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Posted: 26 Oct 2018 05:34 PM PDT Συγγραφέας, δημοσιογράφος και αγωνίστρια της κομμουνιστικής Αριστεράς. Με την κριτική σκέψη που τη χαρακτήριζε, διαφοροποιήθηκε από πολλές προσωπικότητες της γενιάς της. Πέθανε στις 27 Οκτωβρίου του 2009... |
Posted: 26 Oct 2018 05:34 PM PDT Οθωμανός στρατηγός, αλβανικής καταγωγής, που παρέδωσε την Θεσσαλονίκη στον αρχιστράτηγο διάδοχο Κωνσταντίνο στις 26 Οκτωβρίου 1912. |
Posted: 26 Oct 2018 05:34 PM PDT Έτσι έμεινε στην ιστορία το ψευτοπραξικόπημα του Μουσολίνι (27 - 29 Οκτωβρίου 1922), μέσω του οποίου ανήλθε στην εξουσία. |
Posted: 26 Oct 2018 05:34 PM PDT Μεγάλη θεατρική επιτυχία σε πολλές χώρες του κόσμου. Είναι το μακροβιότερο παιζόμενο έργο στις ΗΠΑ και διεκδικεί τις ίδιες δάφνες και στην Ελλάδα, όπου πρωτοανέβηκε στις 27 Οκτωβρίου 1999 στο Θέατρο «Αποθήκη»... |
Posted: 26 Oct 2018 05:34 PM PDT Ιταλός συνθέτης και ο διασημότερος βιολονίστας όλων των εποχών. Υπήρξε η πρώτη μουσική προσωπικότητα που οι στάσεις και οι συμπεριφορές του παρέπεμπαν σε ροκ σταρ της εποχή μας. Γεννήθηκε στις 27 Οκτωβρίου του 1782... |
Posted: 26 Oct 2018 05:34 PM PDT Σκωτσέζος θαλασσοπόρος και εξερευνητής. Αρχικώς εκπαιδεύτηκε ως ναύτης στα ιστιοφόρα που ανεβοκατέβαιναν τον Τάμεση. Γεννήθηκε στις 27 Οκτωβρίου του 1728... |
Posted: 26 Oct 2018 05:34 PM PDT Πολιτικός της πρώτης μετεπαναστατικής γενιάς, που ανήλθε στα ύπατα αξιώματα του Ελληνικού Κράτους. Πέθανε στις 27 Οκτωβρίου 1880... |
Posted: 26 Oct 2018 05:34 PM PDT Μάρτυρας της Χριστιανοσύνης από τη Θεσσαλονίκη. Έζησε κατά τους χρόνους του Ρωμαίου αυτοκράτορα Μαξιμιανού (286-304) και ήταν φίλος του μεγαλομάρτυρα Αγίου Δημητρίου. |
Posted: 26 Oct 2018 05:34 PM PDT Δέκα περιπτώσεις ηγετών, που κυβέρνησαν για μικρό χρονικό διάστημα και οι λόγοι που συνέβη αυτό. Έπαιξε ρόλο η ανικανότητά τους ή οι παραξενιές της ιστορίας; |
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Article 21
Squirrel Counting Is
a Great Excuse to
Explore Central Park
A lesson in slowing down and looking close.
Just before nine on a drizzly, slate-colored Saturday morning, the grassy patches and paved paths around Central Park’s Turtle Pond were wild with activity. Runners tore around the track, breathing heavily in the newly chilled air. Dogs—some shaggy, some coiffed, all in various states of muddiness—seemed thrilled to be off the leash, though all, somehow, scampered back to their owners when called. Robins and sparrows and blue jays stayed just out of the melee.
The only thing missing, it seemed, were the squirrels. Maybe they were laying low. If I was going to find them that busy morning, I was going to have to learn to spy on them.
For a few weeks of October—Squirrel Awareness Month, apparently—volunteers with the Central Park Squirrel Census had been systematically combing the park. (This project follows one that the same independent “science and storytelling” team has conducted in Atlanta’s Inman Park.) It’s not unusual to enlist citizen scientists for such efforts, and there’s often a strong ecological or epidemiological reason for monitoring the small creatures who share our environment. Pressing stickers onto the wings of migrating monarch butterflies, for instance, sheds light on whether conservation efforts are paying off. Mining date-stamped tweets for information about spiders or ants can help track the relationship between weather and population booms. The rationale for counting squirrels, though? Maybe a little wobbly. But here’s the thing: “They’re cute, and they’re everywhere, and pretty easy to observe,” said Sally Parham, the logistics chief of the census.
Not so long ago, someone who set out to tally all of the squirrels in New York wouldn’t have needed much time. Before eastern gray squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis, were our urban neighbors, they were considered pets, and we imagined them as something like defenseless kittens. In 1856, The New-York Daily Times reported a throng of rubberneckers watching police “rescue” a squirrel that had escaped up a tree. Then, between the 1840s and 1860s, officials introduced squirrels to urban areas as part of beautification efforts in America’s increasingly dense Northeast cities.
In Philadelphia, Boston, and New Haven, they were let loose in grassy squares, where they bedded down in nesting boxes and ate from visitors’ hands. In the Journal of American History, University of Pennsylvania historian Etienne Benson describesurban reformers’ belief that squirrels could help create bucolic oases in the midst of constant change. “The gray squirrel was seen as a particularly desirable park resident,” Benson notes, “since it was understood to be, as the naturalist John Burroughs would later write, an ‘elegant creature, so cleanly in its habits, so graceful in its carriage, so nimble and daring in its movements.’” As a proxy for wilderness, squirrels were ideal tenants for the designs championed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. In 1877, nearly two decades after the first portion of Central Park opened to the public, it opened to squirrels, too.
At that time, the Central Park Menagerie turned a handful of gray squirrels loose in the thickly wooded Ramble. Within a few years, the population had boomed to perhaps as many as 1,500 individuals. It wasn’t long before they began to wear out their welcome. They were accused of stripping bark from cedars and pilfering too many leaves for their nests, leaving unsightly, naked branches in their wake. In 1883, Will Conklin, the director of the Menagerie, proposed culling, which was vigorously opposed by Henry Bergh of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Conklin and company argued that the squirrels were throwing the whole ecosystem out of whack. That year, an unnamed editorial writer took to The New York Times to argue that “nothing but Mr. Bergh prevents the policeman from exterminating the squirrels that exterminated the birds that exterminated the worms that threatened to exterminate the trees.”
Eventually, Conklin got his way. A spell of warm days in February 1886 invited squirrels out in droves, the Times reported—and the park and police force greeted them with a “fusillade.” Early one morning that month, the Times recounted, “sleepy housemaids along Fifth-ave. were awakened at daylight … by the reports of firearms in Central Park,” where “expert riflemen” took down a few feral cats and “fully a hundred fine fat squirrels.” Even so, by the early 1900s, many of the city’s parks had pockets of introduced squirrels, and they were generally considered a welcome addition: The Sun referred to them, in 1900, as “an endless source of delight to visitors, young and old.”
More than a century later, the chance to tally Central Park’s squirrel cohort is a hot ticket. The volunteer sessions fill up, and many of the sighters involved take part more than once.
Some of them are there because they just really, truly love squirrels. Stu Bowler, a five-time sighter, walked me through his favorite squirrel Instagram accounts, and described how, on Friday afternoons, he heads to the park’s wooded Ramble to kick off the weekend with his four-legged buddies. “I’ll sit there, and I may or may not have beers, I may or may not have nuts with me, and I may or may not feed them,” he said. Ten or 15 squirrels come by and sometimes clamber over him, as though his trunk and limbs were those of a tree. For the last five years, he’s also fed squirrels that come and go from the window of his East Village apartment. Just before dawn, and then again around dusk, “they come in for treats,” including avocado and “really expensive nuts.” Bowler and his bushy brethren sometimes hang out on the sofa. The T-shirt he’s wearing out on the census reads, “Squirrels Are My People,” and it has the paw prints and stains to prove it.
