TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2018

On this day in history:

1769 - Lieutenant James Cook names Kidnapper’s Bay in New Zealand after Maori attempt to kidnap a servant.

1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte began his exile on the remote island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.

1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason.

1946 - Hermann Goering, a Nazi war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution.

1953 - Britain conducts the first atomic test on the Australian mainland.

1964 - It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been removed from power. He was replaced with Alexei N. Kosygin.

1970 - 35 construction workers are killed when a span of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.

1989 - South African officials released eight prominent political prisoners.

1993 - South Africa’s President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress President Nelson Mandela were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the apartheid system in South Africa.

1998 - The UN condemned the US economic embargo on Cuba for the seventh year in a row.

Birthdays

Virgil 70 B.C. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 German philosopher

Mule (George) Haas 1903 John Kenneth Galbraith 1908

David Carroll 1913

Jan Miner 1917

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 1917 Robert Walker 1918 Mario Puzo 1920

Lee Iacocca 1924 - Chrysler Chairman

Jean Peters 1926

Peter Haskell 1934 Barry McGuire 1935 - Singer Marv Johnson 1938

Dick Lotz 1942

Penny Marshall 1943 Actress

Don Stevenson 1942 Musician

Victor Banerjee 1946 Richard Carpenter 1946 Singer, musician (The Carpenters)