded by member station dues, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, corporate contributions, National Datacast, pledge drives, private foundations and individual citizens. All proposed funding is subjected to a set of standards to ensure the program is free of influence from the funding source. Since the mid-2000s, Roper Opinion Research polls commissioned by PBS have consistently placed the service as the most-trusted national institution in the United States. A 2016-2017 study by Nielsen found 80% of all US television households view the network's programs. However, PBS is not responsible for all programming carried on public television stations, a large proportion of which come from affiliates, including such member stations as WGBH, WETA, WNET, WTTW, American Public Television and independent producers. The service has more than 350 member television stations, many owned by educational institutions, by non-profit groups affiliated with a local public school district or collegiate educational institution, or by state government-owned or state government-related entities. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/great-moments-from-nova-dvd-1990-tv-series-be1990.html

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Today, October 5, 2025
October 5: Country Inn Bed & Breakfast Day: -- A day for home-style breakfasts, cozy decor, and a relaxed pace of life. The concept of an inn located along the road in the countryside has been a part of many cultures for centuries. In ancient Persia, inns were opened along caravan and trading routes. A family might have made a room available in their home or a monastery might have opened up rooms for weary travelers who needed a rest and a place to care for their horses. Offering a place for lodging and often a hearty meal, country inns developed into something more like the bed and breakfast that is popular today. Many folks prefer this way to travel - and Country Inn Bed & Breakfast Day is the perfect time to celebrate! Country Inn Bed and Breakfast Day is an occasion that originated several years ago, with the first celebration happening in 2005. As the popularity of the day has continued to grow, thousands of hostels and others in the hospitality industry now make a special effort every year to welcome visitors by providing special events, information and entertainment. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-vol-5-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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October 5: Balloons Around The World Day: -- They float through the air and celebrate birthdays, they decorate grand openings of businesses and are used in medical treatments, they've been used as forms of luxury transportation, and the quietest of military infiltration, what are they? They're balloons! Balloons Around The World Day celebrates these marvels that everyone has experienced, and that have been used in a million different ways for so many different purposes. From their use in art to every other feasible application, balloons are pretty amazing! For some people, balloons may conjure up thoughts of parties as a child - the excitement of pulling up to a house with balloons outside in candy pink, cherry red or sunny yellow as a signal that the party is here and it is time to celebrate. The first airborne flight in a hydrogen balloon took place in December of 1783 by Jacques Charles, who determined that it would be possible based on his study of Boyle's Law. The balloon was rather an amazing innovation of technologies, utilizing silk varnished in a mixture of turpentine and rubber to seal in the hydrogen. Though they faced some troubles filling the balloon (it turns out the gas needs to be cooled before putting it in the balloon as, like most things, it contracts when it cools) they ultimately were able to get their balloon into the air and fly it 21 kilometers north. It is perhaps unfortunate that it was subsequently destroyed by peasants with pitchforks as a terrifying unnatural phenomena! From that time, balloon technology just exploded, with every possible application coming in the years that followed. In 1824, Michael Faraday created the rubber balloon, and the rest was pretty much history. Balloons have been made out of rubber, latex, nylon, foil and many other substances and in any number of shapes, sizes, colors and more. Balloons Around The World Day celebrates these creations and the parts they play in our lives! Balloons Around The World Day was founded by Jeff Brown in 2000 to hold up these lighter than air contraptions and get more people to use balloons. Of course, in more recent years, balloons have been shown to have a less-than positive impact on the environment (especially when used with helium and released) and they should be used with more caution. https://store.earthstation1.com/lighter-than-air-airships-inflatable-planes-dvd-mp3-us3.html

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Today, October 5, 2025
October 5: Charge Your Car Day: -- It can be easy to take for granted - or forget entirely - all of the work that a car battery puts into keeping the car going anywhere and everywhere it needs to be. Since the number one cause of car breakdowns is battery failure, Charge Your Car Day acts as an opportunity for people to celebrate their car batteries and serves as a reminder to get all charged up about it! When cars were first built, the technology was such that the only thing that it really needed the battery for was to start it. But today's car batteries do many more things that contribute to the way a car functions and runs. From alarms to immobilizers, from keyless entry to onboard computers, the car battery works hard on various aspects of the vehicle to help keep these features going. For those folks who drive a car that has an internal combustion engine (ICE), Charge Your Car Day was founded to bring a bit of attention to the praise a battery deserves for its excellent work and to give it some additional attention. It's a time to remind people that their 12 volt car batteries may be given a boost by plugging them in, especially in cold weather. That's why Charge Your Car Day is celebrated just at the beginning of the season of cooler weather that will begin taking place, at least in the northern hemisphere. Charge Your Car Day is sponsored by CTEK, a battery company that works to provide battery products that maximize performance with safe, dependable and simple technology. https://store.earthstation1.com/and-away-we-go-american-automobile-history-dvd.html

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Today, October 5, 2025
October 5: National Be Nice Day: -- It's a no-brainer that we should be nice each and every day, but unfortunately, in this complicated world, that's a tough goal to achieve on a daily basis. Luckily, there's one special day where we can fully concentrate on kindness towards others, something which ricochets back to us as a personal benefit. Be it big or small, any act of kindness is something to celebrate. National Be Nice Day encourages us to make someone else's life just a little bit happier. Commit to walking in the light of positivity all day long. Did you know being nice can truly transform your life and the lives of those around you? A warm smile or a thoughtful gesture can light up someone's day, creating ripples of positivity. When you're nice to others, it uplifts their spirits and boosts your mood, fostering a sense of happiness and connection. Over time, these acts of kindness can build strong, supportive relationships and a more compassionate community. So, never underestimate the power of being nice; it can indeed change life for the better. National Be Nice Day is a special day that brings out the best in people. Celebrated on October 5th every year, it encourages everyone to spread kindness and positivity. This day reminds us that small acts of kindness can make a big difference in someone's life. The reason for celebrating this day is simple yet powerful. It aims to counter the negativity often seen in the world, especially online, by promoting positive actions and words. By doing something nice for others, whether they are friends, family, or strangers, we contribute to a happier and more caring community. This day has grown in popularity and now sees participation from people all around the globe. It's a day that transcends borders, showing that kindness is a universal language understood by all. By participating, we make others feel valued and appreciated and create a ripple effect, encouraging more people to join in on the act of being nice. National Be Nice Day started as a bright idea to bring more positivity into our lives, especially on the internet. With social media playing a huge role in our daily interactions, online negativity prompted people to seek change. Thus, this day came to life, encouraging us all to act kindly and spread cheer both online and in person. While the exact beginnings of this day are hazy, its purpose is crystal clear. It's all about promoting good deeds and creating a wave of kindness that touches everyone. This day serves as a powerful reminder that even the smallest act of kindness can greatly impact someone's day. Over the years, National Be Nice Day has caught on globally, with countless people joining in to make the world nicer. By focusing on positivity and kindness, this day has become a beacon of hope and friendliness in a world that often seems divided. It shows us that kindness is a choice we can all make every day. https://store.earthstation1.com/it-was-20-years-ago-today-1967-and-sgt-pepp201967.html

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Today, October 5, 2025
