part 219 carved pumpkins
Did anyone else watch The Rocky Horror Glee episode? It was... not... quite as bad as I expected, though kind of meh. Only a few more days until Halloween! Got any plans?
Enjoy part 219!
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Enjoy part 219!
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* 1957 - Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
* 1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
* 1961 - Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
* 1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form the Republic of Tanzania.
* 1964 - A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
* 1966 - National Organization For Women is founded.
* 1967 - London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
* 1967 - Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
* 1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
* 1980 - Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
* 1980 - Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, leaves for New York from his home in Hawaii.
* 1983 - Over 500,000 people demonstrate against cruise missiles in The Hague, Netherlands.
* 1985 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
* 1986 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
* 1991 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
* 1994 - Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
* 1998 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
* 1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
* 1998 - ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.
* 1998 - While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
* 1998 - Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
* 1998 - The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden claims 63 lives and injures 200.
* 1999 - A large cyclone devastates Orissa, India.
* 2002 - Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
* 2004 - The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
* 2004 - In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
* 2005 - 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
* 2008 - Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.
Fact of the day - If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres!
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