Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Moses At Mount Sinai Biography Documentary MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, October 6, 2025

October 6, 2025: Religion: The History Of Religion: Abrahamic Religions: Judaism: The History Of Judaism: Moses: The Law of Moses (Hebrew: Torat Moshe) (The Mosaic Law): The Three Annual Festivals: (The Three Pilgrimage Festivals [Hebrew: Shalosh Regalim, "Three Journeys By Foot, Three Pilgrimages"]): The Festival Of The Final Harvest (Hebrew: Sukkot, "Booths") (The Feast Of Tabernacles, The Feast Of Booths, The Festival Of Ingathering, The Harvest Festival): -- The Hebrew holiday of Sukkot begins at sundown on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei, and lasts until sundown eight more days of the Gregorian calendar in the Jewish diaspora, for a total of seven days in the Hebrew calendar and eight days in the Gregorian calendar. In Exodus 23:14 of the Torah, Moses recounts what he had been commanded by THE LORD to convey to his people: "Each year you must celebrate three festivals in my honor." Of the third of these festivals, it goes on to say in Exodus 23:16-17: "Finally, celebrate The Festival Of The Final Harvest, at the end of the harvest season, when you have harvested all the crops from your fields." Sukkot is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals on which Israelites were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. Biblically an autumn harvest festival and a commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt, Sukkot's modern observance is characterized by festive meals in a sukkah, a temporary wood-covered hut. The double significance of Sukkot refers to the one mentioned in the Book of Exodus as agricultural in nature -- "Festival of Ingathering at the year's end" (Exodus 34:22) -- and marks the end of the harvest time and thus of the agricultural year in the Land of Israel. The more elaborate religious significance from the Book of Leviticus is that of commemorating the Exodus and the dependence of the Israelites on the will of God (Leviticus 23:42-43). As an extension of its harvest festival community roots, the idea of welcoming all guests and extending hospitality is intrinsic to the celebration. Actual and symbolic "guests" (Aramaic: ushpizin) are invited to participate by visiting the sukkah. Specifically, seven "forefathers" of the Jewish people are to be welcomed during the seven days of the festival, in this order: Day 1: Abraham; Day 2: Isaac; Day 3: Jacob; Day 4: Moses; Day 5: Aaron; Day 6: Joseph; Day 7: David. The holiday lasts seven days. The first day (and second day in the diaspora) is a Shabbat-like holiday when work is forbidden. This is followed by intermediate days called Chol HaMoed, during which certain work is permitted. The festival is closed with another Shabbat-like holiday called Shemini Atzeret (one day in the Land of Israel, two days in the diaspora, where the second day is called Simchat Torah). The Hebrew word sukkot is the plural of sukkah ('booth' or 'tabernacle') which is a walled structure covered with s'chach (plant material, such as overgrowth or palm leaves). A sukkah is the name of the temporary dwelling in which farmers would live during harvesting, reinforcing agricultural significance of the holiday introduced in the Book of Exodus. As stated in Leviticus, it is also reminiscent of the type of fragile dwellings in which the Israelites dwelled during their 40 years of travel in the desert after the Exodus from slavery in Egypt. Throughout the holiday, meals are eaten inside the sukkah and many people sleep there as well. On each day of the holiday it is a mitzvah, or commandment, to 'dwell' in the sukkah and to perform a shaking ceremony with a lulav (a palm frond, then bound with myrtle and willow), and an etrog (the fruit of a citron tree) (collectively known as the four species). The fragile shelter, the 'now-three-item' lulav, the etrog, the revived Simchat Beit HaShoeivah celebration's focus on water and rainfall and the holiday's harvest festival roots draw attention to people's dependence on the natural environment. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/moses-at-mount-sinai-biography-documentary-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Machine That Changed The World: The Computer DVD MP4 Download
Today, October 6, 2025

( #JCKaelin here: My brother Kevin was born with Cerebral Palsy. Back in the 60s, I used to have to perform the daily task of putting on him his night braces, a primitive device which forced his permanently-bent knees straight, more like a medieval torture device than a treatment. I slept in the bunk above his with him crying all night long the most awful pleas for help, and this went on for years. Treatment has since gotten much better, largely because of public support. CP is awful; please help if you can :) ) ========= October 6: World Cerebral Palsy Day (@worldCPday): -- An international awareness day of observance held every October 6th to celebrate and affirm the lives of the 17 million people living with cerebral palsy (CP), held. The project was launched in 2012 by Cerebral Palsy Alliance (Australia) and United Cerebral Palsy (USA). It is supported by over 450 cerebral palsy service organisations, universities, parent groups, research institutions, student groups, schools and children's hospitals from 65 countries. The first World CP Day campaign was called 'Change My World in 1 Minute'. The project sought ideas from the global community of people with CP for technologies and products that needed inventing - that had the potential to 'change the world' for people living with CP. In 2012, more than 470 ideas were posted on the World CP Day website. Three ideas were shortlisted and then the call went out to inventors. A research team from the University of Virginia (USA) won the major prize. They developed a prototype solar powered wheelchair which was an idea posted by Alper Sirvan, a man with cerebral palsy in Turkey. The wheelchair prototype was presented to Alper on World CP Day 2013. In 2015, the campaign evolved into a social movement that targets the six key issues that affect people with CP around the world, irrespective of geographical, cultural and economic differences. The website provides tools and resources for organisations to adapt and take action locally and, in doing so, builds the global movement for change. A national or international awareness day or observance is a date usually set by a major organisation or government to commemorate a public health or ethical cause of importance on a national or international level. An international observance, also known as an international dedication or international anniversary, is a period of time to observe some issue of international interest or concern. This is used to commemorate, promote and mobilize for action. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-machine-that-changed-the-world-the-computer-dvd-mp4-downloa4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Struggles For Poland TV Series + Bonus MP4 Video Download DVD Set
Today, October 6, 2025

October 6, 1939: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Invasion Of Poland (The September Campaign, The Polish Campaign, The War Of Poland Of 1939, The Polish Defensive War Of 1939): The Battle Of Kock: -- Nazi Germany's Invasion Of Poland ends with the surrender of Independent Operational Group Polesie after The Battle Of Kock, the final battle in the Invasion Of Poland at the beginning of World War II in Europe. It took place between October 2-5, 1939, near the town of Kock, in Poland. The Polish Polesie Independent Operational Group, led by General Franciszek Kleeberg, fought the German 14th Motorised Corps, led by General Gustav Anton Von Wietersheim. On September 1, 1939, immediately following the successes of Operation Himmler (the Nazi German false flag attacks along the German-Polish border, especially on German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Germany (The Gleiwitz Incident, in today's Gliwice, Poland)) the night before, World War II in Europe began with the German Invasion Of Poland, starting with The Battle Of Westerplatte, when at between 4:45 and 4:48 a.m. the German battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein fired point-blank at the Polish Military Transit Depot (Polish: Wojskowa Skladnica Tranzytowa, or WST) on the Westerplatte peninsula in the harbor of the Free City of Danzig with the support of the German army and Danzig police. At 5.30 a.m., Nazi Germany and Slovakia invaded Poland after a lengthy period of preparations. The pretext for the invasion, the supposed attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, was staged by the German secret police, and devised by Reinhard Heydrich under orders from Hitler, to serve as a pretext for the invasion Poland. The Invasion Of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign (Kampania wrzesniowa) or the 1939 Defensive War (Wojna obronna 1939 roku), and in Germany as the Poland Campaign (Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiss ("Case White"), was a joint Invasion Of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, the Free City of Danzig, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September following the Molotov-Togo agreement that terminated the Soviet and Japanese hostilities in the east on 16 September. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland under the terms of the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty. German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west the morning after the Gleiwitz incident. Slovak forces advanced alongside the Germans in northern Slovakia. As the Wehrmacht advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish-German border to more established lines of defence to the east. After the mid-September Polish defeat in the Battle of the Bzura, the Germans gained an undisputed advantage. Polish forces then withdrew to the southeast where they prepared for a long defence of the Romanian Bridgehead and awaited expected support and relief from France and the United Kingdom. While those two countries had pacts with Poland and had declared war on Germany on 3 September, in the end their aid to Poland was very limited. The Soviet Red Army's invasion of Eastern Poland on 17 September, in accordance with a secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, rendered the Polish plan of defence obsolete. Facing a second front, the Polish government concluded the defence of the Romanian Bridgehead was no longer feasible and ordered an emergency evacuation of all troops to neutral Romania. On 6 October, following the Polish defeat at the Battle Of Kock, German and Soviet forces gained full control over Poland. The success of the invasion marked the end of the Second Polish Republic, though Poland never formally surrendered. On 8 October, after an initial period of military administration, Germany directly annexed western Poland and the former Free City of Danzig and placed the remaining block of territory under the administration of the newly established General Government. The Soviet Union incorporated its newly acquired areas into its constituent Belarusian and Ukrainian republics, and immediately started a campaign of Sovietization. In the aftermath of the invasion, a collective of underground resistance organizations formed the Polish Underground State within the territory of the former Polish state. Many of the military exiles that managed to escape Poland subsequently joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West, an armed force loyal to the Polish government-in-exile. Operation Himmler was a series of special operations undertaken by the Schutzstaffel (SS) to serve Nazi German propaganda at the outbreak of war. They were intended to create the appearance of Polish aggression against Germany in order to justify the subsequent Invasion Of Poland. During Hitler's declaration of war, he did not mention Gleiwitz incident by name, but grouped all provocations staged by the SS as an alleged Polish assault on Germany. The evidence for the Gleiwitz attack having been a false flag operation by the SS was provided by the German SS officer, Alfred Naujocks in 1945. The radio station's historic Gliwice Radio Tower is currently the tallest wooden structure in Europe. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-struggles-for-poland-dvd-set-all-9-shows-5-dis95.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Yom Kippur War: The 1973 Arab-Israeli War MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, October 6, 2025

