Celebrity Birthdays and On-This-Day

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October 19th:

2003 - In London, magician David Blaine emerged from a clear plastic box and then suspended by a crane over the banks of the Thames River. He survived only on water for 44 days. Blaine had entered the box on September 5.
2001 - Two U.S. Army Rangers were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan. The deaths were the first American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.
1998 - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson got his boxing license back after he had lost it for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a fight.
1983 - The U.S. Senate approved a bill establishing a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
1979 - Prince's second album "Prince" was released.
1951 - U.S. President Truman singed an act officially ending the state of war with Germany.

Omar Gooding (younger brother of Cuba Gooding, played in TV series: "Hanging With Mr. Cooper" and "Smart Guy") 1976
Chris Kattan (annoying "SNL" cast member known for playing the characters Mango, Mr. Peepers, and Mr. Forrester, an unintelligible school sports coach, Chris starred in the movie "Corky Romano") 1970
Trey Parker (co-creator and many voices on the animated series "South Park") 1969
Evander Holyfield (boxer had hit ear bit by Mike Tyson in a pro-fight) 1962
John Lithgow ("Third Rock From The Sun" TV series) 1945
Jeannie C. Reily (young country music sex symbol had a hit with "Harper Valley PTA" in 1968) 1945
Robert Reed (The father, Mike Brady) 1932

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October 20th:

2003 - A 40-year-old man went over Niagara Falls without safety devices and survived. He was charged with illegally performing a stunt.
1992 - The Madonna album "Erotica" was released.
1977 - Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines (Steve's sister) and road manager Dean Kilpatrick were killed when their plane crashed in Gillsburg, MS. The other four members of the band were seriously injured but survived the crash.
1973 - "The Joker" was released by the Steve Miller Band.
1973 - The Sydney Opera house officially opened.
1962 - The Four Seasons released "Big Girls Don't Cry."
1961 - Bob Dylan's self-titled debut album was recorded.
1955 - "Day-O" was recorded by Harry Belafonte.
1935 - Mao Zedong arrived in Hanoi after his Long March that took just over a year. He then set up the Chinese Communist Headquarters.

Willis McGahee (Running back for American Football's (NFL) Buffalo Bills) 1981
Thomas Wisniewski (Guitarist for Christian speed-punk band MxPx) 1971
Dannii Minogue (Australian pop singer, Kylie's younger sister, released her first single in 1991) 1971
Snoop Dogg (rapper: "Gin and Juice", "Drop It Like It's Hot") 1970
Tom Petty ("American Girl", "Walls", "Free Falling", "Don't Come Around Here No More", "Into the Great Wide Open", "Running Down a Dream", "Room at the Top", "Breakdown", "Refugee", "You Wreck Me") 1950
Wanda Jackson (rockabilly singer of the 1950s-80s: "Let's Have a Party", "Window Up Above", "Kansas City", "Making Believe", "Mean Mean Man", "Cool Love") 1937
Bela Lugosi (Hungarian actor was the title role in the original 1931 movie version of "Dracula") 1882

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October 21:

Mother-in-Law Day
New Moon

2006 - The 600th episode of the radio/web dramedy series "Adventures in Odyssey" airs. This episode makes "Odyssey" the longest running weekly, scripted, non-variety series. The show has been on the radio since Nov. 1987.
1995 - Shannon Hoon, the singer of Blind Melon ("No Rain", "Galaxie") died of a cocaine overdose at the age of 28. They had only rleased 2 albums at that time, and several unreleased songs later became their 3rd and final album.
1994 - North Korea and the U.S. signed an agreement requiring North Korea to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections.
1992 - The erotic photograph book, "Sex," was released by Madonna. The first run of 500,000 copies sold out.
1983 - The Pentagon reported that 2,000 Marines were headed to Grenada to protect and evacuate Americans living there.
1967 - Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington, DC, in opposition to the Vietnam War.
1964 - The movie based on the musical "My Fair Lady" premiered.
1961 - Bob Dylan recorded "Bob Dylan," his first album. He was 20 years old when he did the recording for Columbia Records. The cost to produce the session was $400.
1958 - Buddy Holly recorded his last studio session. Holly and the Crickets recorded "True Love Ways," "Moondreams," "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," and "Raining in my Heart."
1945 - Women in France were allowed to vote for the first time.
1917 - The first U.S. soldiers entered combat during World War I near Nancy, France.
1908 - A "Saturday Evening Post" advertisement offered a chance to buy a two-sided record from Columbia. This was the first time records were sold.