Other volunteers were enticed by how kooky the project seems, the promise of free pins and pencils, and the chance to get to know the park a little better. “I honestly didn’t like Central Park that much until I did this,” explained Kelly Reidy, a repeat sighter sporting a bright yellow “Squirrel Census” button. Reidy works as a tour guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, which flank the park’s east and west sides. She’s constantly cutting through to get from one gig to the other, but is usually a little frazzled as she rushes across. “I always think of it as, ‘Ugh, that’s my commute, that’s terrible,’” she said. The census also, incidentally, provides a primer on the park’s geography and landmarks. The pursuit of bushy-tailed residents led Reidy to Summit Rock, one of the highest points in the park. Wandering around portions that were less familiar to her “helped me fall in love with it a little bit,” she said.
For me, the park has never been a tough sell. I’ve been enamored since the week I moved to New York, and discovered a place along the Lake where the traffic sounds are muffled almost beyond recognition. Still, armed with my clipboard and a pen, I saw my old love through the dreamy, fugue-like light of a new crush.
The census organizers gridded the park and its borders into 378 hectares, 349 of which were included in the count (the others are in water). “We created our own planning map to overlay the hectare grid onto the park,” explained Nat Slaughter, the project’s chief cartographer. Each of the countable hectares was scouted by a sighter twice to measure squirrel activity at different times of day. During each shift, every participant was assigned a hectare or two, and instructed to scour it for squirrels, who may be foraging in the dirt, racing up a tree trunk, or nesting in their shaggy dreys made from leaves and sticks. I made my way from the King Jagiełło monument next to the 79th Street Traverse, down to the bronze statue of Alice in Wonderland, just north of the pond where visitors can helm remote-controlled model sailboats.
There, in hectare 14-I, with my ears alert and pen poised, I searched. Parham, the logistics chief, had reminded me to walk slowly, look closely, and be fastidious with my notes on physical appearance, behavior, and location. I needed to record whether a squirrel was gray, black, or cinnamon-colored, and what it seemed to make of me (did it approach, ignore, or flee?). I needed to indicate whether an individual was an adult or a juvenile—a tough distinction because they look pretty similar, though juveniles tend to look more “perfect,” while the adults “look like they’ve lived a little,” Parham said. I also had to take stock of how the squirrel was communicating. Did it flick its tail or let loose any barking kuks, bleating quaas, or moans?
In a given shift, which lasted around two hours, a Central Park sighter may see no squirrels or a whole slew of them—23 is the max so far. I saw seven, pawing through crunchy leaves, roughhousing in branches, and leaping around, seemingly oblivious to bicycle traffic and the march of carriage horses. My sightings will be collated, and the organizers intend to release their total count in the spring.
As I flitted my eyes around my hectare, I found myself becoming attuned to the minor excitements of the natural world. I homed in on quick, quiet movements, from hopping birds to breeze-tangled leaves. I observed a lot of other activity I might not have otherwise noted: a cluster of people doing tai-chi in the grass, a hawk arcing low above the canopy, friends sharing a bagel on a bench, toddlers’ shoes squeaking as they scaled a bronze sculpture.
Reidy told me that one unexpected wonder of the census has been passing by the same people each time she went out, just going about their business, such as the woman she saw every day, tossing a ball for her pint-sized dog while chattering away on her phone. “That’s their thing,” Reidy said. In pursuit of squirrels, I think I learned a little bit about our own species, too, and the little joys of a public space that becomes a shared backyard.
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Article 20
2010Keith Richards releases his autobiography, Life. His drug use is a big topic - here's a quote: "I loved a good high. And if you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep."
2004Sugarland's debut album, Twice the Speed of Life, is released. It is the only Sugarland album to feature Kristen Hall, who leaves the band in 2005.
1985Whitney Houston scores her first #1 on the Hot 100 when "Saving All My Love For You" reaches the top spot. She goes on a remarkable run, with her next six singles all topping the chart.
1981Queen records "Under Pressure" while jamming with David Bowie at their studio in Montreaux, Switzerland.
2013Al Johnson (co-founder of The Unifics) dies at age 65.
2010Results of Ozzy Osbourne's genome sequencing are revealed. The study shows that Ozzy has a very high predisposition for alcohol and cocaine addiction, and that he was partly descended from Neanderthals.
2007Acting on the advice of director David Lynch, folk-pop icon and former student of the Maharishi, Donovan, begins drawing up plans for The Invincible Donovan University, a college for studying transcendental meditation.
2002Jessica Simpson marries Nick Lachey of the boy band 98 Degrees. The union lasts three years and is the subject of the MTV reality series Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica.
2001Courtney Love plays her first-ever solo show at the Ventura Theatre in Ventura, California.
2000The tree from U2's song "One Tree Hill" is taken down. Located in Auckland, New Zealand, the tree had been attacked by activists and had to be removed.
2000The short-lived sitcom Cursed (aka The Weber Show), starring Steven Weber, debuts on NBC with its theme song, "Miss Fortune," written and performed by Liz Phair.
1999Country singer Hoyt Axton, who wrote the Three Dog Night hit "Joy to the World," dies of a heart attack at age 61.
1999German singer Rex Gildo dies at age 63, three days after jumping from the window of his apartment.
1998Fats Domino is awarded the National Medal of Arts from US President Bill Clinton.
1998Singer/songwriter Eros Ramazzotti celebrates his 35th birthday with the global release of his album Eros Live, featuring 15 tracks recorded during his 1997-98 worldwide tour.
1998Marilyn Manson begin their Mechanical Animals tour with a show in Kansas City.
1998John Michael Montgomery raises over $14,000 for the Jessamine Humane Society at his Putt for Paws golf tournament and concert. "We have a moral obligation to take care of these homeless animals," Montgomery says. "After all, we domesticated them."
1998US Federal courts refuse to issue an injunction against makers of mp3 players, one which the RIAA has been pushing for in light of rampant piracy.
1996Tragedy strikes at Ozzfest in Devore, California, when police officer Ruben Rios is struck and killed by a motorist while directing traffic.
Michael Jackson Patents The Smooth Criminal Shoes
1993Michael Jackson is awarded a patent for the system that allows him to lean in unnatural angles during performances of "Smooth Criminal." To recreate the video on stage, Jackson and his dancers wore special shoes that they could insert into pegs set up on stage for the famous lean.
To recreate the video on stage, Jackson and his dancers wear special shoes they can insert into pegs set up on stage for the famous lean. To get the patent, Jackson's lawyers have to prove that their system improves on previous methods of stage leaning, which is typically accomplished with a cumbersome system of cables and harnesses. Doing it all in the feet is a novel approach.
Jackson's patent claims to overcome the deficiencies of the cable system by "providing specialized footwear and a moveable hitch or post to which the specialized footwear can be detachably engaged to allow the footwear wearer to lean forward on stage, with his or her center of gravity well beyond the front of the shoes, thereby creating the desired visual effect."
Translation: Dancers can clip in, do the lean, clip out and keep dancing.
Jackson's patent claims to overcome the deficiencies of the cable system by "providing specialized footwear and a moveable hitch or post to which the specialized footwear can be detachably engaged to allow the footwear wearer to lean forward on stage, with his or her center of gravity well beyond the front of the shoes, thereby creating the desired visual effect."
Translation: Dancers can clip in, do the lean, clip out and keep dancing.
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Article 18
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EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST 27/10
- 312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
- 710 – Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 939 – Æthelstan, the first King of England, died and was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.
- 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
- 1524 – Italian Wars: French troops lay siege to Pavia.
- 1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
- 1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
- 1682 – Philadelphia is established in the Colonial American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
- 1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
- 1806 – The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
- 1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
- 1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
- 1870 – Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.
- 1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in the world.
- 1907 – Černová massacre: Fifteen people are killed in the Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration, which leads to protests over the treatment of minorities in Austria-Hungary.
- 1914 – The British lose their first battleship of World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons) is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. The loss was kept an official secret in Britain until 14 November 1918 (three days after the end of the war). The sinking was witnessed and photographed by passengers on RMS Olympic.
- 1916 – Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
- 1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
- 1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
- 1930 – Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty, signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions, go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
- 1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce decree nisi, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdicationfrom the throne.
- 1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
- 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- 1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
- 1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
- 1962 – Cold War: Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
- 1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
- 1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
- 1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
- 1973 – A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado.
- 1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1981 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
- 1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
- 1988 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
- 1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
- 1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
- 1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
- 1997 – Stock Market mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15.
- 1999 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and six others.
- 2014 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan after the end of Operation Herrick which started on June 20, 2002 after 12 years four months and seven days.
