Picture of the Day and B'days for October 15

Posted October 14, 2008, 8:00 pm


Today is Wednesday, October 15, the 289th day of 2008. There are 77 days left in the year.

Penny Marshall

Today's Birthdays:
Singer Barry McGuire ("Eve of Destruction") is 73. Actress Linda Lavin ("Alice")  is 71. Actress-director Penny Marshall is 66. Rock musician Don Stevenson (Moby Grape) is 66. Singer-musician Richard Carpenter is 62. Tennis player Roscoe Tanner is 57. Singer Tito Jackson is 55. Actress Tanya Roberts is 53. Britain's Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, is 49. Chef Emeril Lagasse is 49. Actress Vanessa Marcil is 40.

1969 Peace Moratorium

On October 15, 1969, The Peace Moratorium is believed to have been the largest demonstration in US history with an estimated two million people involved. In towns and cities throughout the US, students, working men and women, school children, the young and the old, took part in religious services, school seminars, street rallies and meetings. Supporters of the Vietnam Moratorium wore black armbands to signify their dissent and paid tribute to American personnel killed in the war since 1961.
The focal point was the capital, Washington DC, where more than 40 different activities were planned and about 250,000 demonstrators gathered to make their voices heard.


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