Brian Pittman (bassist for two Christian rock bands: Relient K and his new band Inhale Exhale) 1980
Will Estes (movie "U-571", JJ Pryor on TV's "American Dreams", and was Will on the unfinished/cancelled TV series "Reunion") 1978
Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia in "Star Wars") 1956
Rich Mullins (wrote many popular worship/gospel songs: "Awesome God", "Sing Your Praise To The Lord", "Creed", died in a car crash in 1997) 1955
Benjamin Netanyahu (President of Israel 1996-99) 1949
Judy Sheindlin ("Judge Judy", TV's tough family court Judge) 1942
Dizzy Gillespie (jazz trumpeter) 1917
Alfred Nobel (Swedish inventor established a peace prize) 1833

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October 22nd:

"CAPS LOCK" DAY
Used Cars Day

1990 - Seminal grunge band Pearl Jam, then named Mookie Blaylock, play their first show as a band at the Off Ramp club in Seattle, WA. A year later, they released the classic album "Ten" as the newly formed Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder joined the band after Temple of the Dog broke up, his old band with Chris Cornell, later of Soundgarden.
1969 - Led Zeppelin release the classic album Led Zeppelin II, featuring the hit single "Whole Lotta Love."
1966 - The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go). The single that hit #1 was "You Can't Hurry Love."
1966 - The Beach Boys released the single "Good Vibrations."
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade was in response to the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
1957 - Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
1938 - Xerox Co, based in Rochester NY, produced their first image.

Jonathan Lipnicki (child with glasses in "Jerry McGuire", also: "Like Mike", "Stuart Little", "The Little Vampire") 1990
Zac Hanson (drummer with his brothers' band Hanson) 1985
Orville Richard "Shaggy" Burrell (Reggae singer: "It Wasn't Me", "Angel", "In The Summertime", "Boombastic") 1968
Toby Mac (McKeehan) (Singer/rapper in landmark Christian/mainstream rap/rock group DC Talk: "Jesus Freak", "Colored People", "In the Light", "Just Between You and Me", "Consume Me", and recently solo: "Irene", "Gone", "Atmosphere", "Burn For You." He also performed "New World," the theme to the movie "Narnia") 1964
Jeff Goldblum ("Jurassic Park", "Independence Day", "The Fly") 1952
Bobby Fuller (singer's one-hit-wonder was "I Fought The Law" before his death in 1966) 1942
Christopher Lloyd (TV: "Taxi", "Stacked", Movies: "Back To The Future 1-3", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Angels in the Outfield" "The Adams Family") 1938
Jerome Lester "Curly" Horwitz ("The 3 Stooges") 1908

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October 23rd:

Eid ul-Fitr (end of Ramadan, the month of fasting in Islam)
Labor Day (New Zealand)
First day of astroligical sign Scorpio
Mole Day
Canning Day

2001 - Apple Computer releases the first iPod.
1995 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin and U.S. President Bill Clinton agree to a joint peacekeeping effort in the war-torn Bosnia.
1992 - Japanese Emperor Akihito became the first Japanese emperor to stand on Chinese soil.
1989 - Hungary became an independent republic, after 33 years of Soviet rule
1978 - China and Japan formally ended four decades of hostility when they exchanged treaty ratifications.
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair.
1965 - "Turn! Turn! Turn!" was released by the Byrds.
1929 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression.

