October 10:
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush presented a list of 22 most wanted terrorists.
1973 - Fiji became independent after of nearly a century of British rule.
1965 - The Red Baron made his first appearance in the "Peanuts" comic strip.
1964 - Shangri-Las released "Leader Of The Pack."
1962 - The BBC banned the song "Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett.
1911 - China's Manchu dynasty was overthrown by communiat revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen.
1865 - The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (son of a famous NASCAR racer who died while racing became a NASCAR racer himself) 1974
Mike Malinin (drummer for the Goo Goo Dolls: "Already There", "Iris", "Slide", "Here is Gone", "Stay With Me") 1967
Tanya Tucker (country singer had her first hit at 14: "Delta Dawn", "Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)", "Love Me Like You Used To") 1958
David Lee Roth (original singer for Van Halen: "Jump", "Panama") 1955
Edward D. Wood, Jr. (directed several bad B-Sci/fi and horror movies in the 1950s-60s, directed "Plan 9 From Outer Space" which won "Worst Movie Ever Made," he was portrayed by Jonny Depp in the biopic "Ed Wood" in 1993) 1924
Thelonious Monk (jazz pianist invented Bebop music) 1917 |