October 6, 1973: The Cold War: The Cold War (1962-1979): The Cold War Era Of Stagnation (1964-1982): The Arab Cold War (July 23, 1952 - February 11, 1979): The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Yom Kippur War (The Ramadan War, The October War, The 1973 Arab-Israeli War, The Fourth Arab-Israeli War): Operation Badr (1973) (Arabic: Amaliyat Badr) (Plan Badr [Arabic: Khitat Badr]): -- A coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria launch simultaneous coordinated surpriseattacks on Israeli positions on the East Bank of the Suez and the Golan Heights on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur and the 10th day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, beginning The Yom Kippur War (October 6 - 25, 1973). Fighting commenced when Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed their corresponding ceasefire lines with Israel and entered the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Neither specifically planned to destroy Israel, although the Israeli leaders could not be sure of that. Egypt's initial objective in the war was to seize a foothold on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal and subsequently leverage these gains to negotiate the return of the rest of the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula, and to reopen the Suez Canal. Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal in Operation Badr and advanced into the Sinai Peninsula; the Syrians launched a coordinated attack in the Golan Heights to coincide with the Egyptian offensive and initially made gains into Israeli-held territory. After three days of heavy fighting, Israel halted the Egyptian offensive, resulting in a military stalemate on that front, and pushed the Syrians back to the pre-war ceasefire lines. The Israeli military then launched a four-day-long counter-offensive deep into Syria, and, within a week, Israeli artillery began to shell the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus. Egyptian forces meanwhile pushed for two strategic mountain passes deeper within the Sinai Peninsula, but were repulsed, and Israeli forces counter-attacked by crossing the Suez Canal into Egypt and advancing towards Suez City. On October 22, an initial ceasefire brokered by the United Nations unravelled, with each side blaming the other for the breach. By October 24, the Israelis had improved their positions considerably and completed their encirclement of the Egyptian Third Army and Suez City, bringing them within 100 kilometres (62 mi) of the Egyptian capital of Cairo. This development led to dangerously heightened tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union (allied with Israel and with the Arab states, respectively) and a second ceasefire was imposed cooperatively on October 25, 1973, to officially end the war. The Yom Kippur War had far-reaching implications; the Arab world had experienced humiliation in the lopsided rout of the Egyptian-Syrian-Jordanian alliance in 1967, but felt psychologically vindicated by early successes in the 1973 conflict. The Israelis recognized that, despite impressive operational and tactical achievements on the battlefield, there was no guarantee that they would always dominate the Arab states militarily, as they had done consistently throughout the First, Second and Third Arab-Israeli Wars; these changes paved the way for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The 1978 Camp David Accords that followed the war saw Israel return the entire Sinai Peninsula to Egypt and the subsequent 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, which marked the first instance of an Arab country recognizing Israel as a legitimate state. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/yomkiwa19arw.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Anwar Sadat: In Life And Death Documentary Set MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, October 6, 2025

October 6, 1981: #DOTD: #RIP: The Cold War: The Cold War Era Of Stagnation (1964-1982): The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Terrorism: Terrorism In Egypt: Islamic Terrorism: Islamic Terrorism In Egypt: The Assassination Of Anwar Sadat: -- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat #dies when he is murdered by Islamic extremists during the annual victory parade held in Cairo to celebrate Operation Badr, during which the Egyptian Army had crossed the Suez Canal and taken back a small part of the Sinai Peninsula from Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War. A fatwa approving the assassination had been obtained from Omar Abdel-Rahman, a cleric later convicted in the US for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The assassination was planned and led by Egyptian army officer and Egyptian Islamic Jihad member Khalid al-Islambuli by fellow Egyptian army and Islamic Jihad members using automatic rifles while parading in front of the reviewing grandstand. Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat (Arabic: (Romanized): Muhammad Anwar as-Sadat), Egyptian colonel and politician who served as the third President of Egypt from October 15 1970 until his assassination, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize. In his eleven years as president, he changed Egypt's trajectory, departing from many of the political and economic tenets of Nasserism, re-instituting a multi-party system, and launching the Infitah economic policy. As President, he led Egypt in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to regain Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967, making him a hero in Egypt and, for a time, the wider Arab World. Afterwards, he engaged in negotiations with Israel, culminating in the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty; this won him and Menachem Begin the Nobel Peace Prize, making Sadat the first Muslim Nobel laureate. Although reaction to the treaty-which resulted in the return of Sinai to Egypt-was generally favorable among Egyptians, it was rejected by the country's Muslim Brotherhood and the left, which felt Sadat had abandoned efforts to ensure a Palestinian state. With the exception of Sudan, the Arab world and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) strongly opposed Sadat's efforts to make a separate peace with Israel without prior consultations with the Arab states. His refusal to reconcile with them over the Palestinian issue resulted in Egypt being suspended from the Arab League from 1979 to 1989. The peace treaty was also one of the primary factors that led to his assassination. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/anwar-sadat-in-life-and-death-documentary-set-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Chairman Mao Tse-Tung aka Mao Zedong Documentaries DVD, Download, USB
Today, October 6, 2025

October 6, 1976: China: The History Of China: The People's Republic Of China (PRC): The History Of The People's Republic Of China (The History Of The PRC): Maoism (Mao Zedong Thought): The Cultural Revolution (CR, The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution): The Gang Of Four: -- Hua Guofeng, the new Premier of the People's Republic Of China, orders the arrest of the Gang Of Four - Mao Zedong's last wife Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen - along with their political associates, thereby beginning about the reversal and end of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement that took place in China from 1966 until 1976 that wet into motion by Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party of China. Its stated goal was to preserve 'true' Communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Maoist thought as the dominant ideology within the Party. The Revolution marked the return of Mao Zedong to a position of power after the failure of his Great Leap Forward. The movement paralyzed China politically and negatively affected the country' economy and society to a profound degree. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/mao-tse-tung-dvd-portraits-of-power-cbs-biography-documentaries.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Manfred von Richthofen The Red Baron & WWI Aviation DVD, Download, USB
Today, October 6, 2025

Roland Garros, French pioneering aviator and fighter pilot during World War I and early days of aviation (d. October 5, 1918) is #born Eugene Adrien Roland Georges Garros in Saint-Denis in the French overseas department and region of Reunion, located in the Indian Ocean. In one of the pivotal events in fighter plane combat history, Garros glided to a landing on the German side of the lines on April 18, 1915, 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. On October 5, 1918 Garos died when he was 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. He is buried at Vouziers Communal Cemetery in Vouziers, Departement des Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France. 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

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Thomas A. Edison: The Wizard Of Menlo Park + 3 Bonus Titles MP4 DVD
Today, October 6, 2025

October 6, 1888: Great Inventions: Motion Pictures: Precursors Of Film (Precinema): Motion Picture Viewers: The Kinetoscope: -- American inventor Thomas Edison files a preliminary claim, known as a caveat, with the U.S. Patent Office announcing his plans to create a device that would do "for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear". It is clear that it was intended as part of a complete audiovisual system: "we may see and hear a whole Opera as perfectly as if actually present". In March 1889, a second caveat was filed, in which the proposed motion picture device was given a name, Kinetoscope, derived from the Greek roots kineto- ("movement") and scopos ("to view"). Edison assigned William Dickson, one of his most talented employees and his company's official photographer, to the job of making the Kinetoscope a reality. Edison would take full credit for the invention, but the historiographical consensus is that the title of creator can hardly go to one man. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/thomas-a-edison-the-wizard-of-menlo-park-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Hollywood (1980) Silent Movie History Series DVD, Video Download, USB
Today, October 6, 2025

October 6, 1927: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Film Premieres: American Film Premieres: Sound Films (Soundies, Talking Pictures, Talkies): -- The first "talkie", The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, the American musical film and the first motion picture with sound, opens in New York. It was the first full-length feature film using spoken dialogue. As the first feature-length motion picture with not only a synchronized recorded music score, but also lip-synchronous singing and speech in several isolated sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and ended the silent film era. Directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the film, featuring six songs performed by Al Jolson, is based on a play of the same name by Samson Raphaelson, adapted from one of his short stories, "The Day of Atonement". The film depicts the fictional story of Jakie Rabinowitz, a young man who defies the traditions of his devout Jewish family. After singing popular tunes in a beer garden he is punished by his father, a hazzan (cantor), prompting Jakie to run away from home. Some years later, now calling himself Jack Robin, he has become a talented jazz singer. He attempts to build a career as an entertainer but his professional ambitions ultimately come into conflict with the demands of his home and heritage. Darryl F. Zanuck won an Honorary Academy Award for producing the film; Alfred A. Cohn was nominated for Best Writing (Adaptation) at the 1st Academy Awards. In 1996, The Jazz Singer was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" motion pictures. In 1998, the film was chosen in voting conducted by the American Film Institute as one of the best American films of all time, ranking at number ninety. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hollywood-1980-tv-documentary-series-13-shows-4-dual-lay1980134.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: 50 Years Together: Channel 2 And You WCBS-TV (1991) DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, October 6, 2025