"Weird" Al Yankovic (known for his parodies of popular songs) 1959
Sam Raimi (director: "Spider-Man 1-3", "The Quick and the Dead", "The Gift", "The Evil Dead") 1959
Dwight Yoakam (country singer was in the movies "Sling Blade" and "Panic Room") 1956
Ang Lee (directs Taiwanese and American movies: "Brokeback Mountain", "Crouching Tiger", "The Ice Storm", "Ride With The Devil", "Hulk") 1954
Michael Crichton (author: "Jurassic Park", "The Lost World", "Congo", "Sphere", "The Great Train Robbery", "Timeline") 1942
Philip Kaufman (director/writer: "Raidrs of the Lost Ark (writer)", "The Right Stuff", "Henry & June", "Rising Sun", "Quills", "Twisted") 1936
Johnny Carson (Host of "The Tonight Show" 1961-1992) 1925

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October 24th:

United Nations Day
Bologna Day

2001 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation that gave police the power to secretly search homes, tap all of a person's telephone conversation and track people's use of the Internet.
1992 - The Toronto Blue Jays became the first non-U.S. team to win the World Series.
1992 - Madonna's album "Erotica" was released.
1965 - NBC became the first TV network to carry 30 minutes of nightly news seven days a week.
1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. military forces went on the highest alert in the postwar era in preparation for a possible full-scale war with the Soviet Union. The U.S. blockade of Cuba officially began on this day.
1948 - The term "cold war" was used for the first time. It was in a speech by Bernard Baruch before the Senate War Investigating Committee.
1939 - Nylon stockings were sold to the public for the first time in Wilmington, DE.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge opened for traffic between New York and New Jersey.
1929 - In the U.S., investors dumped more than 13 million shares on the stock market. The day is known as "Black Thursday."

Kevin Kline [actor: "Dave", "Wild Wild West", "The Big Chill", "The Road To El Dorado (voice)"] 1947
J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson [early rock'n'roll singer/songwriter ("Chantilly Lace", "White Lightning", "Running Bear") who died on the same plane as Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens in 1959] 1930

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October 25th:

End of the hurricane season
Grenada Day (Thanksgiving)

1994 - Susan Smith of Union, SC, claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons. Smith was later convicted of drowning her children in a nearby lake.
1994 - The Madonna album "Bedtime Stories" was released.
1983 - U.S. troops and soldiers from six Caribbean nations invaded Grenada to restore order and provide protection to U.S. citizens after a recent coup within Grenada's Communist (pro-Cuban) government. The small Caribbean island's government subsequentky became Democratic.
1982 - The first episode of "Newhart" aired on CBS.
1955 - The microwave oven, for home use, was introduced by The Tappan Company.
1917 - The Bolsheviks (Communists) under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power in Russia.

Ciara Princess Harris (R&B singer: "Goodies", "1,2 Step", "Oh", "Promise") 1985
Sarah Thompson ("Angel", "7th Heaven") 1979
Michael Boatman (TV: "China Beach" a Vietnam War drama series, and Carter on "Spin City") 1964
Nancy Cartwright (Voice on "The Simpsons": (Bart, Nelson, Todd Flanders, Ralph Wiggum) 1957
Richard Byrd (The first person to see the North Pole) 1888
Pablo Picasso (artist famous for his stick figure people) 1881

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Oct 26th:

1998 - Marilyn Manson began its Mechanical Animals tour in Kansas City, MO. "Mechanical Animals" is his best selling album to date.
1992 - Pearl Jam sets a new record for first week sales when the LP "Vs." sold 950,000 copies. Singles included "Daughter", "Dissident", and "Elderly Woman..."
1981 - Queen and David Bowie record "Under Pressure" in Montreaux, Switzerland.
1970 - "Doonesbury," the Liberal comic strip by Gary Trudeau, premiered in 28 newspapers across the U.S.
1905 - Norway gained independence from Sweden.
1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.
1858 - H.E. Smith patented the rotary-motion washing machine.
1825 - The Erie Canal opens - passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.

