#allen r schindler jr

[montyjeffrey]

Allen R. Schindler Jr. was a 22-year-old American Radioman Petty Officer Third Class in the United States Navy who was murdered 30 years ago today on Navy Day while on shore leave in Sasebo, Japan, by his fellow shipmates, who were provoked only by the knowledge of his homosexuality.

Allen R. Schindler Jr. was born on December 13, 1969, in Chicago Heights, Cook County, Illinois, to Dorothy Hajdys-Clausen and Allen Schindler Sr. Allen was the third of four children, and his family was three generations Navy. His grandfather served in WWII and his stepfather in Vietnam; following in their footsteps, Allen enlisted while still in junior high at Bloom High School. After graduation, he shipped out and left Chicago Heights for the first time to serve his country.

Allen was in the Navy for four years. He served on the USS San Jose, the USS Midway, and was serving on the USS Belleau Wood at the time of his death. The USS Midway was Allen’s dream assignment. He described the 11 months he spent on the aircraft carrier as his happiest days in the Navy. The Midway was a relatively tolerant ship where Allen didn’t feel the need to hide being gay.

On the Midway, he saw action in Operation Desert Storm and received a patch for his involvement in the campaign. Allen even extended his four-year tour so he could ride the last voyage of Midway before its decommission and got his own memento — a tattoo of Midway on his arm.

In December 1991, Allen was transferred to the USS Belleau Wood, and the harassment began almost immediately. According to reports, the Belleau Wood gained a reputation for being "the worst ship of all" when it came to homophobia and violence, where there was open hostility towards gay shipmates amongst the 950-plus crew. Newcomers Terry M. Helvey and Charles E. Vins were part of a group on board the ship that routinely harassed shipmates suspected of being gay. Helvey threatened gay shipmates that if they didn’t get out of the military soon, he and his gang were going to personally do something about it, and he continued to harass Allen whenever he could. Allen’s shipmate and friend, Keith Sims, reported Helvey and Vins to the ship’s legal officer, Captain Bernard Meyer, but nothing was done. Instead, Meyer probed into Sims’ sex life. When shipmate Richard Eastman reported being attacked the night before Allen was killed, Meyer took no action to stop the harassment and also probed into his sex life.

Allen was punched, pushed against walls, and repeatedly called homophobic slurs. He told his uncle that sailors had attacked him. Homophobic notes and graffiti were left on his bunk. Sims said they would deliberately spill hot soup on him. When Allen complained to his superiors in March and April of 1992 that his locker was vandalized and he had received multiple death threats, little was done in response. Instead, Douglas J. Bradt, the Belleau Wood Captain, ordered him to attend Alcoholics Anonymous, despite Allen not being an alcoholic.

Allen’s complaints continued to go unanswered. By September, he had reached his breaking point and requested to see the captain, but his request was denied. While operating the radio, Allen transmitted an unauthorized statement, "2-Q-T-2-B-S-T-R-8," which read: "Too Cute To Be Straight." The message was heard by much of the Pacific Fleet. Allen described the defiant message in his journal as his way of letting out his "true colors."

On September 24, Allen went to see the Belleau Wood Executive Officer, where he formally declared he was gay and requested an administrative discharge and transfer. Allen told the XO, "If you can’t be yourself, then who are you?" The XO agreed but told Allen he still had to take what was coming to him. Allen also informed Captain Bradt and Captain Meyer. He was told the processing of his discharge would take two weeks, but his superiors insisted he remain on the ship until then. Although Allen knew his safety was at risk, he obeyed orders.

On September 25, Allen was called to appear at a captain’s mast to deal with his unauthorized radio message. He had requested that the hearing be closed for confidentiality, but Captain Bradt disregarded his request and opened the mast to 200–300 crewmen in attendance. Allen made no admission of his homosexuality at the mast. Some shipmates took it as an invitation to harass him with impunity. Allen’s rank was reduced from RM1 to RM3, and he was punished with a 30 day restriction to the ship.

As word of his sexual orientation spread quickly throughout the Belleau Wood, Allen’s friends began to avoid him. Allen confided in his ex-boyfriend, Navy veteran Jim Jennings, how increasingly difficult it was becoming for him to avoid confrontation. On October 2, he wrote in his journal: "More people are finding out about me. lt scares me a little. You never know who would want to injure or cease my existence."

Straight sailors who knew Allen and were concerned for his welfare introduced him to a trio of gay entertainers working near Sasebo; one of the entertainers, Eric Underwood, said Allen told him "people harassed him 24 hours a day" and that he had such a hard time going back to that environment that he had to coax him to the door. When the Belleau Wood was getting ready to leave Sasebo, Allen was reluctant to leave Eric’s room and was trying to stretch out the goodbyes. The next night, he was dead. Entertainer Valan Cain had gone to the public restroom where Allen was slain and found blood all over the walls and inside the urinals. By the next day, someone had left a bouquet of flowers on the floor. "You could see blood streaks almost to the top of the roof," Cain said. Many servicemen interviewed afterward expressed revulsion at the attack. One serviceman remarked, "Whoever did that should hang."

