Today in History for October 2006
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 6 of 6
2nd - Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
9th - North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
17th - The United States population reaches 300 million.
22nd - A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
24th - Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause", an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act.
28th - Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s - early 1940s.
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 55 of 55
1st - Jerald Tanner, American religious activist (b. 1938)
1st - André Viger, French Canadian wheelchair marathoner (b. 1952)
2nd - Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
2nd - Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
2nd - Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
3rd - Alberto Ramento, Filipina bishop (b. 1937)
3rd - John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1913)
3rd - Peter Norman, Australian track star (b. 1942)
4th - Tom Bell, English actor on stage, television and film (b. 1933)
5th - Jennifer Moss, English Actress (b. 1945)
5th - Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion AAA (b. 1953)
6th - Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
6th - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
6th - Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
6th - Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
7th - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
8th - Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1975)
9th - Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (b. 1978)
9th - Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
10th - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
10th - Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
11th - Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)
11th - Howard Kerzner, Chief Executive Officer of Kerzner International (b. 1964)
11th - Benito Martínez, Cuban who claimed to be the oldest person, died mildly ironically. Family didn't mourn - mostly dead also. (b. ?1880)
12th - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)
13th - Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)
14th - Jared Anderson, American bassist (b. 1975)
14th - Freddy Fender, American musician (b. 1937)
14th - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
14th - Nancy Lynn, American aviator (b. 1956)
14th - Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937)
16th - Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
16th - Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)
16th - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (b. 1935)
16th - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
17th - Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
17th - Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (b. 1938)
18th - Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (b. 1929)
18th - Anna Russell, English music satirist (b. 1911)
19th - James Glennon, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
20th - Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
22nd - Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (b. 1922)
23rd - Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
24th - Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
24th - William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar, orientalist and historian (b. 1909)
26th - Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
27th - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
27th - Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
28th - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1917)
28th - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
28th - Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
29th - Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)
30th - Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
30th - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
31st - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (b. 1916)