- 2017 – Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
- 892 – Emperor Ai of Tang, Chinese emperor (d. 908)
- 921 – Chai Rong, Chinese emperor (d. 959)
- 1156 – Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (d. 1222)
- 1335 – Taejo of Joseon (d. 1408)
- 1401 – Catherine of Valois (d. 1437)
- 1561 – Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (d. 1621)
- 1572 – Marie Elisabeth of France, French princess (d. 1578)
- 1615 – Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, (d. 1691)
- 1661 – Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (d. 1728)
- 1703 – Johann Gottlieb Graun, German violinist and composer (d. 1771)
- 1744 – Mary Moser, English painter and academic (d. 1819)
- 1760 – August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
- 1765 – Nancy Storace, English soprano (d. 1817)
- 1782 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
- 1806 – Juan Seguín, American colonel, judge, and politician, 101st Mayor of San Antonio (d. 1890)
- 1811 – Stevens T. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
- 1811 – Isaac Singer, American actor and businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (d. 1875)
- 1814 – Daniel H. Wells, American religious leader and politician, 3rd Mayor of Salt Lake City (d. 1891)
- 1838 – John Davis Long, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1915)
- 1842 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1928)
- 1844 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
- 1854 – William Alexander Smith, Scottish religious leader, founded the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
- 1858 – Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1935)
- 1858 – Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936)
- 1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
- 1865 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter and academic (d. 1958)
- 1868 – William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (d. 1928)
- 1877 – Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (d. 1949)
- 1877 – George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1943)
- 1884 – Shirō Takasu, Japanese admiral (d. 1944)
- 1885 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (d. 1948)
- 1890 – Toshinari Shōji, Japanese general (d. 1974)
- 1894 – Agda Helin, Swedish actress (d. 1984)
- 1894 – Oliver Leese, English-Welsh general (d. 1978)
- 1894 – Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician (d. 1946)
- 1904 – Riho Lahi, Estonian journalist and author (d. 1995)
- 1906 – Peter Blume, Belarusian-American painter and sculptor (d. 1992)
- 1906 – Earle Cabell, American banker and politician, Mayor of Dallas (d. 1975)
- 1906 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer and educator (d. 2010)
- 1908 – Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
- 1910 – Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1963)
- 1910 – Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, American chemical engineer (d. 2000)
- 1913 – Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author (d. 2016)
- 1913 – Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1971)
- 1914 – Ahmet Kireççi, Turkish wrestler (d. 1979)
- 1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright (d. 1953)
- 1915 – Harry Saltzman, Canadian-French production manager and producer (d. 1994)
- 1917 – Augustine Harris, English bishop (d. 2007)
- 1917 – Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and politician (d. 1993)
- 1918 – Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian engineer and politician (d. 2003)
- 1918 – Teresa Wright, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Nanette Fabray, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2018)
- 1920 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian lawyer and politician, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
- 1921 – Warren Allen Smith, American journalist, author, and activist (d. 2017)
- 1922 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
- 1922 – Ruby Dee, American actress and poet (d. 2014)
- 1922 – Michel Galabru, French actor and playwright (d. 2016)
- 1922 – Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (d. 1997)
- 1923 – Ned Wertimer, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Bonnie Lou, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
- 1925 – Warren Christopher, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
- 1925 – Jane Connell, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Paul Fox, English broadcaster
- 1925 – Monica Sims, English radio host and producer
- 1926 – Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (d. 2010)
- 1926 – H. R. Haldeman, American businessman and diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (d. 1993)
- 1926 – Takumi Shibano, Japanese author and translator (d. 2010)
- 1927 – Dominick Argento, American composer and educator
- 1928 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet
- 1929 – Myra Carter, American actress (d. 2016)
- 1929 – Bill George, American football player (d. 1982)
- 1929 – Maurice Robert Johnston, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
- 1930 – Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist (d. 2017)
- 1930 – Barry Supple, English historian and academic
- 1931 – Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author
- 1931 – Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
- 1932 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
- 1932 – Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer and manager
- 1932 – Dolores Moore, American baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1963)
- 1933 – Floyd Cramer, American singer and pianist (d. 1997)
- 1933 – Ryō Hanmura, Japanese author (d. 2002)
- 1934 – Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1935 – Frank Adonis, American actor and screenwriter
- 1935 – Maurício de Sousa, Brazilian journalist and cartoonist
- 1935 – Charlie Tagawa, Japanese-American banjo player and educator
- 1936 – Neil Sheehan, American journalist and author
- 1938 – Lara Parker, American actress and author
- 1939 – John Cleese, English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer
- 1939 – Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (d. 2007)
- 1939 – Dallas Frazier, American country music singer-songwriter
- 1940 – John Gotti, American mob boss (d. 2002)
- 1940 – Maxine Hong Kingston, American author and academic
- 1941 – Dave Costa, American football player (d. 2013)
- 1941 – Warren Ryan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1941 – Dick Trickle, American race car driver (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter
- 1942 – Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish journalist and politician
- 1943 – Carmen Argenziano, American actor and producer
- 1943 – Jerry Rook, American basketball player and coach
- 1944 – J. A. Jance, American author and poet
- 1945 – Arild Andersen, Norwegian bassist and composer
- 1945 – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian union leader and politician, 35th President of Brazil
- 1945 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1946 – Peter Martins, Danish dancer and choreographer
- 1946 – Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 2014)
- 1946 – Ivan Reitman, Czech-Canadian actor, director, and producer
- 1949 – Garry Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band) and record producer
- 1950 – Michael Driscoll, English economist and academic
- 1950 – Fran Lebowitz, American author
- 1950 – Július Šupler, Slovak ice hockey player and coach
- 1950 – A. N. Wilson, English journalist, historian, and author
- 1951 – K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter
- 1951 – Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English physicist, cosmologist, and academic
- 1951 – Nancy Jacobs, American politician
- 1951 – Jayne Kennedy, American model, actress, and sportscaster
- 1952 – Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1952 – Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist, economist, and author
- 1952 – Atsuyoshi Furuta, Japanese footballer
- 1952 – Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
- 1953 – Peter Firth, English actor
- 1953 – Robert Picardo, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1954 – Jan Duursema, American illustrator
- 1954 – Mike Kelley, American artist and musician (d. 2012)
- 1954 – Chris Tavaré, English cricketer and biologist
- 1955 – Debra Bowen, American lawyer and politician, 31st Secretary of State of California
- 1956 – Patty Sheehan, American golfer
- 1956 – Babis Tsertos, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
- 1957 – Glenn Hoddle, English footballer and manager
- 1957 – Peter Marc Jacobson, American actor, director, and producer
- 1958 – Gordon Cowans, English footballer
- 1958 – David Hazeltine, American pianist and composer
- 1958 – Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter
- 1958 – Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (d. 2009)
- 1959 – Rick Carlisle, American basketball player and coach
- 1960 – Tom Nieto, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1963 – David Hall, Australian horse trainer
- 1963 – Marla Maples, American model and actress
- 1963 – Tom McKean, Scottish runner
- 1964 – Mary T. Meagher, American swimmer
- 1964 – Mark Taylor, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
- 1964 – Ian Wells, English footballer (d. 2013)
- 1965 – Mohan Kapoor, Indian actor who works in television and film
- 1966 – Steve Almond, American author and educator
- 1966 – Kit Malthouse, English accountant and politician
- 1966 – Hege Nerland, Norwegian lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
- 1966 – Masanobu Takashima, Japanese actor
- 1967 – Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer and pilot
- 1967 – Dejan Raičković, Montenegrin footballer and manager
- 1967 – Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
- 1968 – Dileep, Indian actor and producer
- 1968 – Alain Auderset, Swiss author and illustrator
- 1968 – Vinny Samways, English footballer and manager
- 1969 – Marek Napiórkowski, Polish jazz guitarist and composer
- 1969 – Michael Tarnat, German footballer
- 1970 – Karl Backman, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
- 1970 – Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer (d. 1997)
- 1970 – Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer
- 1970 – Jonathan Stroud, English author
- 1970 – Ruslana Taran, Ukrainian sailor
- 1971 – Stefano Guidoni, Italian footballer
- 1971 – Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
- 1971 – Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer and politician
- 1972 – Lee Clark, English footballer and manager
- 1972 – Elissa, Lebanese singer
- 1972 – Evan Coyne Maloney, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1972 – Maria Mutola, Mozambican runner and coach
- 1972 – Brad Radke, American baseball player
- 1973 – Jason Johnson, American baseball player
- 1973 – Semmy Schilt, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist
- 1975 – Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby player and coach
- 1975 – Aron Ralston, American mountaineer and engineer
- 1976 – Bobby Fish, American professional wrestler
- 1976 – Maneet Chauhan, Indian-American chef and author
- 1976 – Wilson Raimundo Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- 1977 – Jiří Jarošík, Czech footballer
- 1977 – Sheeri Rappaport, American actress
- 1977 – Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1978 – Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player and scout
- 1978 – Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean-English violinist and skier
- 1979 – Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Japanese footballer
- 1980 – Sayuri Osuga, Japanese speed skater and cyclist
- 1980 – Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1980 – Henriett Seth F., Hungarian autistic savant artist and author[1]
- 1981 – Salem Al Fakir, Swedish singer and keyboard player
- 1981 – Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer
- 1981 – Kristi Richards, Canadian skier
- 1982 – Patrick Fugit, American actor and producer
- 1982 – Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer
- 1983 – Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
- 1983 – Takuro Okuyama, Japanese footballer
- 1983 – Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1984 – Sebastian Gacki, Canadian actor
- 1984 – Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player
- 1984 – Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer
- 1984 – Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
- 1984 – Brady Quinn, American football player
- 1984 – Emilie Ullerup, Danish-Canadian actress
- 1985 – Sirli Hanni, Estonian biathlete
- 1985 – Sandra Volk, Slovenian tennis player
- 1986 – Jon Niese, American baseball player
- 1986 – Matty Pattison, South African-English footballer
- 1986 – David Warner, Australian cricketer
- 1987 – Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer
- 1987 – Björn Barrefors, Swedish decathlete and heptathlete.