On the morning of October 27, 1992, Allen called his mother and told her he was coming home for Christmas. It would be the last time he would ever speak to her again. Just before midnight, Allen’s mutilated, disfigured body was found sprawled out on a public restroom floor.

Terry M. Helvey and Charles E. Vins stalked and followed Allen into the public restroom, where they ambushed him, then savagely, sadistically, and brutally beat and stomped him to death until he was unrecognizable. His mother could only identify him by the tattoo of Midway on his arm. Every organ in Allen’s body was destroyed. His face and head were caved in, and he had shoe prints imbedded into his face and chest. The pathologist who performed the autopsy on Allen said it was the worst case he’d ever seen in his whole career, even worse than a case of a man trampled to death by a horse, and compared the damage done to Allen’s body to that of a high-speed car crash or a low-speed airplane accident.

Captain Bradt, who tried to keep the murder quiet and had threatened Allen’s shipmates, was sent to shore leave in Florida. For testifying against Helvey, Vins was given a four-month sentence, of which he only served 78 days. Helvey was given a life sentence, but since 2002, he has been eligible for parole. He was denied parole on March 7, 2022.

Allen Schindler’s case became synonymous with the debate concerning LGB members of the military that had been brewing in the United States, culminating in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Allen’s mother, Dorothy Hajdys-Clausen, after learning the truth about her son’s death and the Navy’s subsequent coverup, became one of the most outspoken and sought-after advocates for gay rights to serve openly in the military. In 2011, the DADT policy was repealed, allowing LGB servicemen and women to serve openly in the military for the first time.

Allen Schindler loved the Navy and was a proud sailor who volunteered to fight for his country — to lay down his life if he had to. He didn’t sign up to die to advance gay rights, but that is ultimately what happened. It was brave of him to come out when he did in the environment that he did, and he died because of it. He was a hero.

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[amostexcellentblog]

Somedays with Top Gun fanon you just want silly fluff about married Icemav being embarrassing dads to baby Rooster, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and other legal issues be damned, but other times you just want some angst.

And not just any angst, queer history angst, because Icemav’s timeline lines up with such an intense era for a couple of gay navy boys, DADT, the AIDS crisis, Allen R. Schindler Jr.’s murder, there’s so many ways to put them through the wringer if you want to (and then have them get through it, because their love is strong enough to survive the adversity.)

#top gun #top gun maverick #icemav #I wait 3 months to watch the movie then another 3 to make a post about it #I don't dive into fandoms I wade in very gradually #tg #tgm

[homomenhommes]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more …

1992 – US Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being Gay, precipitating first military, then national debate about Gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.

Schindler was from a Navy family in Chicago Heights, Illinois and was serving as a radioman on the amphibious assault ship USS Belleau Wood in Sasebo, Japan. According to friends of his, Schindler had complained repeatedly of anti-Gay harassment to his chain of command in March and April 1992, citing incidents such as the gluing-shut of his locker and frequent comments from shipmates like "There's a faggot on this ship and he should die."

While on transport from San Diego to Sasebo, Japan, The Belleu Wood made a brief stop in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Afterwards en route to Japan, Schindler made a personal prank announcement "2-Q-T-2-B-S-T-R-8" on secured lines reaching much of the Pacific Fleet. When he was brought before the disciplinary "captain's mast" for the unauthorized radio message. Schindler requested the hearing be closed. It was open, with two to three hundred people in attendance. Schindler was put on restrictive leave, unable to leave the ship until a few months after arriving to Sasebo and four days before his death.

The captain had been visited by Schindler, who had many times requested to be transferred to another location because he was being threatened by other shipmates for being Gay. The captain denied Schindler's request and kept the man's sexual orientation and his death a secret for months. It was not reported until a special team composed of a psychologist, two lawyers, a counselor, and a corpsman from Yokosuka incidentally met at a bar in Sasebo.

Airman Apprentice Terry M. Helvey who was a member of the Ship's weather department stomped Schindler to death in a toilet in a park in Sasebo, Nagasaki. Schindler had "at least four fatal injuries to the head, chest, and abdomen," his head was crushed, ribs broken, and his penis cut, and he had "sneaker-tread marks stamped on his forehead and chest" destroying "every organ in his body" leaving behind a "nearly-unrecognizable corpse." Schindler was left lying on the bathroom floor until the Shore Patrol and the key witness to the incident (Jonathan W.) carried out Schindler's body to the nearby Albuquerque Bridge. Jonathan W. witnessed the murder while using the restroom. He noticed Helvey jumping on Schindler's body while singing, and blood gushing from Schindler's mouth while he attempted to breathe. The key witness was requested to explain in detail to the military court what the crime scene looked like, but would not because Schindler's mother and sister were present in the courtroom.

After the trial, Helvey was convicted of murder and the captain who kept the incident quiet was demoted and transferred to Florida. Helvey is now serving a life sentence in the military prison at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, although by statute, he is granted a clemency hearing every year. Helvey's accomplice, Charles Vins, was allowed to plea bargain as guilty to three lesser offenses, including failure to report a serious crime, and to testify truthfully against Terry Helvey and served a 78-day sentence before receiving a general discharge from the Navy.

