Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: American
Revolutionary War Documentaries DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, October 17, 2025
October 17, 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 Continental Army wins the Saratoga Campaign as
British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New
York. It was the turning point of the war, because it won for
America the foreign assistance which was the last element needed
for victory. The Saratoga Campaign was an attempt by the British
high command for North America to gain military control of the
strategically important Hudson River valley. The primary thrust of
the campaign was planned and initiated by General John Burgoyne.
Commanding a main force of some 8,000 men, he moved south in June
from Quebec, boated south on Lake Champlain to Fort Ticonderoga
and from there boated south on Lake George, then marched down the
Hudson Valley to Saratoga. He initially skirmished there with the
Patriot defenders with mixed results. The turning point of the
campaign happened in August at the Battle of Bennington when
militia forces from Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts
defeated, killed, and captured around 1,000 Brunswicker and
Hessian troops from Burgoyne's army. Then, after losses in the
Battles of Saratoga in September and October, his deteriorating
position and the ever-increasing size of the American army forced
him to surrender his forces to the American general Horatio Gates
on October 17. In this critical British loss on the field of
battle, the coordinated movements that had been drawn up in far
away London did not materialize. Colonel Barry St. Leger had been
assigned to move east through the Mohawk River valley on Albany,
New York, but was forced to retreat during the Siege of Fort
Stanwix after losing his Indian allies. The major expedition
planned from the south was not launched due to miscommunication
with London when General William Howe sent his army to take
Philadelphia rather than sending it up the Hudson River to link up
with Burgoyne. A last-minute effort to reinforce Burgoyne from New
York City was made in early October, but it was too little, too
late. The American victory was an enormous morale boost to the
fledgling nation. More important, it convinced France to enter the
war in alliance with the United States, openly providing money,
soldiers, and munitions, as well as fighting a naval war worldwide
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Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: A Strong
Man In Egypt: Giovanni Belzoni DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, October 17, 2025
October 17, 1817: Archaeology
(Archeology): Great Discoveries Of Archaeology: Ancient Egypt: New
Kingdom: Nineteenth Dynasty (The Nineteenth Dynasty Of Egypt,
Dynasty XIX, 19th Dynasty, Dynasty 19): Seti I: The Tomb Of Seti I
(Valley Of The Kings Tomb KV17): -- The well-presevered tomb of
the Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I is discovered in the Valley of the
Kings by Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist Giovanni
Belzoni (also known as The Great Belzoni). Of all the New Kingdom
royal tombs, it proved to be the longest at 446 feet (136 meters)
and deepest. It was also the first tomb to feature decorations
(including the Book of the Heavenly Cow) on every passageway and
chamber with highly refined bas-reliefs and colorful paintings -
fragments of which, including a large column depicting Seti I with
the goddess Hathor, can be seen in the National Archaeological
Museum, Florence. This decorative style set a precedent which was
followed in full or in part in the tombs of later New Kingdom
kings. Seti's mummy itself was discovered by Emil Brugsch on June
6, 1881 in the mummy cache (tomb DB320) at Deir el-Bahri, and has
since been kept at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. His huge
sarcophagus, carved in one piece, is intricately decorated on
every surface, including the goddess Nut on the interior base.
Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek) was the second pharaoh of
the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period,
ruling c.1294 or 1290 BC to 1279 BC. He was the son of Ramesses I
and Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II. The name 'Seti' means
"of Set", which indicates that he was consecrated to the
god Set (also termed "Sutekh" or "Seth"); such
a choice of names seems peculiar for a pharoah who is himself
supposed to be the embodiment of Osirirs, the enemy of Set, but it
is believed that Seti was so named because he had red hair, blood
(which is red) being sacred to Set. As with most pharaohs, Seti
had several names. Upon his ascension, he took the prenomen
Menmaatre (Established is the Justice of Re). His better known
nomen, or birth name, is transliterated as "sty mry-n-pth"
or Sety Merenptah, meaning "Man of Set, beloved of Ptah".
Manetho incorrectly considered him to be the founder of the 19th
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Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Sold Down
The River: Black Freedom Lost After Civil War DVD, MP4, USB
Today, October 17, 2025
October 17, 1871: The Reconstruction Era
(Reconstruction): The Ku Klux Klan Act (The Enforcement Act Of
1871, The Third Enforcement Act, The Third Ku Klux Klan Act, The
Civil Rights Act of 1871, The Force Act of 1871): The South
Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials Of 1871-1872: -- On October 17, 1871,
U.S. President Ulysses Grant declares nine South Carolina counties
to be in active rebellion and suspends habeas corpus due to a
campaign of mass terror by the Ku Klux Klan in the upcountry of
South Carolina in the aftermath of the election of 1870, in which
a Republican majority was sustained and Republican Governor Scott
was re-elected. The Klan rode almost nightly following the
elections, forcing their way into the homes of freedmen and
carpetbaggers, interrogating the men on their political
activities, demanding they renounce the Republican party, then
whipping and beating them severely, or murdering them. Women were
often abused or raped, and houses and barns often burned to the
ground. In one reported instance, the Klan visited a white woman
known to be harboring two black men. The Klan beat the men, told
them to run, and then shot at them as they fled. The Klansmen then
forced the woman out of her home, into the road, made her lie
prostrate, and poured hot tar into her "private parts."
Many black freedmen fled their homes over these months, choosing
to spend the fall and winter nights in the woods and swamps in
order to evade Klan violence. Congressional hearings in 1872
document 227 whippings in Spartanburg County alone. In his
investigations during 1871, Major Merrill found evidence of at
least 600 whippings and 11 murders in York county. In response to
this wave of terror, President Grant's order allowed federal
troops, under the command of Major Lewis Merrill, to execute
mass-arrests and begin the process of crushing the South Carolina
Ku Klux Klan in federal court. Major Merrill reported 169 arrests
in York County by January 1872. Numerous Klansmen fled the state,
and more were quieted by fear of prosecution. Nearly 500 men
surrendered to Merrill voluntarily, gave confessions or evidence,
and were released. At the Fourth Federal Circuit Court session in
Columbia, South Carolina beginning November 1871, United States
District Attorney David T. Corbin and South Carolina Attorney
General Daniel H. Chamberlain convicted 5 Klansmen in trial court,
and secured convictions based on confession from 49 others. In the
next Fourth Federal Circuit Court session in Charleston, South
Carolina in April 1872, Corbin convicted 86 more Klansmen. Klan
activities vanished while prosecutions were ongoing and
publicized, but, by the end of 1872, federal will dissolved in the
face of waning Republican support for Reconstruction. At the end
of 1872 some 1,188 Enforcement Act cases remained to be tried.
White Northern interests began to seek a more conciliatory
relationship with Southern states, and lamented Southern papers'
exaggerated tales of "bayonet rule." During the summer
of 1873, President Grant announced a policy of clemency for those
Klansmen who had not yet been tried, and pardon for those who had.
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EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Rita
Hayworth: Dancing Into The Dream Documentary DVD, Download, USB
Today, October 17, 2025
October 17, 1918: #BOTD: #HBD! Rita
Hayworth, American actress, singer, dancer, pin-up girl, sex
symbol, cultural icon and beauty (d. May 14, 1987) is #born
Margarita Carmen Cansino in New York City. Rita Hayworth achieved
fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in
a total of 61 films over 37 years. The press coined the term "love
goddess" to describe Hayworth after she had become the most
glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pin-up girl
for GIs during World War II. Hayworth is perhaps best known for
her performance in the 1946 film noir, Gilda, opposite Glenn Ford,
in which she played the femme fatale in her first major dramatic
role. Fred Astaire, with whom she made two films, called her his
favorite dance partner. Her greatest success was in the
Technicolor musical Cover Girl (1944), with Gene Kelly. She is
listed as one of the top 25 female motion picture stars of all
time in the American Film Institute's survey, AFI's 100
Years...100 Stars. In 1980, Hayworth was diagnosed with
Alzheimer's disease, which contributed to her death at age 68. The
public disclosure and discussion of her illness drew attention to
Alzheimer's, and helped to increase public and private funding for
Alzheimer's research. She was married to Orson Welles (m. 1943;
div. 1947) and Prince Aly Khan (m. 1949; div. 1953). Rita Hayworth
died at the age of 68 from complications associated with
Alzheimer's disease at her Manhattan home, having lapsed into a
semicoma in February, President Ronald Reagan, who was one of
Hayworth's contemporaries in Hollywood (and who would also suffer
from Alzheimer's in his final years), issued a statement: "Rita
Hayworth was one of our country's most beloved stars. Glamorous
and talented, she gave us many wonderful moments on stage and
screen and delighted audiences from the time she was a young girl.
In her later years, Rita became known for her struggle with
Alzheimer's disease. Her courage and candor, and that of her
family, were a great public service in bringing worldwide
attention to a disease which we all hope will soon be cured. Nancy
and I are saddened by Rita's death. She was a friend who we will
miss. We extend our deep sympathy to her family." A funeral
service was held on May 18, 1987, at the Church of the Good
Shepherd. Pallbearers included actors Ricardo Montalban, Glenn
Ford, Cesar Romero, Anthony Franciosa, choreographer Hermes Pan,
and a family friend, Phillip Luchenbill. She is interred at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Culver City. Her headstone includes her daughter
Yasmin's sentiment: "To yesterday's companionship and
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Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Al Capone
Documentary Biography MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, October 17, 2025
October 17, 1931: Crime: Organized Crime:
Organized Crime In The United States: The Chicago Outfit (The
Outfit, The Chicago Mafia, The Chicago Mob, The Chicago Crime
Family, The South Side Gang, The Organization): Al Capone: -- Al
Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. Alphonse Gabriel
Capone, sometimes known by the nickname Scarface, was an American
mobster, crime boss and businessman who attained fame during the
Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit,
also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, or
The Organization, an Italian-American organized crime syndicate
based in Chicago, Illinois which dates back to the 1910s. His
seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old. He
reveled in attention, such as the cheers from spectators when he
appeared at ball games. He made donations to various charities and
was viewed by many to be a "modern-day Robin Hood".
However, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre of gang rivals,
resulting in the killing of seven men in broad daylight, damaged
Chicago's image - as well as Capone's - leading influential
citizens to demand governmental action and newspapers to dub him
"Public Enemy No. 1". The federal authorities became
intent on jailing Capone, and they prosecuted him for tax evasion
in 1931, a federal crime and a novel strategy during the era.