- 1987 – Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
- 1987 – Guillaume Franke, French-German rugby player
- 1988 – Brady Ellison, American archer
- 1988 – Viktor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1988 – Illimar Pärn, Estonian ski jumper
- 1988 – Evan Turner, American basketball player
- 1989 – Mark Barron, American football player
- 1990 – Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer
- 1990 – Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer
- 1991 – Shohei Takahashi, Japanese footballer
- 1992 – Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer
- 1992 – Emily Hagins, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1992 – Brandon Saad, American ice hockey player
- 1993 – Kiefer Ravena, Filipino basketball player
- 1997 – Lonzo Ball, American basketball player
- 1999 – Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress
- 939 – Æthelstan, English king (b. 894)
- 1269 – Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia (b. c.1220)
- 1277 – Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor of England
- 1303 – Beatrice of Castile, wife of King Afonso III of Portugal
- 1312 – John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
- 1326 – Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (b. 1262)
- 1327 – Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert the Bruce
- 1329 – Mahaut, Countess of Artois (b. 1268)
- 1331 – Abulfeda, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
- 1430 – Vytautas, Lithuanian ruler (b. 1350)
- 1439 – Albert II of Germany (b. 1397)
- 1441 – Margery Jourdemayne, executed for treasonable witchcraft
- 1449 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician and sultan (b. 1394)
- 1485 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch philosopher, poet and educator (b. 1443)
- 1505 – Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
- 1513 – George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros, English nobleman
- 1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (b. 1511)
- 1561 – Lope de Aguirre, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
- 1573 – Laurentius Petri, Swedish archbishop (b. 1499)
- 1605 – Akbar, Mughal emperor (b. 1542)
- 1613 – Gabriel Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1589)
- 1617 – Ralph Winwood, English lawyer and politician, English Secretary of State (b. 1563)
- 1666 – Robert Hubert, French watchmaker (b. 1640)
- 1670 – Vavasor Powell, Welsh minister (b. 1617)
- 1674 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic minister and poet (b. 1614)
- 1675 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician and academic (b. 1602)
- 1789 – John Cook, American farmer and politician, 6th Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
- 1816 – Santō Kyōden, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1761)
- 1880 – Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Greek soldier and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1822)
- 1917 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
- 1926 – Warren Wood, American golfer and soldier (b. 1887)
- 1927 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (b. 1888)
- 1929 – Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (b. 1857)
- 1930 – Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1851)
- 1935 – Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (b. 1897)
- 1942 – Helmuth Hübener, German activist (b. 1925)
- 1947 – William Fay, Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1872)
- 1949 – Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (b. 1916)
- 1953 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
- 1957 – James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
- 1962 – Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (b. 1927)
- 1962 – Enrico Mattei, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1906)
- 1968 – Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1878)
- 1974 – C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician and academic (b. 1938)
- 1975 – Rex Stout, American detective novelist (b. 1886)
- 1976 – Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and author (b. 1919)
- 1977 – James M. Cain, American journalist and author (b. 1892)
- 1980 – Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1924)
- 1980 – John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
- 1982 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958 - 1963) (b. 1895)
- 1988 – Charles Hawtrey, English actor, singer, and pianist (b. 1914)
- 1990 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American violinist, bandleader, and actor (b. 1900)
- 1990 – Jacques Demy, French actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
- 1990 – Elliott Roosevelt, American general and author (b. 1910)
- 1990 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 1991 – George Barker, English author and poet (b. 1913)
- 1992 – David Bohm, American-English physicist and philosopher (b. 1917)
- 1992 – Allen R. Schindler, Jr. American sailor (b. 1969)
- 1996 – Arthur Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
- 1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (b. 1927)
- 1999 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
- 2000 – Walter Berry (bass-baritone), Austrian lyric bass-baritone (b. 1929)
- 2001 – Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1925)
- 2002 – Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer (b. 1925)
- 2002 – Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (b. 1922)
- 2003 – Rod Roddy, American game show announcer (b. 1937)
- 2003 – Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (b. 1949)
- 2004 – Lester Lanin, American bandleader (b. 1907)
- 2004 – Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
- 2004 – Zdenko Runjić, Croatian songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
- 2005 – Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (b. 1921)
- 2006 – Jozsef Gregor, Hungarian opera singer (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Reko Lundán, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1969)
- 2006 – Marlin McKeever, American football player (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- 2006 – Brad Will, American journalist and activist (b. 1970)
- 2007 – Moira Lister, South African actress (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Chris Bryant, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1936)
- 2008 – Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (b. 1932)
- 2008 – Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (b. 1925)
- 2009 – John David Carson, American actor (b. 1952)
- 2009 – August Coppola, American author and academic (b. 1934)
- 2009 – David Shepherd, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Néstor Kirchner, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (b. 1950)
- 2011 – James Hillman, American psychologist and author (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Robert Pritzker, American businessman, co-founded Marmon Group (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Angelo Maria Cicolani, Italian engineer and politician (b. 1952)
- 2012 – Regina Dourado, Brazilian actress (b. 1952)
- 2012 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Rodney S. Quinn, American colonel, pilot, and politician, 44th Secretary of State of Maine (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Göran Stangertz, Swedish actor and director (b. 1944)
- 2013 – Noel Davern, Irish lawyer and politician, Minister for Education and Skills (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Luigi Magni, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Michael Wilkes, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (b. 1940)
- 2013 – Vinko Coce, Croatian opera and pop singer (b. 1954)
- 2014 – Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2014 – Shin Hae-chul, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1968)
- 2014 – Starke Taylor, American soldier and politician, mayor of Dallas (b. 1922)
- 2015 – Ayerdhal, French author (b. 1959)
- 2015 – Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (b. 1930)
- 2015 – Betsy Drake, French-American actress and singer (b. 1923)
- 2015 – Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (b. 1933)
- 2016 – Takahito, Prince Mikasa, member of the Imperial Family of Japan (b. 1915)
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THIS DAY IN MUSIC
October 27th: On this Day | |
1957, The Crickets started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'That'll Be The Day'. It was also a No.3 hit in the US where it went on to sell over a million. The song was inspired by a trip to the movies by Holly, Jerry Allison and Sonny Curtis in June 1956. The John Wayne film The Searchers was playing and Wayne's frequently-used, world-weary catchphrase, "that'll be the day" inspired the young musicians. | |
1964, 31 year old Salvatore Philip Bono married 18 year old Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere. For a time they performed together as Caesar and Cleo before changing the name of their act to Sonny and Cher. Their union lasted 12 years. | |
1966, The Four Tops were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Reach Out I'll Be There.' The group's only UK No.1. | |
1969, Muddy Waters was seriously injured in a car crash in Champagne, Illinois. Three people were killed in the accident. | |