October 5: National Do Something Nice Day: -- Make your friends and family smile today! This holiday encourages us to perform acts of kindness for strangers or loved ones - or both! It's easy to become so caught up in our own stresses and struggles that we forget to show kindness to others. This holiday is a great reminder that doing good deeds makes the world better - and might even help you better manage your own troubles in the process. So celebrate with us! Sure, every day is a great day to do something nice, but this day, the practice of kindness is particularly relevant. The idea of doing something nice for others has been around all throughout the history of humankind. Sure, the story of mankind is certainly filled with a myriad of difficulties and war, and these are more often written down for posterity. But it's also possible to find evidence of the nice things that people have done for each other. Over the centuries, people have lived in community with one another and have performed acts of kindness and generosity. Some of the greatest evidences of people doing something far beyond took place during World War II, when many different people in Europe risked their lives to protect and rescue those who were being persecuted by the Nazi regime, especially the Jews. These types of activities included people like Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch woman who opened her home to Jewish refugees, as well as Oskar Schindler, a Nazi Party member who helped save at least 1200 Jews. But Do Something Nice Day doesn't necessarily have to be dramatic or risky. It can simply be the inspiration behind performing small and random acts of kindness that can add up to making the world a better place! Although the motivation of Do Something Nice Day is typically selfless, for no reason other than to be kind to someone else, many people don't realize that the act of kindness can be good for you as well! Doing something nice on a regular basis can actually improve a person's health. Research behind performing acts of kindness has shown health benefits, such as the release of oxytocin, which is a hormone that helps lower the blood pressure and reduce anxiety. Other reports include participants who say they have more energy after being kind and that generous people are more likely to be happy themselves. Plus, older people who volunteer to help others are less likely to report aches and pains and they are 44% less likely to die early. Clearly, Do Something Nice Day is a good way for everyone to get motivated to be a positive and uplifting presence in the world - not only on this day but perhaps even starting a habit to do something nice every day! https://store.earthstation1.com/scouts-the-life-and-legacy-of-lord-badenpowell-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rock & Roll An Unruly History 10 Part TV Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5: National Get Funky Day: -- As "One Nation Under a Groove," we have a collective opportunity to pay homage to the power and majesty of The Funk. We're not talking funk as in depressing, but funk as in get-happy-and-celebrate-life! National Get Funky Day is the brainchild of Funkytown Fitness, a fitness center in St. Augustine, Florida. After Hurricane Matthew slammed into Florida, a group of Funkytown Fitness folks assembled to create National Get Funky Day every year on October 5 as a way to "help people break free of their comfort zones." Today, make it funky anyway you want for as long as you want! It's true that the word "funk" originally began in the early 17th century and was taken to mean "a strong odor". And it can still mean that today. But the word has also evolved into something a little bit different. It seems that in the early 1900s, the term "funk", which had come to mean something along the lines of "musty, was taken to mean something earthy or even something deep or felt strongly. In the budding world of jazz music, musicians would often encourage each other with phrases like "put some stank on it", or "make it funky, now". This was perhaps related to the idea that a musician who was working hard might end up sweaty and maybe a little stinky. But it was usually associated with doing a good job. Not long after, jazz albums began to be released with the word Funk or Funky in the title. This has been particularly true in the genre of black music, starting with African American jazz, R & B and soul, and eventually turning into a genre of its own. Many people in the black culture consider the idea of funk to be part of artistic expression not only in music but in writing, drama, theater and more. The idea of getting "funky" spread beyond the African American subculture and was embraced by many different people in the US and around the world. And eventually National Get Funky Day was established. Founded by Funkytown Fitness, a health club located in St. Augustine, Florida in the US, National Get Funky Day got its start in 2016 (though not officially proclaimed until 2017). Having just gone through Hurricane Matthew, the idea was to help people who had been devastated or discouraged by the storm. The idea for National Get Funky Day is simply a time to allow people to break free from what they normally do and move a bit outside of their comfort zones. This means showing how happy they can be by dancing, singing, laughing and generally sharing a positive mood so that people can come out of their "funk". https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Music & Dance Shows #3 Thaxton, Revere, Kinks DVD, MP4, Flash Drive
Today, October 5, 2025
( #JCKaelin here: Lloyd Thaxton and I had a number of interesting interactions in the last two years of his life. He was a class act, and we are better for having had him brighten up our world with his noble spirit :D ) ========= October 5, 2008: #DOTD: #RIP: Lloyd Thaxton, American writer, television producer, director, and television host best known for his syndicated pop music television program of the 1960s, The Lloyd Thaxton Show, which began as a local Los Angeles program on KCOP in September 1961 (b. May 31, 1927) #dies in his Studio City, California home at age 81 from multiple myeloma in October 2008, which had been diagnosed in May of that year. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Lloyd Thaxton was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He grew up in Toledo, Ohio, and on graduating from high school, Thaxton enlisted in the Navy, "barely hours" before he would have been drafted. After starting his radio career in Toledo, he moved to Los Angeles in 1957, becoming, in his words, a "freelance announcer" and host of the highly rated Leave It to Lloyd talk show on KHJ-TV. He casually coined the term "freelance announcer" since his work in commercials was most active toward the end of the era of live television; Thaxton would go from venue to venue performing the commercials live, since videotape was not in wide use then. Many of his commercials for KHJ and KNXT were for the now-defunct Southern California discount chain, White Front. His career at KCOP began in 1958 both as a commercial announcer and as announcer for The June Levant Show, an afternoon talk show starring the wife of celebrated pianist Oscar Levant. This led to his own afternoon show, Lloyd Thaxton's Record Shop, in 1959. The program attracted quite a number of big-name guests, some of whom stopped by to promote their latest record and many of whom simply stopped by for the chance to chat with Thaxton. Among those early guests were Fred Astaire, Jerry Lewis, Johnny Green and Dimitri Tiomkin. In 1961 The Lloyd Thaxton Show (sometimes known as "The Lloyd Thaxton Hop") debuted on KCOP as an hour-long presentation from 5 to 6 p.m. The format, much along the lines of American Bandstand, featured local high school students dancing on the soundstage to the latest records. The show was almost totally unscripted and spontaneous. Thaxton's description of the idea: "No one told me what I had to do. I was producing it myself. I was writing it myself." Thaxton frequently clowned around on stage to the music, lip-synching the vocals and accompanying the records on guitar or piano. One favorite recurring skit had the costumed Thaxton on his knees, impersonating painter Toulouse-Lautrec, while lip-synching a current song. He also occasionally "performed" on an odd contraption made from a tennis racket and a bow and arrow that roughly looked like a guitar and "play-synked" popular early-1960s instrumental tunes like "Scratchy" by Travis Wammack and various The Ventures and Link Wray guitar songs. The Lloyd Thaxton Show, with its mix of new music and comedy skits, immediately shot to Number One in the time period, with a viewership of at least 350,000 homes, including those on the East Coast. Many leading rock 'n' roll acts of the time, like The Byrds, Sonny & Cher, The Kinks, The Bobby Fuller Four, The Challengers and others appeared on the program. Thaxton would end each show by saying, "I'm Lloyd Thaxton," followed by the teen audience shouting, "So what," whereupon the Bill Black Combo instrumental of the same name would play. Although some cities carried his show almost from its inception, like KPTV in Portland, Oregon, The Lloyd Thaxton Show went into national syndication in late 1964, quickly becoming the highest rated musical entertainment program in the US for the next eight years. Lloyd Thaxton is today known as the father of music videos. Thaxton's ventures into other television programs and facets of the entertainment industry earned him five Emmy Awards and 15 Emmy nominations. His face appeared at the top of the newly launched Tiger Beat magazine (then known as "Lloyd Thaxton's Tiger Beat"), for which he did a column. According to IMDB, Thaxton was a co-founder of Tiger Beat magazine. During the late 1960s Thaxton hosted two short-lived game shows for ABC: Everybody's Talking (1967) and Funny You Should Ask (1968-69). He also was a radio talk show host on KABC-790 in Los Angeles from 1972-74. His Sunday show received positive reviews from the critics. Moving behind the scenes, in 1977 he created the syndicated game show Pro-Fan, which he also announced. Charlie Jones hosted the series. He also served as producer and director of the weekly consumer advocate show Fight Back! With David Horowitz from 1976-92, as well as producer for NBC's The Today Show. In 2003 Thaxton and motivational speaker John Alston co-wrote the best-seller Stuff Happens (and then you fix it), published by Wiley & Sons. Thaxton met his second wife, Barbara Snyder Whitman, on the set of the NBC summer series Showcase '68. They were married August 11, 1969. They had no children but remained married until his death. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-3-thaxton-revere-amp-kinks-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Lighter Than Air: Airships & Inflatable Planes DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1930: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: Military Aviation Maiden Flights: Aviation Incidents And Accidents: Lighter Than Air Aviation (Lighter-Than-Air-Aviation): The History Of Ballooning: The History Of Airships (The History Of Dirigibles, The History Of Dirigible Balloons): The R101's Final Flight: -- #DOTD: #RIP: British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage, killing 48 of the 54 people on board. Among the deceased passengers were Lord Thomson, the Air Minister who had initiated the programme, senior government officials, and almost all the dirigible's designers from the Royal Airship Works. R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airships completed in 1929 as part of a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service on long-distance routes within the British Empire. When built it was the world's largest flying craft at 731 ft in length, and it was not surpassed by another hydrogen-filled rigid airship until the Hindenburg flew seven years later. The crash of R101 effectively ended British airship development, and was one of the worst airship accidents of the 1930s. https://store.earthstation1.com/lighter-than-air-airships-inflatable-planes-dvd-mp3-us3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Russian Right Stuff: Soviet Space Program TV Series DVD, Download, USB
