05 October 1813: Battle of the Thames.
05 October 1877: A small band of Nez Percé warriors, under the leadership of Chief Joseph, surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles after holding off U.S. forces that had tracked them through Idaho, Yellowstone Park, and Montana.
05 October 1918: Allied forces broke through the Hindenburg Line in World War I.
05 October 1921: The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
05 October 1947: In the first televised White House address, President Truman urged Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Sundays to help starving people in other countries.
05 October 1953: Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
05 October 1970: Public Broadcasting on Television.
05 October 1983: Lech Walesa, leader of Poland’s Solidarity union, received the Nobel Prize for Peace.
05 October 1998: The Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives recommended impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton.
05 October 2001: Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke Mark McGwire’s single-season home-run record when he hit his 71st and 72nd home runs of the season and finished the season with 73.
04 October 1993: Boris Yeltsin Orders Tanks to Storm Russian Parliament.
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
- Bill Watterson
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
- John Russell Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
- Denis Diderot
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
- Red Skelton
