All about the special day of your birth. Sorry about the lack of animation

1. For my baby brother.

2. This is the date that was…
October 9, 1963
Monday’s Child is fair of face
Tuesday’s Child is full of grace
Wednesday’s Child is full of woe
Thursday’s Child has far to go
Friday’s Child is loving and giving
Saturday’s Child works for a living
But the child that’s born on the Sabbath Day
Is fair and kind and good and gay.

3. In the news:
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1963
Over 2,000 people died in northern Italy when a landslide behind the
Vajont Dam created a mega-tsunami that swept over the top of the
dam. The overflow poured into the valley, wiping out several small
villages. The dam was opened in 1959, only four years before.
Despite minimal damage to the dam itself, it hasn’t been used since.

4. Also in October, 1963
Oct. 4 – Hurricane Flora rakes Hispaniola and Cuba
as one of the deadliest Atlantic storms. 7,000 are
killed.
Oct. 7 – The Lear jet debuts.
Oct. 3 – President John Kennedy dedicates the opening of the
Greers Ferry Lock and Dam in Arkansas, one of his last public
appearances before his assassination.

5. Also in October, 1963
Oct. 10 – Sean Connery stars in the second
James Bond film, which opens in London.
Oct. 30 –’Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A’
begins operation in Italy.
Oct. 8 – Singer Sam Cooke is arrested after trying
to register himself and bandmates into a ‘Whites
Only’ hotel in Louisiana.

6. Also in October, 1963
Oct. 31 – A performance of ‘Holiday On Ice’ at the Indiana State
Fair Coliseum in Indianapolis turns deadly when a propane leak at
a concession stand ignites, killing 74 people and turning the
ice rink into a makeshift morgue.

7. Also born on Oct. 9, 1963:
German singer
Christiane
Oelze
Japanese wrestler
Tadao Yasuda
German actress
Anja Jaenicke
U.S. actress
Sheila Kelley
Argentine actress
Paula Pizzi

8. Also born on October 9th:
1835 – French composer Camille Saint-Saëns
1859 – French officer and cause célèbre
Alfred Dreyfus
1890 – U.S./Canadian evangelist Aimee Semple
McPherson

9. Also born on October 9th:
1900 – English actor Alistair Sim
1922 – U.S. actor Fyvush Finkel
1936 – English actor Brian Blessed
1940 – U.S. MLB star Joe Pepitone

10. Also born on October 9th:
1940 – English singer
John Lennon
1975 – U.S. singer
Sean Lennon

11. Also born on October 9th:
1944 – English guitarist John Entwistle (The Who)
1948 – German/U.S. singer Jackson Browne
1952 – English TV host/manager Sharon
Osbourne

12. Also born on October 9th:
1953 – U.S. actor Tony Shalhoub
1954 – U.S. actor Scott Bakula
1954 – U.S. actor John O’Hurley
1958 – U.S. NFL star/coach
Mike Singletary
1964 – Mexican director Guillermo
del Toro (and friend)

13. Also born on October 9th:
1966 – English Prime Minister
David Cameron
1970 – Swedish golfer
Annika Sörenstam
1973 – U.S. actor/singer Steven Burns
1979 – U.S. actor Brandon Routh
1981 – U.S. actor Zachary Ty Bryan
1993 – U.S. singer Scotty McCreery

14. October 9th – This day in History:
768 – The Kingdom of the Franks is divided in two,
proclaiming Carloman I and Charlemagne its kings.
By 771, Carloman will be dead and Charlemagne will
assume solo rule.
1192 – After making peace with the Muslim leader
Saladin, English King Richard the Lion-Heart
leaves Jerusalem, ending the Third Crusade.
1635 – Roger Williams is banished from the
Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
He will go on to found the colony of Rhode Island.

15. October 9th – This day in History:
1799 – The HMS Lutine sinks in a storm in the
North Sea near the Netherlands, killing 240
men and losing over a million dollars in gold.
1812 – During the War of 1812, the U.S.
captures the British ships
Caledonia and Detroit on Lake Erie.
1854 – In the highlight of the Crimean
War, Great Britain and its allies begin
the siege of Sebastopol, which will
last until September, 1855.
1888 – The Washington Monument opens to the public.

16. October 9th – This day in History:
1913 – the SS Volturno, carrying immigrants to
New York, catches fire during a gale in the North
Atlantic. Despite dozens of ships saving over 500
passengers, 130 women and children died in the
disaster.
1919 – The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series from
the heavily favored Chicago White Sox, leading to
charges of illegal tampering among the Chicago players.
Eight players will eventually be banned for life as a result
of this scandal.
1934 – Yugoslav king Alexander I is shot to death
as he rides in a car with the French Foreign
Minister in Marseilles, France. The minister, Louis
Barthou, also dies. For the first time, a camera
crew captures the chaos, if not the actual shooting,
on film.

