Today is Monday, October 12, the 285 day of 2015. There are 80 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
Birthdays:1537 King Edward VI, Successor to Henry VIII
1866 Ramsey MacDonald, Became the first Labour Prime Minister in 1924
1872 Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer of 'Greensleeves'
1921 Kenneth Griffith, Writer, actor and documentary film maker
1929 Magnus Magnusson, Writer, broadcaster and TV Quizmaster
1944 Angela Rippon, Newscaster and TV presenter
1948 Richard Parfitt, Of the Pop group 'Status Quo'
1967 Susan Tully, Actress in TV's 'Grange Hill' and 'East Enders'
Events:
1492 Christopher Columbus sighted his first landfall in the 'New World', which he later named as 'San Salvador'
1915 English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the Germans for helping allied prisoners to escape
1948 At Cowley in Oxfordshire, the first Morris Minor came off the production line
1955 The record for swimming the English Channel was broken by an American, Florence Chadwick
1986 The Queen became the first British monarch to visit China
1989 The remains of the 'Globe' theatre were discovered by archaeologists working on the South Bank of the Thames in London
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