Jon Heder ("Napolean Dynomite", "Just Like Heaven", "The Benchwarmers") 1977
Seth MacFarlane (Creator/animator/writer for: "The Family Guy", "American Dad", "Johnny Bravo", "Cow and Chicken", "Dexter's Laboratory") 1973
Keith Urban (New Zealand/Australian country singer had his first hit in 1991: "You'll Think of Me", "Days Go By") 1967
Natalie Merchant (singer for the 10,000 Maniacs, they didn't have their first hit until the band had broken up: "These Are The Days", and the remake of a Patti Smith song "Because The Night", solo: "Wonder, "Carnival", "Kind and Generous") 1963
Cary Elwes ("The Princess Bride", "Robin Hood-Men In Tights", "The Crush", "Saw") 1962
Hillary Clinton (former US First Lady, current NY state senator) 1947
Pat Sajak (host of "Wheel of Fortune" for over 20 years) 1947
Charles William Post (started Post Cereal Co.) 1854

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October 27th:

Potato Day

1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 554.26 points. The stock market was shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on U.S. President Reagan.
1982 - Prince's album "1999" was released. Singles were "1999" and "Little Red Corvette."
1925 - Fred Waller received a patent for water skis.
1904 - The New York subway system officially opened.
1858 - Roland Macy opened Macy's Department Store in New York City. It was Macy's eighth business adventure, the other seven failed.

Kelly Osbourne (daughter of Ozzy and Sharon tried unsuccessfully to be a singer) 1984
Scott Weiland (singer for Stone Temple Pilots: "Plush", "Interstate Love Song", "Creep", "Lady Picture Show", "Sour Girl", "Days of the Week", and for Velvet Revolver: "Slither", "Fall To Pieces") 1967
Ivan Reitman (movie director: "Ghostbusters", "Twins", "Junior", "Kindergarten Cop", "Stripes", "Private Parts", "Dave", "Evolution") 1946
John Cleese ["Monty Python", "Rat Race", "Harry Potter", "James Bond (as Q)"] 1939
Theodore Roosevelt (26th US President 1901-09) 1858
Isaac Singer (founded Singer Sewing Machine Co.) 1811
James Cook (British Explorer mapped many Pacific Islands, most notably Hawaii and New Zealand) 1728

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October 28th:

Daylight Savings Time ends [clocks go back an hour tonight(Sunday) at 1:00am]
"Make a Difference" Day

1996 - The Dow Jones Industial Average gained a record 337.17 points (or 5%). The day before the Dow had dropped 554.26 points (or 7%).
1990 - Iraq announced that it was halting gasoline rationing.
1977 - "Nevermind The Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols" was released in America.
1965 - The Gateway Arch along the waterfront in St. Louis, MO, was completed.
1919 - The U.S. Congress enacted the Volstead Act, also known as the National Prohibition Act. Prohibition was repealed in 1933 with the passing of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1904 - The St. Louis Police Department became the first to use fingerprinting.
1886 - The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by U.S. President Cleveland. The statue weighs 225 tons and is 152 feet tall. It was originally known as "Liberty Enlightening the World."
1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a patent for his cotton gin.

