THIS DAY OF 12th OCTOBER…
Tweety Bird Day
**Tweety debuted in “A Tale of Two Kitties” in 1942 - and first said his famous line, “I tawt I taw a puddy tat.” He was in two more cartoons before he was teamed with Sylvester in “Tweetie Pie” (1947). That cartoon won an Oscar for Warner Bros., and a winning combination of characters was born. In 1952, the pair got their own comic book, and in 1998, they were on a U.S. postage stamp.
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**1810 **
**Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghaus en. The festivities became an annual event and evolved into the present-day Oktoberfest celebration of beer and bratwurst. **
**1915 **
** British nurse Edith Cavell was shot for helping allied soldiers escape from German occupied Brussels during World War I. **
**1928 **
** The first “iron lung” was used at Boston Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts on a patient suffering from poliomyelitis. **
**1940 **
** Tom Mix, a United States film actor in the silent era, was killed in a car crash in Arizona. He had become a huge success and the silent cinema’s most popular cowboy star. **
**1944 **
** Frank Sinatra returned to famed Paramount Theatre, where he had played for eight weeks beginning on December 30, 1942. In what was called the “Columbus Day Riot,” 25,000 mostly-female teenagers, blocked streets, screaming and fainting. **
**1945 **
** Allied Control Council in Germany orders dissolution of Nazi Party after World War II. **
**1950 **
**The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show debuted on CBS. It was one of the few radio shows to move successfully to television, and it was on the air for eight seasons. Burns and Allen, married in real life, portrayed a married couple who are entertainers. The show, which showcased Allen’s comic gifts as a scatterbrain and Burns’s laid-back style as the straight man, also featured their real-life teenage son, Ronnie Burns. **
**1969 **
** Soviet Union launches Soyuz VII spacecraft with three men aboard to join two men in orbit in Soyuz VI. **
**1981 **
** For the second consectuive year, Barbara Mandrell won the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year award. **
**1983 **
** In Bryant Park, Maine, the fianl crank telephone call was made, ending the community’s hand-operated telephone system. **
**1983 **
** The last wringer-washer by Maytag was made. Maytag was one of the last companies to make the hand-operated washers. **
**1986 **
** A summit conference between United States President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ended in Reykjavik without reaching any agreement on arms control. **
**1989 **
**The United States House of Representatives approved a statutory federal ban on the destruction of the American flag. **
**1990 **
** Motorcycle gunmen killed Egyptian parliamentary speaker Rifaat Mahjoub and three of his bodyguards in a machine-gun ambush in Cairo. **
**1992 **
** An earthquake, measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale, struck Cairo killing 552 people were killed and injuring almost 10,000. The epicenter was not far from the great pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx. **
**1997 **
**Singer John Denver, age 53, was killed when his plane crashed into the oceans of Monterey Bay, California. He was the pilot and only passenger. An accomplished pilot, Denver had just bought the small, single-engine experimental plane, and this was his first flight in it. **
1999
** The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.**
**Pakistan’s Milatary Chief Dethrone’s Pakistan’s Prime Minister Sharif. **
2000
** The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39 **
2002
** Terrorists detonate bombs in Paddy’s Pub and the Sari Club in Kut, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300. **
2006
**A law is passed in France that makes denying the Armenian Genocide a crime.
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**Today’s Quote **
**The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
— Blaise Pascal