1973, Gladys Knight and the Pips started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Midnight Train To Georgia'. It was the group's 18th Top 40 hit and first No.1. The record won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus and has become Knight's signature song. | |
1975, After releasing the single and album Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen had the rare honour of simultaneous covers on both Time and Newsweek magazines in the US. | |
1977, Baccara were at No.1 in the UK singles chart with 'Yes Sir, I Can Boogie'. They were the first Spanish act to score a UK No.1, and first female duo to do so. 'Yes Sir, I Can Boogie' is also one of the thirty all-time singles to have sold 10 million (or more) copies worldwide. | |
1977, American musician Roy Estrada known as a founding member of Little Feat and who also worked with Frank Zappa was convicted of sexual assault on a child. Estrada served six years in prison. In January 2012, he pleaded guilty to a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child which happened in March 2008. In the plea bargain agreement, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and is not eligible for parole | |
1979, During a US tour Elton John collapsed on stage at Hollywood's Universal Amphitheatre suffering from exhaustion. | |
1980, Former T. Rex member Steve Took, choked to death on a cherry stone, after some magic mushrooms he had eaten, numbed all sensation in his throat, he was aged 31. Took was also a member of The Deviants with Pink Fairies members Twink and Mick Farren. | |
1980, Mark Chapman bought a five-shot .38 special for $169. A little over six weeks later, he would use the gun to kill John Lennon outside his New York City apartment. | |
1984, During a US tour, The Grateful Dead allocated a specific recording area for fans to bootleg the show; tonight's gig was in Berkeley, California. | |
1988, U2's film 'Rattle And Hum', received its world wide premiere in the group's hometown Dublin. | |
1989, U2 bass player Adam Clayton was convicted of a drink driving offence by a Dublin court after being found driving twice over the legal limit. He was fined £500 and banned from driving for 1 year | |
1992, Bo Diddley took his ex-manager to court claiming he had taken $75,000 through unauthorised personal expenses. | |
2000, Lonnie Donegan went to Buckingham Palace to receive his MBE for his services to pop music. Lonnie pioneered skiffle in the 1950s and inspired a generation of teenagers to start bands. | |
2003, Scott Weiland singer with The Stone Temple Pilots was arrested on his birthday in Hollywood, California, after being involved in a traffic collision. He was charged with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, but these charges were later dismissed after the singer successfully completed rehab and underwent subsequent drug tests. | |
2005, The distributor of rapper 50 Cent's new film said it would remove posters advertising the film after complaints they glorify gun violence. Posters for 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' showed 50 Cent holding a gun in his left hand and a microphone the other. Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich wrote to Paramount Pictures urging them to take down the posters. The company said it had taken down one poster near a Los Angeles nursery school, and planned to remove more. | |
2006, Amy Winehouse released her second and final studio album Back to Black. The album spawned five singles: 'Rehab', 'You Know I'm No Good', 'Back to Black', 'Tears Dry on Their Own' and 'Love Is a Losing Game' and won Best Pop Vocal Album at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. Back to Black sold 3.58 million copies in the UK alone, becoming the UK's second best-selling album of the 21st century. Worldwide, the album has sold over 20 million copies. | |
2007, Keith Richards marched with campaigners protesting against possible Sussex hospital cuts. The Stones guitarist joined 15,000 people for the walk through Chichester to oppose plans which could see St Richard's Hospital downgraded. A spokeswoman for the guitarist said: "Keith is a long-standing member of the West Wittering community and is pleased to lend his support to local efforts to save St Richard's Hospital.’ | |
2007, Former Moloko singer Roisin Murphy was recovering in hospital after damaging her eye socket during a show in Russia. The singer hit her head on a chair during the show at Moscow's Ikra Club and was rushed to hospital for surgery. A spokesman said she lost "a lot of blood" and had severe concussion, but her vision was unaffected and she was "recovering well". | |
2009, Eric Clapton pulled out of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in New York City after he underwent an operation to remove gallstones. His place at the Madison Square Garden gig was taken by Jeff Beck. | |
2013, Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed died at the age of 71. An admitted hard drinker and drug user for many years, he underwent a liver transplant in Cleveland in April 2013. Afterwards he claimed on his website to be 'bigger and stronger' than ever. | |
2014, The Pet Shop Boys''Always On My Mind' was voted the top cover version of all time in a BBC Music vote. The song, written by John Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson, was first made famous by Brenda Lee and Elvis Presley in 1972. Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails''Hurt' came in second place, followed by The Stranglers' version of Dionne Warwick's 'Walk On By'. Jimi Hendrix's take on Bob Dylan's 'All Along The Watchtower' came fourth and Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' completed the top five. | |
2014, The Last Ship, Sting's musical about shipbuilding in north-east England, opened on Broadway. The former frontman with The Police described watching the opening night as "an out-of-body experience". Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Blondie's Deborah Harry were among the first night audience at the Neil Simon Theatre. | |
2016, A letter John Lennon wrote to the Queen explaining why he was returning his MBE was found tucked in a record sleeve from a £10 car boot haul. The anonymous owner took the document to a valuation day at The Beatles Story in Liverpool and discovered it was worth about £60,000. Lennon had returned the MBE in protest at Britain's involvement in a civil war. | |
October 27th: Born on this day | |
1933, Born on this day, Floyd Cramer, country piano player, (1961 UK No.1 single 'On The Rebound'). Worked with Elvis Presley on 'Heartbreak Hotel' and other hits. Cramer died on 31st December 1997. | |
1949, Born on this day, Byron Allred, keyboards, Steve Miller Band, (1974 US No.1 & 1990 UK No.1 single 'The Joker') | |
1949, Born on this day, American musician and record producer Garry Tallent who is the bass player with the Bruce Springsteen E Street Band. He started playing with Springsteen in 1971 and as of 2013, and not counting Springsteen himself, Tallent is the only original member of the E Street Band remaining in the band. | |
1951, Born on this day, K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter, and one of the founding members of the British heavy metal band Judas Priest. Downing officially left Judas Priest in 2011. | |
1953, Born on this day, Peter Dodd, guitar, The Thompson Twins, (1984 UK No.2 single 'You Take Me Up', 1984 US No.3 single, 'Hold Me Now'). | |
1958, Born on this day, Hazell Dean, UK singer, (1988 UK No.4 single 'Who's Leaving Who'). | |
1958, Born on this day, Simon Le Bon, vocals, Duran Duran who scored the 1983 UK No.1 single 'Is There Something I Should Know', plus 25 other UK Top 40 singles, and the 1984 US No.1 single 'The Reflex'. Le Bon is also a member of its offshoot Arcadia, who had the 1985 UK No.7 single 'Election Day'. Le Bon went to Pinner County Grammar School, the same school that Elton John attended some years earlier. | |
1967, Born on this day, Scott Weiland, vocals, Stone Temple Pilots, (1993 UK No.23 single 'Plush'). Velvet Revolver, (2004 US No.1 & UK No.11 album 'Contraband'). Weiland has also established himself as a solo artist, releasing three studio albums, a cover album, and collaborations with several other musicians since 1998. Weiland died on December 3, 2015 after being found in cardiac arrest on his tour bus in Bloomington, Minnesota, just before he was scheduled to go on stage with his band The Wildabouts. He was 48 years old. | |
1984, Born on this day, Kelly Osbourne (2002 UK No.3 single 'Papa Don't Preach', 2003 UK No.1 with Ozzy Osbourne, 'Changes'. |
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Article 14
Johnny Hallyday: France's dead rocker scoops sales record
During his lifetime Johnny Hallyday sold 110 million records, and 10 months after his death his posthumous album is on course to sell a million more.
In a sales record for France, Mon pays c'est l'amour (My country is love) has sold 780,177 copies in one week.
That number, described by his record company as historic, tops even the US sales for the biggest album of 2018, Drake's Scorpion.
The Canadian rapper sold 732,000 albums in a single week in July.
Last year, Taylor Swift attracted the biggest sales in one week in the US since 2015 with Reputation, with more than 1.2m copies.
Performing beyond the grave
Hallyday recorded Mon pays c'est l'amour in 2017 while he was dying of lung cancer.
He died before he was able to put the finishing touches to the album. That task was taken on by his widow, Laeticia.