Joaquin Phoenix ("Ladder 49", "I Walk The Line", "Gladiator", "Buffalo Soldiers") 1974
Julia Roberts ("Pretty Woman", "Erin Brockovich") 1967
Jami Gertz ["Twister", "Still Standing (TV series)", "Square Pegs (TV)"] 1965
Daphne Zuniga [Princess Vespa in "Spaceballs", TV: "Melrose Place", "American Dreams (season 3)"] 1962
Bill Gates (CEO of Microsoft Computer Co created the original Windows Operating System) 1955
Dennis Franz ("Hill Street Blues" star known for showing his naked butt on "NYPD Blue") 1944
Jonas Salk (developed a Polio Vaccine) 1914

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October 29th:

Oatmeal Day
First Quarter Moon

2002 - Christina Aguilera's album "Stripped" was released. Singles included "Fighter" and "Beautiful."
2001 - KTLA broadcasted the HDTV network telecast.
1996 - In Pasadena, California, a judge drops drug possession charges against Scott Weiland, the singer for the Stone Temple Pilots. The judge concluded that Weiland had made significant progress in rehab.
1977 - "Bat Out Of Hell" was released by Meat Loaf. Singles included "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" and "2 Out of 3 Ain't Bad." In addition to other albums Meat Loaf has recorded, two sequels to "Bat" have been released.
1957 - "Oh Boy!" by Buddy Holly & the Crickets was released.
1956 - Videotape was used for the first time in network television programming. CBS recorded the evening news and fed the tape to West Coast stations three hours later.
1945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each.
1936 - Country singer Hank Snow made his first recordings, "Lonesome Blue Yodel" and "Prisoned Cowboy." He later became known in the 1950s for the dance craze "Rhumba Boogie" and "I'm Moving On."
1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market.
1682 - William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA. He was the founder of Pennsylvania.

Winona Ryder (actress arrested for shoplifting thousands of dollars worth of clothes: "Mr. Deeds", "The Crucible", "Mermaids", "A Scanner Darkly", "Simone") 1971
"Serenity" (Pornstar in 1990s-2000s) 1969
Randy Jackson (Jackson 5 member) 1961
Dan Castellaneta (Plays Homer Simpson and other characters on that cartoon) 1957
Kate Jackson (TV's "Charlie's Angels") 1948
Richard Dreyfuss (outspoken liberal actor: "Jaws", "Mr. Holland's Opus", "Close Encounters", "What About Bob?", "Poseidon (2006)", "Krippendorf's Tribe") 1947

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October 30th:

Buy-A-Doughnut Day
National Candy Corn Day (US)
International Orthopaedic Nurses Day

2001 - Michael Jackson's album entitled "Invincible" was released. It was his first full-length album since "Dangerous" in 1991. It was supposed to be his comeback album, but the album sold poorly.
1986 - The Beastie Boys released the LP "License To Ill." Singles included "Fight For Your Right To Party", "Brass Monkey", and "Girls."
1970 - Jim Morrison was sentenced to 6 months in jail and fined $500 for exposing himself in Miami, FL.
1938 - Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" aired on CBS radio. The belief that the realistic radio dramatization was a live news event about a Martian invasion caused panic among listeners.

Ivanka Trump (Donald Trump's daughter) 1981
Gavin Rossdale (Singer for Bush: "Come Down", "Glycerine", "Swallowed", "The Chemicals Between Us") 1967
Kevin Pollak (actor/commedian famous for his impressions of Christopher Walken and William Shatner) 1957
Henry Winkler (The Fonz on "Happy Days", movies: "Click", "The Waterboy", "Holes") 1945
Grace Slick (Hipee singer for Jefferson Airplane & Starship) 1939
Emily Post (wrote a popular instructional book "Etiquette" in 1922) 1873
Fyodor Dostoevsky (author of "Crime and Punishment") 1821
John Adams (2nd US President 1797-1801) 1735

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October 31st:

Halloween (All Hallow's Eve)
Samhain (Irish-Celtic holiday celebrated Oct.31-Nov.2 marking the end of the Harvest)
National Caramel Apple Day (USA)
Magic Day
Halloween in the US is in second place for the most pizzas delivered. In first place is Superbowl Sunday (the final game for American Football).