1930 – Larry Townsend (d.2008) was the pseudonymous author (né 'Bud' Bernhardt) of dozens of books including Run Little Leather Boy (1970) and The Leatherman's Handbook (1972) at pioneer erotic presses such as Greenleaf Classics and the Other Traveler imprint of Olympia Press.

Growing up as a teenager of Swiss-German extraction in Los Angeles a few houses from Noël Coward and Irene Dunne, he ate cookies with his neighbor Laura Hope Crews who was Aunt Pittypat in Gone with the Wind.

He attended the prestigious Peddie School, and was stationed as Staff Sergeant in charge of NCOIC Operations of Air Intelligence Squadrons for nearly five years with the US Air Force in Germany (1950-1954).

Completing his tour of duty, he entered into the 1950s underground of the then small LA leather scene where he and Montgomery Clift shared a lover.

With his degree in industrial psychology from UCLA (1957), he worked in the private sector and as a probation officer with the Forestry Service.

He began his pioneering activism in the politics of homophile liberation in the early 1960s. In 1972, as president of the 'Homophile Effort for Legal Protection' which had been founded in 1969 to defend gays during and after arrests, he led a group in founding the H.E.L.P. Newsletter, the forebear of Drummer Magazine (1975). He lived in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, the center of the Los Angeles leather scene (the equivalent of the SoMa neighborhood in San Francisco).

As a writer and photographer, he was an essential eyewitness to the drama and following around Drummer in which his novels were often excerpted. His signature "Leather Notebook" column appeared in Drummer for twelve years beginning in 1980, and continued in Honcho to Spring 2008. His last novel, TimeMasters, was published April 2008. His last writing was Who Lit up the Lit of the Golden Age of Drummer, an introduction to Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer (June 2008).

His partner of 44 years, Fred Yerkes, died in 2006 and Townsend followed in 2008.

1950 – Fran Lebowitz is an American author. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker.

Lebowitz was born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey, in an "observant" Jewish family. After being expelled from high school and receiving a GED, Lebowitz worked many odd jobs before being hired by Andy Warhol as a columnist for Interview. This was followed by a stint at Mademoiselle. Her first book was a collection of essays titled Metropolitan Life, released in 1978, followed by Social Studies in 1981, both of which are collected (with a new introductory essay) in The Fran Lebowitz Reader.

In her writings she talks about gender, race and gay rights as well as her favorite pet peeves: celebrity culture, smoking bans, tourists and strollers. Lebowitz, herself a heavy smoker, is known for her advocacy of smokers' rights. But despite her openness about being a lesbian, she doesn't address her private life.

She has been famous, in part, for Exterior Signs of Wealth, a long-overdue, unfinished novel, purportedly about rich people who want to be artists, and artists who want to be rich. She also made several appearances on Late Night with David Letterman. She has made recurring appearances as Judge Janice Goldberg on the television drama Law & Order.

Fran Lebowitz on being gay:

Do you think gay marriage is progress? Are you kidding me? This was one of the good things about being gay. I am stunned that the two greatest desires apparently of people involved in the gay rights movement are gay marriage and gays on the military. Really? To me these are the the two most confining institutions on the planet: people used to pretend to be gay to get out of going into the army.*****When I arrived in New York in 1969, gay bars were illegal, in back rooms, but you could smoke in them. Now gay bars have plate-glass windows, they have valet parking, people sit in the windows, but you have to go outside to smoke.

1951 – On this date the French postal service issued postage stamps with Gay lovers Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud and Verlaine began a short and torrid affair when Rimbaud was 16 years old. They led a wild, vagabond-like life spiced by absinthe and hashish. Ten years older than Rimbaud, Verlaine abandoned his wife and child and fled to London with Rimbaud. Their love affair was made into a movie "Total Eclipse" featuring Leobardo diCaprio as the young Arthur Rimbaud.

1971 – Today the film "Some of My Best Friends Are..." was released with the description: "It's Christmas Eve 1971 in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and the regulars of the local gay bar "The Blue Jay" are celebrating. Not much has changed since Stonewall and its not all "Peace on Earth. Good Will to Men" but the times are a changin."

An American International production, the film was written and directed by Mervyn Nelson and starred Fannie Flagg, future Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and Candy Darling in a rare dramatic role. Gary Sandy (of later "WKRP in Cincinnati" fame) portrays a drugged out, self-loathing closet case who attacks Darling's character and is kicked out of the club by the angered patrons. The film is now regularly shown at Gay film festivals as "The film you love to hate" but at the time it was thought of as a rare portrayal of life in gay bars of the era.