During the highly publicized case, the judge admitted as evidence
Capone's admissions of his income and unpaid taxes during prior
(and ultimately abortive) negotiations to pay the government any
back taxes he owed. Capone was convicted and sentenced to 11 years
in federal prison. After conviction, he replaced his old defense
team with experts in tax law, and his grounds for appeal were
strengthened by a Supreme Court ruling, but his appeal ultimately
failed. He was already showing signs of syphilitic dementia early
in his sentence, and he became increasingly debilitated before
being released after eight years. On January 25, 1947, Capone died
of cardiac arrest in the hospital of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
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Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Between
The Wars TV Documentary Series DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, October 17, 2025
October 17, 1941: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Battle Of The Atlantic: Submarine Warfare
(U-Boat Warfare, U-Boot Krieg, Unterseeboot Krieg): The Kearny
Incident (The USS Kearny Incident): -- The German submarine U-568
attacks the American destroyer USS Kearny, the first time a U-Boat
attacked an American ship during World War II, killing 11 men and
injuring 22 more. The incident was the result of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's "shoot-on-sight" order, issued
when on September 4, 1941 the USS Greer (DD-145), a Wickes-class
destroyer in the United States Navy, became the first US Navy ship
to fire on a German ship, the submarine U-652, when the aggressive
sonar patrolling by the Greer resulted in the U-Boat initiating an
unsuccessful torpedo attack, three months before the United States
officially entered World War II, in what became known as The Greer
Incident. USS Kearny was docked at Reykjavik, in U.S.-occupied
Iceland. A "wolfpack" of German U-boats attacked the
nearby British Convoy SC 48, and overwhelmed its Canadian escorts.
Kearny and three other U.S. destroyers were summoned to assist.
Immediately on reaching the action, Kearny dropped depth charges
on the U-boats, and continued to barrage throughout the night.
(This action was specifically cited as a provocation in Hitler's
declaration of war on the U.S. two months later.) At the beginning
of the midwatch on October 17, a torpedo fired by U-568 struck
Kearny on the starboard side. The crew confined flooding to the
forward fire room, enabling the ship to get out of the danger zone
with power from the aft engine and fire room. Regaining power in
the forward engine room, Kearny steamed to Iceland at 10 knots (20
km/h), arriving October 19. After temporary repairs, Kearny got
underway Christmas Day 1941, and moored six days later at Boston,
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Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Salt Of
The Earth (1953) 1951 Empire Zinc Mine Strike DVD, MP4, USB
Today, October 17, 2025
October 17, 1950: Labor Union Disputes
(Trade Union Disputes): Strikes (Strike Actions, Labor Strikes,
Labour Strikes): The Empire Zinc Strike (The Salt Of The Earth
Strike): -- The Empire Zinc Strike begins, a 15-month-long miners'
strike in Grant County, New Mexico against the Empire Zinc Company
for its discriminatory pay that ended on January 21, 1952. The
strike drew national attention, and after it was settled in 1952,
the 1954 American drama film Salt Of The Earth was released,
written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and
produced by Paul Jarrico, all of whom had been blacklisted by the
Hollywood establishment due to their alleged involvement in
communist politics. The film is one of the first pictures to
advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its plot
centers on a long and difficult strike, based on the 1951 Empire
Zinc Strike at the Empire Zinc Company in Grant County, New
Mexico. In the film, the company is identified as "Delaware
Zinc", and the setting is "Zinctown, New Mexico".
The film shows how the miners, the company, and the police reacted
during the strike. In neorealist style, the producers and director
used actual miners and their families as actors in the film. In
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Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Black
Stars In Orbit: The Black Astronauts Of NASA MP4 Download Or DVD
Today, October 17, 2025
October 17, 1956: #BOTD: #HBD! Mae Carol
Jemison, beautiful and brilliant African American dancer,
engineer, physician, former NASA astronaut, first African-American
woman and first black lesbian in space, is born in Decatur,
Alabama, the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and
Dorothy Jemison (nee Green). Her father was a maintenance
supervisor for a charity organization, and her mother worked most
of her career as an elementary school teacher of English and math
at the Ludwig van Beethoven Elementary School in Chicago,
Illinois. Jemison knew from a young age that she wanted to study
science and someday go into space. The television show Star Trek
and, in particular, African-American actress Nichelle Nichols'
portrayal of Lieutenant Uhura further stoked her interest in
space; Jemison and Nichols would become colleagues and friends
through their mutual work to recruit minority and female personnel
for the space agency. She became the first African-American woman
to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist
aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Jemison joined NASA's
astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47
mission, during which the Endeavour orbited the Earth for nearly
eight days on September 12-20, 1992. Jemison graduated from
Stanford University with degrees in chemical engineering as well
as African and African-American studies. She then earned her
medical degree from Cornell University. Jemison was a doctor for
the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone from 1983 until 1985
and worked as a general practitioner. In pursuit of becoming an
astronaut, she applied to NASA. Jemison left NASA in 1993 and
founded a technology research company. She later formed a
non-profit educational foundation and through the foundation is
the principal of the 100 Year Starship project funded by DARPA.
Jemison also wrote several books for children and appeared on
television several times, including in a 1993 episode of Star
Trek: The Next Generation. She holds several honorary doctorates
and has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and
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EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: De Gaulle
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Today, October 17, 2025
October 17, 1961: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Decolonisation Of Africa: The Algerian
War (The Algerian Revolution, The Algerian War Of Independence):
The Paris Massacre Of 1961 (The 17 October 1961 Massacre): --
Under orders from the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon,
the French National Police attacked a demonstration by 30,000
pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians. After 37 years of
denial and censorship of the press, in 1998 the French government
finally acknowledged 40 deaths, while some historians estimate
that between 200 and 300 Algerians died. Death was due to
heavy-handed beating by the police, as well as mass drownings, as
police officers threw demonstrators into the river Seine. The
massacre was intentional, as substantiated by historian Jean-Luc
Einaudi, who won a trial against Papon in 1999 (Papon had been
convicted in 1998 of crimes against humanity for his role under
the Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II). Official
documentation and eyewitness accounts within the Paris police
department suggest that Papon directed the massacre himself.
Police records show that he called for officers in one station to
be "subversive" in quelling the demonstrations, and
assured them protection from prosecution if they participated. On
October 17 2001, the fortieth anniversary of the massacre,
Bertrand Delanoe, the Socialist Mayor of Paris, put up a plaque in
remembrance of the massacre on the Pont Saint-Michel. How many
demonstrators were killed is still unclear. In the absence of
official estimates, the plaque commemorating the massacre reads,
"In memory of the many Algerians killed during the bloody
repression of the peaceful demonstration of 17 October 1961".
On February 18, 2007, the day after Papon's death, calls were made
for a Paris Metro station under construction in Gennevilliers to
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EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The 1964
New York World's Fair Films Set DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, October 17, 2025
October 17, 1965: Grand Finales: World's
Fair Finales: -- The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair closes after
a two-year run. More than 51 million people had attended the
event. It opened on April 22, 1964 for its first of two seasons;
on April 21, 1965, it opened for its second and final season. The
1964/1965 New York World's Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110
restaurants, for 80 nations (hosted by 37), 24 US states, and over
45 corporations to build exhibits or attractions at Flushing
Meadows Park in Queens, NY. The immense fair covered 646 acres
(261 ha) on half the park, with numerous pools or fountains, and
an amusement park with rides near the lake. However, the fair did
not receive official sanctioning from the Bureau of International
Expositions (BIE) due to a heavily-publicized rules dispute
between fair organizier Robert Moses and the BIE over time length,
state fair frequency and fees. Hailing itself as a "universal
and international" exposition, the fair's theme was "Peace
Through Understanding", dedicated to "Man's Achievement
on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe". American
companies dominated the exposition as exhibitors. The theme was
symbolized by a 12-story-high, stainless-steel model of the earth
called the Unisphere, built on the foundation of the Perisphere
from the 1939 NYC fair. The fair ran for two six-month seasons,
April 22 - October 18, 1964, and April 21 - October 17, 1965.
Admission price for adults (13 and older) was 2 USD in 1964
(equivalent to 15.78 USD in 2017) but 2.50 USD (equivalent to
19.41 USD in 2017) in 1965, and 1 USD for children (2-12) both
years (equivalent to 7.89 USD in 2017). The fair is noted as a
showcase of mid-20th-century American culture and technology. The
nascent Space Age, with its vista of promise, was well
represented. More than 51 million people attended the fair, though
fewer than the hoped-for 70 million. It remains a touchstone for
many American Baby Boomers, who visited the optimistic fair as
children before the turbulent years of the Vietnam War, cultural
changes, and increasing domestic violence associated with the
Civil Rights Movement. In many ways the fair symbolized a grand
consumer show covering many products produced in America at the
time for transportation, living, and consumer electronic needs in
a way that would never be repeated at future world's fairs in
North America. Many major American manufacturing companies from
pen manufacturers, to chemical companies, to computers, to
automobiles had a major presence. This fair gave many attendees
their first interaction with computer equipment. Corporations
demonstrated the use of mainframe computers, computer terminals
with keyboards and CRT displays, teletype machines, punch cards,
and telephone modems in an era when computer equipment was kept in
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Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Nobel
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Today, October 17, 2025
October 17, 1979: The Nobel Prize: The
Nobel Peace Prize: The 1979 Nobel Peace Prize: -- Mother Teresa is
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for her work for bringing help
to suffering humanity." Mother Teresa, also known as Saint
Teresa Of Calcutta, Roman Catholic saint,
Albanian-Macedonian-Indian nun, founder in 1950 and active member
of the Missionaries Of Charity, Nobel Prize laureate (August 26,
1910 - September 5, 1997) was born Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in
Uskub, now Skopje, capital of North Macedonia. After living in
Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India,
where she lived for most of her life. After Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu
(passport name) founded her missionary Roman Catholic religious
congregation, it grew to have over 4,500 nuns and was active in
133 countries as of 2012. The congregation manages homes for
people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. The
congregation also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile
clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as
orphanages and schools. Members take vows of chastity, poverty,
and obedience and also profess a fourth vow-to give "wholehearted
free service to the poorest of the poor." Mother Teresa
received several honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace
Prize and the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised on 4
September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is
her feast day. A controversial figure during her life and after
her death, Mother Teresa was admired by many for her charitable
work. She was praised and criticised on various counts, such as
for her views on abortion and contraception, and was criticized
for poor conditions in her houses for the dying. Her authorized
biography was written by Navin Chawla and published in 1992, and
she has been the subject of films and other books. On 6 September
2017, Mother Teresa and St. Francis Xavier were named co-patrons
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Today, October 17, 2025
October 17, 1989: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The
Cold War): The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The Revolutions Of
1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of
Communism): The Eastern Bloc (The Communist Bloc, The Socialist
Bloc, The Soviet Bloc): The Peaceful Revolution: (German:
Friedliche Revolution) -- The East German Politburo unanimously
votes both to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General
Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and to elect
Egon Krenz as his successor as General Secretary. As the reform
movement spread throughout Central and Eastern Europe, mass
demonstrations against the East German government erupted, most
prominently in Leipzig - the first of several demonstrations which
took place on Monday nights across the country. In response, an
elite paratroop unit was dispatched to Leipzig -- almost certainly
on Honecker's orders, since he was commander-in-chief of the Army.