October 6, 1988: Crime: Crime In The United States: Crime In New York City: Rape: Rape In The United States: Rape In New York City: Racial Hoaxes: Racial Hoaxes In The United States: Racial Hoaxes In New York City: Tawana Brawley Rape Allegations: -- A grand jury releases its 170-page report that concluded Tawana Brawley had not been abducted, assaulted, raped, or sodomized, as Brawley and her advisers said. Tawana Vicenia Brawley (born December 15, 1971) is an African American woman who accused four white men of kidnapping and raping her over a 4-day period in November 1987 when she was 15 years old. On November 28, 1987, Brawley was found in a trash bag after having been missing for four days from her home in Wappingers Falls, New York. She had racial slurs written on her body and was covered in feces. Brawley accused four white men of having raped her. The charges received widespread national attention in part because of the appalling condition in which she had been left, her young age (15), and the professional status of the persons she accused of the crime (including police officers and a prosecuting attorney). Brawley's advisers-Al Sharpton, Alton H. Maddox, and C. Vernon Mason-also helped in bringing the case to national prominence. After hearing evidence, a grand jury concluded in October 1988 that Brawley had not been the victim of a forcible sexual assault, and that she herself may have created the appearance of such an attack. Steven Pagones, the New York prosecutor whom Brawley had accused as being one of her assailants, later successfully sued Brawley, and her three advisers, for defamation. Brawley received considerable support from the African American community. Some academics have suggested that Brawley was victimized by biased reporting that had credited racial stereotypes. The mainstream media's coverage drew heated criticism from the African American press, and from many black leaders who professed to believe the teenager and her narrative. The grand jury's conclusions decreased support for Brawley and her advisers; Brawley's family have continued to assert that the allegations were true. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/50-years-together-channel-2-amp-you-dvd-wcbstv-new-y502.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Eyes On The Prize II: America At The Racial Crossroads DVD MP4 USB
Today, October 6, 2025