1999 – During the primaries, the two Democratic presidential candidates Al Gore and Bill Bradley promised that if elected they would do everything in their power to ensure equal rights for Gay and Lesbian Americans. The promise was an unprecedented declaration by a candidate for a party's nomination. George W. Bush would win the presidential election promising the absolute opposite position on equal rights for Gay and Lesbian Americans and became the first president to publicly call for a constitutional amendment to explicitly take away rights from a class of people - Gay people.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.27 (after 1940)

1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end. 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. 1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier. 1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1. 1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile. 1962 – By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war. 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing". 1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records. 1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. 1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom. 1981 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. 1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang. 1988 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure. 1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union. 1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy. 1993 – Widerøe Flight 744 crashes near Overhalla, Norway, killing six people. 1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. 1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption. 1997 – The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. 1999 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others. 2014 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days. 2017 – Catalonia declares independence from Spain. 2018 – A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 and injuring six, including four police officers. 2018 – Leicester City F.C. owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash along with four others after a Premier League match against West Ham United at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England. 2019 – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria.

#Events

[yhwhrulz]

Today's selected anniversaries: 27th October 2022

1942:

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy achieved a pyrrhic victory against the United States at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Santa_Cruz_Islands

1992:

U.S. Navy Petty Officer Allen R. Schindler Jr. was killed in Sasebo, Japan, for being gay, which led to the U.S. Armed Forces' "don't ask, don't tell" policy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Allen_R._Schindler_Jr.

1999:

Armed men led by Nairi Hunanyan carried out a mass shooting at the Armenian parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, National Assembly speaker Karen Demirchyan, and six others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vazgen_Sargsyan

2011:

Michael D. Higgins was elected President of Ireland with far more votes than any politician in the country's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Irish_presidential_election

[notihatillo]

El Hatillo 27 de Octubre del 2019

Este resumen de noticias llega a ustedes por cortesía de @NotiHatillo /La Ceiba de Ramón Muchacho /Alcaldía de El Hatillo

Titulares

Noche de Halloween se vivió en el Hatillo, con una asistencia que colmo la plaza Bolívar del municipio, los Hatillanos pudieron disfrutar de una jornada de esparcimiento con la llamada #NocheDeTerror ls cual se logró con el trabajo en equipo de @ViveElHatillo y la Asociación de comerciantes de El Hatillo. Durante esta actividad el alcalde @eliasayegh se hizo presente y felicito a los promotores por la alta calidad de dicho evento.

Via redes sociales : ciclo de agua no se cumplió en el municipio El Hatillo debido a ruptura de tubería de #Hidrocapital en subida hacia Los Naranjos que fue reparada el municipio El Hatillo recibió agua segun muchos por un solo día. El alcalde @eliasayegh indicó que @HIDROCAPITALca debería prolongar el ciclo semanal para que sectores afectados desde hace tiempo puedan recibir agua al menos unos días completos .

Vecinos denuncian nuevamente fiestas llamadas "Rave" en el municipio, estas fiestas se prolongan por el fin de semana y según vecinos se quebrantan las ordenanzas en materia de convivencia y ruidos molestos .

Hoy día decisivo para Latinoamérica. Elecciones en Argentina, Uruguay y Colombia.

AFP: Comunidad internacional busca respuesta a crisis de refugiados venezolanos.

Ante los reiterados llamados de apoyo, la comunidad internacional debatirá el lunes y el martes en Bruselas cómo ayudar a los países de América Latina que acogen a los millones de venezolanos que huyen de su país por la crisis política y humanitaria, reseña AFP.

Infobae. Se acelera el éxodo en Venezuela: Casi 600.000 personas cruzaron la frontera en los últimos 4 meses.

Embajada virtual de EEUU aclaró que las sanciones exceptúan operaciones por causa humanitaria. Sin embargo muchos venezolanos sin tener relación alguna e incluso opositores estan siendo injustamente afectados por las sanciones de la OFAC.

El Nacional: Misiles venezolanos que supuestamente apuntan a Bogotá no tienen suficiente alcance. El presidente de la ANC, Diosdado Cabello, aseguró que los Pechora tendrían como objetivo barrios donde vive la "burguesía" colombiana.

El Mundo: Luis Alfonso de Borbón, en el foco por los negocios venezolanos de su suegro, Víctor Vargas.

La Patilla: Guaidó desde mercado popular mostró para qué alcanza el sueldo mínimo.

Tal Cual: Bauxilum vuelve a paralizarse tras seis meses de haber sido parcialmente reactivada.

Descifrado. Números rojos: Producción de café alcanzará tan solo 200 mil quintales este año.

Según Maximiliano Pérez en la actualidad la producción de café de ubica en 5.8% lo que significa que el 94,2 por ciento del café que se consume en el país es importado de Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica y Brasil, reseña Descifrado.

2001: Médicos alertan ascenso en tasa de mortalidad en Venezuela.

La Patilla: Feligreses acudieron con esperanza a la Bajada de La Chinita en Maracaibo.

La Opinión: Cierre de fronteras deja vacías las calles de San Antonio del Táchira.

El Nacional: Violento enfrentamiento entre trabajadores informales venezolanos y peruanos.

AFP: Ejército de Chile levantó el toque de queda en Santiago y Valparaíso.