Described as "vintage Johnny", it is a mix of American-style rock'n roll, blues and country.
Writer Philippe Labro, who was a friend of the so-called French Elvis, told the BBC: "It's typical Johnny and since he has died, all the lyrics have a different dimension."
The release of his 51st record became a national event in France, with queues forming outside record stores shortly before midnight last Thursday. Some 300,000 copies, on CD and vinyl, were sold that Friday alone.
As a measure of the record's success, Hallyday also had the previous record for the most copies sold in France in one week, according to his record label, Warner Music France. In 2002, he sold 305,634 copies.
His latest album went diamond (half a million copies sold) in just three days.
"It's been a long time since CD manufacturers have had such a stiff test in meeting such massive public demand," said Stug Bergen of Warner Music Group.
David Bowie's final album Blackstar was released just two days before he died in January 2016. It sold almost 150,000 copies in its first week on sale in the UK.
Who benefits from the sales?
The record became the subject of a legal battle over the singer's legacy when his older children fought to have a stake in his estate, of which the album was a significant part.
The singer, whose real name was Jean-Philippe Smet, left everything to his widow Laeticia and their adopted children.
A French court put a temporary freeze on many of his assets and a ruling is expected next month.
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ΣΗΜΕΡΑ-27 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ
1449: δολοφονείται από μουσουλμάνους εξτρεμιστές ο Αφγανός πρίγκιπας και αστρονόμος Ulugh Beg.
1466: γεννιέται ο Ολλανδός ουμανιστής λόγιος Έρασμος, από τους κορυφαίους της Μεταρρύθμισης.
1659: απαγχονίζονται στη Μασαχουσέτη δυο Κουάκεροι εξαιτίας των θρησκευτικών τους πεποιθήσεων, οι Γουίλιαμ Ρόμπινσον και Μαρμαντούκ Στίβενσον, που είχαν φύγει από την Αγγλία, το 1656 για να γλιτώσουν τη θρησκευτική δίωξη.
1728: γεννιέται ο Τζέιμς Κουκ, Βρετανός εξερευνητής και θαλασσοπόρος. Εξερεύνησε τον Ειρηνικό Ωκεανό και σχεδίασε σε χάρτη την Αυστραλία, τη Νέα Ζηλανδία και τα νησιά της Χαβάης. Δολοφονήθηκε από ιθαγενείς το 1779.
1775: ιδρύεται το Ναυτικό των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών.
1782: γεννιέται ο Νικολό Παγκανίνι, Ιταλός συνθέτης και βιρτουόζος βιολονίστας. Πέθανε το 1840.
1795: αρχίζει να λειτουργεί το Διευθυντήριο, που χειρίστηκε τις τύχες της Γαλλίας επί τέσσερα χρόνια, ανοίγοντας το δρόμο στο Ναπολέοντα.
1797: υπογράφεται η Συνθήκη του Καμπο Φόρμιο μεταξύ Γαλλίας και Αυστρίας.
1811: γεννιέται ο Ισαάκ Σίνγκερ, ο άνθρωπος, που ανακάλυψε τη ραπτομηχανή.
1826: μπαίνουν θριαμβευτικά στο Βερολίνο ο Ναπολέων Βοναπάρτης και ο στρατός του.
1858: γεννιέται ο Τέοντορ Ρούσβελτ, ο 26ος Πρόεδρος των ΗΠΑ, από τον οποίο πήρε το όνομά του και το αρκουδάκι-παιχνίδι (τέντυ μπέαρ).
1880: πεθαίνει ο πολέμιος του βασιλιά Όθωνα πολιτικός Θρ. Ζαΐμης.
1904: ανοίγει για πρώτη φορά το μετρό της Νέας Υόρκης.
1914: γεννιέται ο Τόμας Ντύλαν, Ουαλός ποιητής, διηγηματογράφος και θεατρικός συγγραφέας.
1923: γεννιέται ο Αμερικανός ζωγράφος, Ρόυ Λιχτενστάιν.
1923: στην Ελλάδα, τελειώνει άδοξα το κίνημα των Μεταξά, Λεοναρδόπουλου, Γαργαλίδη και Ζήρα, που ξεκίνησε στις 22 Οκτωβρίου με την αποστολή προκήρυξης στις εφημερίδες, στην οποία ζητούσαν να παραιτηθεί η Κυβέρνηση και να διενεργηθούν εκλογές με διαφορετικό εκλογικό νόμο.
1925: ο Φρεντ Γουόλτερ πατεντάρει το θαλάσσιο σκι.
1932: γεννιέται η Αμερικανίδα ποιήτρια, τραγική αυτόχειρας, Σίλβια Πλαθ.
1938: η εταιρία Du Pont ανακοινώνει το όνομα του νέου συνθετικού υλικού της, του νάιλον.
1939: "γεννιέται ο Τζον Γκλις, ’Αγγλος ηθοποιός και κωμικός, μέλος των ""Μόντι Πάιθονς""."
1945: γεννιέται ο Πρόεδρος της Βραζιλίας Λουίς Ιγνάσιο (Λούλα) ντα Σίλβα.
1946: "στις ΗΠΑ, βγαίνει στον ""αέρα""το πρώτο τηλεοπτικό πρόγραμμα με χορηγο."
1951: ο Νικόλαος Πλαστήρας σχηματίζει κυβέρνηση με αντιπρόεδρο και Υπουργό Εξωτερικών τον Σοφοκλή Βενιζέλο.
1952: γεννιέται ο Ιταλός ηθοποιός, βραβευμένος με Όσκαρ, Ρομπέρτο Μπενίνι.
1956: γεννιέται ο μουσικός Μπάμπης Τσέρτος.
1958: "γεννιέται ο Βρετανός μουσικός και μέλος του συγκροτήματος ""Duran Duran""Σιμόν Λε Μπον."
1958: έκπτωτος κηρύσσεται ο πρώτος Πρόεδρος του Πακιστάν Ισκαντέρ Μίρζα, μετά το αναίμακτο πραξικόπημα του στρατηγού Αγιούμπ Χαν, τον οποίο ο ίδιος ο Μίρζα είχε ορίσει 20 μέρες νωρίτερα ως υπεύθυνο του στρατιωτικού νόμου.
1958: οι αρχαιολόγοι ανακαλύπτουν πολύτιμα αρχαιολογικά ευρήματα στη Βραυρώνα.
1960: "ο Μπεν Ε. Κινγκ ηχογραφεί το ""Stand By Me""."
1960: ο πρωθυπουργός Κωνσταντίνος Καραμανλής εγκαινιάζει το Καυτατζόγλειο Στάδιο στη Θεσσαλονίκη, που είχε θεμελιωθεί τέσσερα χρόνια νωρίτερα, στις 26 Οκτωβρίου 1956. Την ίδια μέρα εγκαινιάζονται ι εγκαταστάσεις του Αλεξάνδρειου Μέλαθρου και του Ν.Ο. Θεσσαλονίκης.
1961: η Μογγολία και η Μαυριτανία γίνονται μέλη του ΟΗΕ.
1962: "ανεβαίνει για πρώτη φορά το έργο του Αμερικανού δραματουργού Έντουαρντ ’Αλμπι ""Ποιος φοβάται τη Βιρτζίνια Γούλφ""στο Θέατρο Μπίλυ Ρόουζ της Νέας Υόρκης."
1962: η Αυστραλή κολυμβήτρια Dawn Fraser γίνεται η πρώτη γυναίκα, που κολυμπά τα 100μ σε λιγότερο από ένα λεπτό με επίδοση 59.9.
1962: τερματίζεται η Κρίση των Πυραύλων στην Κούβα.
1963: στο Μαρόκο, ο γαλλικός στρατός συλλαμβάνει 200 Αλγερινούς.
1967: ολοκληρώνονται οι εργασίες ανέγερσης του Εθνικού Κέντρου Ερευνών στη λεωφόρο Βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου.
1967: στη Ροδεσία, ο πρωθυπουργός Ίαν Σμιθ ξεκινά αγώνα με σκοπό την ανεξαρτητοποίηση της χώρας, μετά τη διακοπή των διαπραγματεύσεων με τη Βρετανία.
1968: ο Πέτρος Γαλακτόπουλος κατακτά το χάλκινο μετάλλιο στην ελληνορωμαϊκή πάλη στους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες του Μεξικού.