A bloodbath was averted only when local party officials themselves
ordered the troops to pull back. In the following week, Honecker
faced a torrent of criticism. This gave his Politburo comrades the
impetus they needed to replace him. After a crisis meeting of the
Politburo on October 10-11, 1989, Honecker's planned state visit
to Denmark was cancelled and, despite his resistance, at the
insistence of the regime's number-two-man, Egon Krenz, a public
statement was issued that called for "suggestions for
attractive socialism". Over the following days Krenz worked
to secure himself the support of the military and the Stasi and
arranged a meeting between Gorbachev and Politburo member Harry
Tisch, who was in Moscow, to inform the Kremlin about the
now-planned removal of Honecker; Gorbachev reportedly wished them
good luck. The sitting of the SED Central Committee planned for
the end of November 1989 was pulled forward a week, with the most
urgent item on the agenda now being the composition of the
Politburo. Krenz and Mielke attempted by telephone on the night of
October 16 to win other Politburo members over to remove Honecker.
At the beginning of the session on October 17, Honecker asked his
routine question of "Are there any suggestions for the
agenda?" Stoph replied, "Please, General Secretary,
Erich, I propose that a new item be placed on the agenda. It is
the release of Erich Honecker as General Secretary and the
election of Egon Krenz in his place." Honecker reportedly
calmly responded: "Well, then I open the debate". All
those present then spoke, in turn, but none in favour of Honecker.
Guenter Schabowski even extended the dismissal of Honecker to also
include his posts in the State Council and as Chairman of the
National Defence Council while childhood friend Guenter Mittag
moved away from Honecker. Mielke supposedly blamed Honecker for
almost all the country's current ills and threatened to publish
compromising information that he possessed, if Honecker refused to
resign. A ZDF documentary on the matter claims this information
was contained in a large red briefcase found in Mielke's
possession in 1990. After three hours the Politburo voted to
remove Honecker. In accordance with longstanding practice,
Honecker voted for his own removal. When the public announcement
was made, it was branded as a voluntary decision on Honecker's
part, ostensibly "due to health reasons". Krenz was
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Today, October 17, 2025
October 17: Women In Military Service For
America Memorial Anniversary: -- A special day that pays a tribute
to the millions of military women who have lost their lives in
service. As history has shown, women are just as mcuh saviors
during war as men, and the U.S military history includes many
females who contributed to success in combat. These military women
used their intellect and strength to protect the nation, and are
seen as inspirational figures today. This year, honor these brave
women by paying a special tribute to their accomplishments in
times of war. When we think of the armed forces, it is natural to
think of men fighting to save the country. However, the fact is
that for generations, many strong and courageous women have also
sacrificed their lives for their countrymen. Initially, women were
found as nurses or cooks in war camps, but later, they too became
a part of the combat. Believe it or not, women in the U.S have
been a part of the armed forces since 1917, and several ladies
lost their lives without their efforts being recognized by the
world. Some even had to fight disguised as men besides their
husbands in the American Revolutionary War. In 1997, a memorial
was erected for them by the U.S government, and it is popularly
known as the Military Women's Memorial. The space honors military
women who died in service and contains a Hemicycle structure that
was built in 1932. The structure, however, remained in a bad
condition till Congress gave the order of building a memorial
around it in 1988. This decision was followed by a design
competition which was thrown to the public and won by Marion Weiss
and Michael Manfredi who were architects from New York. Although
the initial design of the memorial became an open secret which
resulted in controversies and a revision of the design. In the
end, an intriguing structure with a mixture of Neoclassical and
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Today, October 17, 2025
October 17: National Pasta Day: --
October is National Pasta Month, and October 17th recognizes
National Pasta Day - so, pasta lovers, celebrate! While we find
noodles all over the world, pasta is a type of noodle of
traditional Italian cuisine. The first reference dates to 1154 in
Sicily and was first attested to in English in 1874. Typically, it
is made from an unleavened dough of durum wheat flour. The flour
is mixed with water or eggs and formed into sheets or various
shapes. It can then be served fresh or dried to be stored for
later use. Look for pasta in both savory and dessert dishes. Since
it's so versatile, pasta lends itself to sweet and every other
dish on the table. Cooks feature pasta as a main dish, but they
also serve up delicious hot and cold side dishes as well. And
then, of course, those special desserts we can't resist making our
mouths water. Cooks originally made fresh pasta by hand. However,
today, many varieties of fresh pasta are made commercially.
Large-scale machines bring choices to our grocers daily. Smaller
pasta machines on the market make having the freshest pasta at
home even easier. Dried and fresh pasta come in several shapes and
varieties. There are so many kinds of pasta! According to the
Encyclopedia of Pasta by Oretta Zanini De Vita, 310 specific kinds
of pasta identified by over 1300 names have been documented. In
Italy, names of specific pasta shapes or types vary with locale.
Example: Cavatelli is known by 28 different names depending on the
region and town. The size and shape of pasta may determine the
best sauce to pair with it, too. For example, serve linguine with
lighter, thinner sauces to avoid breaking the noodles. A similarly
shaped noodle, fettuccine, is less delicate. That's why it carries
heavier sauces like alfredo. You can learn more about pasta from
the National Pasta Association. To observe National Pasta day:
Explore the world of pasta. Whether you're cooking up a salad,
main dish, or dessert, recipes abound. We offer several on our
recipe page, too! If you don't feel like cooking, take the family
out to an Italian restaurant. No matter what you are planning,
invite friends to join you!
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17: Black Poetry Day: -- #BOTD:
#HBD! Black Poetry Day honors past and present black poets, a day
especially created in 1985 to commemorate the birth of the first
published black poet in the United States, Jupiter Hammon (October
17, 1711 - c. 1806), born on Long Island, New York. This poet is
considered the father of African American Literature. Born into
slavery, Hammon received an education, learned to read, and was
allowed the use of the manor library. Black Poetry Day also
celebrates the importance of black heritage and literacy. It also
recognizes the contributions made by black poets and shows
appreciation to black authors. Take up a quiet spot at the library
to read many of the talented black poets from around the world. Or
find a poetry reading at a nearby bookstore, cultural or arts
center like the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison
University. The first center of its kind in the United States, The
Furious Flower's name is inspired by a poem written by former U.S.
Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. They also have a growing
collection of resources, offer workshops and so much more. To
observe Black Poetry Day" Host a poetry slam in your living
room, front step, or in the break room. Encourage a black poet you
know. Attend a poetry reading or share your own poetry. Pick up
some poetry written by black poets. Explore the poetry of Langston
Hughes, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison,
Terrance Hayes, Robert Hayden, Rita Dove, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tracy
K. Smith, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Robert Hayden, Wanda Phips or Arna
Bontemps - and as you celebrate, be sure to use #BlackPoetryDay to
post on social media!
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17: Child Poverty Day
(International Day For The Eradication of Poverty [IDEP]) --
Highlights child poverty that exists even in developed nations.
Apart from lagging in necessities such as food, and freshwater,
child poverty also includes a lack of quality healthcare,
education, and nutrition. When parents are unable to afford these,
the child begins to suffer. More often, it is the job of
government institutions to offer such necessities free of cost to
empower the youth and build the future of the nation. Celebrate
the day and spread information regarding child poverty across the
world. Poverty is a real crisis that affects millions of people
around the world. This is a day to acknowledge the suffering of
people who have to deal with the consequences of poverty - hunger,
violence, and homelessness. It is also a day to participate in the
global campaign to end poverty. In December 1992, the United
Nations adopted a resolution to observe a day where poverty would
be in focus. In honor of the gathering and unveiling at Paris in
1987, the United Nations selected October 17 as the date to
observe International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1919: #BOTD: #HBD! Zhao
Ziyang, Chinese politician, third premier of the People's Republic
Of China from 1980 to 1987, vice chairman of the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) from 1981 to 1982, and CCP general secretary from 1987
to 1989 (d. January 17, 2005) is #born Zhao Xiuye in Hua County,
Henan, Republic Of China. Zhao Ziyang was in charge of the
political reforms in China that began in 1986, but he lost power
as a victim of the reformative neoauthoritarian backlash by
Chinese officials who opposed his policies, especially his support
of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests. His secret memoirs were
smuggled out of China and published in both English and in Chinese
in 2009, but the details of his life remain censored within China.
Zhao changed his given name of Xiuye to Ziyang while attending
middle school in Wuhan. He was the son of a wealthy landlord in
Hua County, who was later murdered by CCP officials during a
so-called "land reform movement" in the early 1940s.
Zhao joined the Communist Youth League in 1932, and became a full
member of the Party in February 1938. During the Second
Sino-Japanese War, Zhao Ziyang served as the chief officer of CCP
Hua County Committee, Director of the Organization Department of
the CCP Yubei prefecture Party Committee, Secretary of the CCP
Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region Prefecture Party Committee and
Political Commissar of the 4th Military Division of the
Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region. During the Chinese Civil War
of 1945-1949, Zhao Ziyang as Deputy Political Commissar of Tongbai
Military Region, Secretary of the CCP Nanyang Prefecture Party
Committee and Political Commissar of Nanyang Military Division.
After the establishment of the People's Republic Of China, Zhao
Ziyang became Deputy Secretary of the South China Branch of the
CCP Central Committee. He also served as Secretary of the
Secretariat of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the CCP,
Second Secretary and First Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial
Committee of the CCP. He was persecuted during the Cultural
Revolution and spent time in political exile. After being
rehabilitated, Zhao Ziyang then was appointed Secretary of the CCP
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Committee, First Secretary of the
CCP Guangdong Provincial Committee, First Secretary of the CCP
Sichuan Provincial Committee and First Political Commissar of the
Chengdu Military Region, Vice Chairman of the National Committee
of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of the
People's Republic Of China. As a senior government official, Zhao
was critical of Maoist policies and instrumental in implementing
free-market reforms, first in Sichuan and subsequently nationwide.
He emerged on the national scene due to support from Deng Xiaoping
after the Cultural Revolution. An advocate of the privatization of
state-owned enterprises, the separation of the party and the
state, and general market economy reforms, he sought measures to
streamline China's bureaucracy and fight corruption and issues
that challenged the party's legitimacy in the 1980s. Many of these
views were shared by the then General Secretary Hu Yaobang. His
economic reform policies and sympathies with student demonstrators
during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 placed him at odds
with some members of the party leadership, including Central
Advisory Commission Chairman Chen Yun, CPPCC Chairman Li Xiannian,
and Premier Li Peng. Zhao also began to lose favor with Deng
Xiaoping, who was the Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
In the aftermath of the events, Zhao was purged politically and
effectively placed under house arrest for the rest of his life.
After his house arrest, he became much more radical in his
political beliefs, supporting China's full transition to liberal
democracy. He died from a stroke in Beijing in January 2005.