Reuters: Presidente Sebastián Piñera pide a todos sus ministros poner sus cargos a disposición.

AFP: Carlos Mesa llamó a la “movilización ciudadana permanente” tras desconocer triunfo de Morales.

VOA: Departamento de Estado de EEUU observa con preocupación focos de violencia en América Latina.

Infobae: Jair Bolsonaro se declaró preocupado por “la inestabilidad” en América Latina.

Diosdado Cabello: El país más estable de América es Venezuela, desde el punto de vista político, económico y social.

El Nacional. Moisés Naím: Es poco creíble que el Foro de Sao Paulo haya disparado estas protestas.

Uruguay vive su jornada de reflexión electoral más incierta de los últimos años.

El País: Macri y Fernández se disputan la presidencia argentina en pleno derrumbe económico.

Oposición cubana se une por la democracia en medio de más sanciones de EEUU.

El País: Los Mossos cargan contra los CDR en otra noche de tensión en el centro de Barcelona.

El Mundo: Irak, paralizado tras una nueva jornada violenta que deja al menos 25 muertos.

Se realiza primera “marcha del Orgullo” desde legalización del matrimonio gay en Taiwán.

La Iglesia abre la puerta a ordenar hombres casados en la Amazonia.

Venezuela obtuvo doble victoria en el Miss Grand International 2019.

El Manchester City domina al Aston Villa y se acerca al Liverpool.

Altuve y Chirinos revivieron a los Astros en el tercero de la Serie Mundial frente a Nacionales.

Meridiano: Francisco Limardo se cuelga medalla de oro en República Checa.

El País: El asteroide que no era. Ceres, el primero y mayor de los asteroides, fue ascendido recientemente a la categoría de planeta enano.

Pronóstico del tiempo cortesía del INAMEH válido por las próximas 6 horas.

Situación General

Válido para el día Domingo, 27 de Octubre de 2019. Entre las 06:00 y las 12:00 HLV.

Onda Tropical Nº 55 ubicada ya sobre el Centro Norte del país, avanza hacia el oeste con poca nubosidad asociada, como consecuencia de Patrón Subsidente del viento en altura (inhibe el desarrollo de nubosidad ocasionado por el descenso del aire seco y estable); predominio de cielo con poca cobertura nubosa y escasa probabilidad de precipitaciones, sobre gran parte del Territorio Nacional. Por otra parte la Zona de Convergencia Intertropical (ZCIT), ligeramente activa, generará áreas nubladas con precipitaciones de intensidad variable y descargas eléctricas, en áreas del Zulia, Andes, Centro Occidente y Sur.

Efemérides de hoy.

710 - en el mar Mediterráneo, los sarracenos invaden Cerdeña.

939 - en Inglaterra, Edmundo I sucede a Athelstan como rey.

1275 - en los Países Bajos, fecha tradicional de fundación de la ciudad de Ámsterdam.

1535 - el rey español Carlos I concede a Cholula de Rivadavia el título de ciudad.

1553 - en las afueras de Ginebra (Suiza) los protestantes queman vivo al teólogo, médico y humanista aragonés Miguel Servet (42).

1644 - segunda batalla de Newbury en la Guerra Civil Inglesa.

1682 - en Pensilvania (Estados Unidos) se funda Filadelfia.

1795 - España y Estados Unidos firman el primer tratado de amistad, límites y navegación.

1806 - el ejército francés entra en Berlín.

1807 - Napoleón Bonaparte y Manuel Godoy firman el Tratado de Fontainebleau, que permite a los franceses introducir sus tropas en España para atacar Portugal junto con España.

1834 - en España, en el marco de la Primera Guerra Carlista sucede la Acción de Alegría de Álava.

1849 - en México se funda el Estado de Guerrero.

1888 - en Colombia, el presidente Carlos Holguín Mallarino ordena la segunda suspensión del periódico El Espectador. La Iglesia ya había prohibido a sus fieles leer este periódico, debido a las críticas que hizo su director acerca de la «fastuosidad de la Iglesia Católica en las celebraciones públicas».

1891 - en Mino Owari (Japón) a las 21:38 un terremoto de 8 grados deja un saldo de 7273 víctimas.

1920 - en Ecuador se decreta la creación de la escuela de aviación, génesis de la Fuerza Aérea Ecuatoriana.

1952 - en Lima (Perú) se reinaugura el Estadio Nacional de la calle José Díaz.

1971 - durante el proceso de «zairización», Mobutu Sese Seko rebautiza a la República del Congo como República de Zaire.

1981 - en Nueva York, Estados Unidos otorgan el premio Moors Cabot al periodista argentino Jacobo Timerman. La dictadura cívico-militar argentina realiza enérgicas protestas.

1986 - en Asís (Italia) se reúnen representantes de las principales religiones del mundo para rezar por la paz mundial.

1990 - astrónomos descubren una galaxia 60 veces mayor que la Vía Láctea.

1991 - Turkmenistán se independiza de la Unión Soviética.