October 6, 1917: #BOTD: #HBD! Fannie Lou Hamer, African American voting rights activist, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and philanthropist who worked primarily in Mississippi (d. March 14, 1977) is #born Fannie Lou Townsend in Montgomery County, Mississippi, the last of the 20 children of Ella and James Lee Townsend. Fannie Lou Hamer was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She was the vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Freedom Democrats' efforts drew national attention to the plight of blacks in Mississippi, and represented a challenge to President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for reelection; their success would mean that other Southern delegations, who were already leaning toward Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, would publicly break from the convention's decision to nominate Johnson. Hamer, singing her signature hymns, drew a great deal of attention from the media, enraging Johnson, who referred to her in speaking to his advisors as "that illiterate woman". Hamer was invited, along with the rest of the MFDP officers, to address the Convention's Credentials Committee. She recounted the problems she had encountered in registration, and the ordeal of the jail in Winona. Near tears, she concluded "...all of this is on account we want to register, to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings - in America?". Johnson, fearful of the power of Hamer's testimony on live television, called an emergency press conference to divert press coverage. The television networks switched to the White House from their coverage of Hamer's address; to their bemusement, he arbitrarily announced the nine-month anniversary of the shooting of Texas governor John Connally during the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Nevertheless, many television networks ran Hamer's speech unedited on their late news programs. The Credentials Committee received thousands of calls and letters in support of the Freedom Democrats. Johnson then dispatched Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Walter Reuther and J. Edgar Hoover to suggest a compromise to give the MFDP two non-voting seats in exchange for concessions. Humphrey, saying that his position on the ticket was at stake, was rebuked by Hamer: "Do you mean to tell me that your position is more important than four hundred thousand black people's lives? Senator Humphrey, I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. I had to leave the plantation where I worked in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Now if you lose this job of Vice-President because you do what is right, because you help the MFDP, everything will be all right. God will take care of you. But if you take [the nomination] this way, why, you will never be able to do any good for civil rights, for poor people, for peace, or any of those things you talk about. Senator Humphrey, I'm going to pray to Jesus for you.". Future negotiations were conducted without Hamer, and the compromise was modified such that the Convention would select the two delegates to be seated "at-large", with no voting rights. The MFDP rejected the compromise, with Hamer making the famous quote "We didnt come all the way up here to compromise for no more than wed gotten here. We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired.". In 1968 the MFDP was finally seated, after the Democratic Party adopted a clause which demanded equality of representation from their states' delegations. In 1972, Hamer was elected as a national party delegate. Fannie Lou Hamer died of complications from hypertension and breast cancer at Taborian Hospital, Mound Bayou, Mississippi, aged 59. She was buried in her hometown of Ruleville, Mississippi. Her tombstone is engraved with one of her most famous quotes, "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." Her primary memorial service, held at a church, was completely full. An overflow service was held at Ruleville Central High School, with over 1,500 people in attendance. Andrew Young, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, spoke at the RCHS service, saying "None of us would be where we are now had she not been there then". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/eyes-on-the-prize-ii-dvd-set-4-discs-complete-2nd-seri42.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Commercials: The Cable Age Classics III DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, October 6, 2025
October 6: National Noodle Day: -- A day to celebrate all the noodle varieties! Noodles are a type of food made from unleavened dough which is rolled flat and cut, stretched or extruded, into long strips or strings. Noodles can be refrigerated for short-term storage or dried and stored for future use. Noodles are usually cooked in boiling water, sometimes with cooking oil or salt added. They are also often pan-fried or deep-fried. Noodle dishes can include a sauce or noodles can be put into soup. The material composition and geocultural origin is specific to each type of a wide variety of noodles. Noodles are a staple food in many cultures, such as Chinese noodles, Japanese noodles, Korean noodles, Filipino noodles, Vietnamese noodles, and Italian pasta. Can you believe that noodles have been around for over 4,000 years? Noodles range in shape from flat, to round, to twisted, to sheets, to tubes, and many more. They can be made from rice, buckwheat, wheat, with or without eggs and even now from zucchini! Eating noodles is the easiest way to forklift as many delicious carbs into your mouth at once, making them a national favorite. The term has become a catch-all for all things pasta, spaghetti, macaroni and dorm-friendly ramen, which means there's a dish out there for everyone, no matter your sauce and topping preferences. The oldest historical mention of noodles appears in a dictionary from the third century A.D. in China. The earliest noodles, were shaped into little bits, formed from bread dough, and thrown into a wok of boiling water. Unlike other inventions, it's rather difficult to pinpoint exactly when and where noodles came from given that they relied on the innovation of home cooks. In Turkey and across central Asia, a dumpling dish evolves into manti, tiny tortellini-like dumplings. Some researchers theorize that Genghis Kahn and his empire that spanned from east Asia to central Europe contributed to the spreading of dumplings. Thus, both the Italians and the Chinese lay claim to inventing the noodle. Regardless of where the noodle originated one of the most alluring things about noodles is how varied they are. In China, you have chefs that pull the thinnest of noodles called la mian; meanwhile in Italy, you have broad flat paste layered with bolognese and bechamel sauce, better known as lasagna. And both are noodles!Noodles have been with mankind in nearly every culture, making it one of the planets most widely eaten foods. National Noodle Day sits at the beginning of October which is National Pasta Month, filling this month with a variety of flavors and options to fill a hungry belly. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-iii-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Amish: Not To Be Modern (1985) DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, October 6, 2025
October 6: German-American Day: -- Besides being a great excuse to eat bratwurst and drink beer like there's no tomorrow, today honors the anniversary of the October 6, 1683 founding of Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania by German immigrant families, marking the first major immigration of German people to America. German immigrants and their descendants have had a massive impact on American culture and history. From starting the first Kindergartens to giving us the legend of Santa Claus, Germans contributed more than you might know! Today, we're celebrating the culture and brushing up on the history of Germans in America. German-Americans have been in America since the very beginning. In 1608, there were several Germans among the Jamestown settlers. German immigrants arrived in more significant numbers around 1670, when they chose to settle overwhelmingly in Pennsylvania and New York. In Pennsylvania, Germans famously founded Germantown and Pennsylvania still has the largest amount of German-Americans in the country. Between 1820 and World War 1, the largest influx of German immigrants arrived. Many sought political or religious freedom after the German Revolutions of 1848, prompting other Americans to call them "Forty- Eighters." German immigrants began to venture out into the Midwest, where they heavily populated Chicago, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and more major cities. During the Civil War, many Germans enlisted and fought on the Union side, as the general sentiment in German culture was anti-slavery. It was in these earlier years of German immigration to America that much of the cultural influence we see today took place. For example, during this time, Germans brought the custom of Christmas trees, the delicious hamburger and the pretzel, and even kindergarten. German culture stressed the importance of universal education, which heavily influenced the budding American education system. German entrepreneurs, like Steinway and Studebaker, developed businesses whose products, like pianos and covered wagons, helped define important eras in American life. World War 1 was a rough time for German-Americans. The anti-German sentiment caused politicians to worry that German-Americans would have split loyalties and undermine American war efforts - even the President doubted the loyalty of those with "hyphenated Americanism." Germans were not allowed to even volunteer at the Red Cross, and many German music pieces and other art were not performed or displayed. During World War II, over 110,000 Germans fled their home country and sought refuge from oppression in America. Many Germans were interned and their civil rights violated. By 1970, the anti-German sentiment had mostly evaporated, and German-Americans found many similarities with other Western European immigrants. Today, many German-American cultural contributions are so heavily assimilated with American culture that many people couldn't pick them out if they tried. German-Americans now make up the largest self-reported ancestry group, which is around 44.2 million. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-amish-not-to-be-modern-dvd-1985-tv-documen1985.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6: Ivy Day: -- October 6, 1891: #DOTD: #RIP: Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom from 1875 to 1891, Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882, and then of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891, who held the balance of power in the House of Commons during the Home Rule debates of 1885-1886 (b. June 27, 1846) #dies of pneumonia in the arms of his wife Katharine at his home at 10 Walsingham Terrace, Hove (now replaced by Dorset Court, Kingsway), aged 45. Though an Anglican, his funeral on October 11 was at the Irish National nondenominational Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin where he was buried, and was attended by more than 200,000 people. His grave originally nad no headstone, but rather a flowerbed that including the spelling of his name "PARNELL", in 1940, it was replaced in 1940 by a symbolically unhewn Wicklow granite gravestone, longer than it is wide that likewise reads only "PARNELL". His brother John Howard inherited the Avondale estate. He found it heavily mortgaged and eventually sold it in 1899. Five years later, at the suggestion of Horace Plunkett, it was purchased by the state. It is open to public view and is where the "Parnell Society" holds its annual August summer school. The "Parnell National Memorial Park" is in nearby Rathdrum, County Wicklow. Dublin has locations named Parnell Street and Parnell Square. At the north end of O'Connell Street stands the Parnell Monument. This was planned and organised by John Redmond, who chose the American Augustus Saint Gaudens to sculpt the statue; it was funded by Americans and completed in 1911. Art critics said it was not an artistic success. He is also commemorated on the first Sunday after the anniversary of his October 6 death, itself known as Ivy Day, which originated when the mourners at his funeral in 1891, taking their cue from a wreath of ivy sent by a Cork woman "as the best offering she could afford", took ivy leaves from the walls and stuck them in their lapels. Ever after, the ivy leaf became the Parnellite emblem, worn by his followers when they gathered to honour their lost leader. Since 1991, the centenary of his death, Magdalene College, Cambridge, where Parnell studied, has offered the Parnell Fellowship in Irish Studies, which is awarded to a scholar for up to a year for study without teaching or administrative responsibilities. Parnell Fellows have often been historians, but have spanned a wide range of disciplines. Parnell is celebrated as the best organiser of an Irish political party up to that time, and one of the most formidable figures in parliamentary history. Parnell is a frequent subject in literature, particuarly Irish literature. He is toasted in the 1938 poem of William Butler Yeats, "Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites", while he is also referred to in "To a Shade", where he performs the famous "C.S.Parnell Style", and in Yeats' two-line poem "Parnell": "Parnell came down the road, he said to a cheering man: | 'Ireland shall get her freedom and you still break stone.'"("breaking stones" is rude slang meainging to harass, nag, or upbraid one to do, accomplish, or complete something.) Parnell is the subject of a discussion in Irish author James Joyce's first chapter of the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, first serialised in The Egoist magazine in 1914-15. Parnell appears in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" in Dubliners. He is also discussed in Ulysses, as is his brother. The main character in Finnegans Wake, HCE, is partially based on Parnell; among other resemblances, both are accused of transgressions in Phoenix Park. The Irish rebel song by Dominic Behan "Come Out, Ye Black and Tans" (Irish pro-British and former British Army soldiers), written in the early 1960s to the tune of the traditional song Rosc Catha na Mumhan and recorded in 1972 by the Irish traditional music group The Wolfe Tones, contains a reference to Parnell: "Come let me hear you tell | How you slandered great Parnell, | When you thought him well |and truly persecuted, | Where are the sneers and jeers | That you bravely let us hear | When our heroes of '16 were executed?" Parnell's death shocks the character Eleanor in Virginia Woolf's novel The Years, published in 1937: "... how could he be dead? It was like something fading in the sky." Charles Stewart Parnell was born in Avondale House, County Wicklow into a powerful Anglo-Irish Protestant landowning family in County Wicklow, the third son and seventh child of John Henry Parnell (1811-1859), a wealthy Anglo-Irish Anglican landowner, and his American wife Delia Tudor Stewart (1816-1898) of Bordentown, New Jersey, daughter of the stepson of one of George Washington's bodyguards, American naval hero Admiral Charles Stewart, who saw service during the Quasi War and both Barbary Wars in the Mediterranean along North Africa and in the War of 1812, ultimately becoming commander of the Philadelphia navy yard and the Navy's first flag officer. His grandson Charles Stewart Parnell was named after him. There were eleven children in all: five boys and six girls. Admiral Stewart's mother, Parnell's great-grandmother, belonged to the Tudor family, so Parnell had a distant relationship with the British royal family. Charles Stewart Parnell was a land reform agitator and founder of the Irish National Land League in 1879. He became leader of the Home Rule League, operating independently of the Liberal Party, winning great influence by his balancing of constitutional, radical, and economic issues, and by his skilful use of parliamentary procedure. Parnell's newspaper, the United Ireland, attacked the Land Act, one a series of measures dealing with tenancy contracts and peasant proprietorship, and he was arrested on October 13, 1881 together with his party lieutenants William O'Brien, John Dillon, Michael Davitt and Willie Redmond, and was imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin under one of the many proclaimed Coercion Acts passed by The House Of Lords. They were charged with sabotaging the Land Act", from where the No Rent Manifesto, which Parnell and the others signed, was issued calling for a national tenant farmer rent strike. The Irish National Land League, an organization which organised tenant farmers to resist exactions of landowners of which Parnetl was president, was also immediately suppressed. Whilst in gaol, Parnell moved in April 1882 to make a deal with the government, negotiated through Captain William O'Shea MP (with whose wife Parnell was having a secret love affair, the future Katharine Parnell) that, provided the government settled the "rent arrears" question allowing 100,000 tenants to appeal for fair rent before the land courts, then withdrawing the manifesto and undertaking to move against agrarian crime, after he concluded that militancy would never win Home Rule. Parnell also promised to use his good offices to quell the violence and to cooperate cordially for the future with the Liberal Party in forwarding Liberal principles and measures of general reform. This agreement became known as The Kilmainham Treaty, and Parnell's resulting release from gaol on May 2 marked a critical turning point in the development of Parnell's leadership when he returned to the parameters of parliamentary and constitutional politics, though it also resulted in the loss of support of the militant American republican Clan na Gael organisation led by John Devoy. His political diplomacy preserved the national Home Rule movement after the Phoenix Park Murders, the fatal stabbings of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin on May 6 by members of a republican organisation known as the Irish National Invincibles, a more radical breakaway from the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), a secret oath-bound fraternal organisation dedicated to the establishment of an "independent democratic republic" in Ireland between 1858 and 1924. Parnell was so shocked by the assassinations that he offered to Gladstone his resignation of his seat as MP. The militant Invincibles responsible fled to the United States, which allowed him to break links with radical Land Leaguers. In the end, it resulted in a Parnell - Gladstone alliance working closely together. Davitt and other prominent members left the IRB, and many rank-and-file Fenians drifted into the Home Rule movement. For the next 20 years, the IRB ceased to be an important force in Irish politics, leaving Parnell and his party the leaders of the nationalist movement in Ireland. The hung parliament of 1885 saw him hold the balance of power between William Gladstone's Liberal Party and Lord Salisbury's Conservative Party. His power was one factor in Gladstone's adoption of Home Rule as the central tenet of the Liberal Party. Parnell's reputation peaked from 1889 to 1890, after letters published in The Times, linking him to the Phoenix Park killings of 1882, were shown during the Commission Of Enquiry Parnell had requested to have been forged by Irish journalist Richard Pigott, who later shot himself to death in a Madrid, Spain hotel in disgrace. Parnell then sued The Times for libel, who agreed to an out of court settlement of 5,000 PS (equivalent to 695,000 PS in 2023) as well as considerably more in legal fees. When Parnell next entered the House of Commons, he received a hero's reception from his fellow Members of Parliamen ted by Gladstone. The Irish Parliamentary Party split in 1890, following the revelation of Parnell's long adulterous love affair with Katharine "Kitty" O'Shea, which led to many British Liberals, many of whom were Nonconformists (Protestant Christians who did not "conform" to the The Church Of England), refusing to have an adulterer play a major role in the Liberal Party, and which engendered strong opposition from Catholic bishops. Captain William O'Shea, who had negotiated the