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75 years anniversary | ||||
19 Oct 1949 | Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds | |||
19 Oct 1949 | Lynn Dickey, American football player and radio host | |||
19 Oct 1949 | Jamie McGrigor, English-Scottish politician | |||
19 Oct 1949 | Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
19 Oct 1974 | Percy Ellsworth: Safety (New York Giants) | |||
19 Oct 1974 | Detroit Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Washington Capitals | |||
19 Oct 1974 | Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90) | |||
19 Oct 1974 | Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand. | |||
19 Oct 1974 | Det Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores the 1st hat trick against Wash Caps | |||
19 Oct 1974 | Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90) | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
19 Oct 1999 | James C. Murray, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1917) | |||
19 Oct 1999 | Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-French lawyer and author (b. 1900) | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
19 Oct 2004 | Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq. | |||
19 Oct 2004 |
death Lewis Urry Died 19 Oct 2004 at age 77 (born 29 Jan 1927). Lewis Frederick Urry was a Canadian-American chemical engineer who invented the ubiquitous alkaline batteries and, later, lithium batteries. After a few years working in Canada for the company that made Eveready batteries, he was transferred in 1955 to its Cleveland, Ohio, laboratory where he began work on a new battery with better life-span than the carbon-zinc type of the time. He succeeded by using manganese dioxide, an alkaline electrolyte and powdered zinc (which he realized had greater surface area than solid zinc). A patent was filed 9 Oct 1957, issued 15 Nov 1960, No. 2,960,558. Production began in 1959. Alkaline batteries are estimated to be 80% of all dry cell batteries now sold in the world. The Smithsonian Institution displays his prototype alkaline battery. Urry held over 50 patents. |
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Lewis Urry (b. 1927), inventor of the long-lasting alkaline battery. | ||||
15 years anniversary | ||||
19 Oct 2009 | Howard Unruh, American murderer (b. 1921) | |||
19 Oct 2009 | Joseph Wiseman, Canadian-American actor (b. 1918) | |||
19 Oct 2009 | A clump of hair believed to have been trimmed from Elvis Presley's head when he joined the US Army in 1958 sold for $15,000 (£9,200) at an auction in Chicago, America. Other items sold belonging to Presley included a shirt which sold for $52,000 (£32,000), a set of concert-used handkerchiefs, $732 (£450) and photos from the reception of Presley's 1967 wedding to Priscilla, sold for nearly $6,000 (£3,700). | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
19 Oct 2014 | Lynda Bellingham, Canadian-English actress and television host (b. 1948) | |||
19 Oct 2014 | Gloria Casarez, American activist (b. 1971) | |||
19 Oct 2014 | John Holt, Jamaican singer-songwriter (The Paragons) (b. 1947) | |||
19 Oct 2014 | Gerard Parkes, Irish-Canadian actor (b. 1924) | |||
19 Oct 2014 | Stephen Paulus, American composer (b. 1949) | |||
19 Oct 2014 | Raphael Ravenscroft, English saxophonist and composer (b. 1954) | |||
19 Oct 2014 | Serena Shim, Lebanese-American journalist (b. 1984) | |||
19 Oct 2014 | Oort cloud Comet Siding Spring makes a close fly-by the planet Mars passing within 140,000 kilometers. | |||
19 Oct 2014 | Raphael Ravenscroft who played the sax riff on the Gerry Rafferty hit 'Baker Street' died aged 60 of a suspected heart attack. He was only paid £27.50 for the 'Baker Street' session, and it has been reported that the cheque bounced and that it was kept on the wall of Ravenscroft's solicitors; by contrast the song is said to have earned Rafferty £80,000 a year in royalties. |