1992 - España entra como miembro no permanente del Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas.

1992 - en Nagasaki (Japón) el radiotelegrafista estadounidense Allen R. Schindler, Jr. es asesinado por ser gay; esto precipita un debate nacional acerca de los homosexuales en la milicia, que resulta en la política «no pregunte, no lo cuente».

1997 - a Honduras llega el huracán Mitch.

1998 - en Alemania, Gerhard Schröder es nombrado canciller.

2002 - en Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva es elegido presidente.

2003 - en Málaga (España) se inaugura oficialmente el Museo Picasso.

2010 - en Tepic (México) un comando armado asesina a 15 jóvenes en un autolavado.

2011 - en Estados Unidos, la NASA lanza la misión NNP para estudiar la atmósfera.

La cita de hoy.

El sol no se ha puesto aún por última vez.

Tito Livio (59 AC-64 AC) Historiador romano.

[njawaidofficial]

We Cannot Believe These 24 People Have Never Won An Oscar

https://styleveryday.com/2018/03/03/we-cannot-believe-these-24-people-have-never-won-an-oscar/

We Cannot Believe These 24 People Have Never Won An Oscar

And the Oscar goes to… literally anyone else.

Amy Adams

Nominations: Five Films: Junebug (Best Supporting Actress), Doubt (Best Supporting Actress), The Fighter (Best Supporting Actress), The Master (Best Supporting Actress), American Hustle (Best Actress) Lost to: Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardner), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables), Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Vittorio Zunino Celotto

Tom Cruise

Nominations: Three Films: Born on the Fourth of July (Best Actor), Jerry Maguire (Best Actor), Magnolia (Best Supporting Actor) Lost to: Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot), Geoffrey Rush (Shine), Michael Caine (The Cider House Rules)

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Glenn Close

Nominations: Six Films: The World According to Garp (Best Supporting Actress), The Big Chill (Best Supporting Actress), The Natural (Best Supporting Actress), Fatal Attraction (Best Actress), Dangerous Liaisons (Best Actress), Albert Nobbs (Best Actress) Lost to: Jessica Lange (Tootsie), Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously), Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India), Cher (Moonstruck), Jodie Foster (The Accused), Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)

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George Lucas*

Nominations: Four Films: American Graffiti (Best Director & Best Original Screenplay), Star Wars (Best Director & Best Original Screenplay) Lost to: George Roy Hill (The Sting), David S. Ward (The Sting), Woody Allen (Annie Hall), Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman (Annie Hall)

*He did receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1992.

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Annette Benning

Nominations: Four Films: The Grifters (Best Supporting Actress), American Beauty (Best Actress), Being Julia (Best Actress), The Kids Are Alright (Best Actress) Lost to: Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost), Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry), Hilary Swank AGAIN (Million Dollar Baby), Natalie Portman (Black Swan)

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Ian McKellen

Nominations: Two Films: Gods and Monsters (Best Actor), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Best Supporting Actor) Lost to: Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful), Jim Broadbent (Iris)

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David Lynch

Nominations: Four Films: The Elephant Man (Best Director & Best Adapted Screenplay), Blue Velvet (Best Director), Mulholland Drive (Best Director) Lost to: Robert Redford (Ordinary People), Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People), Oliver Stone (Platoon), Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)

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Joaquin Phoenix

Nominations: Three Films: Gladiator (Best Supporting Actor), Walk the Line (Best Actor), The Master (Best Actor) Lost to: Benicio del Toro (Traffic), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote), Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

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Robert Altman

Nominations: Seven Films: MASH (Best Director), Nashville (Best Picture & Best Director), The Player (Best Director), Short Cuts (Best Director), Gosford Park (Best Picture & Best Director) Lost to: Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton), Michael Douglas & Saul Zaentz (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), Miloš Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven), Steven Spielberg (Schindler’s List), Ron Howard & Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind), Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind),

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Cary Grant

Nominations: Two Films: Penny Serenade (Best Actor), None but the Lonely Heart (Best Actor) Lost to: Gary Cooper (Sergeant York), Bing Crosby (Going My Way)

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Laura Linney

Nominations: Three Films: You Can Count on Me (Best Actress), Kinsey (Best Supporting Actress), The Savages (Best Actress) Lost to: Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich), Cate Blanchett (The Aviator), Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose)

Mike Coppola

Gene Wilder

Nominations: Two Films: The Producers (Best Supporting Actor), Young Frankenstein (Best Adapted Screenplay) Lost to: Jack Albertson (The Subject Was Roses), Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo (The Godfather Part II)

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Greg P. Russell

Nominations: 16 Films (all for Best Sound Mixing): Black Rain, The Rock, Con Air, The Mask of Zorro, Armageddon, The Patriot, Pearl Harbor, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Memoirs of a Geisha, Apocalypto, Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Salt, Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Skyfall Lost to: Glory, The English Patient, Titanic, Saving Private Ryan (twice), Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Chicago, Ray, King Kong, Dreamgirls, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Hurt Locker, Inception, Hugo, Les Misérables