17. October 9th – This day in History:
1936 – The great Boulder Dam (later to be
named Hoover Dam) begins to generate
electricity to Los Angeles, nearly 300 miles
away.
1940 – During the Nazi Blitz, St. Paul’s Cathedral
in London is hit by a Luftwaffe bomb, but
remains standing, a symbol Of British resistance.
1967 – Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara is executed for
inciting to start a revolution in Bolivia. On the
same date, pro wrester Eduard ‘Eddie’ Guerrero
(d. 2005) is born in El Paso, TX.

18. October 9th – This day in History:
1969 – The National Guard is called in to Chicago
to keep the peace during the trial of the so-called
‘Chicago 8’ (later called the ‘Chicago 7’) who are
accused of inciting riots during the Democratic
National Convention the year before.
1970 – The Khmer Republic is established in
Cambodia. In its five years of existence, the
pro-U.S. government was paid nearly a million
dollars a day to no avail. By 1975, the infamous
Khmer Rouge had taken over.
1975 – Rising rock band KISS visits Cadillac,
MI on the invitation of the high school
football coach, who has been using the
famous make-up for his players.

19. October 9th – This day in History:
1992 – The Peakskill meteor flashes
through the skies over upstate New
York, part of it crashing into the back
of this Chevy Malibu.
1999 – the U.S. Air Force SR-71 (nicknamed
the Blackbird) flies for the final time.

20. Your patron saint for October 9th
St. Denis, patron of France
and 1st Bishop of Paris.
Denis, along with his two companions, Rusticus
and Eleutherius, were victims of a decree by the
Roman Emperor Trajan Decius around the year
250. The three were taken to an area now called
Montmartre (‘the Mound of Martyrs’) and
beheaded.
The story goes that after the bloody deed was
done,
Denis picked up his head and traveled about six
miles,
preaching all the way. Almost all artistic
renderings of Denis since then show him holding
his head in his hands.
For obvious reasons, St. Denis is also patron saint
of people who suffer headaches.

21. Your Horoscope
Libra is tolerant, affectionate, and well balanced. You are a
courteous and agreeable person who is considerate of other
people’s feelings. You have a personal charisma attracting
friends. Functioning well when working in harmony with other
people, you are an excellent team player. You like being on the
winning team.
You prefer working in a pleasant and very orderly atmosphere,
with people who don’t put undue pressure on you. You like to see
your role as that of peacemaker. Peace and tranquillity are so
important. The least sign of hostility or discord is very upsetting
to you. You refrain from speaking your mind if you fear your
thoughts would alienate or start an argument. Always ready to
compromise or mediate, you need to be careful not to appear
wishy-washy or less than reliable.
You were born under the sign ofLibra

22. Your Horoscope
You were born in the Chinese Year of the Rabbit
Although generally calm, gentle and loving, Rabbit people can be
very
ambitious and intuitively know how to get ahead in the world.
Others may call the Rabbit timid, but those born under this sign
rightly
view themselves as wise and cautious.
Rabbits are rarely known to make a move or jump into any new
situation
without first carefully considering all their options. No one is
more
surprised than Rabbits when they win a poker hand or hit the
jackpot at
the races, although at times good luck just seems to come their
way
unbidden.
Rabbits are regarded as the peacemakers in any group. They
remain
calm in any situation, and are very slow to anger.
In close personal relationships they can be very romantic, but
their natural cautiousness prevents them from settling down or
committing to any one person right away.
At work, they excel by remaining cool and collected, and can be
relied

23. 1963 – The Year in Sports
Stanley Cup –
Toronto Maple Leafs
World Series –
Los Angeles Dodgers
NLF Champions –
Chicago Bears
NCAA Football Champions –
University of Texas
AFL Champions –
San Diego Chargers

24. 1963 – The Year in Sports
NBA Champions – Boston Celtics
NCAA Basketball – Loyola University
Indy 500 – Parnelli Jones
NASCAR – Joe Weatherly
Kentucky Derby – Chateaugay
Preakness – Candy Spots
Belmont Stakes – Chateaugay

25. 1963 – The Year in Sports
Associated Press Man and Woman of the Year
Sandy Kofax
Mickey Wright

26. The 1963 Academy Awards
Best Actor – Sidney Poitier, ‘Lilies Of The Field’
Best Actress – Patricia Neal, ‘Hud’
Best Supporting Actor –Melvyn Douglas, ‘Hud’
Best Supporting Actress – Margaret Rutherford
‘The V.I.P.’s’
Best Director – Tony Richardson, ‘Tom
Jones’
Best Movie -

27. 1963 – The
Grammy
Awards
Record of the Year
Album of the Year Song of the Year
Best Rock & Roll
Recording

28. What was the #1 song in
the U.S. on October 9,
1963?

29. On Broadway –
The 1963 Tony Awards
Best Play Best Musical

30. On The Magazine Rack October
1963

31. Dubious Achievement Award - 1963
When the famed DaVinci painting ‘Mona Lisa’ was loaned out to the
New York Metropolitan Museum, the resultant crowds forced officials
to order an individual’s viewing time at the painting to ten seconds.
The Wham-Bam-Thank You, Ma’am Prize

32. In November, 1963, BBC television debuts a new series about a ‘doctor’ who
travels through time. It has become one of the longest running series in history.
The End
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