Because of his political fall from grace, he was not given the
funeral rites generally accorded to senior Chinese officials. He
is buried at Tian Shou Cemetery in Beijing, China.
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1967: #DOTD: #RIP: Puyi of
the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan, commonly known as Pu Yi, the last
Emperor of China and the twelfth and final ruler of the Qing
dynasty (b. February 7, 1906) #dies in Peking of complications
arising from kidney cancer and heart disease at the age of 61. In
accordance with the laws of the People's Republic Of China at the
time, Puyi's body was cremated. His ashes were first placed at the
Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, alongside those of other party
and state dignitaries. (This was the burial ground of imperial
concubines and eunuchs prior to the establishment of the People's
Republic Of China.) In 1995, as a part of a commercial
arrangement, Puyi's ashes were transferred by his widow Li Shuxian
to a new commercial cemetery named Hualong Imperial Cemetery in
return for monetary support. The cemetery is near the Western Qing
Tombs, 120 km (75 mi) southwest of Peking, where four of the nine
Qing emperors preceding him are interred, along with three
empresses and 69 princes, princesses, and imperial concubines.
Puyi was born Aisin Gioro Puyi at Prince Chun Mansion, also known
as the Northern Mansion, a large residence in the siheyuan style
with a lavish private garden located near the Shichahai
neighborhood in central Beijing, Qing dynasty. He became the
Xuantong Emperor in China and Khevt Yos Khaan in Mongolia in 1908
at the age of two, and ruled until his forced abdication on
February 12, 1912, after the successful Xinhai Revolution, also
known as the Chinese Revolution or the Revolution of 1911. From
July 1-12, 1917, he was briefly restored to the throne as emperor
by the warlord Zhang Xun. In 1932 after the occupation of
Manchuria, the state of Manchukuo was established by Japan, and he
was chosen to become 'Emperor' of the new state using the era-name
of Datong (Ta-tung). In 1934, he was declared the Kangde Emperor
(or Kang-te Emperor) of Manchukuo and ruled until the end of the
Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945. After the People's Republic Of
China was established in 1949, Puyi was imprisoned as a war
criminal for 10 years, wrote his memoirs and became a titular
member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
and the National People's Congress.
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1771: Aesthetics: Performing
Arts: Premieres: Theatre Premieres: Musical Premieres: --
15-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's pastoral opera in two parts
(with a ballet which linked the two acts) to an Italian libretto
by Giuseppe Parini, Ascanio in Alba, K. 111, premieres at the
Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan, Italy. It was commissioned by the
Empress Maria Theresa for the wedding of her son, Archduke
Ferdinand Karl, to Maria Beatrice d'Este on October 15, 1771.
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1849: #DOTD: #RIP: Frederic
Chopin, Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era
who wrote primarily for the solo piano (b. March 1, 1810) #dies
aged 39 in Paris just after midnight; his physician leaned over
him and asked whether he was suffering greatly. "No longer",
he replied. He died a few minutes before two o'clock in the
morning. Later that morning, Auguste Clesinger made Chopin's death
mask and a cast of his left hand. The funeral, held at the Church
of the Madeleine in Paris, was delayed almost two weeks until
October 30. Entrance was restricted to ticket holders, as many
people were expected to attend. Over 3,000 people arrived without
invitations, from as far as London, Berlin and Vienna, and were
excluded. Mozart's Requiem was sung at the funeral. The funeral
procession to Pere Lachaise Cemetery, which included Chopin's
sister Ludwika, was led by the aged Prince Adam Czartoryski. The
pallbearers included Delacroix, Franchomme, and Camille Pleyel. At
the graveside, the Funeral March from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2
was played, in Reber's instrumentation. Chopin's tombstone,
featuring the muse of music, Euterpe, weeping over a broken lyre,
was designed and sculpted by Clesinger and installed on the
anniversary of his death in 1850. The expenses of the monument,
amounting to 4,500 francs, were covered by Jane Stirling, who also
paid for the return of the composer's sister Ludwika to Warsaw. As
requested by Chopin, Ludwika took his heart (which had been
removed by his doctor Jean Cruveilhier and preserved in alcohol in
a vase) back to Poland in 1850; it is immured in a pillar in The
Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, Poland, while his body is buried at
The Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. Frederic Chopin's
disease, and the reason for his premature death at age 39, were
frequently debated for over 150 years. Although he was diagnosed
with and treated for tuberculosis throughout his lifetime, a
number of alternative diagnoses have been suggested since his
death in 1849; his death certificate gave the cause of death as
tuberculosis, and his physician, Cruveilhier, was then the leading
French authority on this disease. Other possibilities that have
been advanced have included cystic fibrosis, cirrhosis, and alpha
1-antitrypsin deficiency. A comprehensive review of the possible
causes of Chopin's illness was published in 2011. A visual
examination of Chopin's preserved heart (the jar was not opened),
conducted in 2014 and first published in the American Journal of
Medicine in 2017, suggested that the likely cause of his death was
a rare case of pericarditis (inflammation of the pericardium, the
fibrous sac surrounding the heart) caused by chronic tuberculosis.
This has been disputed by pathologists who say that a visual
examination alone cannot confirm such a disease. Chopin was born
in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw, which
in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. Frederic Francois Chopin
was born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin in Zelazowa Wola, 46
kilometres (29 miles) west of Warsaw, in what was then the Duchy
of Warsaw, a Polish state established by Napoleon. He gained and
has maintained renown worldwide as a leading musician of his era,
whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique
that was without equal in his generation", in the words of
the late concert pianist Charles Rosen. A child prodigy, Frederic
Chopin completed his musical education and composed his earlier
works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than
a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising. At 21
he settled in Paris. Thereafter, during the last 18 years of his
life, he gave only some 30 public performances, preferring the
more intimate atmosphere of the salon. He supported himself by
selling his compositions and by teaching piano, for which he was
in high demand. Chopin formed a friendship with Franz Liszt and
was admired by many of his musical contemporaries, including
Robert Schumann. In 1835 he obtained French citizenship. After a
failed engagement to Maria Wodzinska from 1836 to 1837, he
maintained an often troubled relationship with the (female) French
writer George Sand. A brief and unhappy visit to Majorca with Sand
in 1838-39 was one of his most productive periods of composition.
In his last years, he was financially supported by his admirer
Jane Stirling, who also arranged for him to visit Scotland in
1848. Through most of his life, Chopin suffered from poor health.
All of Chopin's compositions include the piano. Most are for solo
piano, though he also wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber
pieces, and some songs to Polish lyrics. His keyboard style is
highly individual and often technically demanding; his own
performances were noted for their nuance and sensitivity. Chopin
invented the concept of the instrumental ballade. Influences on
his composition style include Polish folk music, the classical
tradition of J. S. Bach, Mozart and Schubert, as well as the Paris
salons where he was a frequent guest. His innovations in style,
musical form, and harmony, and his association of music with
nationalism, were influential throughout and after the late
Romantic period. Chopin's music, his status as one of music's
earliest superstars, his association (if only indirect) with
political insurrection, his love life and his early death have
made him a leading symbol of the Romantic era in the public
consciousness. His works remain popular, and he has been the
subject of numerous films and biographies of varying degrees of
historical accuracy.
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1888: Great Inventions:
Motion Pictures: Precursors Of Film (Precinema): Motion Picture
Viewers: The Kinetoscope: -- Thomas Edison files a patent for the
first movie projector, the "Optical Phonograph," which
projected images just 1/32-inch across. Edison was thinking about
the phonograph when he decided to invent a moving picture machine.
He was used to working by analogy with earlier inventions: the
movie camera and projector would just be a phonograph for
pictures. The phonograph had recorded sound vibrations on tracks
around the edges of a cylinder, and Edison thought that the
pictures could be recorded in the same way. In his early drawing
he suggested ways of putting a series of tiny photographs onto a
cylinder recording. 'I am experimenting upon an instrument which
does for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear,' he wrote
in a patent caveat.
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1907: Broadcasting: The
History Of Broadcasting: Radio: The History Of Radio Broadcasting:
-- Guglielmo Marconi's company, The Wireless Telegraph and Signal
Company, begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless
service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden,
Ireland. It was formed on July 20, 1897 after the granting of a
British patent for wireless in March of that year. The company was
a pioneer of wireless long distance communication and mass media
broadcasting, eventually becoming one of the UK's most successful
manufacturing companies. The company opened the world's first
radio factory on Hall Street in Chelmsford in 1898, and was
responsible for some of the most important advances in radio and
television. It was renamed The Marconi Company, a British
telecommunications and engineering company, and did business under
that name from 1963 to 1987. In 1999, its defence manufacturing
division, Marconi Electronic Systems, merged with British
Aerospace to form BAE Systems. In 2006, extreme financial
difficulties led to the collapse of the remaining company, with
the bulk of the business acquired by the Swedish
telecommunications company, Ericsson.
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1919: Broadcasting: The
History Of Broadcasting: Radio: The History Of Radio Broadcasting:
-- RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America. RCA
originated as a reorganization of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Company of America (commonly called "American Marconi").
With the entry of the United States into World War One in April
1917, the government took over most civilian radio stations, to
use them for the war effort. Due to national security
considerations, the Navy was particularly concerned about
returning the high-powered international stations to American
Marconi, since a majority of its stock was in foreign hands, and
the British already largely controlled the international undersea
cables. The Navy had installed a high-powered Alexanderson
alternator, built by General Electric (GE), at the American
Marconi transmitter site in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It proved
to be superior for transatlantic transmissions to the spark
transmitters that had been traditionally used by the Marconi
companies. A tentative plan made with General Electric proposed
that over a two-year period the Marconi companies would purchase
most of GE's alternator production. However, this proposal was met
with disapproval, on national security grounds, by the U.S. Navy,
which was concerned that this would guarantee British domination
of international radio communication. The Navy, claiming it was
acting with the support of President Wilson, looked for an
alternative that would result in an "all-American"
company taking over the American Marconi assets. American Marconi
was therefore transformed into the Radio Corporation of America, a
transformation fully effected on November 20, 1919. The new
company was promoted as being a patriotic gesture. RCA's
incorporation papers required that its officers needed to be U.S.
citizens, with a majority of its stock held by Americans.
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! William
Anders, American United States Air Force (USAF) major general,
electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and
businessman, who was a member of the crew of Apollo 8, the first
three people to leave low-Earth orbit and travel to the Moon, and
who during one of the mission's lunar orbits took the iconic
Earthrise photograph, one of the most influential environmental
photograph ever taken (d. June 7, 2024) is #born William Alison
Anders in British Hong Kong, the son of Arthur Ferdinand Anders
(1903-2000), a United States Navy lieutenant, and his wife, Muriel
A. Anders (nee Adams; 1911-1990). Along with fellow astronauts
Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, William Anders circled the Moon ten
times, and broadcast live images and commentary back to Earth,
including the Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Genesis Reading, when during
their ninth orbit of the Moon astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell,
and Frank Borman recited verses 1 through 10 of the Genesis
creation narrative from the King James Bible, with Anders reading
verses 1-4, Lovell verses 5-8, and Borman reading verses 9 and 10.
