Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on October 9, 2021

1691 The charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.

1763 King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.

1870 Franco-Prussian War: Lon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.

1919 KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded.

1933 Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of five French airlines.

1940 World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.

1949 The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.

1985 Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Laurooff the coast of Egypt.

1988 A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.

1996 Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.

2001 The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.

2008 Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earths atmosphere.

Births

1409 Elizabeth of Luxembourg (d. 1442)

1471 Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533)

1635 Roger de Piles, French painter (d. 1709)

1879 Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist and poet (d. 1915)

1885 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)

1917 June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006)

1943 Oliver North, American colonel Iran Contra

1952 Vladimir Putin, Russian colonel and politician, 4th President of Russia

1955 Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist and educator

Deaths

929 Charles the Simple, French king (b. 879)

1772 John Woolman, American preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)

1849 Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (b. 1809)

1894 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)

1950 Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (b. 1876)

1956 Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)

1991 Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)

2009 Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)

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