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    23 Oct '18 06:33
    - 42 the famous battle of Philippi took place
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    23 Oct '18 19:59
    24th October

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    Treaty of Brétigny is ratified, marking the end of the the Hundred Years' War.

    1648
    Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
  3. SubscriberVery Rusty
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    24 Oct '18 00:04
    Still the 23rd of October here...My Great Niece was born today! No I am not old, my niece is young. 😉

    -VR
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    24 Oct '18 20:13
    @very-rusty said
    Still the 23rd of October here...My Great Niece was born today! No I am not old, my niece is young. 😉

    -VR
    Congratulations!
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    @vivify said
    Anyone sick of tired, corny puns.
    Are we talking cream of corny puns or just corny puns?
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    @very-rusty said
    Still the 23rd of October here...My Great Niece was born today! No I am not old, my niece is young. 😉

    -VR
    My great niece is 23.
    My daughter isn't two yet.
    I'm NOT old!
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    25 Oct '18 11:45
    @wolfgang59 said
    My great niece is 23.
    My daughter isn't two yet.
    I'm NOT old!
    Good chance you are in your 40's. 😉 I am being nice, which I am from time to time.

    In a good mood as it is my Birthday today which is special to me and my circle of friends. 😉

    -VR
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    @very-rusty said
    Good chance you are in your 40's. 😉 I am being nice, which I am from time to time.

    In a good mood as it is my Birthday today which is special to me and my circle of friends. 😉

    -VR
    Sixty next year. My wife and kids keep me young.
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    25 Oct '18 21:33
    @wolfgang59 said
    Sixty next year. My wife and kids keep me young.
    60 is yesterdays 50.... 😉 Wife usually ages people, but then kids can do the same. You are a lucky man.

    -VR
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    @very-rusty said
    60 is yesterdays 50.... 😉 Wife usually ages people, but then kids can do the same. You are a lucky man.

    -VR
    I know. I am Lucky.

    Went out dancing last night.
    Didn't want to go.
    Great night ... (a bit sore afterwards ..)
    Too easy to stay at home in front of tv
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    Shootout at the OK Corral
    On this day in 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.

    After silver was discovered nearby in 1877, Tombstone quickly grew into one of the richest mining towns in the Southwest. Wyatt Earp, a former Kansas police officer working as a bank security guard, and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, the town marshal, represented “law and order” in Tombstone, though they also had reputations as being power-hungry and ruthless. The Clantons and McLaurys were cowboys who lived on a ranch outside of town and sidelined as cattle rustlers, thieves and murderers. In October 1881, the struggle between these two groups for control of Tombstone and Cochise County ended in a blaze of gunfire at the OK Corral.

    On the morning of October 25, Ike Clanton and Tom McLaury came into Tombstone for supplies. Over the next 24 hours, the two men had several violent run-ins with the Earps and their friend Doc Holliday. Around 1:30 p.m. on October 26, Ike’s brother Billy rode into town to join them, along with Frank McLaury and Billy Claiborne. The first person they met in the local saloon was Holliday, who was delighted to inform them that their brothers had both been pistol-whipped by the Earps. Frank and Billy immediately left the saloon, vowing revenge.

    Around 3 p.m., the Earps and Holliday spotted the five members of the Clanton-McLaury gang in a vacant lot behind the OK Corral, at the end of Fremont Street. The famous gunfight that ensued lasted all of 30 seconds, and around 30 shots were fired. Though it’s still debated who fired the first shot, most reports say that the shootout began when Virgil Earp pulled out his revolver and shot Billy Clanton point-blank in the chest, while Doc Holliday fired a shotgun blast at Tom McLaury’s chest. Though Wyatt Earp wounded Frank McLaury with a shot in the stomach, Frank managed to get off a few shots before collapsing, as did Billy Clanton. When the dust cleared, Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers were dead, and Virgil and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday were wounded. Ike Clanton and Claiborne had run for the hills.


    Sheriff John Behan of Cochise County, who witnessed the shootout, charged the Earps and Holliday with murder. A month later, however, a Tombstone judge found the men not guilty, ruling that they were “fully justified in committing these homicides.” The famous shootout has been immortalized in many movies, including Frontier Marshal (1939), Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), Tombstone (1993) and Wyatt Earp (1994).
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    89 years ago today: October 29th, 1929.

    Is remembered as "Black Tuesday" because of the infamous Stock Market Crash.

    It started on October 24 "Black Thursday" and continued until October 29, 1929 "Black Tuesday", when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange utterly collapsed.

    It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. Especially considering its full extent and duration of its after effects. The crash signaled the beginning of the 12-year "Great Depression" which affected all Western industrialized countries.


    - Paraphrased from Wikipedia.
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    John Glenn returns to space
    Nearly four decades after he became the first American to orbit the Earth, Senator John Hershel Glenn, Jr., is launched into space again as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery. At 77 years of age, Glenn was the oldest human ever to travel in space. During the nine-day mission, he served as part of a NASA study on health problems associated with aging.

    Glenn, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, was among the seven men chosen by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1959 to become America’s first astronauts. A decorated pilot, he had flown nearly 150 combat missions during World War II and the Korean War. In 1957, he made the first nonstop supersonic flight across the United States, flying from Los Angeles to New York in three hours and 23 minutes.

    In April 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space, and his spacecraft, Vostok 1, made a full orbit before returning to Earth. Less than one month later, American Alan B. Shepard, Jr., became the first American in space when his Freedom 7 spacecraft was launched on a suborbital flight. American “Gus” Grissom made another suborbital flight in July, and in August Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov spent more than 25 hours in space aboard Vostok 2, making 17 orbits. As a technological power, the United States was looking very much second-rate compared with its Cold War adversary. If the Americans wanted to dispel this notion, they needed a multi-orbital flight before another Soviet space advance arrived.

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    On February 20, 1962, NASA and Colonel John Glenn accomplished this feat with the flight of Friendship 7, a spacecraft that made three orbits of the Earth in five hours. Glenn was hailed as a national hero, and on February 23 President John F. Kennedy visited him at Cape Canaveral. Glenn later addressed Congress and was given a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

    Out of a reluctance to risk the life of an astronaut as popular as Glenn, NASA essentially grounded the “Clean Marine” in the years after his historic flight. Frustrated with this uncharacteristic lack of activity, Glenn turned to politics and in 1964 announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate from his home state of Ohio and formally left NASA. Later that year, however, he withdrew his Senate bid after seriously injuring his inner ear in a fall from a horse. In 1970, following a stint as a Royal Crown Cola executive, he ran for the Senate again but lost the Democratic nomination to Howard Metzenbaum. Four years later, he defeated Metzenbaum, won the general election, and went on to win reelection three times. In 1984, he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president.
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    10th of December 1652: The Nethedrlands take controö of the channel after beating the English in the Battle of Dungeness
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