Kilmainham Treaty had separated from his wife Katharine O'Shea, sometime around 1875, but would not divorce her as she was expecting a substantial inheritance. Mrs. O'Shea acted as liaison in 1885 with Gladstone during proposals for the First Home Rule Bill. Parnell later took up residence with her in Eltham, Kent, in the summer of 1886, and was a known overnight visitor at the O'Shea house in Brockley, Kent. The divoce case came to trial on November 15, 1890. The two-day trial revealed that Parnell had been the long-term lover of Mrs. O'Shea and had fathered three of her children. Meanwhile, Parnell assured the Irish Party that there was no need to fear the verdict because he would be exonerated. During January 1890, resolutions of confidence in his leadership were passed throughout the country. Parnell, who was a corespondant in the case, did not contest the divorce action at a November 15 hearing to ensure that it would be granted so that he could marry Mrs O'Shea, so Captain O'Shea's allegations went unchallenged. A divorce decree was granted two days later on November 17, 1890, but Parnell's two surviving children were placed in O'Shea's custody. News of the long-standing adultery created a huge public scandal. The Irish National League passed a resolution to confirm his leadership. The Catholic Church hierarchy in Ireland was shocked by Parnell's immorality and feared that he would wreck the cause of Home Rule. Besides the issue of tolerating immorality, the bishops sought to keep control of Irish Catholic politics, and they no longer trusted Parnell as an ally. The chief Catholic leader, Archbishop Walsh of Dublin, came under heavy pressure from politicians, his fellow bishops, and Cardinal Manning; Walsh finally declared against Parnell. For the first time in Irish history, the two dominant forces of Nationalism and Catholicism came to a parting of the ways. Gladstone warned that if Parnell retained the leadership, it would mean the loss of the next election, the end of their alliance, and also of Home Rule. With Parnell obdurate, the alliance collapsed in bitterness. When the annual party leadership election was held on November 25, Gladstone's warning was not conveyed to the members until after they had loyally re-elected their chief in his office. Gladstone published his warning in a letter the next day; angry members demanded a new meeting, and this was called for December 1. Parnell issued a manifesto on November 29, saying a section of the party had lost its independence; he falsified Gladstone's terms for Home Rule and said they were inadequate. A total of 73 members were present for the fateful meeting in committee room 15 at Westminster. Leaders tried desperately to achieve a compromise in which Parnell would temporarily withdraw. Parnell refused. He vehemently insisted that the independence of the Irish party could not be compromised either by Gladstone or by the Catholic hierarchy. As chairman, he blocked any motion to remove him. On December 6, after five days of vehement debate, a majority of 44 present led by Justin McCarthy walked out to found a new organisation, thus creating rival Parnellite and anti-Parnellite parties. The minority of 28 who remained true to their embattled Chief continued in the Irish National League under John Redmond, but all of his former close associates -- Michael Davitt, John Dillon, William O'Brien and Timothy Healy -- deserted him to join the anti-Parnellites. The vast majority of anti-Parnellites formed the Irish National Federation, later led by John Dillon and supported by the Catholic Church. The bitterness of the split tore Ireland apart and resonated well into the next century; Parnell's faction dissipated after his death, and the majority faction henceforth played only a minor role in both British or Irish politics until the next time the UK had a hung Parliament, in 1910 thirty years later. Parnell fought back desperately, despite his failing health. On December 10, he arrived in Dublin to a hero's welcome. He and his followers forcibly seized the offices of the party paper United Irishman. A year before, his prestige had reached new heights, but the new crisis crippled this support, and most rural nationalists turned against him. In the December North Kilkenny by-election, he attracted Fenian "hillside men" to his side. This ambiguity shocked former adherents, who clashed physically with his supporters; his candidate lost by almost two to one. Deposed as leader, he fought a long and fierce campaign for reinstatement. He conducted a political tour of Ireland to re-establish popular support. In a North Sligo by-election, the defeat of his candidate by 2,493 votes to 3,261 was less resounding. He fulfilled his loyalty to Katharine when they married on June 25, 1891 after Parnell had unsuccessfully sought a church wedding. On the same day, the Irish Catholic hierarchy, worried by the number of priests who had supported him in North Sligo, signed and published a near-unanimous condemnation: "by his public misconduct, has utterly disqualified himself to be ... leader." Only Edward O'Dwyer, bishop of Limerick withheld his signature. The Parnells then took up residence in Brighton. He returned to fight the third and last by-election in County Carlow, having lost the support of the Freeman's Journal when its proprietor Edmund Dwyer-Gray defected to the anti-Parnellites. At one point quicklime was thrown at his eyes by a hostile crowd in Castlecomer, County Kilkenny. Parnell continued the exhausting campaigning. One loss followed another but he looked to the next general election in 1892 to restore his fortunes. On September 27, he addressed a crowd in pouring rain at Creggs, subjecting himself to a severe soaking. On the difficult campaign trail, his health continuously deteriorated; furthermore, he had kidney disease. Parnell fought on furiously but, though aged just 45, he was a dying man; he returned to Dublin on September 30, and he died a week later. In W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, published in 1944, the author mentions Parnell and O'Shea: "Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Parnell and Kitty O'Shea." Parnell was played by Clark Gable in Parnell, the 1937 MGM production about the Irish leader. Instead of wearing a full beard like the real Parnell, the popular actor sported sideburns in addition to his trademark moustache. The film is notable as Gable's biggest flop and occurred at the height of his career when almost every Gable film was a smash hit. Parnell was portrayed by Robert Donat in the 1947 film Captain Boycott. In 1954, Patrick McGoohan played Parnell in "The Fall of Parnell (December 6, 1890)", an episode of the historical television series You Are There. https://store.earthstation1.com/is-there-one-who-understands-me-the-world-of-james-joyce-dvd.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6: National Mad Hatter Day: -- Have you been a little repressed or even depressed lately? If yes, grab your horns and party hats because it's time for a very strange celebration! Today we celebrate one of the most beloved characters of Lewis Carroll's children's novel Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, known in popular parlance as Alice In Wonderland, and its sequel, Through The Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found There, also known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass or simply Through The Looking-Glass -- so today it's okay to blow milk out of your nose! Celebrate with a day-long fest of silliness made especially for those who want to wear crazy top hats while walking backwards. Make Lewis Carroll proud! Mad Hatter Day was first celebrated in 1986 by a group of computer technicians in Boulder, Colorado as a day of silliness, as October 6th matches the label tucked in the Mad Hatter's hat band that reads "In this style 10/6." https://store.earthstation1.com/christmas-radio-mp3-dvd-old-time-broadcast-antholog3.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1951: #DOTD: #RIP: Will Keith Kellogg, generally referred to as W.K. Kellogg, American industrialist in food manufacturing and philanthropist, best known as the founder of the Kellogg Company, which produces a wide variety of popular Kellogg's breakfast cereals (b. April 7, 1860) #dies at the age of 91 in the city of his birth, Battle Creek, Michigan, on October 6, 1951, of circulatory illness. He is buried there at Oak Hill Cemetery. William Keith Kellogg was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and practiced vegetarianism as a dietary principle taught by his church. He also founded the Kellogg Arabian Ranch, which breeds Arabian horses. Kellogg was a philanthropist and started the Kellogg Foundation in 1934 with a 66M USD donation. https://store.earthstation1.com/kebrcoflkibi.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1877: #BOTD: Charles E. Mitchell, American banker whose incautious securities policies facilitated the speculation which led to the Crash of 1929 (d. December 14, 1955) is #born Charles Edwin Mitchell in Chelsea, Massachusetts to a Jewish family, where his father, George Edwin Mitchell, worked for a produce dealer and served as mayor from 1887 until 1888. First National City Bank's (now Citibank) abuses under his leadership brought an end to ownership of investment affiliates by commercial banks. Mitchell graduated from Amherst College in 1899, after which he got a job with the Western Electric Company in Chicago. In 1903, he became assistant to its president. After three years, he left the firm and moved to New York City, where he became assistant to the president of The Trust Company of America. Between 1911 and 1916, he ran his own investment house, C. E. Mitchell & Company. In 1916, he became vice-president of National City Company, which he reorganized into a private investment banking firm. Shortly after, he relocated to Tuxedo Park, New York. Nicknamed "Sunshine Charley", Mitchell was elected president of National City Bank (now Citibank) in 1921 and, in 1929, was appointed chairman. Also in 1921, he was elected president of National City Company, which became the largest security-issuing entity in the world. Under his leadership, the bank expanded rapidly and, by 1930, had 100 branches in 23 countries outside the United States. His salesmen sold millions of shares in the bank totaling $650 million, much of which would be lost in the Crash of 1929. Indeed, while the Federal Reserve Bank was attempting to curb speculation earlier in 1929, Mitchell flaunted a $25 million advance to traders. Mitchell remained chairman until 1933, when he was arrested and indicted for tax evasion by then Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Charges were brought following testimony by Mitchell in which he openly stated that he had sold his stake in National City Bank to avoid paying taxes. Defended by attorney Max Steuer, he was found not guilty of all criminal charges, but the government won a million-dollar civil settlement against him. In 1933, the U.S. Senate's Pecora Commission investigated Mitchell as its first witness for his part in tens of millions of dollars in losses, excessive pay, and tax avoidance. In November 1929, U.S. Senator Carter Glass said, "Mitchell more than any 50 men is responsible for this stock crash." His townhouse on Fifth Avenue, built for him by Walker & Gillette in 1926, with a rusticated facade in the manner of a 16th-century Roman palazzo, now houses the French consulate. Charles E. Mitchell died in New York City, aged 78. Details of his death such as the location of New York City he died in, the cause of death, his funeral and his burial place have been somehow scrubbed from the internet. https://store.earthstation1.com/wastcrof19do.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Bad Lord Byron (1949) Docudramatic Biography DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1973: #DOTD: #RIP: Dennis Price, English actor who made his film debut in A Canterbury Tale (1944) and starred in The Bad Lord Byron (1949), best known for playing Louis Mazzini in the Ealing Studios film Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and as the omnicompetent valet Jeeves in British 1960s television adaptations of P. G. Wodehouse's stories(b. June 23, 1915) #dies of heart failure, complicated by a hip fracture, in Guernsey in 1973, at the age of 58. He was cremated at the Foulon Vale Crematorium, Guernsey, and his ashes were buried outside St. Peter's Anglican Church on Sark, next to the traditional burial plot of the Seigneurs of Sark. Dennis Price was born Dennistoun John Franklyn Rose Price in Ruscombe, Berkshire, South East England to a distinguished family of nobility, military, judicial and political service. He attended Copthorne Prep School, Radley College and Worcester College, Oxford. He studied acting at the Embassy Theatre School of Acting. Price made his first appearance on stage at the Croydon Repertory Theatre in June 1937, followed by a London debut at the Queen's Theatre on September 6, 1937 in Richard II. He served in the Royal Artillery from March 1940 to June 1942 during the Second World War, but returned to acting after being invalided out due to injury. He appeared with Noel Coward in his plays This Happy Breed, Present Laughter, and later as Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit, which he later named in Who's Who in the Theatre as one of his two favourite parts along with the title role in Andre Obey's play Noah. Price's first film role was in A Canterbury Tale (1944). He impressed Gainsborough Pictures, which put him under contract. According to Brian MacFarlane, Price was "mercilessly used by Gainsborough [Pictures] in one unsuitable role after another" in this period. He was given a support role in A Place of One's Own (1945) starring James Mason. British National borrowed him for The Echo Murders (1946), a Sexton Blake film; he was then fourth-billed as the villain in a Gainsborough melodrama, Caravan (1946) with Stewart Granger and Jean Kent, playing the type of villainous part that had made James Mason a star (and that Mason was no longer interested in playing). It was a huge success. Price was a villain again in Gainsborough's The Magic Bow (1946) with Granger and Kent. Two Cities Films used him in one of its melodramas, Hungry Hill (1947). Gainsborough used him in villainous roles in Dear Murderer, Holiday Camp, Jassy and Master of Bankdam (all 1947). He made two films for Bernard Knowles, supporting Margaret Lockwood in The White Unicorn and a comedy, Easy Money (both 1948). He followed this with a thriller, Snowbound, and a crime melodrama Good-Time Girl (both 1948). In 1948, British exhibitors voted Price the tenth-most popular British actor at the box office. He was promoted to starring roles. He was given the title role in The Bad Lord Byron (1949); this was a huge flop at the box-office, and helped kill off the Gainsborough melodrama. Much more successful, both at the box-office and among critics, was Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), for Ealing Films; he played the suave serial murderer Louis Mazzini with Alec Guinness playing his eight relatives. Price was in a wartime drama, The Lost People (1949). In the same year, he was a guest judge on a BBC radio broadcast of the Piddingtons show. His role was to represent the eyes of listeners as the Piddingtons performed their telepathy act in the Piccadilly studios, and in the Tower of London. He was ensuring that no cheating was going on and overseeing the telepathy tests as a witness. He was loaned to Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) to make two films: the musical The Dancing Years (1950), a sizeable hit; and the thriller Murder Without Crime (1950), was less successful. Back at Rank, Price was a villain in The Adventurers, and was borrowed by 20th Century Fox for I'll Never Forget You (both 1951). He played the lead in Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951), and after a cameo in The Magic Box (1951) he had top billing in a comedy, Song of Paris (1952). Price supported in The Tall Headlines (1952) and had the lead in some B-films: Noose for a Lady (1953), Murder at 3am (1953) and Time Is My Enemy (1954). In April 1954, he tried to commit suicide by gas in a London guest house. Public sympathy led to a revival of his career and the offer of film roles. In "A" pictures he became a supporting actor, with his films including The Intruder (1953), For Better, for Worse (1954), That Lady (1955), Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955), Private's Progress (1956), Charley Moon (1956) with Max Bygraves, Port Afrique (1956), A Touch of the Sun (1956), Fortune Is a Woman (1957), The Naked Truth (1957), Danger Within (1959), I'm All Right Jack (1959), and School for Scoundrels (1960). He was top billed in Don't Panic Chaps! (1959), a minor comedy made by Hammer Films. In the 1950s, Price appeared in London and New York City in new plays and revivals of classics. It has been suggested that he was the first name actor on television to play a "more or less overtly gay role" in Crime on Our Hands (1954). In 1957, he made his debut in South Africa in lead roles in Separate Tables. As a radio actor, Price was the original "No. 1" in charge of the crew of HMS Troutbridge in the first series of the long-running radio comedy series The Navy Lark in 1959, but was unable to continue the role in the second series because of other work commitments; he was replaced by Stephen Murray. His film appearances from this period included Tunes of Glory (1960) and The Amorous Prawn (also known as The Playgirl and the War Minister, 1962). In Victim (1961) he portrayed one of several characters being blackmailed because of their (then illegal) homosexuality. In the horror spoof What a Carve Up! (1961) he starred alongside Kenneth Connor, Sid James, Shirley Eaton and Donald Pleasence, while in the science fiction film The Earth Dies Screaming (1964) he appeared alongside Willard Parker and Thorley Walters. In the BBC television series The World of Wooster (1965-67), Price's performance as Jeeves was described by The Times as "an outstanding success", and P. G. Wodehouse said Price had "that essential touch of Jeeves mystery". Working with Ian Carmichael as Bertie Wooster, this now almost completely lost series was based on the novels and short stories of P. G. Wodehouse. He also appeared in an episode of The Avengers. In 1967, Price was declared bankrupt; he attributed his financial distress to "extravagant living and most inadequate gambling". He then moved to the tax haven island of Sark, which coincided with an escalation in his alcoholism. Towards the end of his life, Price appeared in a series of horror movies including The Haunted House of Horror (1969), Twins of Evil (1971), Horror Hospital (1973) and Theatre of Blood (1973), as well as five films directed by Jesus Franco. One of his last film appearances was a star-studded version of Alice in Wonderland (1972) with Ralph Richardson, Robert Helpmann, Peter Sellers and Dudley Moore, among others. On television, he had recurring roles in the ITC series Jason King (1971) and The Adventurer (1972). Price was married to the actress Joan Schofield from 1939 to 1950. They had two daughters. Decades after his death, it was claimed that Price was bisexual. In the book British Film Character Actors (1982), Terence Pettigrew wrote that Price's most successful screen characterisations were "refined, self-centred, caddish and contemptuous of a world inhabited by inferiors. Everything about him was deceptive. He could be penniless and still manage to look as if he owned the bank. But behind all that grand talk and lordly ways, there skulked, in his characters, the most ordinary of shabby, grasping souls." https://store.earthstation1.com/the-bad-lord-byron-19491949.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: John Cleese Interview With Melvyn Bragg 1986 DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1939: #BOTD: Melvyn Bragg, English broadcaster, journalist, author, parliamentarian and academic is #born Melvyn Bragg in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. Baron Bragg, FRSL, FBA, FRS, is best known for his work with ITV as editor and presenter of The South Bank Show (1978-2010), and for the Radio 4 discussion series In Our Time. Earlier in his career, Bragg worked for the BBC in various roles including presenter, a connection that resumed in 1988 when he began to host Start the Week on Radio 4. After his ennoblement in 1998, he switched to presenting the new In Our Time, an academic discussion radio programme, which has run to over 700 broadcast editions, and is a popular podcast. He is currently Chancellor of the University of Leeds. He has claimed that John Cleese was the most nervous interviewee in his career. https://store.earthstation1.com/john-cleese-interview-with-melvyn-bragg-dvd-1986.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1977: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: Military Aviation Maiden Flights: -- The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight. The Mikoyan MiG-29 (NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twin-engine fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. Developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as an air superiority fighter during the 1970s, the MiG-29, along with the larger Sukhoi Su-27, was developed to counter new U.S. fighters such as the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon. The MiG-29 entered service with the Soviet Air Forces in 1982. While originally oriented towards combat against any enemy aircraft, many MiG-29s have been furnished as multirole fighters capable of performing a number of different operations, and are commonly outfitted to use a range of air-to-surface armaments and precision munitions. The MiG-29 has been manufactured in several major variants, including the multirole Mikoyan MiG-29M and the navalised Mikoyan MiG-29K; the most advanced member of the family to date is the Mikoyan MiG-35. Later models frequently feature improved engines, glass cockpits with HOTAS-compatible flight controls, modern radar and infrared search and track (IRST) sensors, and considerably increased fuel capacity; some aircraft have also been equipped for aerial refueling. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the militaries of a number of former Soviet republics have continued to operate the MiG-29, the largest of which is the Russian Air Force. The Russian Air Force wanted to upgrade its existing fleet to the modernised MiG-29SMT configuration, but financial difficulties have limited deliveries. The MiG-29 has also been a popular export aircraft; more than 30 nations either operate or have operated the aircraft to date. As of 2013 the MiG-29 was still in production by Mikoyan, a subsidiary of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) since 2006. https://store.earthstation1.com/war-jets-the-mikoyan-mig29-fulcrum-jet-fight-dvd-mp4-downl294.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The French Revolution Series + Irish Rebellion & You Are There MP4 DVD
Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1789: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: -- Louis XVI returns to Paris, leaving the Palace of Versailles for good, after being confronted by an angry mob of Parisian working women on October 5, who having been incited by revolutionaries, marched on the Palace, where the royal family lived. At dawn, they infiltrated the palace and attempted to kill the queen Marie Antoinette, who was associated with a frivolous lifestyle that symbolized much that was despised about the Ancien Regime. After the situation had been defused by Marquis de Lafayette, head of the Garde nationale who was famous for his service in support of the colonies during The American Revolutionary War, the king and his family were brought by the crowd to the Tuileries Palace in Paris, reasoning that the king would be more accountable to the people if he lived among them in Paris. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-french-revolution-dvd-3-part-tv-documentary-serie3.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1948: #BOTD: Gerry Adams, Irish republican politician is #born Gerard Adams in the Ballymurphy district of Belfast, Ireland. Gerry Adams is president of the Sinn Fein political party and a Teachta Dala (TD; a member of the Irish parliament) for Louth since the 2011 general election. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was an abstentionist Member of Parliament (MP) of the British Parliament for the Belfast West constituency. He has been the president of Sinn Fein since 1983. Since that time the party has become the third-largest party in the Republic Of Ireland, the second-largest political party in Northern Ireland and the largest Irish nationalist party in that region. In 1984, Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by several gunmen from the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). From the late 1980s onwards, Adams was an important figure in the Northern Ireland peace process. Under Adams, Sinn Fein changed its traditional policy of abstentionism towards the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic Of Ireland, in 1986 and later took seats in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly. In 2005, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) stated that its armed campaign was over and that it was exclusively committed to democratic politics. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-celts-dvd-set-tv-series-all-6-shows-celtic-history-3-dis63.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1942: World War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater, The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The South West Pacific Area (SWPA): Operation Cartwheel: The Solomon Islands Campaign: The Battle Of Guadalcanal (The Guadalcanal Campaign, Operation Watchtower): The Actions Along The Matanikau (The Matanikau Action [September 23-27 - October 6-9, 1942]): The Third Battle Of The Matanikau (The October Action [October 6-9, 1942]): -- The October Matanikau Action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River, forcing the Japanese to abandon their positions east of the Matanikau River. The Actions along the Matanikau, sometimes referred to as the Second and Third Battles of the Matanikau, were two separate but related engagements, which took place in the months of September and October 1942, among a series of engagements between the United States and Imperial Japanese naval and ground forces around the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal (island in the south-western Pacific, northeast of Australia) during the Guadalcanal Campaign. These particular engagements - the first taking place between September 23 and 27, and the second between 6 and 9 October - were two of the largest and most significant of the Matanikau actions. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-battle-of-guadalcanal-dvd-mp4-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1892: #DOTD: #RIP: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet, Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign (b. August 6, 1809) #dies at Aldworth, in West Sussex, South East England, aged 83. He was buried at Westminster Abbey. His last words were, "Oh that press will have me now!". He is buried at Westminster Abbey, Greater London, England. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. He was appointed Poet Laureate in succession to William Wordsworth; the British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Prime Minister. The role does not entail any specific duties, but there is an expectation that the holder will write verse for significant national occasions. Memorable poems by Tennyson include Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington and The Charge of the Light Brigade. A number of phrases from Tennyson' work have become commonplaces of the English language, including "Nature, red in tooth and claw" (In Memoriam A.H.H.), "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure", "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new". https://store.earthstation1.com/the-romantic-spirit-tv-series-all-14-episodes-5-dual-layer-d145.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: American Revolutionary War Documentaries DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1777: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The American Enlightenment: The American Revolution: The American Revolutionary War: Battles Of The American Revolutionary War In New York State: The Saratoga Campaign: The Battle Of Forts Clinton And Montgomery: -- General Sir Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of Continental Army Hudson River defenses in the Battle Of Forts Clinton And Montgomery. The Battle Of Forts Clinton And Montgomery was fought in the highlands of the Hudson River valley, not far from West Point. British forces under the command of General Sir Henry Clinton captured Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery, and then dismantled the Hudson River Chain, a chain and boom river defense device that were stretched across the river from Fort Montgomery on the West Bank, at the lower entrance to the Highlands just north of the modern-day Bear Mountain Bridge, to Anthony's Nose on the East Bank. The purpose of the attack was to create a diversion to draw American troops from the army of General Horatio Gates, whose army was opposing British General John Burgoyne's attempt to gain control of the Hudson. The forts were garrisoned by about 600 Continental Army troops under the command of two brothers, General (and Governor of New York) George Clinton, and General James Clinton, while General Israel Putnam led additional troops at nearby Peekskill, New York. (This battle is also sometimes called the "Battle of the Clintons" due to the number of participants with that name. The brothers were probably not related to Sir Henry.) Using a series of feints, Henry Clinton fooled Putnam into withdrawing most of his troops to the east, and then he landed over 2,000 troops on the west side of the Hudson to assault the two forts. After several hours of hiking through the hilly terrain, Clinton divided his troops to stage simultaneous assaults on the two forts. Although the approach to Fort Montgomery was contested by a company armed with a small field piece, they attacked the two forts at nearly the same time and captured them after a relatively short battle. More than half the defenders were killed, wounded, or captured. Since the Hudson River Chain had been broken, the British followed up their battle success with raids upriver as far north as Kingston before being recalled to New York City. The action came too late to be of any assistance to Burgoyne, who surrendered his army on October 17. The only notable consequences of the action were the casualties suffered and the British destruction of the two forts on their departure. https://store.earthstation1.com/american-revolutionary-war-dvd-documentaries.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Old Time Radio History MP3 MegaSet DVD, Audio Download, USB Drive
Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1846: #BOTD: #HBD! George Westinghouse, American inventor, engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (d. March 12, 1914) is #born George Westinghouse Jr. in Central Bridge, New York. George Westinghouse was an American entrepreneur based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, gaining his first patent at the age of 19. Westinghouse saw the potential in alternating current as an electricity distribution system in the early 1880s and put all his resources into developing and marketing it, a move that put his business in direct competition with the Edison direct current system. In 1911 Westinghouse received the AIEE's Edison Medal "For meritorious achievement in connection with the development of the alternating current system." George Westinghouse died in New York City at age 67. He was initially interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY then removed on December 14, 1915. As a Civil War veteran, he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, along with his wife Marguerite, who survived him by three months. She had also been initially interred in Woodlawn and removed and reinterred at the same time as George. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-old-time-radio-history-megaset-dual-layer-mp3-dv3.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1996: #DOTD: #RIP: Forrest Pogue, an official United States Army historian during World War II, Executive Director of The George C. Marshall Foundation, Director of The Marshall Library located on the campus of Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia (b. September 17, 1912) #dies at the age of 84 in Murray, Kentucky. He is buried at Frances Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Frances, Kentucky. Forrest Pogue was born Forrest Carlisle Pogue Jr. in Eddyville, Kentucky. He was a proponent of oral history techniques, and collected many oral histories from the war under the direction of chief Army historian S. L. A. Marshall. Pogue was born in Eddyville, Kentucky. His grandparents, Marion Forrest Pogue and Betty Matthews Pogue, were farmers, and the young Pogue spent much of his early life in Frances, Kentucky, where the Pogue family owned a tract of land. He attended Murray State College, and received his master's degree from the University of Kentucky, as well as a doctorate from Clark University in 1939. Pogue spent a year at the University of Paris, and was fluent in French. Pogue married Christine Brown Pogue. Pogue worked at Murray State, teaching history from June 1933 to May 1942. He was a widely sought speaker, averaging around sixty speeches a year, until he was drafted into the Army in 1942 and promoted to sergeant. He was sent to Fort McClellan and received basic training until being reassigned to a historical unit and made responsible for writing a history of the Second United States Army, and in 1944 was sent to England. He was sent to Normandy to interview wounded soldiers. He worked on the project for eleven months, and was present at the Battle of the Bulge. For his work, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Croix de Guerre. He was discharged in October 1945, and hired as a civilian, with the pay of a colonel. Pogue was first assigned to write a history of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force from 1945 to 1946. In July he was assigned by Dwight D. Eisenhower to write an official history of the Supreme Command in Europe. For the book, he interviewed Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Charles de Gaulle, Alan Brooke and others. Pogue then spent seven years as a military historian, and two conducting operations research at United States Army Garrison Heidelberg with the Operations Research Office at Johns Hopkins University. He contributed to ''The Meaning of Yalta'' among several other books, returning to Murray State in 1954. In 1956, Pogue was hired by the George C. Marshall Foundation to write the official biography of George Marshall. From 1963 to 1987, he worked on the four volume biography, and read over 3.5 million pages of research material while completing his work on Marshall.] He became director of the Marshall Foundation in 1956, leaving in 1974 to become director of the Eisenhower Institute for Historical Research. Pogue retired in 1984. He served as a guest lecturer at George Washington University and the United States Army War College, held the Mary Moody Northen chair in Arts and Sciences at Virginia Military Institute in 1972. Pogue was on the Advisory boards for the Office of Naval History, the Naval Historical Office, the United States Army Center of Military History, the Air Force Historical Research Agency, president of the Oral History Association and the American Military Institute and other organizations. The Pogue Library at Murray State is named after him. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-year-of-the-generals-battle-of-midway-50th-anniversary-mp4-or-dvd.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 2009: #DOTD: #RIP: Douglas Campbell, Canadian-based stage actor of stage and screen (June 11, 1922) #dies at Hotel Dieu hospital in Montreal, Quebec from complications of diabetes and congestive heart disease, aged 87. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Douglas Campbell was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Campbell's interest in the theatre began at London's Old Vic Theatre at age 17, where working as a stage hand he saw Tyrone Guthrie's production of King John. He first performed in the 1941 Old Vic touring productions of Medea and Jacob's Ladder. He was invited to Canada in 1953 by Guthrie, who had just been appointed the first artistic director of the fledgling Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario. Campbell played Hastings in the opening production of Richard III in 1953, and King Oedipus in the stage and screen production of Oedipus Rex in 1954. He appeared many times at Stratford in the fifty years that followed, drawing great acclaim in the role of Othello in 1959, and in many appearances as Falstaff. Campbell founded the Canadian Players in 1954, and was artistic director at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis from 1966 to 1967. He appeared in the role of Henry Green in the 1983 Canadian comedy film Strange Brew, starring the popular SCTV characters Bob and Doug McKenzie. Green was awarded the Order of Canada on April 17, 1997. Campbell received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, in 2003. In 1947, Campbell married Ann Casson, actress and daughter of Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike. His children from that marriage are Dirk Campbell, television director; Teresa Padden who played Cordelia to his first King Lear, Tom Campbell, painter; Benedict Campbell, actor. In the late 1960s, Campbell developed a relationship with Moira Wylie, an actress and director, with whom his children Beatrice and Torquil Campbell were born. Beatrice Campbell is a stage manager at the Shaw Festival while Torquil Campbell is an actor and lead singer/songwriter of the indie rock band Stars. Casson, whom Campbell never divorced, died in 1990. He and Wylie married in 1993. https://store.earthstation1.com/oedipus-rex-sophocles-greek-tragedy-dvd.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 2020: #DOTD: #RIP: Eddie Van Halen, American guitarist, keyboardist, backing vocalist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Van Halen, which he co-founded in 1972, regarded as one of the greatest guitar players in rock history (b. January 26, 1955) #dies at the age of 65 at his home in Santa Monica, California, surrounded by his wife Janie Liszewski; son and current (at the time) bassist of Van Halen, Wolfgang; ex-wife Valerie Bertinelli; and brother and co-founder/drummer of Van Halen, Alex. His son, Wolfgang, confirmed his death on social media later that same day. His remains were cremated, and the ashes scattered off the coast of Malibu, California. Some of Van Halen's childhood landmarks in Pasadena became memorials where fans could pay their respects. He was born Edward Lodewijk Van Halen in Amsterdam into an interracial family, the son of Jan van Halen, a Dutch jazz pianist, clarinettist, and saxophonist, and Eugenia (nee van Beers), an Indo (Eurasian) woman from Rangkasbitung on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies. After settling in Nijmegen, Netherlands in the 1950s, the family experienced prejudice and mistreatment because of their mixed-race relationship, so they moved to the United States in 1962. Van Halen was well known for popularizing the tapping guitar solo technique, allowing rapid arpeggios to be played with two hands on the fretboard. https://store.earthstation1.com/i-want-my-music-tv-dvd-late-1980s-vi1980.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 2020: #DOTD: #RIP: Johnny Nash, African American singer, songwriter, best known in the United States for his 1972 hit "I Can See Clearly Now" and for singing the theme song of the cartoon series The Mighty Hercules which was syndicated on television stations from 1963 to 1966 (b. August 19, 1940) #dies peacefully of natural causes in his home, surrounded by close family in Houston, Texas, the city of his birth, after a period of declining health. He was 80 years old. He is buried at Houston Memorial Gardens in Pearland, Texas. Johnny Nash was born John Lester Nash Jr. in Houston, Texas. Johnny Nash was rimarily a reggae and pop singer, and was one of the first non-Jamaican artists to record reggae music in Kingston. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-mighty-hercules-dvd-cartoon-series.html

