TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2018

On this day in history:

1586 - The trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, begins.

1869 - Thomas Edison filed for a patent on his first invention. The electric machine was used for counting votes for the U.S. Congress, however the Congress did not buy it.

1896 - Lawrence Wells makes the fateful decision to split his exploration party, leading to the deaths of two men.

1899 - The Boer War began in South Africa between the British and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.

1906 - The Coat of Arms of New South Wales is granted by Royal Warrant.

1942 - The Battle of Cape Esperance, during World War II, began in the Solomon Islands.

1987 - A huge sonar exploration of Loch Ness in Scotland fails to find any sign of the Loch Ness monster.

1994 - US troops in Haiti took control of the National Palace.

1994 - Iraqi troops began moving away from the Kuwaiti border.

Birthdays

Henry Heinz 1884 Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 Willie Hoppe 1887 Charles Revson 1906 Joseph Alsop 1910 Jerome Robbins 1918

Art Blakey 1919

Linda Stirling 1921 Knobby (Grant) Warwick 1921

Elmore Leonard 1925 James Morrison 1931 Dottie West 1932

Ron Leibman 1937 Maria Bueno 1939

Gene Watson 1943 Robert Gale 1945

Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates) 1948

Catlin Adams 1950 Andrew Woolfolk (Earth, Wind and Fire) 1950 David Morse 1953 Paulette Carlson 1953 Lindy Boone (The Boone Family) 1955

Steve Young (NFL) 1961 Joan Cusack 1962

Sean Patrick Flanery 1965 Luke Perry 1966

Jane Kradowski 1968

MC Lyte 1971

NeeNa Lee 1975 Michelle Trachtenberg 1985