Just Another Day....

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2007. There are 82 days left in the year.

On this date in the year:

1775 - General William Howe is named the interim commander in chief of the British army in America, replacing Lieutenant General Thomas Gage. He was permanently appointed to the post in April 1776

1780 - A powerful storm slams the islands of the West Indies, killing more than 20,000 people. Known as the Great Hurricane of 1780, it was the deadliest storm ever recorded

1795 - The United States mint hired its first two female employees

1813 - Composer Guiseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole, Italy

1830 - Queen Isabella II is born, she died in 1904 and was queen of Spain from 1833-1868

1845 - the U.S. Naval Academy was established in Annapolis, Md.

1877 - the U.S. Army held a West Point funeral with full military honors for Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer. Killed the previous year in Montana by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Custer's body had been returned to the East for burial on the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, where Custer had graduated in 1861-at the bottom of his class

1881 - Charles Darwin published "The Formation of Vegetable Mold Through the Action of Worms." (Let's not forget Darwin's stellar posthumous work as worm fodder, no book has been published on that to this date but certainly evolution cannot continue without a food source. Thank you, Chuck!!)

1886 - the tuxedo dinner jacket made its American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.

1900 - Actress Helen Hayes is born

1901 - Henry Ford drove one of his own vehicles in his first and last automobile race. Today Ford is the only automaker that can lay claim to victory in the Indy 500, Daytona 500, 24-Hours of LeMans and Daytona, 12 hours of Sebring, the Monte Carlo Rally, and the Baja 1000

1911 - Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen launched their overthrow of China's Manchu dynasty

1917 - Jazz musician Thelonious Monk is born

1935 - George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess" opened on Broadway

1943 - Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China

1949 - Country singer Tanya Tucker is born

1957 - Milwaukee Braves win World Series game 7 over the New York Yankees, 5-0

1964 - the 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo, Japan

1969 - Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre is born

1970 - Fiji became independent after nearly a century of British rule

1973 - Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned his office pleading no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion

1979 - Wayne Gretzky played his first NHL game and scored the first of his NHL record assists for the visiting Edmonton Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks

1985 - U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody

2002 - The House voted 296-133 to give President George W. Bush authority to use military force against Iraq. The Senate followed on the 11th

2004 - Superman actor Christopher Reeve died at 52, after becoming a paraplegic in a horse riding accident in May 1995

2006 - Google Inc. purchased YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal

Aaaaaaaaaaand, finally, in 1967, 40 years, or 14,610 days ago.......

The Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placing of weapons of mass destruction on the moon or elsewhere in space, entered into force

In 1967 there were approximately 3.7 million births in the US.
In 1967 the US population was approximately 179,323,175 people, 50.6 persons per square mile.
In 1967 in the US there were approximately 1,800,000 marriages and 479,000 divorces.
In 1967 in the US there were approximately 1,712,000 deaths (9.5 per 1000)

The top songs were:

To Sir with Love by Lulu
Windy by the Association
Somethin' Stupid by Nancy & Frank Sinatra
The Letter by the Box Tops
Happy Together by the Turtles
Daydream Believer by the Monkees
Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry
Groovin' by Young Rascals
Light My Fire by the Doors
Hello Goodbye by the Beatles

Last but Oh, most certainly not least:

Craig Howard Dodgen, who is not a weapon of mass destruction and will therefore thankfully be allowed access to space and the moon if he so wishes, was born.

More than you wanted to know........