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October 6, 1946: #BOTD: #HBD! Millie Small, Jamaican singer, songwriter and beauty, best known for her 1964 recording of "My Boy Lollipop", which reached number two in both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100 (d. May 5, 2020) is #born Millicent Dolly May Small in Clarendon, Jamaica, the daughter of a sugar plantation overseer. On her UK records, Millicent Dolly May Small CD was usually credited mononymously as Millie. She was the Caribbean's first international recording star, and its most successful female performer. Screaming Lord Sutch was a fan, and played "My Boy Lollipop", along with some cheeky innuendo during the outro, on his offshore pirate radio station "Radio Sutch", located in the Shivering Sands Army Fort near the Thames estuary. Millie Small died of a stroke in London, England at the age of 72. Her burial details are not publicly disclosed. https://store.earthstation1.com/offshore-pirate-radio-2-dual-layer-mp3-dvds-uk-amp-euro23.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1906: #BOTD: #HBD! Janet Gaynor, American film, stage and television actress, painter, and beauty (d. September 14, 1984) is #born Laura Augusta Gainor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gaynor began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films. After signing with Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century-Fox) in 1926, she rose to fame and became one of the biggest box office draws of the era. In 1929, she was the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: 7th Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and Street Angel (1928). This was the only occasion on which an actress has won one Oscar for multiple film roles. Gaynor's career success continued into the sound film era, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born (1937), for which she received a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination. Janet Gaynor died at Desert Hospital in Palm Springs at the age of 77. Her doctor, Bart Apfelbaum, attributed her death to the 1982 car wreck and stated that Gaynor "never recovered" from her injuries. Gaynor is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery next to her second husband, Adrian; her headstone reads "Janet Gaynor Gregory", her legal name after her marriage to her third husband, producer and director Paul Gregory. https://store.earthstation1.com/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime-1975-great-depression-films1975.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1989: #DOTD: #RIP: Bette Davis, American actress regarded as one of the greatest actresses in film history with a career spanning 60 years and 100 acting credits (b. April 5, 1908) #dies aged 81 of breast cancer at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in France, just west of Paris. She is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles County, California. A memorial tribute was held by invitation only at Burbank Studio's stage 18 where a work light was turned on signaling the end of production. She was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis in Lowell, Massachusetts. Bette Davis was noted for playing unsympathetic, sardonic characters, and was famous for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical films, suspense horror, and occasional comedies, although her greater successes were in romantic dramas. A recipient of two Academy Awards, she was the first thespian to accrue ten nominations. After appearing in Broadway plays, the 22-year old Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930. After some unsuccessful films, she had her critical breakthrough playing a vulgar waitress in Of Human Bondage (1934), although, contentiously, she was not among the three nominees for the Academy Award for Best Actress that year. The next year, her strong performance as a down-and-out actress in Dangerous (1935) did land her her first Best Actress nomination, and she won the award. In 1937, she tried to free herself from her contract with Warner Brothers Studio; although she lost the legal case, it marked the start of more than a decade as one of the most celebrated leading ladies of US cinema, known for her forceful and intense style. Her portrayal of a strong-willed 1850s southern belle in Jezebel (1938) won her a second Academy Award for Best Actress and was the first of five consecutive years she received a nomination. The others were for Dark Victory (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941) and Now, Voyager (1942). Davis gained a reputation as a perfectionist who could be highly combative and confrontational with studio executives and film directors as well as with her co-stars. Her forthright manner, idiosyncratic speech, and ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona that has been often imitated. She is perhaps most known for her role as a Broadway star in All About Eve (1950), which earned her another Oscar nomination and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. Her last Oscar nomination was for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), also starring her rival Joan Crawford. Her career went through several periods of eclipse but despite a long period of ill health she continued acting in film or on television until shortly before her death from breast cancer in 1989. She admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships, as she married four times, divorced three times, raised her children as a single parent and had a daughter, B. D. Hyman, who wrote the tell-all book My Mother's Keeper. Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, a club venue for food, dancing and entertainment for servicemen during World War II, and was the first female president of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences. She was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. In 1999, Davis placed second behind Katharine Hepburn on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of the classical Hollywood cinema era. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-baby-boomer-bloopers-tv-amp-movie-blooper-outtakes-dvd.html