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1930: #BOTD: #HBD! Pavel Popovich, Ukrainian general, pilot, cosmonaut and ufologist, the 4th cosmonaut in space, the 6th person in orbit, and the 8th person in space (d. September 29, 2009) is #born Pavel Romanovich Popovich in Uzyn, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. He was married to Marina Popovich, nicknamed "Madame MiG" for her work on that Soviet fighter plane, a retired Soviet Air Force colonel, engineer, and legendary Soviet test pilot who herself has been outspoken about UFO reality. They had two daughters. They later divorced, and Popovich married Alevtina Oshegova. Popovich was also a keen weight lifter. He was also a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 6th-11th convocations. In 1960, he was selected as one of the first group of twenty air force pilots that would train as the first cosmonauts for the Soviet space program. The training took place between March 1960 and January 1961, and Popovich passed his final exams in Cosmonaut Basic Training on 17/18 January 1961. He was appointed as an cosmonaut on 25 January 1961. He was considered as a strong candidate for the first spaceflight - but while Yuri Gagarin was ultimately chosen for the Vostok 1 flight, Popovich served as the flight's capcom. From May to August 1961, he trained to fly on spacecraft "Vostok-2" in a group of astronauts, followed (between September and November 1961) with training to fly "Vostok-3". This flight was cancelled. Between November 1961 and May 1962, he trained as a pilot for "Vostok-4". Between June and August of that year, he received further training in the maintenance of this spacecraft. He commanded the space flight Vostok 4 which, along with Andrian Nikolayev on Vostok 3, was the first time that more than one manned spacecraft were in orbit at the same time. His call sign for this flight was Golden Eagle. In January 1964, he became a cosmonaut instructor, becoming deputy commander to the 2nd group of cosmonauts. Popovich was selected to command one of the Soviet Union's planned moon landings, and trained for this between 1966 and 1968, when the Soviet moon landing plans were scrapped. In 1968, he was selected as commander for Soyuz 2, but after the death of Vladimir Komarov during the reentry of Soyuz 1, Soyuz 2 was launched without a crew. In 1969 he was a senior cosmonaut instructor, and became (by 1972) the Chief of cosmonaut training. In 1974, he commanded his second (and final) space flight Soyuz 14 in 1974. Again, his call sign for this flight was Golden Eagle. This flight was the first to the Salyut 3 space station. The name of Pavel Popovich was given to a mountain ridge in Antarctica and a minor planet. In 1984 Popovich joined the Russian Academy of Sciences' newly created All-Union Investigation Committee for Anomalous Aerial Phenomena and became head of the Academy's UFO Commission. In the 2002 SciFi Channel documentary Out of the Blue, Popovich relays a sighting of a UFO next to the airplane he was travelling aboard as he was returning home from Washington D.C. with a delegation of scientists. The UFO was seen by everyone on board the plane. It was perfect triangle shaped and emitted a very bright, white light at a distance of about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) and an altitude about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above the airplane. The object had an estimated speed of 1,500 kilometres per hour (930 mph) travelling parallel to the airplane and passed and overtook the plane in about 30 to 40 seconds. Popovich was the president of the UFO Association Of Russia. Pavel Popovich died of a brain hemorrhage in a hospital in Gurzuf, Crimea, Ukraine where he was taken following a stroke, aged 78. He is buried in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow, Russian Federation. https://store.earthstation1.com/russian-right-stuff-dvd-set-space-program-secret-history-2-disc2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Bill Dana As Jose Jimenez Comedy Album Megaset MP3 CD, Download, USB
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1924: #BOTD: #HBD! Bill Dana, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. June 15, 2017) is #born William Szathmary in Quincy, Massachusetts, the youngest of six children born to Joseph and Dena Szathmary. He was of Hungarian Jewish descent, and took his stage name "Dana" after his mother's first name "Dena" as he felt "Szathmary" was unpronounceable. Bill Dana often appeared on television shows such as The Steve Allen Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, frequently in the guise of a heavily accented Bolivian character named Jose Jimenez. Dana often portrayed the Jimenez character as a cowardly astronaut, endearing himself to the Mercury 7 astronauts who made him an unofficial eight Mercury astronaut. Bill Dana died at his home in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 92. His remains were cremated, and the ashes were given to his widow Evelyn Shular. https://store.earthstation1.com/bill-dana-as-jose-jimenez-comedy-album-megaset-mp3-cd-usb-driv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Portraits Of American Presidents Nos. 1-42 TV Series MP4 Download DVD
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1829: #BOTD: #HBD! Chester A. Arthur, American politician who served as the 21st president of the United States from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican lawyer from New York who previously served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield (d. November 18, 1886) is #born Chester Alan Arthur in Fairfield, Vermont, grew up in upstate New York and practiced law in New York City. He served as quartermaster general of the New York Militia during the American Civil War. Following the war, he devoted more time to New York Republican politics and quickly rose in Senator Roscoe Conkling's political organization. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him as Collector of the Port of New York in 1871, and he was an important supporter of Conkling and the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party. In 1878, following bitter disputes between Conkling and President Rutherford B. Hayes over control of patronage in New York, Hayes fired Arthur as part of a plan to reform the federal patronage system. In June 1880, the extended contest between Grant, identified with the Stalwarts, and James G. Blaine, the candidate of the Half-Breed faction, led to the compromise selection of Ohio's Garfield for president. Republicans then nominated Arthur for vice president to balance the ticket geographically and to placate Stalwarts disappointed by Grant's defeat. Garfield and Arthur won the 1880 presidential election and took office in March 1881. Four months into his term, Garfield was shot by an assassin; he died 11 weeks later on September 19, 1881, and Arthur assumed the presidency, serving the remainder of his term until March 4, 1885. As president, Arthur presided over the rebirth of the US Navy, but he was criticized for failing to alleviate the federal budget surplus which had been accumulating since the end of the Civil War. Arthur vetoed the first version of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, arguing that its twenty-year ban on Chinese immigrants to the United States violated the Burlingame Treaty, but he signed a second version, which included a ten-year ban. He appointed Horace Gray and Samuel Blatchford to the Supreme Court. He also enforced the Immigration Act of 1882 to impose more restrictions on immigrants and the Tariff of 1883 to attempt to reduce tariffs. Arthur signed into law the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, which came as a surprise to reformers who held a negative reputation of Arthur as a Stalwart and product of Conkling's organization. Suffering from poor health, Arthur made only a limited effort to secure the Republican Party's nomination in 1884, and he retired at the end of his term. Arthur's failing health and political temperament combined to make his administration less active than a modern presidency, yet he earned praise among contemporaries for his solid performance in office. Journalist Alexander McClure wrote, "No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted as Chester Alan Arthur, and no one ever retired ... more generally respected, alike by political friend and foe." Chester A. Arthur died of a cerebral hemorrage at his home in New York City aged 57, two days after he fell seriously ill and ordered nearly all of his papers, both personal and official, to be burned. On November 22, a private funeral was held at the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City, attended by President Cleveland and ex-President Hayes, among other notables. Arthur was buried with his family members and ancestors in the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York. He was laid beside his wife in a sarcophagus on a large corner of the plot. In 1889, a monument was placed on Arthur's burial plot by sculptor Ephraim Keyser of New York, consisting of a giant bronze female angel figure placing a bronze palm leaf on a granite sarcophagus. The New York World summed up Arthur's presidency at his death in 1886: "No duty was neglected in his administration, and no adventurous project alarmed the nation." Mark Twain wrote of him, "It would be hard indeed to better President Arthur's administration." Arthur's post-presidency, some 19 months long, was the second-shortest of all presidents who lived past their presidencies, after that of James K. Polk who died just three months after leaving office. Evaluations by modern historians generally rank Arthur as a mediocre or average president. Arthur has also been described as one of the least memorable presidents. https://store.earthstation1.com/portraits-of-american-presidents-nos-142-tv-series-mp4-download1424.