Other than me being born, I knew someone was thinking it.
2006-10-23 06:20:58 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
On This Day: October 23
Today is Monday, October 23, 2006. This is the 296th day of the year, with 69 days remaining in 2006.
Fact of the Day: mattress
The history of the word mattress shows how the object came to Europe and then the Americas from the Middle East. During the earlier part of the Middle Ages, Arabic culture was more advanced than that of Europe. One of the amenities of life enjoyed by the Arabs was sleeping on cushions thrown on the floor. Our word is derived from the Arabic word matrah meaning "place where something is thrown," "carpet or cushion." This kind of sleeping surface was adopted by the Europeans during the Crusades, and the Arabic word was taken into Old Italian and then into Old French, from which comes the Middle English word materas, first recorded c 1300.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Severino Boethius, St. Severinus or Seurin of Bordeaux, St. Elfleda or Ethelfled, St. Allucio, St. Ignatius of Constantinople, St. Theodoret, St. Romanus of Rouen, and St. John of Capistrano.
The swallows leave San Juan Capistrano.
Hungary: Anniversary of Declaration of Independence.
Thailand: Chulalongkorn Day.
Events
4004 B.C.E. - According to 17th century divine James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, and Dr. John Lightfoot of Cambridge, the world was created on this day, a Sunday, at 9 a.m.
1642 - Battle of Edgehill, the first major conflict of the English Civil War, took place.
1864 - Union General Samuel R. Curtis and his troops defeated Confederate General Stirling Price's army in Missouri.
1915 - Around 25,000 women marched in New York City, demanding the right to vote.
1941 - U.S. Senate passed the $5.98 billion supplemental Lend-Lease bill, bringing the country closer to direct involvement in World War II.
1944 - The biggest naval engagement of World War II began, between the United States and Japan, at the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time, in a Flushing Meadow auditorium.
1956 - Hungarian students and workers demonstrated in Budapest against 10 years of Soviet Union domination and Communist rule.
1973 - President Richard Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica.
1978 - China and Japan exchanged treaty ratification documents in Tokyo, formally ending 40 years of hostility.
1980 - Soviet Union Premier Alexei N. Kosygin resigned.
1983 - Two-hundred forty-one U.S. Marines and sailors in Lebanon were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at the Marine Operations Center. At the same time at another peacekeeping base, 58 French paratroopers were killed by a Lebanese suicide truck-bombing.
1987 - The U.S. Senate rejected the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork.
1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin agreed to a joint peacekeeping effort in Bosnia.
1998 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat signed a land-for-peace West Bank agreement at the White House.
Births
1835 - Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 23rd Vice President of the United States (1893-1897).
1906 - Gertrude Ederle, American Olympic swimming champion and first woman to swim the English Channel.
1925 - Johnny Carson, American TV host and comedian.
1935 - Chi-Chi Rodriguez, professional golfer.
1940 - Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento), Brazilian soccer star.
1942 - Michael Crichton, American writer.
Deaths
42 B.C.E. - Marcus Junius Brutus, conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, a suicide.
1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and blackface comedian of stage and film.
2006-10-23 06:23:44 · answer #1 · answered by alooz 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Let's see.........................
On TV in 1979..................
1. Dallas
2. Three's Company
3. 60 Minutes
4. The Dukes Of Hazzard
5. The Jeffersons
6. M*A*S*H
7. The Facts Of Life
8. That's Incredible
9. Alice
10. The Incredible Hulk
11. Benson
12. All In The Family
13. Starsky and Hutch
14. Charlie's Angels
15. The Love Boat
16. Soul Train
17. American Bandstand-was still going strong!!!
At the movies in 1979......................
1. Apocalypse Now
2. Star Trek:The Motion Picture
3. 1941
4. The Electric Horsemen
5. Norma Rae
6. Richard Pryor:Live In Concert
7. Alien
8. The Black Hole
9. Foul Play
10. California Suite
11. "10"-Bo Derek
12. The Jerk-Steve Martin
13. North Dallas Forty
On The Radio in 1979...........................
Donna Summer
The Commondores
Christopher Cross
Eddie Rabbitt
Earth,Wind and Fire
Barbra Streisand
Neil Diamond
Michael Jackson
Steely Dan
Kiss
The Cars
The Ramones
Teddy Pendergrass
Stevie Wonder
CHIC
Blonde
Also in 1979..........................
The hostages in Iran
Jimmy Carter was President of the United States
Energy Crisis
Disco Music and roller skates
Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers were top of the NFL
The Los Angeles Lakers win the NBA Championship
USC was the number one team in college football
Cowboys and Steelers in the Super Bowl-1979
2006-10-23 06:30:47 · answer #2 · answered by raysson 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Happy Birthday
2016-03-15 21:21:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This Site Might Help You.
RE:
Today is my birthday, what happened 10/23/1979?
Other than me being born, I knew someone was thinking it.
2015-08-14 00:47:43 · answer #4 · answered by Phylis 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I turned 9 today in 79 - Happy Birthday! Searched and here it is...Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minn marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches. All i could find. Have a great day.
2006-10-23 06:26:42 · answer #5 · answered by opal1023 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
here, knock urself out looking 4 cool things that happened in 1979
Happy Birthday 2 U!
2006-10-23 06:23:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
in 1979, nothing except:
Birth of Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
for a full list of events that happened on this date in any year look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23rd_October
Also the information about 4004bc above is a little short of info. It was supposedly the day everything was created, the universe.. or the heavens and the erth etc etc.. not just the world.
2006-10-23 06:23:44 · answer #7 · answered by rs2er r 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was in labor with my son and it was snowing outside. On the way to the hospital we ran into a funeral a parade and we had to stop for a herd of cows that had got out of there pasture and were in the road. I had my son 11 mins after finally getting to the hospital. Hope you have a Happy BIrthday
2006-10-23 06:30:06 · answer #8 · answered by Mom 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Happy Birthday! Your parents lives where changed drastically.
2006-10-23 06:23:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A snow storm? Or could it be the Iran hostages were released?
I was pregnant at the time and gave birth on 11/9/79.
2006-10-23 06:22:47 · answer #10 · answered by kam_1261 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