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History
1298 Rindfleish-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered
1765 the Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.
1781 British troops under Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Va at 2 PM., as the American Revolution neared its end.
1812 French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte began their retreat from Moscow.
1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became 1st woman in US to receive medical degree
1853 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations
1856 James Kelly & Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne
1859 Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope
1865 The first annual meeting of National Equal Rights League is held in Cleveland, OH.
1870 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps
1901 Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower
1919 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman
1933 Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936
1936 HR Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18« days
1936 Educator and college president Jonetta B. Cole, who will become the first woman to preside over Spelman College, is born in Jacksonville, FL.
1941 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico
1943 Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens at Shubert
1943 Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon announces retirement (hates NY)
1943 Paul Robeson opens in "Othello" at the Shubert Theater in New York City.
1944 US forces land in Philipines
1944, the Navy announced that black women would be allowed into Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (the WAVES).
1950, United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1951 Pres Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
1951, President Truman signed an act formally ending the state of war with Germany.
1959 Florence Henderson joins the Today Show panel
1960 France grants Mauritania independence
1960, the United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba covering all commodities except medical supplies and certain food products.
1960 Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in
1960 The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba
1962 Evander Holyfield, heavyweight champion of the world who regained his title three times, is born in Atmore, AL
1963 Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1967 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
1967 Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus
1968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
1977, the supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
1977, the body of West German industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, who had been kidnapped by left-wing extremists, was found in Mulhouse, France.
1983 Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility
1986 USSR expells 5 US diplomats
1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value.
1987 "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4« times previous record
1988 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
1988 Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
1988 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
1988 Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album
1988 S Afr anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
Missing in Action
1965 WORCHESTER JOHN B. BIG RAPIDS MI RADIO CONTACT LOST
1966 BURKE MICHAEL J. CHICAGO IL
1966 LEWANDOWSKI LEONARD J. JR. DES PLAINES IL
1966 MISHUK RICHARD E. ST PAUL MN
1970 WILSON PETER J. PULASKI NY "NICKNAME ""FAT ALBERT"" -- CNN/TIME/IMPACT 09/14/97"
Michael Moore Today
No Final Report Seen in Inquiry on C.I.A. Leak
By David Johnston and Richard W. Stevenson / New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 - The special counsel in the C.I.A. leak case has told associates he has no plans to issue a final report about the results of the investigation, heightening the expectation that he intends to bring indictments, lawyers in the case and law enforcement officials said yesterday.
The prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, is not expected to take any action in the case this week, government officials said. A spokesman for Mr. Fitzgerald, Randall Samborn, declined to comment.
A final report had long been considered an option for Mr. Fitzgerald if he decided not to accuse anyone of wrongdoing, although Justice Department officials have been dubious about his legal authority to issue such a report.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4568
Bush whacked Rove on CIA leak
By Thomas M. DeFrank / Daily News
WASHINGTON - An angry President Bush rebuked chief political guru Karl Rove two years ago for his role in the Valerie Plame affair, sources told the Daily News.
"He made his displeasure known to Karl," a presidential counselor told The News. "He made his life miserable about this."
Bush has nevertheless remained doggedly loyal to Rove, who friends and even political adversaries acknowledge is the architect of the President's rise from baseball owner to leader of the free world.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4574
McClellan Responds/Doesn't Respond
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/006785.php
Prez Iraq team fought to squelch war critics
By James Gordon Meek and Kenneth R. Bazinet / Daily News
WASHINGTON - It was called the White House Iraq Group and its job was to make the case that Saddam Hussein had nuclear and biochemical weapons. So determined was the ring of top officials to win its argument that it morphed into a virtual hit squad that took aim at critics who questioned its claims, sources told the Daily News.
One of those critics was ex-Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who debunked a key claim in a speech by President Bush that Iraq sought nuclear materials in Africa. His punishment was the media outing of his wife, CIA spy Valerie Plame, an affair that became a "side show" for the White House Iraq Group, the sources said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4576
Rove cancels three appearances before conservatives in the past week
By Nedra Pickler / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Juggling appearances before a grand jury and conservative admirers didn’t seem to make sense, so presidential adviser Karl Rove has canceled three such outings as he waits to hear whether he or anyone else will be indicted in the leak of a CIA officer’s identity.