One in four people on Earth -- roughly a billion people spread
among 64 countries -- listened to the reading. Within 24 hours,
recorded broadcasts of the address from the moon reached people in
another 30 countries. Audiences in North and South America as well
as Europe tuned in live thanks to the recently launched Intelsat 3
satellite. COMSAT put the satellite into operation a week ahead of
schedule so that international audiences could follow the flight.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair, founder of American Atheists, responded by
suing the United States government, alleging violations of the
First Amendment. The suit was filed in the United States District
Court for the Western District of Texas. It was submitted to a
three-judge panel, which concluded that the case was not a
three-judge matter, and dismissed the case for failure to state a
cause of action. The direct appeal to the Supreme Court was
dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. Another appeal was heard
before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which affirmed the
trial court's dismissal per curiam (an unsigned opinion, one that
is not authored by or attributed to a specific judge, but rather
ascribed to the entire court or panel of judges who heard the
case). The Supreme Court declined to review the case. A 1955
graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Anders was
commissioned a second lieutenant in the USAF the same year and
became a fighter pilot flying Northrop F-89 Scorpions equipped
with AIR-2A nuclear-tipped air-to-air rockets. He hoped to study
aeronautical engineering through the Air Force Institute of
Technology (AFIT) of Air University, but the Aircraft Nuclear
Propulsion program was ongoing, and he had to study nuclear
engineering instead. He graduated from the AFIT in 1962 with a
Master of Science degree in nuclear engineering and was sent to
the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, where he managed the technical
aspects of the USAF nuclear power reactor programs. Anders was the
executive secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council
from 1969 to 1973, a commissioner of the United States Atomic
Energy Commission from 1973 to 1975, and chairman of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission from 1975 to 1976. He then became the United
States Ambassador to Norway from 1976 to 1977. In September 1977,
he joined General Electric (GE) as the vice president and general
manager of its Nuclear Products Division and became the general
manager of the GE Aircraft Equipment Division in 1980. He left GE
to join Textron as executive vice president for aerospace, and two
years later became senior executive vice president for operations.
During his time in the Civil Service, he remained a USAF reserve
officer and retained his active flight status. He retired from the
reserve as a major general in 1988. In 1990, he became vice
chairman of General Dynamics, and in 1991 its chairman and CEO. He
retired as CEO in 1993 and as chairman in 1994. William Anders
died aged 90 while flying the vintage Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
aircraft registered to him near the San Juan Islands, Washington.
A video of the crash surfaced on social media. The aircraft
crashed into the waters of north Puget Sound between Jones Island
and Orcas Island and was seen by witnesses as going down into a
small channel between the two islands, then sinking after catching
fire. After witnesses reported seeing the plane take a nosedive
and crash in the water, a search was launched by the U.S. Coast
Guard and the San Juan County Sheriff's Department. Later that
day, Anders' son, Greg, confirmed the death of his father and that
his body had been recovered. Beginning with his Air Force career,
Anders had logged over 8,000 flight hours. He is buried at The
United States Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, Maryland.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Arthur
Miller Documentaries DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1915: #BOTD: #HBD! Arthur
Miller, American author, actor, essayist, playwright, screenwriter
and figure in twentieth-century American theater (d. February 10,
2005) is #born Arthur Asher Miller in Harlem, New York City into a
family of Polish-Jewish descent. Among Arthur Asher Miller's most
popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death Of A Salesman (1949),
The Crucible (1953) and A View from the Bridge (1955, revised
1956). He also wrote several screenplays and was most noted for
his work on The Misfits (1961). The drama Death Of A Salesman has
been numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the
20th century. Miller was often in the public eye, particularly
during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, he
was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; testified before the
House Un-American Activities Committee; and was married to Marilyn
Monroe. Arthur Miller died on the evening of the 56th anniversary
of the Broadway debut of Death Of A Salesman at age 89 of bladder
cancer and heart failure, at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. He
had been in hospice care at his sister's apartment in New York
since his release from hospital the previous month. He was
surrounded by his partner Agnes Barley, family and friends. His
body is interred at Roxbury Center Cemetery in Roxbury.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Out Of
The Darkness (1985) Plus Son Of Sam Documentary DVD, MP4, USB
Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1930: #HOTD: #HBD! Jimmy
Breslin, American columnist, investigative journalist and author
(d. March 19, 2017) is #born James Earle Breslin in Jamaica, New
York. Until the time of his death, he wrote a column for the New
York Daily News Sunday edition. He wrote numerous novels, and
columns of his appeared regularly in various newspapers in his
hometown of New York City. He served as a regular columnist for
the Long Island newspaper Newsday until his retirement on November
2, 2004, though he still published occasional pieces for the
paper. He was known for his newspaper columns which offered a
sympathetic viewpoint of the working-class people of New York
City, and was awarded the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "for
columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens". When
Breslin was a child, his alcoholic father, James Earl Breslin, a
piano player, went out one day to buy rolls and never returned.
Breslin and his sister, Deirdre, were raised by their mother,
Frances (Curtin), a high school teacher and New York City Welfare
Department investigator, during the Great Depression. Breslin
attended Long Island University from 1948 to 1950. He left without
graduating. Breslin began working for the Long Island Press as a
copy boy in the 1940s. After leaving college, he became a
columnist. His early columns were attributed to politicians and
ordinary people that he chatted with in various watering holes
near Queens Borough Hall. Breslin was a columnist for the New York
Herald Tribune, the Daily News, the New York Journal American,
Newsday, The Daily Beast, the National Police Gazette and other
venues. When the Sunday supplement of the Tribune was reworked
into New York magazine by editor Clay Felker in 1962, Breslin
appeared in the new edition, which became "the hottest Sunday
read in town." One of his best known columns was published
the day after John F. Kennedy's funeral and focused on the man who
had dug the president's grave. The column is indicative of
Breslin's style, which often highlights how major events or the
actions of those considered "newsworthy" affect the
"common man". Breslin's public profile in the 1960s as a
regular guy led to a brief stint as a TV pitchman for Piels Beer,
including a bar room commercial wherein he intoned in his deep
voice: "Piels - it's a good drinkin' beer!" In 1969,
Breslin ran for president of the New York City Council in tandem
with Norman Mailer, who was seeking election as mayor, on the
unsuccessful independent 51st State ticket advocating secession of
the city from the rest of the state. A memorable quote of his from
the experience: "I am mortified to have taken part in a
process that required bars to be closed." The ticket was
referred to as "Vote the Rascals In". Breslin's career
as an investigative journalist led him to cultivate ties with
various Mafia and criminal elements in the city, not always with
positive results. In 1970, he was viciously attacked and beaten at
The Suite, a restaurant then owned by Lucchese crime family
associate Henry Hill (whose life story was adapted and portrayed
by Ray Liotta in Martin Scorsese's film Goodfellas). The attack
was carried out by Irish mobster Jimmy Burke (portrayed by Robert
De Niro in Scorsese's film Goodfellas), who objected to an article
Breslin had written involving another member of the Lucchese
family, Paul Vario (portrayed as 'Paul Cicero' in Goodfellas).
Breslin suffered a major concussion and nosebleeding, but survived
the ordeal without any permanent injury. In 1971, Breslin spoke at
Harvard's Class Day. In 1977, at the height of the Son of Sam
scare in New York City, the killer, later identified as David
Berkowitz, addressed letters to Breslin. Excerpts from the letters
were published and used later in Spike Lee's film Summer of Sam,
which Breslin, portraying himself, bookends. In 2008, the Library
of America selected one of Breslin's many Son of Sam articles
published in the Daily News for inclusion in its two-century
retrospective of American true crime writing. In 1978, Breslin,
without significant acting experience, appeared in Joe Brooks'
feature film If Ever I See You Again in a main supporting role
playing "Mario Marino", the assistant to two Madison
Avenue jingle composers. Breslin's performance received a Golden
Turkey Award nomination for "Worst Performance by a
Novelist". In 1985, he received a George Polk Award for
Metropolitan Reporting. In 1986, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
for Commentary. In 1986, Breslin revealed that Donald Manes, the
Borough President of Queens, was involved in a kickback scheme.
Manes later committed suicide. In October 1986, Breslin landed his
own twice-weekly late night television show on ABC, Jimmy
Breslin's People, in which he was seen interviewing poor New
Yorkers at home. Some of them were incarcerated. Because many
network affiliates had already had committed to syndicated
programming for Breslin's time slot when the new season started a
month earlier, Breslin's show was often delayed or preempted
altogether; even the network's flagship station WABC pushed it
back from its midnight slot to 2 a.m., and would occasionally only
air it one night a week. Disgusted, Breslin took out a full-page
ad in The New York Times announcing that he was "firing the
network" and would be ending the show after its December 20
broadcast (at which time his 13-week contract expired). In May
1990, after fellow Newsday columnist Ji-Yeon Mary Yuh described
one of his articles as sexist, Breslin heatedly retorted with
racial and sexual invective. Asian American and anti-hate groups
forcefully decried Breslin's outburst. Breslin appeared on The
Howard Stern Show to banter about his outburst and Koreans in
general. Following this controversial radio broadcast, Newsday
managing editor Anthony Marro suspended Breslin for two weeks, who
then apologized. Author and former FBI agent Robert K. Ressler has
stated that Breslin "baited Berkowitz and irresponsibly
contributed to the continuation of his murders" by trying to
sell sensationalist newspapers. In Ressler's book Whoever Fights
Monsters, Ressler condemns Breslin and the media for their
involvement in encouraging serial killers by directing their
activity with printed conjectures. In return for his "relentless
columns on police misbehavior", the local patrolmen's union
bought protest ads in his own newspaper. Breslin was married
twice. His first marriage, to Rosemary Dattolico, ended with her
death in 1981. They had six children together: sons Kevin, James,
Patrick, and Christopher, and daughters Rosemary and Kelly. His
daughter Rosemary died June 14, 2004, from a rare blood disease,
and his daughter Kelly, 44, died on April 21, 2009, four days
after suffering from cardiac arrhythmia in a New York City
restaurant. From 1982 until his death in 2017, Breslin had been
married to former New York City Council member Ronnie Eldridge.
Shortly before his death, Breslin was interviewed with Pete Hamill
for the 2019 HBO documentary Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists.
