On this day in history.

[AdmiralAdama]

October 16, 1962 - Cuban missile crisis began when U.S. President John F. Kennedy becomes aware of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

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[Richard Brown]

October 16, 1962 - Cuban missile crisis began when U.S. President John F. Kennedy becomes aware of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

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That was a close call. They were distinctly worrying times.

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[scifan57]

October 17, 1931 Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for income tax evasion and fined $80,000.00.

 

[AdmiralAdama]

That was a close call. They were distinctly worrying times.

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I remember my parents spending a great deal of time in front of the old black and white.

We lived on the north shore of Lake Erie and were quite aware of the increased war readiness.

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[scifan57]

October18, 1867. The United States takes possession of Alaska, after having purchased it from Russia for the sum of $7,200,000.00, or Leeds than 2 cents an acre.

 

[scifan57]

October 18, 1767, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon complete their survey of the boundary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland as well as between what would become the states of Delaware and West Virginia.
This became known as the Mason-Dixon Line.

 

[scifan57]

October 23, 1993. Toronto Blue Jays player Joe Carter hits a come from behind home run in the bottom of the 9th to win the World Series for Toronto, its second championship on a row.

 

[Richard Brown]

On the 24th of October 2003 - Concorde made her last commercial flights. I will ever forget that, and do miss seeing her overhead on her approach to Heathrow.

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[Richard Brown]

On the 24th of October, 1945 The United Nations officially came into existence when the Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories.

Today is UN Day

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[scifan57]

October 29, 1998 John Glenn returns to space. Over 40 years after he became the first American to orbit the earth in Friendship 7 he returned to space as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle discovery. At the age of 77, he became the oldest person ever to travel in space.

 

[scifan57]

October 29, 1929 The Stock market crashes, becoming a main factor in the cause of the Great Depression affecting the United States and many other countries for the next decade, needing the onset of WWII to finally bring the US out of the depression.

 

[Richard Brown]

7th November, 2012. The actor Clive Dunn, who played Mr Jones in Dad's Army, died.

He was a great comedy actor and will be missed.

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[scifan57]

November 7, 1940; the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses during high winds.

 

[scifan57]

November 15, 1891; Erwin Rommel, the German commander known as the Desert Fox was born in Heidenheim, Germany. Rommel was most famous for his exploits in North Africa during World War II.

 

[Richard Brown]

November 7, 1940; the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses during high winds.

YouTube Link: http://youtu.be/xox9BVSu7Ok

Thanks for posting this. I've seen the footage before, but the related video offerings by Utube are fascinating.

I've posted a link to one I like on the Anything Goes thread

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