1971: ιδρύεται η Δημοκρατία του Ζαΐρ.
1973: ειρηνευτικές δυνάμεις του ΟΗΕ φθάνουν στο Κάιρο, για να εξασφαλίσουν διαρκή εκεχειρία μεταξύ των ισραηλινών και των αραβικών δυνάμεων.
1977: "πεθαίνει ο Αμερικανός δημοσιογράφος και συγγραφέας Τζέιμς Κέιν. Σε βιβλίο του στηρίχθηκε το σενάριο της ταινίας ""Ο ταχυδρόμος χτυπάει πάντα δυο φορές""."
1978: γεννιέται στη Σιγκαπούρη η βιολονίστρια και show-woman Βανέσα Μέι.
1978: το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης απονέμεται από κοινού στον Ισραηλινό πρωθυπουργό Μεναχέμ Μπέγκιν και στον Αιγύπτιο Πρόεδρο Ανουάρ Σαντάτ, για τη συμφωνία του Καμπ Ντέιβιντ, που τερμάτισε τον αραβοϊσραηλινό πόλεμο.
1985: στο Ελ Σαλβαδόρ, η κόρη του Προέδρου Χοσέ Ναπολεό Ντουάρτε αφήνεται ελεύθερη, μετά την 44ήμερη απαγωγή της από αριστερούς αντάρτες.
1990: 54.569 θεατές παρακολουθούν τον αγώνα Βρετανίας - Αυστραλίας (19-12) στο Wembley, στη μεγαλύτερη προσέλευση κόσμου σε διεθνή αγώνα ράγκμπι, που παίζεται εκτός Αυστραλίας.
1991: ο Ζήσης Μπαμπανάσης παίρνει το χάλκινο μετάλλιο, και πρώτο στην ιστορία της ελληνικής ξιφασκίας, στο Ευρωπαϊκό Πρωτάθλημα Ανδρών στη Βιέννη.
1991: το Ανώτατο Σοβιέτ του Τουρκμενιστάν αποφασίζει την ανεξαρτητοποίηση του από την ΕΣΣΔ.
1993: γίνεται η μεγαλύτερη απογραφή της ιστορίας, στην οποία, ο πληθυσμός της Κίνας υπολογίζεται σε 1 δισ. 8 εκ. κατοίκους.
1993: στον Καναδά, το κόμμα του Ζαν Κρετιέν εξασφαλίζει άνετη πλειοψηφία στη νέα Βουλή με 178 έδρες επί συνόλου 295.
1994: ο αριθμός των κρατουμένων στις αμερικανικές φυλακές αγγίζει το ένα εκατομμύριο.
1995: δικαστήριο του Μιλάνου καταδικάζει σε φυλάκιση, με την κατηγορία της διαφθοράς, για την παράνομη χρηματοδότηση του κόμματός τους, δύο πρώην Πρωθυπουργούς της Ιταλίας, τον Μπετίνο Κράξι και τον Αρνάλντο Φορλάνι.
1997: η δραχμή δέχεται ισχυρές πιέσεις, λόγω της παγκόσμιας χρηματιστηριακής κρίσης, που ξεκίνησε από το Χονγκ Κονγκ.
1997: ο δείκτης Ντάου Τζόουνς της Wall Street κάνει βουτιά 554,26 μονάδες και χάνει 7,18% μέσα σε μία ημέρα. Πρόκειται για την μεγαλύτερη πτώση από το 1987.
1998: αναδεικνύεται για πρώτη φορά Καγκελάριος στη Γερμανία ο Γκέρχαρντ Σρέντερ.
1999: σκοτώνονται μετά από επίθεση στο αρμενικό Κοινοβούλιο ο Αρμένιος πρωθυπουργός Βάζγκαν Σαρκισιάν και έξι ακόμη άτομα.
2000: το Eurosport βραβεύει τους Ευρωπαίους χρυσούς Ολυμπιονίκες του Σίδνεϊ στο Sporting Club του Μόντε Κάρλο. Ανάμεσά τους και οι 4 χρυσοί Έλληνες Πύρρος Δήμας, Κάχι Καχιασβίλι, Κώστας Κεντέρης και Μιχάλης Μουρούτσος.
1466: γεννιέται ο Ολλανδός ουμανιστής λόγιος Έρασμος, από τους κορυφαίους της Μεταρρύθμισης.
1659: απαγχονίζονται στη Μασαχουσέτη δυο Κουάκεροι εξαιτίας των θρησκευτικών τους πεποιθήσεων, οι Γουίλιαμ Ρόμπινσον και Μαρμαντούκ Στίβενσον, που είχαν φύγει από την Αγγλία, το 1656 για να γλιτώσουν τη θρησκευτική δίωξη.
1728: γεννιέται ο Τζέιμς Κουκ, Βρετανός εξερευνητής και θαλασσοπόρος. Εξερεύνησε τον Ειρηνικό Ωκεανό και σχεδίασε σε χάρτη την Αυστραλία, τη Νέα Ζηλανδία και τα νησιά της Χαβάης. Δολοφονήθηκε από ιθαγενείς το 1779.
1775: ιδρύεται το Ναυτικό των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών.
1782: γεννιέται ο Νικολό Παγκανίνι, Ιταλός συνθέτης και βιρτουόζος βιολονίστας. Πέθανε το 1840.
1795: αρχίζει να λειτουργεί το Διευθυντήριο, που χειρίστηκε τις τύχες της Γαλλίας επί τέσσερα χρόνια, ανοίγοντας το δρόμο στο Ναπολέοντα.
1797: υπογράφεται η Συνθήκη του Καμπο Φόρμιο μεταξύ Γαλλίας και Αυστρίας.
1811: γεννιέται ο Ισαάκ Σίνγκερ, ο άνθρωπος, που ανακάλυψε τη ραπτομηχανή.
1826: μπαίνουν θριαμβευτικά στο Βερολίνο ο Ναπολέων Βοναπάρτης και ο στρατός του.
1858: γεννιέται ο Τέοντορ Ρούσβελτ, ο 26ος Πρόεδρος των ΗΠΑ, από τον οποίο πήρε το όνομά του και το αρκουδάκι-παιχνίδι (τέντυ μπέαρ).
1880: πεθαίνει ο πολέμιος του βασιλιά Όθωνα πολιτικός Θρ. Ζαΐμης.
1904: ανοίγει για πρώτη φορά το μετρό της Νέας Υόρκης.
1914: γεννιέται ο Τόμας Ντύλαν, Ουαλός ποιητής, διηγηματογράφος και θεατρικός συγγραφέας.
1923: γεννιέται ο Αμερικανός ζωγράφος, Ρόυ Λιχτενστάιν.
1923: στην Ελλάδα, τελειώνει άδοξα το κίνημα των Μεταξά, Λεοναρδόπουλου, Γαργαλίδη και Ζήρα, που ξεκίνησε στις 22 Οκτωβρίου με την αποστολή προκήρυξης στις εφημερίδες, στην οποία ζητούσαν να παραιτηθεί η Κυβέρνηση και να διενεργηθούν εκλογές με διαφορετικό εκλογικό νόμο.
1925: ο Φρεντ Γουόλτερ πατεντάρει το θαλάσσιο σκι.
1932: γεννιέται η Αμερικανίδα ποιήτρια, τραγική αυτόχειρας, Σίλβια Πλαθ.
1938: η εταιρία Du Pont ανακοινώνει το όνομα του νέου συνθετικού υλικού της, του νάιλον.
1939: "γεννιέται ο Τζον Γκλις, ’Αγγλος ηθοποιός και κωμικός, μέλος των ""Μόντι Πάιθονς""."
1945: γεννιέται ο Πρόεδρος της Βραζιλίας Λουίς Ιγνάσιο (Λούλα) ντα Σίλβα.
1946: "στις ΗΠΑ, βγαίνει στον ""αέρα""το πρώτο τηλεοπτικό πρόγραμμα με χορηγο."
1951: ο Νικόλαος Πλαστήρας σχηματίζει κυβέρνηση με αντιπρόεδρο και Υπουργό Εξωτερικών τον Σοφοκλή Βενιζέλο.
1952: γεννιέται ο Ιταλός ηθοποιός, βραβευμένος με Όσκαρ, Ρομπέρτο Μπενίνι.