Rove canceled plans to attend two Republican fund-raisers, the national party confirmed Tuesday. And he did not give his scheduled speech to the conservative Hudson Institute think tank on Oct. 11.
Republican National Committee spokesman Brian Jones said scheduling conflicts kept Rove from an RNC fund-raiser Monday night in Greenwich, Conn., and a Virginia Republican Party fund-raiser Saturday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4569
A Year Later, Goss's CIA Is Still in Turmoil
Congress to Ask Why Spy Unit Continues to Lose Personnel
By Dafna Linzer / Washington Post
When Porter J. Goss took over a failure-stained CIA last year, he promised to reshape the agency beginning with the area he knew best: its famed spy division.
Goss, himself a former covert operative who had chaired the House intelligence committee, focused on the officers in the field. He pledged status and resources for case officers, sending hundreds more to far-off assignments, undercover and on the front line of the battle against al Qaeda.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4578
'Fahrenheit 9/11' Interview Outtake of CIA Director Porter Goss: "I am not qualified."
Is this really the guy who should be running the CIA?
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=128
Student ad triggers debate
Some say Warwick High sophomore's ad 'undercuts the military'
By Mike Dawson / Times Herald-Record
Warwick – If creating a buzz is rule No. 1 in advertising, then an anonymous Warwick Valley High School sophomore has a bright future.
Set on a backdrop of neat rows of tombstones, a full-page ad in October's The Survey, Warwick Valley High School's monthly student-run newspaper, reads:
You can't be all that you can be if you're dead. There are other ways to serve your country. There are other ways to get money for college. There are other ways to be all you can be.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4572
The New York Times
For Iraqis, Image of Ex-President Stirs Reverence and Hatred
By EDWARD WONG
Published: October 19, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 19 - From the very start of the trial, from the moment Saddam Hussein refused to tell the judge his name, Hiba Raad said she knew she was watching the same man who had ruled over Iraq for decades with muscular authority.
"He's a hero, he's a tough leader," Ms. Raad, 20, a student of education at Mustansiriya University, said as she reclined in black pants and a T-shirt on a sofa in her living room. "If he came back, I'm sure he'd provide us with security."
In her home in the hard-line Sunni Arab neighborhood of Adhamiya, Ms. Raad had just finished watching the opening session of the trial alongside her parents and sister, and they continued staring transfixed at the television, listening to the breathless commentary on an Arab network. The grandmother, Samira al-Bayati, shuffled into the room in her black robe, a burning cigarette in one hand.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/international/middleeast/19cnd-iraq.html?hp&ex=1129780800&en=376915cf62d6aa4c&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Miers Hits Another Snag as Senators Fault Her Questionnaire
By DAVID STOUT
Published: October 19, 2005
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 - The contentious nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court hit another snag this afternoon when both the Republican chairman and ranking Democrat of the Senate Judiciary Committee said her responses to senators' questions had thus far been unsatisfactory.
The Times's Richard W. Stevenson discusses the nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court. Plus video of the president and the nominee.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT
Transcripts: Bush Miers
The committee chairman, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, said Ms. Miers should redo a questionnaire prepared by a bipartisan Senate panel because her initial responses had been insufficient on "many, many of the items."
The ranking Democrat, Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, agreed that Ms. Miers's effort on the questionnaire had been "inadequate," adding that some of his Senate colleagues had found her responses "ranged from incomplete to insulting."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/politics/politicsspecial1/19cnd-confirm.html?hp&ex=1129780800&en=2cd6f705e0403279&ei=5094&partner=homepage
New Storm Measures as Most Intense Ever for Atlantic Basin
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
Published: October 19, 2005
Hurricane Wilma, which appeared headed toward Cancún, Mexico, and possibly the Gulf Coast of Florida by this weekend, intensified into the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean basin today, but forecasters said its path remained unpredictable.
