This Day In History

October 10th

1845  The US Naval Academy opens in Annapolis, Maryland.
1913  The Panama Canal is completed.
1959  Pan American World Airways becomes the first global airline service.
1970  The militant separist group, Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ), kidnapped Quebec labor minister Pierre Laporte and strangled him to death when their ransom was not met.  Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau sent in troops to have them release another kidnapped official and neutralized them by arresting over 500 separists.
1973  US Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns for income tax evasion and was replaced by Gerald R. Ford who became president when Richard M. Nixon resigned

1813  Composer Guiseppe Verdi
1900  Actress Helen Hayes (Brown)
1917  Jazz Musician Thelonious Monk
1924  Author James Clavell
1946  Singer/Dancer Ben Vereen
1955  Singer David Lee Roth
1958  Singer Tanya Tucker

1957

• Tammy - Debbie Reynolds

• Fascination - Jane Morgan

• Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers

• My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You - Ray Price

1965

• Yesterday - The Beatles

• Treat Her Right - Roy Head

• The "In" Crowd - Ramsey Lewis Trio

• Behind the Tear - Sonny James

1973

• Half-Breed - Cher

• Loves Me like a Rock - Paul Simon

• Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder

• You're the Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me - Ray Price

1981

• Endless Love - Diana Ross and Lionel Richie

• For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton

• Step by Step - Eddie Rabbitt

• Party Time - T.G. Sheppard

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