On This Day in History | ||||||||
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Historical Events | ||||||||
1581 Commissioned by Catherine de' Medici, the first ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine" is staged in Paris | ||||||||
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1582 Gregorian calendar is introduced in Spain, Portugal and the Papal States, after skipping 10 days from October 4 to sync the calendar to the solar year and compensate for the drift that had occurred due to the Julian calendar having too many leap days | ||||||||
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on the island of St Helena to begin his exile | ||||||||
1969 Vietnam Moratorium Day in the US, millions nationwide protest against the war | ||||||||
1993 Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk awarded the Nobel Peace Prize | ||||||||
2017 Actress Alyssa Milano's tweet “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’" prompts flood of replies across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter | ||||||||
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Famous Birthdays | ||||||||
Also Virgil and Penny Marshall. | ||||||||
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Famous Deaths | ||||||||
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Hurricane on the Way? Don't Worry | ||||||||
A cozy assurance from a BBC weather forecaster for viewers not to worry about an impending storm has gone down as the most spectacular mis-forecast in history. | ||||||||
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024
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