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Edward Norton

Nominations: Three Films: Primal Fear (Best Supporting Actor), American History X (Best Actor), Birdman (Best Supporting Actor)

Lost to: Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire), Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful), J. K. Simmons (Whiplash)

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Richard Burton

Nominations: Seven FIlms: My Cousin Rachel (Best Supporting Actor), The Robe (Best Actor), Becket (Best Actor), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Best Actor), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Best Actor), Anne of the Thousand Days (Best Actor), Equus (Best Actor) Lost to: Anthony Quinn (Viva Zapata!), William Holden (Stalag 17), Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady), Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou), Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons), John Wayne (True Grit), Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl)

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Kenneth Branagh

Nominations: Five Films: Henry V (Best Director & Best Actor), Swan Song (Best Live Action Short Film), Hamlet (Best Adapted Screenplay), My Week with Marilyn (Best Supporting Actor) Lost to: Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July), Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot), Sam Karmann (Omnibus), Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade), Christopher Plummer (Beginners)

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Alfred Hitchcock*

Nominations: Five Films: Rebecca (Best Director), Lifeboat (Best Director), Spellbound (Best Director), Rear Window (Best Director), Psycho (Best Director) Lost to: John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath), Leo McCarey (Going My Way), Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend), Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront), Billy Wilder AGAIN (The Apartment)

*He did receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1968.

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Kirk Douglas

Nominations: Three Films: Champion (Best Actor), The Bad and the Beautiful (Best Actor), Lust for Life (Best Actor) Lost to: Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men), Gary Cooper (High Noon), Yul Brynner (The King and I)

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Michelle Williams

Nominations: Four Films: Brokeback Mountain (Best Supporting Actress), Blue Valentine (Best Actress), My Week With Marylin (Best Actress), Manchester by the Sea (Best Supporting Actress) Lost to: Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener), Natalie Portman (Black Swan), Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady), Viola Davis (Fences)

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Albert Finney

Nominations: Five Films: Tom Jones (Best Actor), Murder on the Orient Express (Best Actor), The Dresser (Best Actor), Under the Volcano (Best Actor), Erin Brockovich (Best Supporting Actor) Lost to: Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field), Art Carney (Harry and Tonto), Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies), F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus), Benicio del Toro (Traffic)

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David Fincher

Nominations: Two Films: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Best Director), The Social Network (Best Director) Lost to: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)

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Peter O’Toole

Nominations: Eight Films: Lawrence of Arabia (Best Actor), Becket (Best Actor), The Lion in Winter (Best Actor), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Best Actor), The Ruling Class (Best Actor), The Stunt Man (Best Actor), My Favorite Year (Best Actor), Venus (Best Actor) Lost to: Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird), Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady), Cliff Robertson (Charly), John Wayne (True Grit), Marlon Brando (The Godfather), Robert De Niro (Raging Bull), Ben Kingsley (Gandhi), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)

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Thomas Newman

Nominations: 14 Fims: The Shawshank Redemption (Best Original Score), Little Women (Best Original Score), Unstrung Heroes (Best Original Musical or Comedy Score), American Beauty (Best Original Score), Road to Perdition (Best Original Score), Finding Nemo (Best Original Score), Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (Best Original Score), The Good German (Best Original Score), Down to Earth (Best Original Song), WALL-E (Best Original Score), Skyfall (Best Original Score), Saving Mr. Banks (Best Original Score), Bridge of Spies (Best Original Score), Passengers (Best Original Score) Lost to: Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, twice), Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz (Pocahontas), John Corigliano (The Red Violin), Elliot Goldenthal (Frida), Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (Finding Neverland), Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel), A. R. Rahman, Gulzar (Slumdog Millionaire, twice), Mychael Danna (Life of Pi), Steven Price (Gravity), Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight), Justin Hurwitz (La La Land)

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Judy Garland*

Nominations: Two Films: A Star is Born (Best Actress), Judgement at Nuremberg (Best Supporting Actress) Lost to: Grace Kelly (The Country Girl), Sophia Loren (Two Women)

*She did receive the Academy Juvenile Award in 1940.

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[montyjeffrey]

Allen Schindler loved the Navy, but after enduring months of harassment for being gay, he requested an administrative discharge. In the last days of his life, Allen held a leadership position onboard his ship, the Belleau Wood, where he taught self-defense and political activism. Allen wanted to leave the ship in better shape for his fellow gay servicemen and create a safe environment. He took great strides in looking out for his comrades, even debating at one point whether he truly wanted to leave the Navy in case someone needed his help or protection.

After his death, Allen’s mother, Dorothy Hajdys-Clausen, continued his activism and fought to repeal the DADT policy and end discrimination against gay servicemembers in the military.

“I couldn’t understand why our country could not accept a person in the military because they were gay,” Dorothy said. “With the Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell ban, it was telling them to lie. Because Allen was tired of living a lie, he ended up dead.”

