Anniversaries: X years ago today
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60 years ago today Robert Trujillo, an American musician who has been the bassist for heavy metal band Metallica since 2003, was born.
- https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/robert-trujillo
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180 years ago today the return of Christ was supposed take place based on the calculations of Millerite preacher Samuel S. Snow.
> In August 1844 at a camp-meeting in Exeter, New Hampshire, Samuel S. Snow presented a message that became known as the "seventh-month" message or the "true midnight cry." In a discussion based on scriptural typology, Snow presented his conclusion (still based on the 2300 day prophecy in Daniel 8:14), that Christ would return on, "the tenth day of the seventh month of the present year, 1844."[19] Again, based largely on the calendar of the Karaite Jews, this date was determined to be October 22, 1844.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Miller_(preacher)#Millerism
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75 years ago today An Wang Filed a Patent for a Magnetic Ferrite Core Memory.
> An Wang called his patent "pulse transfer controlling devices." Computer designers had been looking for a way to record and read magnetically stored information without mechanical motion, and Wang's concept of the magnetic core memory was central to later computer development. Two years later An Wang found Wang Laboratories.
- https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/october/21/#an-wang-filed-a-patent-for-a-magnetic-ferrite-core-memory
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70 years ago today the first film adaptation of a novel by Ian Fleming featuring the character of agent James Bond, alias 007, was shown on television.
> In 1954, CBS paid Ian Fleming $1,000 ($11,346 in 2023 dollars[96]) to adapt his novel Casino Royale into a one-hour television adventure, "Casino Royale", as part of its Climax! series.[97] The episode aired live on 21 October 1954 and starred Barry Nelson as "Card Sense" James Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre.[98] The novel was adapted for American audiences to show Bond as an American agent working for "Combined Intelligence", while the character Felix Leiter—American in the novel—became British onscreen and was renamed "Clarence Leiter".[99]
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35 years ago today the album Pretty Hate Machine by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails was released.
- https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/nine-inch-nails/pretty-hate-machine/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Hate_Machine
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20 years ago today the first Ubuntu Linux distribution released.
- https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/october/20/#the-first-ubuntu-linux-distribution-released
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10 years ago today Oscar de la Renta, a Dominican fashion designer, died.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_de_la_Renta
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20 years ago today the album Panopticon by the Atmospheric Sludge / Post-Metal band Isis from the United States was released.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon_(album)
- https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/isis/panopticon/
- So Did We (Remastered)
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160 years ago today a U.S. Army force under Philip Sheridan destroys a Confederate army under Jubal Early at the Battle of Cedar Creek.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cedar_Creek
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Cedar_Creek_by_Kurz_%26_Allison.jpg
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60 years ago today Dan Lilker, bassist in Nuclear Assault, Brutal Truth, Anthrax and S.O.D., was born.
- https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/dan-lilker
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50 years ago today the President of the United States Gerald Ford testified before the House Judiciary Committee due to him granting full and unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon.
- https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-explains-his-pardon-of-nixon-to-congress
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90 years ago today the Long March began with the departure of the First Red Army under the leadership of Mao Zedong from their headquarters in the southern province of Jiangxi.
- https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-long-march
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60 years ago today Cole Porter, an American songwriter of pop standards, died.
- https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/cole-porter
- Night And Day - Cole Porter
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65 years ago today Sarah, Duchess of York, a British author, philanthropist, television personality, and member of the extended British royal family, was born.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah,_Duchess_of_York
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On this day, 15 Oct 1940 Charlie Chaplin's first talkie The Great Dictator debuted in New York (while the US was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany).
The antifascist film ends with this impassioned speech to the audience opposing all forms of oppression.
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50 years ago today the album War Child by the Progressive rock/folk band Jethro Tull from the United Kingdom was released.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Child_(album)
- https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/jethro-tull/war-child/
- Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day (2002 Remaster)
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60 years ago today the Presidium and the Central Committee voted to accept Nikita Khrushchev's "voluntary" request to retire as Premier of the Soviet Union…
…and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for reasons of "advanced age and ill health."
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40 years ago today the album Rattlesnakes by the Scottish 1980s band Lloyd Cole and The Commotions was released.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattlesnakes_(album)
- https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/lloyd-cole-and-the-commotions/rattlesnakes/
- Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
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40 years ago today British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people.
> A gaping hole in the 5th floor level in the facade of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England on Oct. 12, 1984, following a bomb explosion. Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and most of her 22 member cabinet were staying at the hotel for their party’s conference. The windows of Mrs. Thatcher’s rooms were blown out in the blast and the bathroom of her suite were badly damaged. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing
- https://apnews.com/today-in-history/october-12
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50 years ago today the album Paper Money by the American hard rock / heavy metal band Montrose was released.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Money
- https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/montrose/paper-money/
