Nancy Hanks Lincoln(mother of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln)–
Earl Tupper(inventor of Tupperware)–
Rodney Dangerfield(comedian & actor)–
Events
World Series first broadcast on radio –
Laura Ingalls made the first transcontinental airplane flight by a woman. Traveling from New York to California in 4 days, she stopped 9 times and logged 30 hours and 27 minutes of flying time –
First nonstop trans-Pacific flight, from Japan to Washington, which had begun on October 4, was completed on this day –
During the first televised presidential address, President Truman asked Americans to not eating meat on Tuesdays or poultry on Thursdays in order to help stockpile grain for starving people outside of the U.S. –
The Beatles released their hit Love Me Do in the U.K. –
Tom Green’s jet car reached 413.199 mph –
Monty Python’s Flying Circus first appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s BBC-1 –
Laurie Skreslet first Canadian to summit Mt. Everest –
First space shuttle launch with oceanographer (Paul Scully-Power on Challenger) –
Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space –
14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, won Nobel Peace prize –
53 people committed murder-suicide simultaneously in several chalets in Switzerland and Canada. They were members of the Order of the Solar Temple –
Weather
Mighty tempest in New England, said John Winthrop’s journal entry for this day –
Pumpkin Flood on Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers in Pennsylvania –
Arizona set a U.S. record high temperature for October with 116 degrees F (in Sentinel) –