Breslin died from pneumonia on March 19, 2017, at his home in
Manhattan, aged 88. He is buried at Saint John Cemetery And
Mausoleum in Middle Village, Queens County, New York.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Lost TV
Pilots 3 Superman, Superpup, Archie, Patty Duke DVD, MP4, USB
Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! Jerry
Siegel, American illustrator, author and American comic book
writer, most famous for his creation of the DC Comics character
Superman, which he created in collaboration with his friend Joe
Shuster (d. January 28, 1996) is #born Jerome Siegel in Cleveland,
Ohio, into a Jewish family. Jerry Siegel was inducted (with Joe
Shuster posthumously) into the comic book industry's Will Eisner
Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in
1993. Superman is a fictional superhero that first appeared in
Action Comics #1, a comic book published on April 18, 1938. The
character regularly appears in comic books published by DC Comics,
and has been adapted to a number of radio serials, movies, and
television shows. Superman was born on the planet Krypton and was
given the name Kal-El at birth. As a baby, his parents sent him to
Earth in a small spaceship moments before Krypton was destroyed in
a natural cataclysm. His ship landed in the American countryside,
near the fictional town of Smallville. He was found and adopted by
farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent, who named him Clark Kent. Clark
developed various superhuman abilities, such as incredible
strength and impervious skin. His foster parents advised him to
use his abilities for the benefit of humanity, and he decided to
fight crime as a vigilante. To protect his privacy, he changes
into a colorful costume and uses the alias "Superman"
when fighting crime. Clark Kent resides in the fictional American
city of Metropolis, where he works as a journalist for the Daily
Planet. Superman's supporting characters include his love interest
and fellow journalist Lois Lane, Daily Planet photographer Jimmy
Olsen and editor-in-chief Perry White. His most well-known villain
is Lex Luthor. Superman is part of the DC Universe, and as such
often appears in stories alongside other DC Universe heroes such
as Batman and Wonder Woman. Although Superman was not the first
superhero character, he popularized the superhero archetype and
defined its conventions. Superheroes are usually judged by how
closely they resemble the standard established by Superman. He
remains the best-selling superhero in comic books of all time and
endured as one of the most lucrative franchises even outside of
comic books. Jerry Siegel died of a heart attack aged 81 in Los
Angeles, California. He is buried at Hollywood Forever cemetery in
Hollywood, California.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Joey Bishop Show w/Regis Philbin Sammy Davis Jr DVD, Download, USB
Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 2007: #DOTD: #RIP: Joey
Bishop, American actor, producer and entertainer who appeared on
television as early as 1948 and eventually starred in his own
weekly comedy series playing a talk/variety show host, then later
hosted a late-night talk show with Regis Philbin as his young
sidekick on ABC, member of the second iteration of the informal
group of Las Vegas entertainers known as the "Rat Pack"
along with Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis, Jr., and
Dean Martin (b. February 3, 1918) #dies at age 89 of multiple
organ failure in his home on Lido Isle, a man-made island in the
harbor of Newport Beach, California. His remains were cremated,
and the ashes were scattered at sea (presumably off the coast of
Newport Beach). Joey Bishop was #born Joseph Abraham Gottlieb in
the Bronx, New York City to a Polish Jewish immigrant family.
Bishop was among the stars of the original Ocean's 11 film about
military veterans who reunite in a plot to rob five Las Vegas
casinos on New Year's Eve. He co-starred with Frank Sinatra, Dean
Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Peter Lawford of the so-called Rat
Pack, although the five of them did not publicly acknowledge that
name. During filming, the five entertainers performed together
onstage in Vegas at the Sands Hotel. Bishop did only a little
singing and dancing, but he told jokes and wrote most of the act's
material. Bishop was the only member of the Rat Pack to work with
members of a younger group of actors dubbed the Brat Pack (now
usually defined as the cast members of two 1985 films - The
Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire - including Emilio Estevez,
Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd
Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy), appearing as a ghost in
the film Betsy's Wedding (1990) with Molly Ringwald and Ally
Sheedy. Joey Bishop is listed as 96th entry on Comedy Central's
list of 100 greatest comedians.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Scarlett O'Hara War 1980 Tony Curtis Bill Macy DVD, Download, USB
Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 2019: #DOTD: #RIP: Bill Macy,
American television, film and stage actor, best known for his role
in the CBS television series Maude (1972-1978) (b. May 18, 1922)
#dies in Los Angeles, California at the age of 97; no cause was
given. His body was cremated; the final disposition of his ashes
are unknown. Norman Lear said of him "He was a rare and great
comic actor. There was only one Bill Macy." Bill Macy was
born Wolf Martin Garber in Revere, Massachusetts, the son of
Mollie (nee Friedopfer; 1889-1986) and Michael Garber (1884-1974),
a manufacturer. He was raised Jewish in the East Flatbush section
of Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Samuel J. Tilden High
School he served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1946 with
the 594th Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment, stationed in the
Philippines, Japan and New Guinea. He worked as a cab driver for a
decade before being cast as Walter Matthau's understudy in Once
More, with Feeling on Broadway in 1958. He portrayed a cab driver
on the soap opera The Edge of Night in 1966. Macy was an original
cast member of the 1969-1972 Off-Broadway sensation Oh! Calcutta!,
performing in the show from 1969 to 1971. He later appeared in the
1972 movie version of the musical. Of appearing fully nude with
the rest of the cast in the stage show, he said, "The nudity
didn't bother me. I'm from Brooklyn." Macy performed on the
P.D.Q. Bach album The Stoned Guest (1970). Appreciating Macy's
comedic skills off Broadway, Norman Lear brought him to Hollywood,
where he first got a small part as a police officer in All In The
Family. He was cast in the role of Walter Findlay, the
long-suffering husband of the title character on the 1970s
television sitcom Maude, starring Bea Arthur. The show ran for six
seasons from 1972 to 1978. Strangers on the street often called
him "Mr. Maude", consoling him for having such a
difficult wife. "I used to tell them that people like that
really existed," Macy explained. In 1986, Macy was a guest on
the fourth episode of L.A. Law, playing an older man whose young
wife wants a music career. Macy appeared in the television movie
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987) as banker
Richard Wilson. He occasionally appeared on Seinfeld as one of the
residents of the Florida retirement community where Jerry
Seinfeld's parents lived. Macy made a guest appearance as a
patient on Chicago Hope and as an aging gambler on the series Las
Vegas. Macy's last television role occurred in a 2010 episode of
Jada Pinkett Smith's series Hawthorne. Macy appeared as the jury
foreman in The Producers in 1967, with the memorable sole line "We
find the defendants incredibly guilty". Other memorable roles
include the co-inventor of the "Opti-Grab" in the 1979
Steve Martin comedy The Jerk and as the head television writer in
My Favourite Year (1982). Other film credits included roles in
Death at Love House (1976), The Late Show (1977), Serial (1980),
Movers & Shakers (1985), Bad Medicine (1985), Tales from the
Darkside (1985 - "Lifebomb" episode), Sibling Rivalry
(1990), The Doctor (1991), Me Myself & I (1992), Analyze This
(1999), Surviving Christmas (2004), The Holiday (2006), and Mr.
Woodcock (2007). Macy met his future wife, Samantha Harper, on the
set of Oh! Calcutta! in 1969. In 1975, Macy and Samantha Harper
Macy appeared on the game show Tattletales. They married in 1975.
Macy died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 97; no cause
was given. Norman Lear said of him "He was a rare and great
comic actor. There was only one Bill Macy."
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Evel
Knievel (1971) George Hamilton DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1938: #BOTD: Evel Knievel,
American motorcycle rider, stuntman and entertainer (d. November
30, 2007) is #born Robert Craig Knievel in Butte, Montana. Over
the course of his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp
motorcycle jumps. During his career, Knievel may have suffered
more than 433 bone fractures, earning an entry in the Guinness
Book of World Records as the survivor of "most bones broken
in a lifetime". However, this number could be exaggerated:
his son Robbie told a reporter in June 2014 that his father had
broken 40 to 50 bones; Knievel himself claimed he broke 35. On
January 7 and 8, 1971, Knievel set the record by selling over
100,000 tickets to back-to-back performances at the Houston
Astrodome. On February 28, he set a new world record by jumping 19
cars with his Harley-Davidson XR-750 at the Ontario Motor Speedway
in Ontario, California. The 19-car jump was filmed for the movie
Evel Knievel. Knievel held the record for 27 years until Bubba
Blackwell jumped 20 cars in 1998 with an XR-750. In 2015, Doug
Danger surpassed that number with 22 cars, accomplishing this feat
on Evel Knievel's actual vintage 1972 Harley-Davidson XR-750. For
35 years, Knievel held the record for jumping the most stacked
cars on a Harley-Davidson XR-750 (the record was broken in October
2008). His historic XR-750 is now part of the collection of the
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Made of steel,
aluminum and fiberglass, the customized motorcycle weighs about
300 pounds. Knievel was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame
in 1999. He died in Clearwater, Florida, aged 69; he had been
suffering from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis for many
years. He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Butte, Montana.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Alexander Gardner: Civil War & Lincoln Photographer MP4
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1821: #BOTD: #HBD! Alexander
Gardner, Scottish photographer who immigrated to the United States
in 1856, where he began to work full-time in that profession, best
known for his photographs of the American Civil War, U.S.
President Abraham Lincoln, and of the conspirators and the
execution of the participants in the Lincoln assassination plot
(d. December 10, 1882) is #born in Paisley, Renfrewshire,
Scotland. Since he worked in the early part of his career for
Matthew Brady, much of Gardner's early work was mistakenly
attributed to Brady, and along with it, the credit for bring war
photography into its own. Alexander Gardner died at his home in
Washington, D.C., aged 61. He was survived by his wife and two
children. He was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, a historic cemetery
located at 2219 Lincoln Road NE in Washington, D.C. In 1893,
photographer J. Watson Porter, who had worked for Gardner years
before, tracked down hundreds of glass negatives made by Gardner,
that had been left in an old house in Washington where Gardner had
lived. The result was a story in the Washington Post and renewed
interest in Gardner's photographs.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Albert
Einstein: How I See The World DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1933: The Interwar Period
(The Aftermath Of World War I, The Interbellum, Between The Wars):
The Emigration Of Jews From Nazi Germany: -- Albert Einstein flees
Nazi Germany by returning to the United States, which he had
visited numerous times before, and taking a position at the
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey (noted for
having become a refuge for scientists fleeing Nazi Germany) and
moves to Princeton, where he will live for the rest of his life.