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Great Depression 7 Part Documentary Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1941: #DOTD: Louis Brandeis, American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939, the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court (b. November 13, 1856) #dies of undisclosed causes in Washington, D.C., aged 84. Both Brandeis and his wife are interred beneath the portico of The Brandeis School Of Law of The University Of Louisville, in Louisville, Kentucky. Brandeis himself made the arrangements that made the law school one of only thirteen Supreme Court repositories in the U.S. His professional papers are archived at the library there. Louis Brandeis was born Louis Dembitz Brandeis in Louisville, Kentucky, the youngest of four children of immigrant parents from Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), who raised him in a Secular Jewish home. Starting in 1890, he helped develop the "right to privacy" concept by writing a Harvard Law Review article of that title, and was thereby credited by legal scholar Roscoe Pound as having accomplished "nothing less than adding a chapter to our law." He was a leading figure in the antitrust movement at the turn of the century, particularly in his resistance to the monopolization of the New England railroad and advice to Woodrow Wilson as a candidate. In his books, articles and speeches, including Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It, and The Curse of Bigness, he criticized the power of large banks, money trusts, powerful corporations, monopolies, public corruption, and mass consumerism, all of which he felt were detrimental to American values and culture. He later became active in the Zionist movement, seeing it as a solution to antisemitism in Europe and Russia, while at the same time being a way to "revive the Jewish spirit." When his family's finances became secure, he began devoting most of his time to public causes and was later dubbed the "People's Lawyer." He insisted on taking cases without pay so that he would be free to address the wider issues involved. The Economist magazine called him "A Robin Hood of the law." Among his notable early cases were actions fighting railroad monopolies, defending workplace and labor laws, helping create the Federal Reserve System, and presenting ideas for the new Federal Trade Commission. He achieved recognition by submitting a case brief, later called the "Brandeis Brief", which relied on expert testimony from people in other professions to support his case, thereby setting a new precedent in evidence presentation. Brandeis was a Republican before 1912, after then, he switch to being a Democrat. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson nominated Brandeis to a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States. His nomination was bitterly contested, partly because, as Justice William O. Douglas later wrote, "Brandeis was a militant crusader for social justice whoever his opponent might be. He was dangerous not only because of his brilliance, his arithmetic, his courage. He was dangerous because he was incorruptible ... [and] the fears of the Establishment were greater because Brandeis was the first Jew to be named to the Court." On June 1, 1916, he was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 47 to 22, to become one of the most famous and influential figures ever to serve on the high court. His opinions were, according to legal scholars, some of the "greatest defenses" of freedom of speech and the right to privacy ever written by a member of the Supreme Court. Some have criticized Brandeis for evading issues related to African Americans, as he did not author a single opinion on any cases about race during his twenty-three year tenure, and consistently voted with the court majority including in support of racial segregation. Brandeis retired from the Supreme Court on February 13, 1939, and died a year and a half later. https://store.earthstation1.com/grde7padosem.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: King: A Filmed Record: Montgomery To Memphis DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 2011: #DOTD: #RIP: Fred Shuttlesworth, African American civil rights and voting rights activist, co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama who initiated and was instrumental in the 1963 Birmingham Campaign to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham (b. March 18, 1922) #dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 89 in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham. The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute announced that it intends to include Shuttlesworth's burial site on the Civil Rights History Trail. By order of Alabama governor Robert Bentley, flags on state government buildings were to be lowered to half-staff until Shuttlesworth's interment. Fred Shuttlesworth was born Freddie Lee Robinson in Mount Meigs, Alabama. Freddie Lee Shuttlesworth continued to work throughout his life against racism and for alleviation of the problems of the homeless in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he took up a pastorate in 1961. He returned to Birmingham after his retirement in 2007. He worked with Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, though the two men often disagreed on tactics and approaches. The Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport was named in his honor in 2008. The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award is bestowed annually in his name. https://store.earthstation1.com/king-a-filmed-record--montgomery-to-memphis-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: JFK Assassination Live TV Coverage DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 2001: #DOTD: #RIP: Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat, Democratic U.S. representative (1943-1953) and U.S. senator (1953-1977) from Montana, longest-serving Senate Majority Leader from 1961 to 1977, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan (b. March 16, 1903) #dies in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. at 7:35 a.m. EDT at the age of 98; Mansfield had undergone surgery Sept. 7 to have a pacemaker implanted in his chest after complaining to friends of feeling weak. He was survived by his daughter, Anne Fairclough Mansfield (1939-2013), and one granddaughter. The burial plot of Pvt. and Mrs. Mansfield can be found in section 2, marker 49-69F of Arlington National Cemetery. Mike Mansfield was born Michael Joseph Mansfield in the Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Irish immigrants Patrick J. Mansfield and Josephine (nee O'Brien) Mansfield. His father struggled to support the family, and after Mansfield's mother died of pneumonia in 1906, his father sent Mansfield and his two sisters to live with his great-aunt and uncle in Great Falls, Montana. He turned into a habitual runaway, even living at a state orphanage in Twin Bridges for half a year. At 14, Mansfield dropped out of school and lied about his age in order to enlist in the US Navy during World War I. He went on several overseas convoys on the USS Minneapolis but was discharged by the Navy after his real age was discovered. He is the last known veteran of the war to die before he reached the age of 100, and the last World War I veteran to sit in the US Senate. After his Navy discharge, he enlisted in the US Army, serving as a private from 1919 to 1920. Mansfield went on to become a Private First Class in the US Marine Corps from 1920 to 1922. He was awarded the Good Conduct Medal, his character being described as "excellent" during his two years as a Marine. Following his return to Montana in 1922, Mansfield worked as a "mucker" and shoveled ore and other waste in the copper mines of Butte for eight years. Having never attended high school, he took entrance examinations to attend the Montana School of Mines (1927-1928), studying to become a mining engineer. He later met a local schoolteacher and his future wife, Maureen Hayes, who encouraged him to further his education. With her financial support, Mansfield studied at the University of Montana in Missoula, where he took both high school and college courses. He was also a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1933 and was offered a graduate assistantship teaching two courses at the university. He ultimately became a professor of history and political science at the University of Montana. He won election to the House of Representatives and served on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs during World War II. In 1952, he defeated incumbent Republican Senator Zales Ecton to take a seat in the Senate. Mansfield served as Senate Majority Whip from 1957 to 1961. Mansfield ascended to Senate Majority Leader after Lyndon B. Johnson resigned from the Senate to become vice president. During his tenure, he shepherded Great Society programs through the Senate. In the later years of the campaign, he eventually opposed escalation of the Vietnam War and supported President Richard Nixon's plans to replace US soldiers from Southeast Asia with Vietnamese belligerents. After retiring from the Senate, Mansfield served as US Ambassador to Japan from 1977 to 1988. Upon retiring as ambassador, he was awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal Of Freedom. Mansfield is the longest-serving American ambassador to Japan in history. After his ambassadorship, Mansfield served for a time as a senior adviser on East Asian affairs to Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment banking firm. https://store.earthstation1.com/jfk-assassination-live-tv-coverage-2-dual-layer-dvd2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War TV Series DVD, Video Download, USB
