Today is Friday, October 9, the 282 day of 2015. There are 83 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
Birthdays:1835 Camille Saint-Saens, French composer; 'Dance Macabre'
1900 Alastair Sim, Stage and film actor
1908 Jacques Tati, French actor, screenwriter and director
1940 John Lennon, Former member of 'The Beatles'; shot and killed
1944 John Entwhistle, Of the Pop group 'The Who'
1955 Steve Ovett, Athlete; Olympic gold medalist
1963 Laura Davies, Champion ladies golfer
1975 Sean Lennon, The only child of John and Yoko Lennon
Events:
1940 Winston Churchill was elected head of the Conservative party
1961 Britains youngest ever Conservative MP, Margaret Thatcher, was given her first governmental job
1967 Che Guevara, the argentinian guerrilla leader, was killed in an ambush in a village in Bolivia
1984 Gina Campbell escaped death, when her boat overturned and broke up in a waterspeed record attempt at the National Watersports Centre
1991 'Punch' Magazine celebrated 150 years of publication
1992 In an Aquarium in Tokyo, a whale gave birth to a baby fathered by a dolphin
1999 The first consignment of Nigeria LNG product (a 120,000 metric tonnes cargo) was exported to the Italian Electricity Company, ENEL.
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