In February 1933, while on a visit to the United States, Einstein
knew he could not return to Germany with the rise to power of the
Nazis under Germany's new chancellor, Adolf Hitler. While at
American universities in early 1933, he undertook his third
two-month visiting professorship at the California Institute of
Technology in Pasadena. He and his wife Elsa returned to Europe in
March, and during the trip, they learned that the German Reichstag
passed the Enabling Act, which was passed on March 23 and
transformed Hitler's government into a de facto legal dictatorship
and that they would not be able to proceed to Berlin. Later on
they heard that their cottage was raided by the Nazis and his
personal sailboat confiscated. Upon landing in Antwerp, Belgium on
March 28, he immediately went to the German consulate and
surrendered his passport, formally renouncing his German
citizenship. The Nazis later sold his boat and converted his
cottage into a Hitler Youth camp. In April 1933, Einstein
discovered that the new German government had passed laws barring
Jews from holding any official positions, including teaching at
universities. Historian Gerald Holton describes how, with
"virtually no audible protest being raised by their
colleagues", thousands of Jewish scientists were suddenly
forced to give up their university positions and their names were
removed from the rolls of institutions where they were employed. A
month later, Einstein's works were among those targeted by the
German Student Union in the Nazi book burnings, with Nazi
propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels proclaiming, "Jewish
intellectualism is dead." One German magazine included him in
a list of enemies of the German regime with the phrase, "not
yet hanged", offering a 5K USD bounty on his head. In a
subsequent letter to physicist and friend Max Born, who had
already emigrated from Germany to England, Einstein wrote, "...
I must confess that the degree of their brutality and cowardice
came as something of a surprise." After moving to the US, he
described the book burnings as a "spontaneous emotional
outburst" by those who "shun popular enlightenment",
and "more than anything else in the world, fear the influence
of men of intellectual independence". Einstein was now
without a permanent home, unsure where he would live and work, and
equally worried about the fate of countless other scientists still
in Germany. He rented a house in De Haan, Belgium, where he lived
for a few months. In late July 1933, he went to England for about
six weeks at the personal invitation of British naval officer
Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, who had become friends with
Einstein in the preceding years. Locker-Lampson invited him to
stay near his Cromer home in a wooden cabin on Roughton Heath in
the Parish of Roughton, Norfolk. To protect Einstein,
Locker-Lampson had two bodyguards watch over him at his secluded
cabin, with a photo of them carrying shotguns and guarding
Einstein, published in the Daily Herald on July 24, 1933.
Locker-Lampson took Einstein to meet Winston Churchill at his
home, and later, Austen Chamberlain and former Prime Minister
Lloyd George. Einstein asked them to help bring Jewish scientists
out of Germany. British historian Martin Gilbert notes that
Churchill responded immediately, and sent his friend, physicist
Frederick Lindemann, to Germany to seek out Jewish scientists and
place them in British universities. Churchill later observed that
as a result of Germany having driven the Jews out, they had
lowered their "technical standards" and put the Allies'
technology ahead of theirs. Einstein later contacted leaders of
other nations, including Turkey's Prime Minister, Ismet Inonu, to
whom he wrote in September 1933 requesting placement of unemployed
German-Jewish scientists. As a result of Einstein's letter, Jewish
invitees to Turkey eventually totaled over "1,000 saved
individuals". Locker-Lampson also submitted a bill to
parliament to extend British citizenship to Einstein, during which
period Einstein made a number of public appearances describing the
crisis brewing in Europe. In one of his speeches he denounced
Germany's treatment of Jews, while at the same time he introduced
a bill promoting Jewish citizenship in Palestine, as they were
being denied citizenship elsewhere. In his speech he described
Einstein as a "citizen of the world" who should be
offered a temporary shelter in the UK. Both bills failed, however,
and Einstein then accepted an earlier offer from the Institute for
Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey, US, to become a resident
scholar. At the time, most American universities, including
Harvard, Princeton and Yale, had minimal or no Jewish faculty or
students, as a result of their Jewish quotas, which lasted until
the late 1940s. Einstein was still undecided on his future. He had
offers from several European universities, including Christ
Church, Oxford where he stayed for three short periods between May
1931 and June 1933 and was offered a 5-year studentship, but in
1935, he arrived at the decision to remain permanently in the
United States and apply for citizenship. Einstein's affiliation
with the Institute for Advanced Study would last until his death
in 1955. He was one of the four first selected (two of the others
being John Von Neumann and Kurt Goedel) at the new Institute,
where he soon developed a close friendship with Goedel. The two
would take long walks together discussing their work. Bruria
Kaufman, his assistant, later became a physicist. During this
period, Einstein tried to develop a unified field theory and to
refute the accepted interpretation of quantum physics, both
unsuccessfully.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: USS
Arizona: The Life And Death Of A Lady DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1916: Naval History: The
History Of The United States Navy: The New United States Navy (The
New Navy, The United States Navy 1885-Present): Naval Commissions:
The USS Arizona (BB-39): -- The second and last of the
Pennsylvania class of "super-dreadnought" battleships
built for the United States Navy in the mid-1910s, The USS Arizona
(BB-39), is commissioned over a year after it was first launched
on June 19, 1915 from the New York Navy Yard (now known as the
Brooklyn Navy Yard). Named in honor of the 48th state's recent
admission into the union and commissioned in 1916, the ship
remained stateside during World War I. Shortly after the end of
the war, Arizona was one of a number of American ships that
briefly escorted President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace
Conference. The ship was sent to Turkey in 1919 at the beginning
of the Greco-Turkish War to represent American interests for
several months. Several years later, she was transferred to the
Pacific Fleet and remained there for the rest of her career. Aside
from a comprehensive modernization in 1929-1931, Arizona was
regularly used for training exercises between the wars, including
the annual Fleet Problems (training exercises). When an earthquake
struck Long Beach, California, on 10 March 1933, Arizona's crew
provided aid to the survivors. In July 1934, the ship was featured
in a James Cagney film, Here Comes the Navy, about the romantic
troubles of a sailor. In April 1940, she and the rest of the
Pacific Fleet were transferred from California to Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, as a deterrent to Japanese imperialism. On December 7,
1941, Arizona was hit by Japanese torpedo bombers that dropped
armor-piercing bombs during the attack on Pearl Harbor. After one
of their bombs detonated in a magazine, she exploded violently and
sank, with the loss of 1,177 officers and crewmen. Unlike many of
the other ships sunk or damaged that day, Arizona was irreparably
damaged by the force of the magazine explosion, though the Navy
removed parts of the ship for reuse. The wreck still lies at the
bottom of Pearl Harbor beneath the USS Arizona Memorial. Dedicated
on 30 May 1962 to all those who died during the attack, the
memorial straddles but does not touch the ship's hull.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17,1944: 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 Southwest Pacific Theater Of World War II: The
Philippines Campaign (1944-1945) (Battle Of The Philippines,
Second Philippines Campaign, The Liberation Of The Philippines,
Operation Musketeer I, II, and III): The Battle Of Leyte
(Codename: King Two; Filipino: Labanan Sa Leyte; Waray: Gubat Ha
Leyte; Japanese: Reite No Tatakai) -- Allied amphibious landings
begin on the Philippine island of Leyte as preliminary operations
to invasion at dawn, with minesweeping tasks and the movement of
the 6th Rangers toward three small islands in Leyte Gulf. The
Battle Of Leyte was the invasion of Japanese-held Leyte by
American forces and Filipino guerrillas under the overall command
of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial
Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki
Yamashita. The operation was launched to recapture and liberate
the entire Philippine Archipelago, and to end almost three years
of Japanese occupation.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Last Chapter: The End Of Jewish Life In Poland DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1943: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah): The Holocaust In Poland: The
Sobibor Extermination Camp Uprising: -- Sobibor Extermination Camp
is closed, three days after its successful prisoner revolt. After
the revolt, the Nazis demolished most of the camp in order to hide
their crimes from the advancing Red Army. Sobibor Extermination
Camp was built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation
Reinhard, the codename of the secret German plan in World War II
to exterminate Polish Jews in the General Government district of
German-occupied Poland. It was located in the forest near the
village of Zlobek Duzy in the General Government region of
German-occupied Poland. As an extermination camp rather than a
concentration camp, Sobibor existed for the sole purpose of
murdering Jews. The vast majority of prisoners were gassed within
hours of arrival. Those not killed immediately were forced to
assist in the operation of the camp, and few survived more than a
few months. In total, some 170,000 to 250,000 people were murdered
at Sobibor, making it the fourth-deadliest Nazi camp after
Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Belzec. The camp ceased operations after
a prisoner revolt which took place on October 14, 1943. The plan
for the revolt involved two phases. In the first phase, teams of
prisoners were to discreetly assassinate each of the SS officers.
In the second phase, all 600 prisoners would assemble for evening
roll call and walk to freedom out the front gate. However, the
plan was disrupted after only eleven SS men had been killed. The
prisoners had to escape by climbing over barbed wire fences and
running through a mine field under heavy machine gun fire. About
300 prisoners made it out of the camp, of whom roughly 60 survived
the war. In the first decades after World War II, the site was
neglected and the camp had little presence in either popular or
scholarly accounts of the Holocaust. It became better known after
it was portrayed in the TV miniseries Holocaust (1978) and the
film Escape from Sobibor (1987). The Sobibor Museum now stands at
the site, which continues to be investigated by archaeologists.
Photographs of the camp in operation were published in 2020 as
part of the Sobibor perpetrator album.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Minnie
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1909: #BOTD: #HBD! Cozy Cole,
African American jazz drummer who had hits with the songs "Topsy
I" and "Topsy II" (d. January 9, 1981) is #born
William Randolph Cole in East Orange, New Jersey. "Topsy II"
peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and at No. 1 on the R &
B chart. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold
disc. The track peaked at No. 29 in the UK Singles Chart in 1958.
The recording contained a long drum solo and was one of the few
drum solo recordings to make the charts at Billboard magazine. The
single was issued by Love Records, a small record label in
Brooklyn, New York. Cole's song "Turvy II" reached No.
36 in 1959. His first music job was with Wilbur Sweatman in 1928.
In 1930 he played for Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers,
recording an early drum solo on "Load Of Cole". He spent
1931-33 with Blanche Calloway, 1933-34 with Benny Carter, 1935-36
with Willie Bryant, 1936-38 with Stuff Smith's small combo, and
1938-42 with Cab Calloway. In 1942, he was hired by CBS Radio
music director Raymond Scott as part of network radio's first
mixed-race orchestra. After that he played with Louis Armstrong's
All Stars. Cole performed with Louis Armstrong and his All Stars
with Velma Middleton singing vocals for the famed ninth Cavalcade
of Jazz concert held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. The concert
was produced by Leon Hefflin, Sr. on June 7, 1953. Also featured
that day were Roy Brown and his Orchestra, Don Tosti and His
Mexican Jazzmen, Earl Bostic, Nat "King" Cole, and
Shorty Rogers and his Orchestra. Cole appeared in music-related
films, including a brief cameo in Don't Knock the Rock. Throughout
the 1960s and 1970s he continued to perform in a variety of
settings. Cole and Gene Krupa often played drum duets at the
Metropole in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s. Cole is
cited as an influence by many contemporary rock drummers,
including Cozy Powell, who took his nickname "Cozy" from
Cole. Cozy Cole died of cancer in Columbus, Ohio at the age of 71.
His burial details are not publicly disclosed.