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1923: #BOTD: Philip Berrigan, controversial American Josephite Catholic priest and peace activist (d. December 6, 2002) is #born Philip Francis Berrigan in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Philip Francis Berrigan, SSJ (S.ociety of S.aint J.oseph of the Sacred Heart) engaged in nonviolent, civil disobedience in the cause of peace and nuclear disarmament and was often arrested. He later married a former nun, Elizabeth McAlister, in 1969; in 1973, they legalized their marriage, and both were subsequently excommunicated by the Catholic Church, though their excommunication was later lifted. Together they founded Jonah House in Baltimore, a community to support resistance to war. For eleven years of their 29-year marriage they were separated by one or both serving time in prison. Philip Berrigan earned, like many others during the 1960s, both scorn and admiration for his active protest against the Vietnam War. Philip Berrigan was one of "The Baltimore Four" - along with artist Tom Lewis, writer David Eberhardt, and United Church of Christ pastor Rev. James L. Mengel III - who on October 27, 1967 protested the Vietnam War by occupying the Selective Service Board in the Customs House, Baltimore and by performing a sacrificial, blood-pouring protest using their own blood and that from poultry, pouring it over Selective Service records. Berrigan, in a written statement, noted that his sacrificial and constructive act was meant to protest "the pitiful waste of American and Vietnamese blood in Indochina". The trial of the four defendants was postponed due to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the subsequent riots in Baltimore and other U.S. cities. Eberhardt and Lewis served jail time and Berrigan was sentenced to six years in federal prisons. Philip Berrigan was also one of "The Catonsville Nine", nine Catholic activists who burned draft files to protest the Vietnam War. who on May 17, 1968 went to the draft board in Catonsville, in the U.S. state of Maryland, took 378 draft files, brought them to the parking lot in wire baskets, dumped them out, poured over them home-made napalm (an incendiary used extensively by the US military in Vietnam), and set them on fire. The Nine, besides Philip Berrigan, were his brother, Father Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest; Br. David Darst, a De La Salle Christian Brother; John Hogan; Tom Lewis, an artist; Marjorie Bradford Melville; Thomas Melville, a former Maryknoll priest; George Mische; and Mary Moylan. Philip Berrigan was convicted of conspiracy and destruction of government property on November 8, 1968, but was bailed for 16 months while the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court rejected the appeal and Berrigan and three others went into hiding. For a time, Liz McAlister, the nun who would later become his wife, helped hide Berrigan in New Jersey. Twelve days later Berrigan was arrested by the FBI and jailed in Lewisburg. All nine were sentenced to three years in prison. Then Philip Berrigan again attracted the notice of federal authorities when he and six other anti-war activists known as The Harrisburg Seven were caught trading letters alluding to kidnapping Henry Kissinger and placing him under house arrest for waging of an illegal war, and for bombing steam heating tunnels in Washington, D.C.; they were in fact only discussing the idea. They were nonetheless charged with 23 counts of conspiracy The government spent 1M USD on the 1972 Harrisburg Seven trial but did not win a conviction. This was one of a number of the reversals suffered by the U.S. government in such cases, such as The Camden 28, who on August 22, 1971 took action against the Camden area draft board. The group, which also included Philip Berrigan,, was arrested and the trial resulted in acquittal on all charges. Berrigan organized or inspired many additional operations. The D.C. Nine, in March 1969, consisted of mostly priests and nuns disrupting the Washington Dow Chemical offices by scattering their files. The group protested Dow's production of napalm for use in the Vietnam War. The D.C. Nine were later tried in Washington, D.C., but an appeal was won in their favor. Some jail time was served. Later in May 1969, the Chicago 15 Catholics protested napalm and burned 40,000 draft cards. He helped the Milwaukee 14 in a protest against the Milwaukee Draft Boards on September 24, 1968. The Fourteen men burned 10,000 1-A draft files. After being arrested, they spent a month in prison, unable to raise bail set at 415K USD. Father James Groppi came to their aid, co-chairing the Milwaukee 14 Defense Committee. Members were later placed on trial and many did considerable jail time. In 1968, Berrigan signed the Writers and Editors War Tax Protest pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. On September 9, 1980, Berrigan, his brother Daniel, with Sister Anne Montgomery, Elmer H. Maas, Rev. Carl Kabat, O.M.I., John Schuchardt, Dean Hammer and Molly Rush known as the Plowshares Eight entered the General Electric Re-entry Division in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, where Mark 12A reentry vehicles for the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic missiles (ICBMs) were made. They hammered on two reentry vehicles, poured blood on documents, and offered prayers for peace. This is considered the beginning of the Plowshares Movement. They were arrested and charged with ten different felony and misdemeanor counts. On April 10, 1990, after nearly ten years of trials and appeals, the Plowshares Eight were re-sentenced and paroled for up to 23 months in consideration of time already served in prison. Berrigan helped set up Jonah House as the community headquarters of the organisation, a terraced house in Reservoir Hill, Baltimore. The headquarters later was moved to St. Peter the Apostle Cemetery in West Baltimore. Berrigan's last Plowshares action occurred in December 1999, when a group of protesters hammered on A-10 Warthog warplanes held at the Warfield Air National Guard Base. He was indicted for malicious destruction of property and sentenced to 30 months in prison. He was released on December 14, 2001. In his lifetime he had spent about 11 years in jails and prisons for civil disobedience. In one of his last public statements, Berrigan said: "The American people are, more and more, making their voices heard against Bush and his warrior clones. Bush and his minions slip out of control, determined to go to war, determined to go it alone, determined to endanger the Palestinians further, determined to control Iraqi oil, determined to ravage further a suffering people and their shattered society. The American people can stop Bush, can yank his feet closer to the fire, can banish the war makers from Washington D.C., can turn this society around and restore it to faith and sanity." Philip Berrigan died of liver and kidney cancer at the age of 79 at Jonah House in Baltimore. In a last statement, he said "I die with the conviction, held since 1968 and Catonsville, that nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself." He is buried at Saint Peter's Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus at Boston University, paid this tribute to Berrigan saying: "Mr. Berrigan was one of the great Americans of our time. He believed war didn't solve anything. He went to prison again and again and again for his beliefs. I admired him for the sacrifices he made. He was an inspiration to a large number of people." The funeral was held at St. Peter Claver Church in West Baltimore and he was buried in West Baltimore cemetery. Berrigan's widow, Elizabeth McAlister, and others still maintain Jonah House in Baltimore and a website that details all Plowshares activities. His four brothers, Daniel, John, Jim, and Jerome; his wife, Elizabeth McAlister; and their three children, Frida, Jerry, and Kate, are or were all also activists in the peace movement. With his wife Liz he had three children: Frida (b. 1974), Jerry (b. 1975), and Kate (b. 1981). https://store.earthstation1.com/vietnam-the-10000-day-war-4-dual-layer-dvds-all-13-10000413.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Machine That Changed The World: The Computer DVD MP4 Download
