This Day In History

October 15th

1815  Emporer Napoleon Bonaparte of France is exiled on the island of St. Helena, where he died 6 years later of stomach cancer.
1883  By a narrow vote,  the US Supreme Court opposed civil rights which was overturned in 1964.
1892  US President Benjamin Harrison opened Indian Reservations to settlers, forcing the natives to give up nearly 2 million acres at .50 cents each.
1917  Famous double agent spy Mata Hari is executed for espionage by a French firing squad.
1945  Puppet Prime Minister Pierre Laval of the Nazi-occupied France is executed for treason.
1946  On the eve of his execution, founder of the German Nazi Gestapo Hermann Goering commits suicide by poisoning.

70 BC Poet Virgil
1844  Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
1921  Novelist Mario Puzo
1924  Auto CEO Lee (Lido) Iacocca
1942  Actress/Director Penny (Carole) Marshall, daughter of producer Garry Marshall
1946  Musician Richard Carpenter
1953  Singer Tito (Toriano) Jackson
1959  Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson

1960

• Mr. Custer - Larry Verne

• Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters

• Devil or Angel - Bobby Vee

• Alabam - Cowboy Copas

1968

• Hey Jude - The Beatles

• Midnight Confessions - The Grass Roots

• My Special Angel - The Vogues

• Harper Valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley

1976

• A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band

• Lowdown - Boz Scaggs

• If You Leave Me Now - Chicago

• The Games that Daddies Play - Conway Twitty

1984

• I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder

• Hard Habit to Break - Chicago

• Lucky Star - Madonna

• Uncle Pen - Ricky Skaggs

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