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October 6, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Britt Ekland, Swedish actress, singer, sex symbol and beauty, is #born Britt-Marie Eklund in Stockholm, Sweden to Maj Britt, a secretary, and Sven Axel Eklund, who ran an upscale clothing store in Stockholm and was captain of the Swedish national curling team. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in William Friedkin's The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), and the British crime film Get Carter (1971), which established her as a movie sex symbol. She also starred in the British cult horror film The Wicker Man (1973) and appeared as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). Her high-profile social life and her 1964 marriage to actor Peter Sellers attracted considerable press attention, leading to her being one of the most photographed celebrities in the world during the 1970s. https://store.earthstation1.com/after-the-fox-dvd-1966-peter-sellers-victor-matur1966.html

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Today, October 6, 2025
October 6, 1908: #BOTD: #HBD! Carole Lombard, American actress and beauty, particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles as one of the definitive actresses of the screwball comedy genre and American comedy, and as a cultural icon of American cinema (d. January 16, 1942)) is #born.Jane Alice Peters into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but was raised in Los Angeles by her single mother. At 12, she was recruited by director Allan Dwan and made her screen debut in A Perfect Crime (1921). Eager to become an actress, she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation at age 16, but mainly played bit parts and was dropped after a year. Her career came close to ending shortly before her 19th birthday when a shattered windshield from a car accident left a scar on her face, but she overcame this challenge and appeared in fifteen short comedies for Mack Sennett between 1927 and 1929, and then began appearing in feature films such as High Voltage (1929) and The Racketeer (1929). After a successful appearance in The Arizona Kid (1930), she was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures. Paramount quickly began casting Lombard as a leading lady, primarily in drama films. Her profile increased when she married William Powell in 1931, but the couple divorced amicably after two years. A turning point in Lombard's career came when she starred in Howard Hawks's pioneering screwball comedy Twentieth Century (1934). The actress found her niche in this genre, and continued to appear in films such as Hands Across the Table (1935) (forming a popular partnership with Fred MacMurray), My Man Godfrey (1936), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and Nothing Sacred (1937). At this time, Lombard married "The King of Hollywood", Clark Gable, and the supercouple gained much attention from the media. Keen to win an Oscar, Lombard began to move towards more serious roles at the end of the decade. Unsuccessful in this aim, she returned to comedy in Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) and Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942), her final film role. Lombard's career was cut short when she died at the age of 33 aboard TWA Flight 3, which crashed on Mount Potosi, Nevada, while returning from a war bond tour. On January 16, 1942, The Crash Of TWA Flight 3 occurred when a Douglas DC-3-382 propliner operated by Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) as a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New York, New York, to Burbank, California was destroyed at 19:20 PST, fifteen minutes after takeoff from a stopover at Las Vegas Airport (now Nellis Air Force Base) when it crashed into a sheer cliff on Potosi Mountain, 32 miles southwest of the airport, at an elevation of 7,770 feet above sea level, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard and her mother, who were returning to California from a war bond tour. The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) investigated the accident and determined that the cause was a navigation error by the captain. In the book My Lunches with Orson, Orson Welles claims that he had been told by a security agent that Flight 3 was shot down by Nazi agents who knew of the route in advance. He also claimed that news of the shooting was kept quiet to prevent vigilante action against Americans of German ancestry. This theory has been questioned by Robert Matzen in his book Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3. Carole Lombard's funeral was January 21 at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. She was interred beside her mother under the name of Carole Lombard Gable. Despite remarrying twice following her death, Gable was interred beside Lombard when he died in 1960. Lombard's final film, To Be or Not to Be, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and co-starring Jack Benny, a satire about Nazism and World War II, was in post-production at the time of her death. Allegedly, it has been said that film's producers decided to cut a line in which Lombard's character asks, "What can happen on a plane?" out of respect for the circumstances surrounding her death. However, there is no indication that this line existed and was removed posthumously, according to the film's PSA file. When The Jack Benny Program aired on January the 18th Jack Benny did not attend the live radio broadcast. At its opening, announcer Don Wilson stated Jack would not appear that night, but did not explain why. The show that night did not feature any comedy, just musical numbers. Lombard had been scheduled to appear on the following Sunday's broadcast. At the time of her death, Lombard had been scheduled to star in the film They All Kissed the Bride; when production started, she was replaced by Joan Crawford. Crawford donated all of her salary for the film to the Red Cross, which had helped extensively in the recovery of bodies from the air crash. Shortly after Lombard's death, Gable, who was inconsolable and devastated by his loss, joined the United States Army Air Forces. Lombard had asked him to do that numerous times after the United States had entered World War II. After officer training, Gable headed a six-man motion picture unit attached to a B-17 bomb group in England to film aerial gunners in combat, flying five missions himself. In December 1943, the United States Maritime Commission announced that a Liberty ship named after Carole Lombard would be launched. Gable attended the launch of the SS Carole Lombard on January 15, 1944, the two-year anniversary of Lombard's record-breaking war bond drive. The ship was involved in rescuing hundreds of survivors from sunken ships in the Pacific and returning them to safety. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema. https://store.earthstation1.com/hollywood-without-makeup-dvd-film-star-home-movies.html