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 2011: #DOTD: #RIP: Steve Jobs, American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, media proprietor, co-founder of Apple Inc. and Pixar (b. February 24, 1955) #dies of respiratory arrest at age 56 related to a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor diagnosed in 2003. He is buried in an unmarked grave at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, California. Steve Jobs was born Steven Paul Jobs in San Francisco, California, to Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian Arab Muslim, and Joanne Schieble, a Catholic of Swiss and German descent. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (nee Hagopian), whom Jobs regarded as his parents "1,000%". He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc., the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out that same year, and traveled through India in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying Zen Buddhism. Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. Together the duo gained fame and wealth a year later with the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers. Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI). This led to the development of the unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the breakthrough Macintosh in 1984, the first mass-produced computer with a GUI. The Macintosh introduced the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics. Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985 after a long power struggle with the company's board and its then-CEO John Sculley. That same year, Jobs took a few of Apple's members with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company that specialized in computers for higher-education and business markets. In addition, he helped to develop the visual effects industry when he funded the computer graphics division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in 1986. The new company was Pixar, which produced the first 3D computer animated feature film Toy Story (1995), and went on to become a major animation studio, producing over 20 films since then. Apple acquired NeXT in 1997, and Jobs became CEO of his former company within a few months. He was largely responsible for helping revive Apple, which had been on the verge of bankruptcy. He worked closely with designer Jony Ive to develop a line of products that had larger cultural ramifications, beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign and leading to the iMac, iTunes, iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad. In 2001, the original Mac OS was replaced with the completely new Mac OS X (now known as macOS), based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform, giving the OS a modern Unix-based foundation for the first time. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-machine-that-changed-the-world-the-computer-dvd-mp4-downloa4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Occult History Of The Third Reich DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1848: #BOTD: Guido Von List, Austrian occultist, journalist, playwright, novelist, racist and antisemite (d. May 17, 1919) is #born Guido Karl Anton List in Vienna, then part of the Austrian Empire. He expounded a modern Pagan new religious movement known as Wotanism, which he claimed was the revival of the religion of the ancient German race, and which included an inner set of Ariosophical teachings that he termed Armanism. His work inspired the foundation of the Thule Society, which in turn founded the German Nazi party, and his mystical and occult teachings was incorporated into the ideology of Heinrich Himmler's SS. Guido Von List died in the morning aged 70 in Berlin, German Reich (Weimar Republic) of lung inflammation largely brought on by malnutrition brought on by the aftermath of World War I. He was cremated in Leipzig and his ashes laid in an urn and then buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof). https://store.earthstation1.com/the-occult-history-of-the-third-reich-4-part-tv-series-2-dv42.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Stooge Snapshots Documentary On Three Stooges DVD, Video Download, USB
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1902: #BOTD: #HBD! Larry Fine, American actor, comedian, violinist and boxer, member of the comedy act The Three Stooges (d. January 24, 1975) is #born Andrew Louis Feinberg to a Russian Jewish family at 3rd and South Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 5, 1902. His father, Joseph Feinberg, and mother, Fanny Lieberman, owned a watch repair and jewelry shop. In his early childhood, Fine's arm was accidentally burned with acid. His father used the acid to test jewelry for its gold content. On one occasion, the young Fine mistook the acid for a beverage and raised the bottle to his lips. Before he could drink any, his father knocked the bottle from Fine's hand, splashing Fine's forearm with acid and causing extensive damage to it. His parents later gave Fine violin lessons to help strengthen the damaged muscles in his forearm. He became so proficient on the violin that his parents wanted to send him to a European music conservatory. However, that plan was thwarted by the outbreak of World War I. Fine later played the violin in the Stooge films. In scenes where all three Stooges are playing fiddles, only Larry is actually playing, while the other two are miming. To further strengthen his damaged arm, Fine took up boxing in his teens, winning one professional bout. His father, opposed to Larry's fighting in public, put an end to his brief career as a boxer. At an early age, Fine started performing as a violinist in vaudeville. In March 1928, while starring as the master of ceremonies at Chicago's Rainbow Gardens, Fine met Shemp Howard and Ted Healy. Since Howard was leaving the play for a few months, they asked him to be a replacement 'stooge'. Fine joined Ted's other stooges, Bobby Pinkus and Sam 'Moody' Braun. In early 1929, Healy signed a contract to perform in the Shuberts' new revue A Night in Venice. Healy brought Fine, Shemp Howard, and Moe Howard together for the first time as a trio. "Moe, Larry, and Shemp", with Fred Sanborn, appeared in Venice from 1929 through March 1930. Fine, Shemp Howard and Moe Howard toured as "Ted Healy and His Racketeers" that spring and summer, and then went to Hollywood in the summer to film Fox Studio's Soup to Nuts (1930). Fine and the Howard brothers broke up with Healy after Soup to Nuts and toured as "Howard, Fine, and Howard: Three Lost Soles" from the fall of 1930 to the summer of 1932. In July 1932, Fine and Moe Howard teamed up with Healy again, adding Curly Howard to the group. The new lineup premiered at Cleveland's RKO Palace Theatre on August 27, 1932. On January 9, 1970, Fine suffered a debilitating stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body, which marked the end of his performing career. Fine eventually moved to the Motion Picture Country House, an industry retirement community in Woodland Hills, where he spent his remaining years, and used a wheelchair during the last five. Even in his paralyzed state, Fine did what he could to entertain the other patients, and completed his "as told to" autobiography "Stroke Of Luck". He also received visits from Moe Howard. Fine remained accessible to Stooge fans, regularly hosting them despite his disability. When asked if spending his life as a Stooge was enjoyable, he answered, "it wasn't fun: it was work-but it paid off good, so I enjoyed it." Like Curly Howard, Fine suffered several additional strokes before his death on January 24, 1975, at the nursing home in Woodland Hills, aged 72. He was interred with his wife and son in a crypt at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, Los Angeles County, California in the Freedom Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Liberation. Moe died three months later. https://store.earthstation1.com/stooge-snapshots-dvd-three-stooges-documentary.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) 1956 Edmond O'Brien DVD, Download, USB
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1919: #BOTD: #HBD! Donald Pleasence, English-French actor (d. February 2, 1995) is #born Donald Henry Pleasence in Worksop, Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands region of England. Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE (Officer Of The British Empire) was best known for his film roles as R. Parsons in 1984 (1956); psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis in Halloween (1978) and four of its sequels; the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967); RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape (1963); SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971); Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright (1971), and the President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981). Donald Pleasence died at age 75 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, from complications of heart failure following heart valve replacement surgery. His body was cremated, and the ashes given to his widow Linda J. Kentwood. https://store.earthstation1.com/1984-george-orwell-edmond-o39brien-michael-redgra198439.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Peace In Our Time? Munich Agreement TV Series DVD, Video Download, USB
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1938: The Interwar Period (The Aftermath Of World War I, The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Road To War: The Sudetenland: The Sudeten Crisis: The Munich Agreement: -- Mere days after the Munich Agreement ceded Czechoslovakia's Sudentland territory to Germany, Czech President Dr. Eduard Benes resigns under German pressure and flees abroad amid threats from Adolf Hitler, eventually settling into exile in Putney, London. Edvard Benes, Czech academic and politician, 2nd and twice President of Czechoslovakia (1935-1938 and 1945-1948) (d. 1948) was born May 28, 1884. Sometimes anglicised to Edward Benesh or Eduard Benes, Dr. Edvard Benes was also Minister of Foreign Affairs (1918-1935), 4th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (1921-1922) and the President of Czechoslovakia in exile (1939-1945). A member of the Czechoslovak National Social Party, he was known as a skilled diplomat. He opposed Nazi Germany's claim to the German-speaking Sudetenland in 1938. In October 1938, Italy, France and the United Kingdom signed the Munich Agreement, which allowed for the annexation and the military occupation of the Sudetenland by Germany. Czechoslovakia was not consulted. Benes agreed, despite opposition from within his country, after France and the United Kingdom warned that they would remain neutral, despite their previous promises, in a war between Germany and Czechoslovakia. On October 5, 1938, Benes resigned and fled abroad amid threats from Adolf Hitler and was replaced by Emil Hacha. In March 1939, Hacha's government was bullied into allowing the German occupation of the remaining Czech territory, as Slovakia had already declared its nominal independence. Having served as the President of Czechoslovakia in exile during World War II, he returned to Czechoslovakia after Prague Uprising ejected the Nazi German forces remaining in the country and Benes resumed his former position as President. He was unanimously confirmed in office the National Assembly on 28 October 1945. Article 58.5 of the Constitution said, "The former president shall stay in his or her function till the new president shall be elected". On 19 June 1946, Benes was formally elected to his second term as President. On May 9, 1948, Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution came into effect, the second constitution of Czechoslovakia, in force from 1948 to 1960. It came into force shortly after the communist seizure of power in the country and the Third Republic ended on February 25, 1948. On June 7, 1948, Benes refused to sign it and resigned, and his nation thereby became a de facto Communist state.. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government of Czechoslovakia on February 22, 1948 during the 1948 Czechoslovak Coup, marking the onset of four decades of communist rule in the country. https://store.earthstation1.com/peace-in-our-time-dvd-2-part-documentary-psychodrama-tv-serie2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: US Fleet Submarines Of The Pacific War MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1940: Naval History: The History Of The United States Navy: The New United States Navy (The New Navy, The United States Navy 1885-Present): Keel Layings: Submarines (Subs): The USS Gato (SS-212): -- USS Gato, the lead ship of the United States Navy's Gato-class submarines, the first mass-production U.S. submarine class of World War II, who along with the closely related Balao and Tench classes that followed accounted for most of the Navy's World War II submarines, destroying much of the Japanese merchant marine and a large portion of the Imperial Japanese Navy, has her keel laid down by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on August 21, 1941, sponsored by Mrs. Louise Ingersoll, wife of Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, and commissioned December 31, 1941. Gato's name comes from a species of small catshark. Like most other U.S. Navy submarines of the period, ships of the Gato class were given the names of aquatic creatures. Like all of the Gatos (with one exception, Dorado), she went on to fight in the Pacific Theater of Operations. After shakedown at New London, Connecticut, Gato departed February 16, 1942 via the Panama Canal for San Francisco, California, where she underwent additional training. She was at periscope depth while conducting a trim dive in the Pacific Ocean off the entrance to San Francisco Bay on March 23, 1942 when the U.S. Navy TC-class blimp TC-13 mistook her for a Japanese submarine and attacked her with four 325-pound (147 kg) depth charges. The first two depth charges landed within 50 yards (46 m) of her periscope and the second pair exploded as she dived to a depth of 120 feet (37 m). She suffered extensive damage but no casualties. It was the only friendly fire incident between a U.S. Navy blimp and a submarine during World War II. After repairs at Mare Island Navy Yard in California, Gato was ready for sea again on March 27, 1942. She subsequently proceeded to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She went on to conduct thirteen war patrols, sinking many ships and rescuing pilots, and received 13 battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation. She received word of the "Cease Fire" on August 15, 1945 in the midst of making an attack approach on a Japanese "Su-Ki" sea truck, an amphibious truck that could transport supplies directly from cargo ships to the shore and beyond. USS Gato steamed into Tokyo Bay on August 31, 1945 and remained for the signing of surrender documents on board Missouri on September 2. USS Gato departed the following day, and proceeded via Pearl Harbor and the Panama Canal to the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn, New York, where she was decommissioned on March 16, 1946. She served for a number of years as a United States Naval Reserve training vessel at New York City and later at Baltimore, Maryland, until she was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on March 1, 1960. She was sold to the Northern Metals Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 25, 1960 for scrapping. The Gato-class design, with a top range of 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km), was a near-duplicate of the preceding Tambor- and Gar-class ships. 77 were produced, of which 20 were lost, 57 and 6 preserved. The Gato-class submarines had numerous crew comforts including showers, air conditioning, refrigerated storage for food, generous freshwater distilling units, clothes washers, and bunks for nearly every crew member; these were luxuries virtually unheard of in other navies. The bureau designers felt that if a crew of 60-80 men were to be expected to conduct 75-day patrols in the warm waters of the Pacific, these types of features were vital to the health and efficiency of the crew, and they could be added without impacting the ship's war fighting abilities due to its extra room as a big fleet ship. Once they began to arrive in theater in large numbers in mid-to-late 1942, the Gatos were in the thick of the fight against the Japanese. Many of these ships racked up impressive war records: Flasher, Rasher, and Barb were second, third, and fourth based on tonnage sunk by U.S. submarines. Silversides, Flasher, and Wahoo were third, fourth, and seventh place on the list for the number of ships sunk. Gato-class ships sank four Japanese submarines: I-29, I-168, I-351, and I-42; while only losing one in exchange, Corvina to I-176. Their principal weapon was the steam-powered Mark 14 torpedo in the early war years, with the electric Mark 18 torpedo supplementing the Mark 14 in late 1943. Due to a stunted research-and-development phase in the Depression-era 1930s, and in great part due to the arrogance and stubbornness of its designer, the Naval Torpedo Station Newport under the Bureau of Ordnance, the "wonder weapon" Mark 14 proved to be full of bugs and very unreliable. They tended to run too deep, explode prematurely, run erratically, or fail to detonate. Bowing to pressure from the submariners in the Pacific, the bureau eventually acknowledged the problems in the Mark 14 and largely corrected them by late 1943. The Mark 18 electric torpedo was a hastily copied version of captured German G7e torpedoes and was rushed into service in the fall of 1943. Unfortunately, it also was full of faults, the most dangerous being a tendency to run in a circular pattern and come back at the sub that fired it. Once perfected, both types of torpedoes proved to be reliable and effective weapons, allowing the Gatos and other submarines to sink an enormous amount of Japanese shipping by the end of the war. https://store.earthstation1.com/us-fleet-submarines-of-the-pacific-war-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Duke Ellington Radio Shows Jazz & Swing MP3 CD Download USB Drive
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1918: #BOTD: #HBD! Jimmy Blanton, American jazz double bassist (d. July 30, 1942) is #born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Blanton is credited with being the originator of more complex pizzicato and arco bass solos in a jazz context than previous bassists. Blanton originally learned to play the violin, but took up the bass while at Tennessee State University, performing with the Tennessee State Collegians from 1936 to 1937, and during the vacations with Fate Marable. Blanton left university in 1938 to play full-time in St Louis with the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra. Blanton joined Duke Ellington's band in 1939. On November 22 of that year, Blanton and Ellington recorded two tracks - "Blues" and "Plucked Again" - which were the first commercially recorded piano-bass duets. Further duet recordings were made in 1940, and Blanton was also featured in orchestra tracks. "Blanton also took part in a few of the informal jam sessions at Minton's Playhouse in New York that contributed to the genesis of the bop style." He had to leave Ellington's band near the end of 1941, because of poor health. Ellington put Blanton front-and-center on the bandstand nightly, unheard of for a bassist at the time. Such was his importance to Ellington's band at the time, together with tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, that it became known as the Blanton-Webster band. Blanton also played in the "small group" sessions led by Barney Bigard, Rex Stewart, Johnny Hodges, and Cootie Williams in 1940-41. In 1941, Blanton was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Blanton died on July 30, 1942, at a sanatorium in Duarte, California, aged 23. When with the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra, Blanton added classical music pizzicato and arco techniques to jazz bass, making it into more of a solo instrument. When with Ellington, Blanton revolutionized the way the double bass was used in jazz. His virtuosity put him in a different class from his predecessors, making him the first master of the jazz bass and demonstrating its potential as a solo instrument. "He possessed great dexterity and range, roundness of tone, accurate intonation, and above all an unprecedented sense of swing." He added "many non-harmonic passing notes in his accompaniment lines, giving them a contrapuntal flavour and stimulating soloists to their own harmonic explorations." His originality was developed by others into the foundations of the bebop rhythm section. His importance was such that, "until the advent of the styles of Scott LaFaro and Charlie Haden in the 1960s all modern bass players drew on his innovations." https://store.earthstation1.com/duke-ellington-radio-shows-jazz-amp-swing-mp3-cd-download-usb-driv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Music & Dance Shows #8 American Action DVD, MP4, USB Flash Drive
