In memory of William Penn, Dwight D. Eisenhower, E. E. Cummings, and Charles Everett Koop. Past October 14s: 1495: A statute is enacted in England regulating the content of feather-bed stuffing. 1651: Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding the poor to adopt excessive styles of dress. 1768: At Hard Labor, South Carolina, British Superintendent of Indian Affairs meets with Cherokee chiefs. They make a treaty that cedes 100 square miles of Cherokee lands. 1863: Alfred Nobel is granted his first patent, a Swedish patent for the preparation of nitroglycerin. 1964: Martin Luther King, Jr., wins the Nobel Peace Prize. 1984: George “Sparky” Anderson becomes the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues. 2012: Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner becomes the first skydiver to break the speed of sound in a 24-mile-high jump from a balloon, reaching 833.9 mph in a free fall that lasted more than 9 minutes.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:14:11 +0000
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