October 25th,

[The Lone Liberal]

Birthday 25th of October
1881 Pablo Picasso Spain, artist (3 Dancers, Guernica)


Died 25th of October.
1400 Geofrey Chaucer author, dies in London


It Occurred on 25th October

1760 George III ascends the British throne
1903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin
1924 1st appearance of Little Orphan Annie comic strip
1929 Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
1930 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
1960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1962 Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
1964 Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in the wrong direction for a safety
1971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
1971 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan
1983 US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!)

[La_Serpiente]

1. It's amazing that

Hoover got elected to the Presidency after he was a part of that administration's scandal. I can't believe it.

Kind of reminds me of now. that Republicans could win the Senate after everything Bush has done.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Grenadans think the invasion was hysterically funny

and American over-reaction. But the airport is great, parallel runways and all.

[joeybee12]

3. You forgot Helen Reddy's Birthday--She's 62!

Who cares, right? Ah, she had a good voice, you gotta admit that.

[Wickerman]

4. R.I.P. Paul and Sheila Wellstone n/t

[joeybee12]

5. Forgot that was today...

...was at a birthday lunch for a friend this time last year--the television was on. It was awful.