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1992: #DOTD: #RIP: Eddie Kendricks, African American singer and songwriter, co-founder of the Motown singing group The Temptations and one of their lead singers from 1960 until 1971 (b. December 17, 1939) #dies of lung cancer at Baptist Medical Center-Princeton in Birmingham, Alabama at age 52. In late 1991, Kendricks underwent surgery to have one of his lungs removed in the hope of preventing the spread of cancer. He believed the disease was caused by his 30 years of smoking. He continued to tour through the summer of 1992, when he fell ill again and was hospitalized. He was survived by his three children: Parris, Aika, and Paul Kendricks (named after Paul Williams). A funeral service was held at the First Baptist Church in Ensley, Alabama. He is buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham. Friends and fans paid tribute to Kendricks at four concerts, held at the Strand in Los Angeles, on October 16 and October 17, 1992. Performers including Bobby Womack, Chaka Khan, Mary Wilson, and Vesta Willams sang Temptations songs, as well as some of their own. Eddie Kendricks was born Edward James Kendrick in Union Springs, Alabama. Noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style, Eddie Kendricks was the lead voice on such famous songs as "The Way You Do the Things You Do", "Get Ready", and "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)". As a solo artist, Kendricks recorded several hits of his own during the 1970s, including the number-one singles "Keep On Truckin'" and "Boogie Down". https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-8-where-american-action-is-dv8.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Music & Dance Shows #4 The Beatles DVD, Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1962: Aesthetics: The Performing Arts: Music: Music History: The History Of Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): British Rock And Roll (British Rock & Roll, British Rock-N-Roll, British Rock 'N' Roll, British Rock 'N Roll, British Rock N' Roll): The Swinging Sixties: Music Of The United Kingdom: Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): Concerts: British Rock (Beat Music, British Beat, Merseybeat): The Swinging Sixties: Music Of The United Kingdom: Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): The British Invasion: The Beatles: Record Releases: -- The first Beatles single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom. It peaked at No. 17; in 1982 it was re-promoted (not re-issued, retaining the same catalogue number) and reached No. 4. In the United States the single was a No. 1 hit in 1964. In 2013, recordings of the song that were released in 1962 entered the public domain in Europe. The song was written several years before it was recorded, and prior to the existence of the Beatles. The single features John Lennon's prominent harmonica playing and duet vocals by him and Paul McCartney. Three different recorded versions of the song by the Beatles have been released, each with a different drummer. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-4-the-beatles-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Commercials: The Classics Vol. 8 DVD, MP4 Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, October 5, 2025
October 5, 1902: #BOTD: Ray Kroc, American businessman and philanthropist, founder of McDonalds (d. January 14, 1984) is #born Raymond Albert Kroc in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago to Czech immigrants. Ray Kroc purchased the fast food company McDonald's in 1961 and served as its CEO from 1967 to 1973. Kroc is credited with the global expansion of McDonald's, turning it into the most successful fast food corporation in the world. Due to the company's growth under Kroc, he has also been referred to as the founder of the McDonald's Corporation. After retiring from McDonald's, he owned the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1974 until his death of heart failure at a hospital in San Diego, California at the age of 81. He was buried at the El Camino Memorial Park in Sorrento Valley, San Diego. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-classics-vol-8-dv8.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Vietnam War With Walter Cronkite DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, October 5, 2025
( #JCKaelin here: I am honored to have been asked by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) during the early days of EarthStation1 to sponsor The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, in exchange for which I was to receive my name inscribed on a brick of a subsidiary outdoor monument to the donors of the main monument. Of course I accepted, but in all this time, I have never seen it, in person or in the many photos I've checked online; if you see it, kindly please send me a photo of it :) ) ========= October 5, 1959: #BOTD: #HBD! Maya Lin, American architect, designer and sculptor, designer of both The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. and The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, owner and operator of The Maya Lin Studio in New York City, is #born Maya Ying Lin in Athens, Ohio to Chinese immigrant artist academics Henry Huan Lin, a ceramist and dean of the Ohio University College of Fine Art born in Fuzhou, Fujian, and Julia Chang Lin, a poet and professor of literature at Ohio University born in Shanghai. She is the "half" niece of Lin Huiyin, who was an American-educated artist and poet, and said to have been the first female architect in modern China. Lin Juemin and Lin Yin Ming, both of whom were among the 72 martyrs of the Second Guangzhou uprising, were cousins of her grandfather. Lin Chang-min, a Hanlin of Qing dynasty and the emperor's teacher, fathered Lin Huiyin with his wife, while Maya Lin's father Henry Huan Lin was Lin Chang-Min's illegitimate son with his concubine. According to Lin, she "didn't even realize" she was ethnically Chinese until later in life, and that only in her 30s did she acquire an interest in her cultural background. Lin has said that she did not have many friends when growing up, stayed home a lot, loved to study, and loved school. While still in high school she took courses at Ohio University where she learned to cast bronze in the school's foundry. She graduated in 1977 from Athens High School in The Plains, Ohio, after which she attended Yale University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1981 and a Master of Architecture in 1986. In 1981, at 21 and still an undergraduate student, Lin won a public design competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, to be built on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Her design, one of 1,422 submissions, specified a black granite wall with the names of 57,939 fallen soldiers carved into its face (hundreds more have been added since the dedication), to be v-shaped, with one side pointing toward the Lincoln Memorial and the other toward the Washington Monument. The memorial was designed in the minimalist architectural style, which was in contrast to previous war memorials. The memorial was completed in late October 1982 and dedicated in November 1982. According to Lin, her intention was to create an opening or a wound in the earth to symbolize the pain caused by the war and its many casualties. "I imagined taking a knife and cutting into the earth, opening it up, and with the passage of time, that initial violence and pain would heal," she recalled. Her winning design was initially controversial for several reasons: its minimalist design, her lack of professional experience, and her Asian ethnicity. Some objected to the exclusion of the surviving veterans' names, while others complained about the dark complexion of the granite, claiming that it expressed a negative attitude towards the Vietnam War. Lin defended her design before the US Congress, and a compromise was reached: Three Soldiers, a bronze depiction of a group of soldiers and an American flag were placed to the side of Lin's design. Notwithstanding the initial controversy, the memorial has become an important pilgrimage site for relatives and friends of the dead soldiers, many of whom leave personal tokens and mementos in memory of their loved ones. In 2007, an American Institute of Architects poll ranked the memorial No. 10 on a list of America's Favorite Architecture, and it is now one of the most visited sites on the National Mall. Furthermore, it now serves as a memorial for the veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. There is a collection with items left since 2001 from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which includes handwritten letters and notes of those who lost loved ones during these wars. There is also a pair of combat boots and a note with it dedicated to the veterans of the Vietnam War, that reads "If your generation of Marines had not come home to jeers, insults, and protests, my generation would not come home to thanks, handshakes and hugs." Lin once said that if the competition had not been held "blind" (with designs submitted by name instead of number), she "never would have won" on account of her ethnicity. Her assertion is supported by the fact that she was harassed after her ethnicity was revealed, as when prominent businessman and later third-party presidential candidate Ross Perot called her an "egg roll." Maya Lin also created The Civil Rights Memorial, which lists the names of 41 people inscribed on the granite fountain as martyrs who were killed in the civil rights movement. The memorial is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The names included in the memorial belong to those who were killed between 1955 and 1968. The dates chosen represent a time when legalized segregation was prominent. In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in schools was unlawful and 1968 is the year of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The monument was dedicated in 1989. The concept of Lin's design is based on the soothing and healing effect of water. It was inspired by a passage from King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech "...we will not be satisfied "until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream..." The quotation in the passage, which is inscribed on the memorial, is a direct paraphrase of Amos 5:24, as translated in the American Standard Version of the Bible. The memorial is a fountain in the form of an asymmetric inverted stone cone. A film of water flows over the base of the cone, which contains the 41 names included. It is possible to touch the smooth film of water and to alter it temporarily, which quickly returns to smoothness. The memorial is designed in a timeline manner. It begins with Brown v. Board in 1954, and ends with Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-vietnam-war-with-walter-cronkite-tv-series-3-dvd-se3.html