On This Day: October 15
Birthdays:
1858 John L Sullivan, American heavyweight boxing champion
1881 Sir P.G Wodehouse, Novelist, creator of 'Jeeves and Wooster'
1905 C.P Snow, English author
1925 Mickey Baker, Of the singing group 'Mickey and Sylvia'
1937 Barry Mcguire, Pop singer
1946 Richard Carpenter, Former member of the 'Carpenters' duo
1947 Chris Deburgh, Argentine born Pop singer
1959 The Duchess of York
1844 Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher
1938 Fela kuti,Nigerian musician, songwriter and activist
Events:
1928 The airship 'Graf Zeppelin' made its first transatlantic flight
1946 Herman Goering killed himself by taking poison, hours before he was due to hang for war crimes
1956 The last RAF Lancaster bomber was retired from service
1962 Amnesty International was formed in London
1970 In Melbourne, Australia's biggest bridge, the West Gate Bridge, collapsed killing 33 people
1987 Fiji was made a republic, after belonging to Britain since 1874
2003 Shenzhou 5, China's first human space flight mission launched
Launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the middle of the Gobi desert in northern China, this launch brought the Chinese into the exclusive club of countries who have achieved manned space flight. The other countries are the USA and the Soviet Union/Russia.
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
The then President of the Soviet Union received the prestigious award given out by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, for his role in lessening tensions during the Cold War.
1987 Thomas Sankara was killed
Thomas Sankara, the President of Burkina Faso, was killed during a coup led by Blaise Compaoré.
1951 I Love Lucy Airs for the First Time.
The American sitcom aired on CBS and featured real-life couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The popular show lasted for 6 years and it had several spin-offs after it went off air.
1783 World’s First Manned Balloon Flight
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, a teacher from France, spent about 4 minutes in the air in a balloon made by flight pioneers Joseph-Michael and Jacques-Ètienne Montgolfier. The Montgolfier brothers were responsible for the world’s first balloon flight and for sending the first living being – a duck – on a balloon.
Deaths:
1964 Cole Porter
American composer
1959 Stepan Bandera
Ukrainian politician
1946 Hermann Göring
German military leader, politician, Minister President of Prussia
1917 Mata Hari
Dutch spy
1817 Tadeusz Kościusz
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