Browsing: October

A Brief History On October 28, 2001, the indie movie, Donnie Darko, was released.  Although, like most movies, numerous lines are noted as “memorable,” we find only “Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?” asked by Donnie to the large, demonic rabbit to be the best line in the film. Digging Deeper All films have memorable lines, some more than others.  Here are some of our favorites: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn!” Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, 1939. “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” The Captain in Cool Hand Luke, 1967. “A…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on October 27th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper According to Orthodox Christian tradition, on October 27, 312 A.D., the night before the Battle of Milvian Bridge against the Roman Emperor Maxentius, the Emperor Constantine the Great adopted as his motto the Greek phrase “ἐν τούτῳ νίκα” after having a vision of a Christogram in the sky. On October 27, 312, Emperor Constantine the Great of the Roman Empire on the…

A Brief History On October 27, 1962, US Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson was shot down and killed while flying his U-2 spy plane over Cuba. Digging Deeper The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a face-off between the US and the USSR over the Soviets stationing nuclear missiles in Cuba, close to the American mainland.  After two weeks of negotiations and nearly causing a nuclear war, national leaders reached a deal where the Soviets would remove nukes from Cuba and the US would remove nuclear missiles from Turkey and possibly Italy. Despite debate about taking drastic military action…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on October 26th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On October 26, 1689, Austrian General Piccolomini burned down the Macedonian city of Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. On October 26, 1881, Tombstone, Arizona saw the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday faced off with the Clantons and  the Cowboys in perhaps the most famous gunfight in US history, The Gunfight at The O.K. Corral. On October 26, 1881, Tombstone, Arizona…

A Brief History On October 26, 1979, Kim Jae-kyu, the head of the South Korean CIA, assassinated the country’s president, Park Chung Hee.  The president died on the spot of gunshot wounds to the chest and head. Digging Deeper One pervasive conspiracy theory regarding the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy is that the American CIA was somehow involved.  While such theories are usually treated as forays into fiction, the assassination of the South Korean president by his own CIA show that the idea might not be all that farfetched. Director Kim used a Walther PPK to shoot his…