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100 years anniversary | ||||
15 Oct 1925 | Mickey Baker: Rocker | |||
15 Oct 1925 | Pittsburgh Pirates beat Washingston Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series | |||
15 Oct 1925 | Mickey Baker, American-French guitarist (Mickey & Sylvia) (d. 2012) | |||
15 Oct 1925 | Aurora Bautista, Spanish actress (d. 2012) | |||
15 Oct 1925 | Tony Hart, English artist and children's television presenter (d. 2009) | |||
15 Oct 1925 | WW2 | Emden was commissioned into service. | ||
15 Oct 1925 | Pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
15 Oct 1950 | Chris De Burgh [Davidson]: Argent / Irish rock vocalist (Lady in Red) | |||
15 Oct 1950 | Koos van der Vaart: Dutch MP (PvdA) | |||
15 Oct 1950 | Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer | |||
15 Oct 1950 |
Radio paging service In 1950, the first American radio paging service, Aircall of New York City, sent the first page to a doctor who was on a golf course 25 miles away. Subscribers carried a six-ounce pocket radio receiver and could hear their call numbers repeated in numerical sequence on the air at least once per minute within a 30-mile radius. |
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50 years anniversary | ||||
15 Oct 1975 | Ginuwine, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor | |||
15 Oct 1975 | Alessandro Doga, Italian footballer | |||
15 Oct 1975 | Glen Little, English footballer | |||
15 Oct 1975 | Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer | |||
15 Oct 1975 | birth Ginuwine, (Elgin Lumpkin) US rapper, (1997 UK No.10 single 'When Doves Cry'). | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
15 Oct 2000 | Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) | |||
15 Oct 2000 | Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic (b. 1924) | |||
15 Oct 2000 | Dave Edmunds had a triple heart bypass operation. The 56 year-old Welsh rocker had the operation at LA's Cedars Sinai Hospital. | |||
15 Oct 2000 | Radiohead went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Kid A', the group's fourth album became the first Radiohead release to debut at No.1 in the US. | |||
15 Oct 2000 | U2 went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Beautiful Day', the group's fourth UK No.1 single and taken from their album 'All That You Can't Leave Behind'. | |||
15 Oct 2000 |
death Konrad Bloch Died 15 Oct 2000 at age 88 (born 21 Jan 1912). Konrad Emil Bloch was a German-American biochemist who shared who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Feodor Lynen for their discoveries concerning the natural synthesis of cholesterol and of fatty acids. Bloch identified the chemical process by which the body turns acetic acid into cholesterol. He discovered the point at which it is possible to regulate the amount of cholesterol the body produces. He discovered that high levels of cholesterol in the bloodstream cause fatty deposits on the inner walls of arteries, which may lead to constricted blood flow and increase the chances of blood clotting and heart attack. |
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20 years anniversary | ||||
15 Oct 2005 | Prince Christian of Denmark | |||
15 Oct 2005 | Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977) | |||
15 Oct 2005 | Matti Wuori, Finnish politician (b. 1945) | |||
15 Oct 2005 | A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested. | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
15 Oct 2010 | Richard C. Miller, American photographer (b. 1912) | |||
15 Oct 2010 | Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist (b. 1926) | |||
15 Oct 2010 | Johnny Sheffield, American actor (b. 1931) |