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100 years anniversary | ||||
09 Oct 1925 | Robert Finch: Actor (Academy Theater) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
09 Oct 1950 | Gary Frank: Spokane, Washington -- Actor (Enemy Territory, Deadly Weapon) | |||
09 Oct 1950 | Brian Downing, American baseball player | |||
09 Oct 1950 | Reichi Nakaido, Japanese singer and guitarist (RC Succession) | |||
09 Oct 1950 | Jody Williams, American academic and activist, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
09 Oct 1950 | George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1895) | |||
09 Oct 1950 | Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre started. | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
09 Oct 1975 | Mark Viduka: Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics - 1996) | |||
09 Oct 1975 | Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco | |||
09 Oct 1975 | Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize | |||
09 Oct 1975 | Haylie Ecker, Australian violinist Bond | |||
09 Oct 1975 | Sean Lennon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Plastic Ono Band, and Cibo Matto) | |||
09 Oct 1975 | Rale Micic, Serbian-American guitarist and composer | |||
09 Oct 1975 | Mark Viduka, Australian footballer | |||
09 Oct 1975 | Sean Taro Ono Lennon was born, the only child of John Lennon by Yoko Ono. John Lennon retired from music for five years to become a house-husband. Sean went on to become a singer, songwriter, musician and actor. | |||
09 Oct 1975 |
Sakharov Nobel Prize In 1975, Andrei Sakharov, often called father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, became the first Soviet citizen to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as an outspoken dissident to the Soviet regime. In 1957 his concern with the radioactive hazards of nuclear testing inspired him to write a pioneering article on the effects of low-level radiation. This might be considered his first step towards dissent. The Nobel Committee citation called him “the conscience of mankind” saying he “has fought not only against the abuse of power and violations of human dignity in all its forms, but has in equal vigor fought for the ideal of a state founded on the principle of justice for all.” The Soviet authorities denied him permission to go to Norway to receive his award. |
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25 years anniversary | ||||
09 Oct 2000 | David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945) | |||
09 Oct 2000 | Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918) | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
09 Oct 2005 | Louis Nye, American actor and singer (b. 1913) | |||
09 Oct 2005 | Stella Stratigou, Greek actress (b. 1931) | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
09 Oct 2010 | Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) |