1956: γεννιέται ο μουσικός Μπάμπης Τσέρτος.
1958: "γεννιέται ο Βρετανός μουσικός και μέλος του συγκροτήματος ""Duran Duran""Σιμόν Λε Μπον."
1958: έκπτωτος κηρύσσεται ο πρώτος Πρόεδρος του Πακιστάν Ισκαντέρ Μίρζα, μετά το αναίμακτο πραξικόπημα του στρατηγού Αγιούμπ Χαν, τον οποίο ο ίδιος ο Μίρζα είχε ορίσει 20 μέρες νωρίτερα ως υπεύθυνο του στρατιωτικού νόμου.
1958: οι αρχαιολόγοι ανακαλύπτουν πολύτιμα αρχαιολογικά ευρήματα στη Βραυρώνα.
1960: "ο Μπεν Ε. Κινγκ ηχογραφεί το ""Stand By Me""."
1960: ο πρωθυπουργός Κωνσταντίνος Καραμανλής εγκαινιάζει το Καυτατζόγλειο Στάδιο στη Θεσσαλονίκη, που είχε θεμελιωθεί τέσσερα χρόνια νωρίτερα, στις 26 Οκτωβρίου 1956. Την ίδια μέρα εγκαινιάζονται ι εγκαταστάσεις του Αλεξάνδρειου Μέλαθρου και του Ν.Ο. Θεσσαλονίκης.
1961: η Μογγολία και η Μαυριτανία γίνονται μέλη του ΟΗΕ.
1962: "ανεβαίνει για πρώτη φορά το έργο του Αμερικανού δραματουργού Έντουαρντ ’Αλμπι ""Ποιος φοβάται τη Βιρτζίνια Γούλφ""στο Θέατρο Μπίλυ Ρόουζ της Νέας Υόρκης."
1962: η Αυστραλή κολυμβήτρια Dawn Fraser γίνεται η πρώτη γυναίκα, που κολυμπά τα 100μ σε λιγότερο από ένα λεπτό με επίδοση 59.9.
1962: τερματίζεται η Κρίση των Πυραύλων στην Κούβα.
1963: στο Μαρόκο, ο γαλλικός στρατός συλλαμβάνει 200 Αλγερινούς.
1967: ολοκληρώνονται οι εργασίες ανέγερσης του Εθνικού Κέντρου Ερευνών στη λεωφόρο Βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου.
1967: στη Ροδεσία, ο πρωθυπουργός Ίαν Σμιθ ξεκινά αγώνα με σκοπό την ανεξαρτητοποίηση της χώρας, μετά τη διακοπή των διαπραγματεύσεων με τη Βρετανία.
1968: ο Πέτρος Γαλακτόπουλος κατακτά το χάλκινο μετάλλιο στην ελληνορωμαϊκή πάλη στους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες του Μεξικού.
1971: ιδρύεται η Δημοκρατία του Ζαΐρ.
1973: ειρηνευτικές δυνάμεις του ΟΗΕ φθάνουν στο Κάιρο, για να εξασφαλίσουν διαρκή εκεχειρία μεταξύ των ισραηλινών και των αραβικών δυνάμεων.
1977: "πεθαίνει ο Αμερικανός δημοσιογράφος και συγγραφέας Τζέιμς Κέιν. Σε βιβλίο του στηρίχθηκε το σενάριο της ταινίας ""Ο ταχυδρόμος χτυπάει πάντα δυο φορές""."
1978: γεννιέται στη Σιγκαπούρη η βιολονίστρια και show-woman Βανέσα Μέι.
1978: το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης απονέμεται από κοινού στον Ισραηλινό πρωθυπουργό Μεναχέμ Μπέγκιν και στον Αιγύπτιο Πρόεδρο Ανουάρ Σαντάτ, για τη συμφωνία του Καμπ Ντέιβιντ, που τερμάτισε τον αραβοϊσραηλινό πόλεμο.
1985: στο Ελ Σαλβαδόρ, η κόρη του Προέδρου Χοσέ Ναπολεό Ντουάρτε αφήνεται ελεύθερη, μετά την 44ήμερη απαγωγή της από αριστερούς αντάρτες.
1990: 54.569 θεατές παρακολουθούν τον αγώνα Βρετανίας - Αυστραλίας (19-12) στο Wembley, στη μεγαλύτερη προσέλευση κόσμου σε διεθνή αγώνα ράγκμπι, που παίζεται εκτός Αυστραλίας.
1991: ο Ζήσης Μπαμπανάσης παίρνει το χάλκινο μετάλλιο, και πρώτο στην ιστορία της ελληνικής ξιφασκίας, στο Ευρωπαϊκό Πρωτάθλημα Ανδρών στη Βιέννη.
1991: το Ανώτατο Σοβιέτ του Τουρκμενιστάν αποφασίζει την ανεξαρτητοποίηση του από την ΕΣΣΔ.
1993: γίνεται η μεγαλύτερη απογραφή της ιστορίας, στην οποία, ο πληθυσμός της Κίνας υπολογίζεται σε 1 δισ. 8 εκ. κατοίκους.
1993: στον Καναδά, το κόμμα του Ζαν Κρετιέν εξασφαλίζει άνετη πλειοψηφία στη νέα Βουλή με 178 έδρες επί συνόλου 295.
1994: ο αριθμός των κρατουμένων στις αμερικανικές φυλακές αγγίζει το ένα εκατομμύριο.
1995: δικαστήριο του Μιλάνου καταδικάζει σε φυλάκιση, με την κατηγορία της διαφθοράς, για την παράνομη χρηματοδότηση του κόμματός τους, δύο πρώην Πρωθυπουργούς της Ιταλίας, τον Μπετίνο Κράξι και τον Αρνάλντο Φορλάνι.
1997: η δραχμή δέχεται ισχυρές πιέσεις, λόγω της παγκόσμιας χρηματιστηριακής κρίσης, που ξεκίνησε από το Χονγκ Κονγκ.
1997: ο δείκτης Ντάου Τζόουνς της Wall Street κάνει βουτιά 554,26 μονάδες και χάνει 7,18% μέσα σε μία ημέρα. Πρόκειται για την μεγαλύτερη πτώση από το 1987.
1998: αναδεικνύεται για πρώτη φορά Καγκελάριος στη Γερμανία ο Γκέρχαρντ Σρέντερ.
1999: σκοτώνονται μετά από επίθεση στο αρμενικό Κοινοβούλιο ο Αρμένιος πρωθυπουργός Βάζγκαν Σαρκισιάν και έξι ακόμη άτομα.
2000: το Eurosport βραβεύει τους Ευρωπαίους χρυσούς Ολυμπιονίκες του Σίδνεϊ στο Sporting Club του Μόντε Κάρλο. Ανάμεσά τους και οι 4 χρυσοί Έλληνες Πύρρος Δήμας, Κάχι Καχιασβίλι, Κώστας Κεντέρης και Μιχάλης Μουρούτσος.
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Ο Θόδωρος Παπαντίνας ή Τέρρυ Παπαντίνας (27 Ιανουαρίου 1951 - 19 Ιουνίου 2016) ήταν Ελληνοαμερικανός ροκμουσικός που ξεχώρισε στην Ελλάδα κατά τη δεκαετία του '70.
Γεννήθηκε στην Καστοριά το 1951. Μεγάλωσε στη Νέα Υόρκη και το 1967 επέστρεψε στην Ελλάδα. Δραστηριοποιήθηκε μουσικά στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Ήταν σημαντική[ μορφή του ελληνικού ροκ, με το κιθαριστικό του παίξιμο να ξεχωρίζει εκείνη την εποχή. Έπαιξε με συγκροτήματα όπως οι Fratelli, οι Μακεδονομάχοι και οι Bicycle, έχοντας συνεργασία -μεταξύ άλλων- με τους Διονύση Σαββόπουλο, Παύλο Σιδηρόπουλο και Νίκο Παπάζογλου. Το 2009, γυρίστηκε ένα ντοκιμαντέρ από τον Δημήτρη Αθυρίδη, με θέμα τη ζωή του, με τίτλο «T 4 Trouble and the Self-Admiration Society, The Life and Music of Terry Papantinas». Φωτο ΓΙΑΝΝΑΚΑΡΟΣ
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