2006 - Meat Loaf released "Bat Out of Hell 3."
1992 - Prince and the New Power Generation released the album titled with the symbol that was to become Princes alias throughout the 1990s while disputing music rights with his record label. Singles included: "7", and "The Morning Papers."
1956 - Rear Admiral G.J. Dufek become the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole. Dufek also became the first person to set foot on the South Pole.
1941 - Mount Rushmore was declared complete after 14 years of work. At the time the 60-foot busts of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were finished.
1926 - Magician Harry Houdini died of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix. His appendix had been damaged twelve days earlier when he had been punched in the stomach by a student unexpectedly. During a lecture Houdini had commented on the strength of his stomach muscles and their ability to withstand hard blows.
1922 - Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy.
1868 - Postmaster General Alexander Williams Randall approved a standard uniform for postal carriers.
1864 - Nevada became the 36th state to join the U.S.
1517 - Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace Church. The event marked the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

Eddie Kaye Thomas (Paul Finch in the "American Pie" Trilogy and on TV's "Til Death") 1980
Piper Parabo ("Coyote Ugly") 1976
Malin Sofia Katarina Berggren (singer for Ace of Base: "The Sign", "Don't Turn Around", "All That She Wants", "Beautiful Life") 1970
Robert Matthew "Vanilla Ice" Van Winkle (rapper/rocker famous for "Ice Ice Baby") 1968
Peter Jackson (directed "The Lord of the Rings") 1961
Larry Mullen, Jr. (Drummer for rock band U2) 1961
John Candy (commedian/actor died of a heart attack in 1994: "Uncle Buck", "Vacation", "Spaceballs", "Home Alone", "Splash", "Brewster's Millions") 1950
David Ogden Stiers (Major Charles Winchester on TV's "MASH") 1942
Barbara Bel Geddes (TV's "Dallas") 1922
Chiang Kai-Shek (the first constitutional President of the Republic of China) 1887
Juliette Low (founded Girl Scouts in 1913) 1860

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November 1st:

Samhain (Irish-Celtic holiday celebrated Oct.31-Nov.2 marking the end of the Harvest)
All Saints' Day
Start of National Novel Writing Month

1994 - Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged" performance was released as "MTV Unplugged in New York."
1968 - The movie rating system of G, M, R, X, followed by PG, PG-13 and NC-17 went into effect.
1884 - A meeting of world leaders in Washington, DC set Greenwich, England as the center of the Prime Meridian.
1800 - U.S. President John Adams became the first president to live in the White House when he moved in.
1765 - The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies.
1611 - "The Tempest," Shakespeare's romantic comedy, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London
1604 - "Othello," the tragedy by William Shakespeare, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.

Jenny McCarthy 1972
Sophie B. Hawkins [pop singer: "As I Lay Me Down", "Damn (I Wish I was Your Lover)"] 1967
Rick Allen (One-armed drummer for Def Leppard) 1963
Larry Flynt (controversial founder of Penthouse Magazine) 1957
Jim Steinman (Meat Loaf's song partner and co-writter, Jim also wrote "Total Eclipse of the Heart", "It's All Coming Back To Me Now") 1947

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November 2nd:

Samhain (Irish-Celtic holiday celebrated Oct.31-Nov.2 marking the end of the Harvest)
All Souls' Day
El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) (Mexico)

2003 - Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs ran in the New York City Marathon. He finished in 4 hours, 14 minutes and 54 seconds. He raised $2 million dollars for children.
2001 - The computer-animated movie "Monsters, Inc." opened. The film recorded the best debut ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time.
1990 - "Graffiti Bridge," Prince's third film, co-starring Tevin Campbell and Mavis Staples opened.
1948 - Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers.
1920 - The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting.
1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted into the union as the 39th and 40th states.

Nelly (rapper) 1974
Burt Lancaster (actor: "From Here to Eternity") 1913
Warren G. Harding (29th US President 1921-23) 1865
James K. Polk (11th US President 1845-49) 1795
Marie Antoinette (French Queen said, "Let them eat cake.") 1755
Daniel Boone (blazed wilderness trail in Kentucky) 1734