Wednesday, October 15, 2014

History for October 15

History for October 15 - On-This-Day.com
Virgil 70 B.C., Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 - German philosopher


Mario Puzo 1920, Lee Iacocca 1924, Penny Marshall 1942 


1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.
 

1883 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It allowed for individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race. 


1892 - The U.S. government announced that the land in the western Montana was open to settlers. The 1.8 million acres were bought from the Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre. 


1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason. 


1946 - Hermann Goering, a Nazi war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution. 


1951 - "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS-TV. 


1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began. It was on this day that U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet medium-range missile sites in Cuba. On October 22U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that he had ordered the naval "quarantine" of Cuba. 


1964 - It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been removed from power. He was replaced with Alexei N. Kosygin. 


1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation. 


1984 - The Freedom of Information Act was passed. 


1993 - South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress President Nelson Mandela were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the apartheid system in South Africa. 

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