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1991: #DOTD: #RIP: Tennessee
Ernie Ford, American singer, actor and television host who enjoyed
success in the country and western, pop, and gospel musical genres
(b. February 13, 1919) #dies in the H. C. A. Reston Hospital
Center, in Reston, Virginia. Ford is interred at Alta Mesa
Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California. Tennessee Ernie Ford was
born Ernest Jennings Ford in Bristol, Tennessee. Noted for his
rich bass-baritone voice and down-home humor, he is remembered for
his hit recordings of "The Shotgun Boogie" and "Sixteen
Tons". He became a household name as "Cousin Ernie"
on the I Love Lucy Show, and that plus his massive crossover hit
"Sixteen Tons" scored him his own prime-time variety
program, The Ford Show, which ran on NBC television from October
4, 1956, to June 29, 1961, which featured such guests as The
Everly Brothers.
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 2008 : #DOTD: #RIP: Levi
Stubbs, African American baritone soul singer, best known as the
lead vocalist of the R & B group the Four Tops, who released a
variety of Motown hit records during the 1960s and 1970s (b. June
6, 1936) #dies in his sleep at his home in Detroit, aged 72. A
memorial service for Stubbs was held at the Greater Grace Temple
in Detroit on October 27. Many of Stubbs' friends from the music
industry attended including Berry Gordy, Martha Reeves, Brian
Holland, Ali-Ollie Woodson and Dennis Edwards. Detroit City
Council member JoAnn Watson, along with Martha Reeves, presented a
resolution naming Stubbs' birthday "Levi Stubbs Day" in
Detroit. Stubbs is interred at Detroit's historic Woodlawn
Cemetery. Levi Stubbs was born Levi Stubbles in Detroit, Michigan.
Levi Stubbs has been noted for his powerful, emotional, dramatic
style of singing. In 1990, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame as a member of the Four Tops. Stubbs was also a voice
artist in film and television, and provided the voice of "Audrey
II", the alien plant in the 1986 musical horror comedy film
Little Shop of Horrors (an adaption of the stage musical of the
same name), as well as Mother Brain in the 1989 TV series Captain
N: The Game Master. Stubbs was admired by his peers for his
impressive vocal range, and influenced many later pop and soul
artists, such as Daryl Hall of Hall and Oates. Stubbs was born and
spent much of his life in Detroit, Michigan. He had five children
with his wife Clineice Stubbs, to whom he was married for almost
50 years. His last performance was at the Four Tops' "50th
Anniversary Concert" on July 28, 2004, at the Detroit Opera
House.
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Gary
Puckett, American pop singer, best remembered for being the lead
vocalist for Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, who had six
consecutive gold records in 1968, including "Lady Willpower",
"Young Girl", "Woman Woman", and "Over
You", is #born Gary Dale Puckett in Hibbing, Minnesota. When
he was six his family moved to Yakima, Washington (not far from
Union Gap, Washington), where he grew up. Puckett learned how to
sing and play guitar during his teens. He went to college for two
years in San Diego, California, majoring in psychology, then
dropped out to work in a band called the Outcasts. After the Union
Gap disbanded in 1971, Puckett signed to Columbia and embarked on
a solo career, and, after a decade-long hiatus in 1972, returned
to music in the early 1980s, and has since released a handful of
studio albums since the 1970s.
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Jim Seals,
American singer, songwriter and musician, cofounder with Darrell
George "Dash" Crofts of the American soft rock duo Seals
and Crofts (d. June 6, 2022) is #born James Eugene Seals in
Sidney, Texas. Seals And Crofts, are best known for their Hot 100
No. 6 hits "Summer Breeze" (1972), "Diamond Girl"
(1973), and "Get Closer" (1976). Both Dash Crofts and
Jim Seals (Jimmy Eugene Seals, October 17, 1942 - June 6, 2022,
who typically wore a signature peaked cap) had long been public
advocates of the Baha'i Faith. Though the duo disbanded in 1980,
they reunited briefly in 1991-1992, and again in 2004, when they
released their final album, Traces. Jim Seals died after a long
undisclosed illness at his home in Nashville, Tennessee at age 79.
He is buried at Woodlawn Memorial Park And Mausoleum in Nashville.
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Today, October 17, 2025October 17, 2024: #DOTD: #RIP: Mitzi
Gaynor, American actress, singer, dancer and beauty (b. September
4, 1931) #dies in Los Angeles, California from natural causes in
Los Angeles on October 17, 2024 at the age of 93. She is buried at
Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Mitzi Gaynor
was born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi Von Gerber in Chicago,
Illinois, the daughter of Pauline, a dancer, and Henry de Czanyi
Von Gerber, a violinist, cellist, and music director. Her notable
films include There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) and
South Pacific, the 1958 motion picture adaptation of the stage
musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. After her father remarried,
she became step-sister to anti-war activist Donald W. Duncan, a
U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who served during the Vietnam
War, helping to establish the guerrilla infiltration force Project
DELTA there. Following his return to the United States, Duncan
became one of the earliest military opponents of the war and one
of the antiwar movement leading public figures. Duncan is best
remembered as the cover image on the February 1966 issue of
Ramparts where he announced "I quit", as well as for his
testimony to the 1967 Russell Tribunal detailing American war
crimes in Vietnam. Her family first moved to Elgin, Illinois, and
then to Detroit, and later when she was eleven, on to Hollywood.
She trained as a ballerina as a child and began her career in the
corps de ballet. At 13, she was singing and dancing with the Los
Angeles Civic Light Opera company. She lied about her address so
she could attend Le Conte Junior High in Hollywood. She signed a
seven-year contract with Twentieth Century-Fox at age 17. She
sang, acted, and danced in a number of film musicals, often paired
with some of the biggest male musical stars of the day. A Fox
Studio executive thought that Mitzi Gerber sounded like the name
of a delicatessen, and they came up with a name that used the same
initials. Gaynor made her film debut in a musical, My Blue Heaven
(1950) supporting Betty Grable and Dan Dailey. She followed it
with a college drama Take Care of My Little Girl (1951), where she
played the roommate of Jeanne Crain. Fox then gave Gaynor a star
part, in the musical biopic Golden Girl (1951), playing Lotta
Crabtree. It was a mild success at the box office. Gaynor was one
of several stars in the anthology comedy We're Not Married!
(1952), then she was top billed in the musical, Bloodhounds of
Broadway (1952), which made 2M USD. Fox put her in another biopic,
The I Don't Care Girl (1952), where she played Eva Tanguay. The
film made 1.25M USD. Gaynor starred in Down Among the Sheltering
Palms (1953), playing a South Sea island girl. She was the female
lead in a Western, Three Young Texans (1954). Gaynor's most
popular film in her time at Fox was Irving Berlin's There's No
Business Like Show Business (1954), where she was billed after
Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor and
Johnnie Ray. Gaynor married Jack Bean, a talent agent and public
relations executive for MCA, in San Francisco, California, on
November 18, 1954. They resided on North Arden Drive in Beverly
Hills, California. She had just been released from Twentieth
Century-Fox (before the start of There's No Business Like Show
Business) with four years left on her contract and decided with
the time off to get married. The union was childless. After their
marriage, Bean quit MCA and started his publicity firm called Bean
& Rose and managed Gaynor's career. In 1956, Gaynor appeared
in the Paramount remake of Anything Goes, co-starring Bing Crosby,
Donald O'Connor, and Zizi Jeanmaire, loosely based on the musical
by Cole Porter, P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. Paramount cast her
in another remake, The Birds and the Bees (1956), playing the role
originated by Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve (1941). Her third
film for Paramount was The Joker Is Wild (1957), a biopic of Joe
E. Lewis starring Frank Sinatra, in which Gaynor played the female
lead. In 1957, Gaynor appeared in MGM's Les Girls, directed by
George Cukor, with Gene Kelly and Kay Kendall. Her biggest
international fame came from her starring role as Ensign Nellie
Forbush in the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South
Pacific. For her performance, she was nominated for a Best Actress
Golden Globe Award. Gaynor followed this with a comedy at MGM,
Happy Anniversary (1959) opposite David Niven, and the United
Kingdom production Surprise Package (1960), a musical comedy
thriller directed by Stanley Donen. Her co-stars were Yul Brynner
and Noel Coward. The film had a theme song by Jimmy Van Heusen and
Sammy Cahn. Her last film role was For Love or Money (1963),
starring Kirk Douglas. Following her film work, Gaynor performed
in other media. She appeared between two sets by The Beatles when
they made their second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on
February 16, 1964. She performed for a nine-minute segment from
the stage of the Deauville Hotel, in Miami Beach, separated by one
commercial break. She sang "Too Darn Hot" and a blues
medley. At the 1967 Academy Awards ceremony, she sang the theme
from the film Georgy Girl. Gaynor later added the number to her
concert repertoire. Through the 1960s and 1970s, she starred in
nine television specials that garnered 16 Emmy nominations. Gaynor
recorded two albums for the Verve Records label, one called Mitzi
and the second called Mitzi Gaynor Sings the Lyrics of Ira
Gershwin. She is thought to have earned more from the record
royalties on the South Pacific soundtrack album than her salary
for the movie. She also recorded the title song from her film
Happy Anniversary for the Top Rank label. For several decades,
Gaynor appeared regularly in Las Vegas and at nightclub and
concert venues throughout the United States and Canada. During the
1990s, Gaynor became a featured columnist for the newsmagazine The
Hollywood Reporter. During her nightclub years, Gaynor developed
and rehearsed her routines at The Cave, a club in Vancouver. She
became fond of the city and frequently made guest appearances on
local television for interviews. "Mitzi's back in town"
became an annual slogan when Gaynor would come to the city for a
number of weeks each year to develop her Las Vegas routines. On
December 4, 2006, Jack Bean, Gaynor's husband of 52 years, died of
pneumonia in the couple's Beverly Hills, California, home, aged
84. A producer and personal manager, Bean guided Gaynor's career.
On July 30, 2008, Gaynor - along with Kenny Ortega, Elizabeth
Berkley, Shirley MacLaine, and cast members from High School
Musical, So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars, and
others - participated in the Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences TV Moves Live, a celebration of 60 years of dance on
television. Gaynor appeared performing the final few bars of "Poor
Papa", a song-and-dance number from her 1969 TV special,
Mitzi's 2nd Special. Four months later, on November 18, 2008, City
Lights Pictures released Mitzi Gaynor Razzle Dazzle: The Special
Years, a documentary celebrating Gaynor's annual television
specials of the 1960s and 1970s. The film, which was broadcast on
public television and released on DVD, includes moments from the
original specials (digitally remastered in 5.1 stereo) along with
newly taped interviews with Gaynor colleagues, friends, and
admirers, including Bob Mackie, Carl Reiner, Kristin Chenoweth,
Rex Reed, Tony Charmoli, Alton Ruff, Randy Doney, and Kelli
O'Hara. Gaynor's one-woman show, Razzle Dazzle: My Life Behind the
Sequins, toured the United States and Vancouver from 2009 thru
2014, including a two-week engagement in New York City.
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