Dorothy, a devout Christian, initially struggled to accept that her son was gay, but after visiting Navy veteran Jim Jennings in San Diego and attending the memorial service where she met many of Allen's friends, she learned who her son truly was and overcame her own prejudice to become an outspoken advocate for gay civil rights. In 2011, Dorothy went to Washington, D.C., to celebrate the repeal of DADT. "I'm so happy 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' got repealed." Dorothy said. "I just hope now there will be no more deaths like Allen Schindler's."

Photo: Dorothy Hajdys-Clausen and Jim Jennings, San Diego, 1993. (M.C. Farrington)

#allen r schindler jr #sailor #us navy #dont ask dont tell #veteran #gay military #allen schindler #gay male #gay history #gay pride #homosexual #pride month #gay activism #lgbt

[montyjeffrey]

As this year's Memorial Day comes to a close, let's remember U.S. Navy Radioman Allen Schindler. His murder was not in vain. A brave gay servicemember who is not forgotten.

— Michael Petrelis

#allen r schindler jr #sailor #veteran #gay man #gay military #dont ask dont tell #gay history #michael petrelis #lgbt activism #gay pride #allen schindler #hero #memorial day #lgbt #lgbtq #us navy

[montyjeffrey]

Dorothy holding a memorial plate for Allen with a poem and photograph made for her by her other son, Billy Hajdys. The poem is titled, "We'll Never Say Goodbye"

I cannot see you with my eyes Or hear you with my ears But thoughts of you are with me still And often dry my tears I think of happy times we shared and then I softly sigh But this I know - we'll meet again and never say goodbye

#allen schindler #sailor #us navy #veteran #gay man #gay history #homosexual #military #allen r schindler jr #gay pride #pride month #lgbt

[montyjeffrey]

"I'm proud of everything I did to fight for Allen and to fight for all the other Allens that are out there. I loved him, and I still love him now."

— Dorothy Hajdys-Clausen

#allen r schindler jr #gay #sailor #proud #gay military #hero #dont ask dont tell #gay history #homosexual #pride month #gay activist #gay activism #navy #lgbt

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.27

312 – Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. 939 – Æthelstan, the first king of all England, dies and is succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I. 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. 1524 – French troops lay siege to Pavia. 1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva. 1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War. 1682 – Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 1775 – King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament. 1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S. 1806 – The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt. 1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida. 1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed. 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers. 1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. 1907 – Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration. 1914 – World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. 1916 – Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I. 1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union. 1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union. 1930 – Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories. 1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne. 1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end. 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. 1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier. 1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1. 1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile. 1962 – By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war. 1962 – An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances. 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing". 1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records. 1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. 1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom. 1981 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. 1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang. 1988 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure. 1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union. 1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy. 1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. 1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption. 1997 – The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. 1999 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others. 2004 – The Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinals to win their first World Series in 86 years. 2014 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days. 2017 – Catalonia declares independence from Spain. 2018 – A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 and injuring six, including four police officers. 2019 – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria.

#Events

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.27

312 – Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. 939 – Æthelstan, the first king of all England, dies and is succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I. 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. 1524 – French troops lay siege to Pavia. 1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva. 1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War. 1682 – Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 1775 – King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.[1] 1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S. 1806 – The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt. 1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida. 1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed. 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers. 1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. 1907 – Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration. 1914 – First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. 1916 – Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I. 1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union. 1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union. 1930 – Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories. 1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne. 1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end. 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. 1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier. 1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1. 1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile. 1962 – By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war. 1962 – An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances. 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing". 1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records. 1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. 1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom. 1981 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. 1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang. 1988 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure. 1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union. 1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy. 1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. 1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption. 1997 – The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. 1999 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others. 2004 – The Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinals to win their first World Series in 86 years. 2014 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days. 2017 – Catalonia declares independence from Spain. 2018 – A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 and injuring 6, including 4 police officers.

#Events

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.27

312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. 710 – Saracen invasion of Sardinia. 939 – Æthelstan, the first King of England, died and was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I. 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. 1524 – Italian Wars: French troops lay siege to Pavia. 1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva. 1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War. 1682 – Philadelphia is established in the Colonial American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S. 1806 – The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt. 1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida. 1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated. 1870 – Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War. 1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in the world. 1907 – Černová massacre: Fifteen people are killed in the Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration, which leads to protests over the treatment of minorities in Austria-Hungary. 1914 – The British lose their first battleship of World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons) is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. The loss was kept an official secret in Britain until 14 November 1918 (three days after the end of the war). The sinking was witnessed and photographed by passengers on RMS Olympic sister ship of RMS Titanic. 1916 – Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I. 1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union. 1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union. 1930 – Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty, signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions, go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories. 1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce decree nisi, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne. 1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end. 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. 1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier. 1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1. 1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile. 1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances. 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing". 1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records. 1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. 1973 – A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado. 1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom. 1981 – The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. 1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang. 1988 – Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure. 1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union. 1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy. 1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. 1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption. 1997 – Stock Market mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. 1999 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and six others. 2014 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan after the end of Operation Herrick which started on June 20, 2002 after 12 years four months and seven days.

#Events