Several forecasts have the Category 5 storm striking southwestern Florida sometime this weekend, but the hurricane is moving too slowly and too erratically to make a firm prediction, the director of the National Hurricane Center, Max Mayfield, said.
"This is one of those cases when we have a tremendous amount of uncertainty," he said. "This is one of the more perplexing storms we've had to deal with this year."
Mr. Mayfield said that the center was having difficulty with its forecasts because of what he described as the "wobbly" nature of the hurricane.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/national/19cnd-storm.html?hp&ex=1129780800&en=c96af1b25f571528&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Temptation to Gamble Is Near for Troops Overseas
By DIANA B. HENRIQUES
Published: October 19, 2005
When Carrie Beth Walsh and her two toddlers landed at the airport in Seoul, South Korea, last year, there was no sign of her husband, an Army pilot who had been transferred there six weeks earlier.
Lisa Horn/Stars and Stripes
Slot machines, which attract $2 billion in betting at bases overseas, are a feature of the enlisted club at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
Courtesy of the Walsh Family
Aaron W. Walsh with his former wife, Carrie Beth, and their children in September 2003; Mr. Walsh, discharged, has been living in Las Vegas.
He eventually showed up in a taxi, broke and unprepared for his family's arrival - no rental car for the drive to his base, no apartment, no credit cards in his wallet that were not already up against his loan limits. "He was making more than $60,000 a year," Ms. Walsh said. "But we were always broke."
She soon learned why. Her husband, Warrant Officer Aaron W. Walsh, had pumped more than $20,000 into the Army's own slot machines on bases in South Korea. Last month, his marriage and career shattered, Mr. Walsh, who is 33, resigned from the Army to avoid a court-martial on desertion charges stemming from his gambling habit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/business/19slots.html
M.T.A. to Offer Fare Discount Over Holidays
By SEWELL CHAN
Published: October 19, 2005
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority yesterday laid out a plan so unexpected that it left even the authority's most hardened critics dumbfounded: lowering subway and bus fares.
The fare reduction will, alas, be temporary. The authority intends to reduce the base fare by half - to $1 - on weekends between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day and throughout the last week of December, using part of an unforeseen surplus that could reach $928 million by the end of the year.
The discounts need the approval of the authority's board, a step that is expected.
Gene Russianoff, an advocate for subway riders since 1981, who was briefed on the plan yesterday, reacted with astonishment. "It's unprecedented," said Mr. Russianoff, the lawyer for the Straphangers Campaign, part of the New York Public Interest Research Group. "I've never seen any holiday-related discounts for riders. I think it will encourage people to use transit during the holiday season at a time when gas prices are going through the roof. It's a smart way to reward customers."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/nyregion/19mta.html
Codey Announces Change to Aid Stem Cell Research
By TINA KELLEY
Published: October 19, 2005
PARAMUS, N.J., Oct. 18 - Continuing his effort to make New Jersey a leader in stem cell research, Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey announced on Tuesday the creation of what he called the nation's first statewide public bank for umbilical and placental blood to be used both by stem cell researchers and patients in need of transplants.
Blood from the placenta and umbilical cord contains stem cells, and researchers hope such cells can eventually play a role in curing diabetes, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, as well as in helping patients with strokes or spinal cord injuries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/nyregion/19stem.html
Scientists Bridle at Lecture Plan for Dalai Lama
By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: October 19, 2005
The Dalai Lama, the exiled leader of Tibet who is revered as a spiritual teacher, is at the center of a scientific controversy.
He has been an enthusiastic collaborator in research on whether the intense meditation practiced by Buddhist monks can train the brain to generate compassion and positive thoughts. Next month in Washington, the Dalai Lama is scheduled to speak about the research at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
Mel Evans/Associated Press
The Dalai Lama has helped researchers study meditation.
But 544 brain researchers have signed a petition urging the society to cancel the lecture, because, according to the petition, "it will highlight a subject with largely unsubstantiated claims and compromised scientific rigor and objectivity."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/national/19meditate.html
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