Entries from October 2009
October 29, 2009
1982: Mother jailed in dingo baby murder
October 29 1982 Lindy Chamberlain has been found guilty of the murder of her nine-week-old daughter after a jury dismissed her claim that a dingo took the baby.
The court was told that she cut the baby’s throat and disposing of the body whilst at a campsite near Ayers Rock.
Mrs Chamberlain, who is [...]
October 27, 2009
Little Boy is Badly Scalded at Puslinch Lake
August 7th 1931.Hespeler ─ Bobby Scott, the small son of Robert Scott, of Lewis Street, was badly scalded yesterday morning. The family has been camping at Puslinch Lake, and in some way, the little chap pulled a kettle of water from the fire. He was badly burned about [...]
October 27, 2009
CANADA: Once More with Feeling
At a shopping center near Toronto last week, a young girl burst through the security guard around Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 53, and planted a kiss on his cheek. Another woman on the fringe of the crowd gushed: “He still has the aura.” It was hard to believe that Trudeaumania—as Canadians called their [...]
October 26, 2009
1959: World glimpses far side of the Moon. October 26
The Soviet Union has revealed the first pictures of the far side of the Moon.
The pictures were taken about three weeks ago from Lunik 3, the Soviet satellite launched on 4 October, and transmitted by [...]
October 25, 2009
Vincent Price 1911-1993
(born May 27, 1911, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.—died October 25, 1993, Los Angeles, Calif.) American actor usually noted for his brilliant performances in horror films.
Price was the son of the owner of the National Candy Company and the grandson of the inventor of baking powder. He graduated from Yale University in 1933 and spent a [...]
October 25, 2009
Canadians win Nobel prize. October 25 1923
Stockholm Sweden – Frederick Banting & J. J. R. Macleod of the University of Toronto jointly win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of the hormone insulin, which was to save the lives of millions of diabetics. Banting, whose idea launched the research, shares the prize money with Charles Best. Macleod, who supervised [...]
October 22, 2009
It’s A Bird, It’s a plane
What bounces higher than a bad check, picks up English faster than a Berlitz student, and drags kids away from the dinner table quicker than Soupy Sales? Super Ball, America’s newest plaything.
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