Today is Thursday, October 15, the 288 day of 2015. There are 77 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
Birthdays:1858 John L Sullivan, American heavyweight boxing champin
1881 Sir P.G Wodehouse, Novelist, creator of 'Jeeves and Wooster'
1905 C.P Snow, English author
1925 Mickey Baker, Of the singing group 'Mickey and Sylvia'
1937 Barry Mcguire, Pop singer
1946 Richard Carpenter, Former member of the 'Carpenters' duo
1947 Chris Deburgh, Argentine born Pop singer
1959 The Duchess of York
Events:
1928 The airship 'Graf Zeppelin' made its first transatlantic flight
1946 Herman Goering killed himself by taking poison, hours before he was due to hang for war crimes
1956 The last RAF Lancaster bomber was retired from service
1962 Amnesty International was formed in London
1970 In Melbourne, Australia's biggest bridge, the West Gate Bridge, collapsed killing 33 people
1987 Fiji was made a republic, after belonging to Britain since 1874
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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