The Cosmic Echoes website is part of the SurvivalRing Network of websites. It's purpose is to help provide guidance, advice, and first hand experience in all areas of self reliance, preparedness, and survival related issues. Cosmic Echoes is the personal blog of Rich Fleetwood, founder of SurvivalRing. Rich will also share news, interesting web finds, video, audio, and other general interest items for your reading pleasure.

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On This Day

• Tuesday, October 7, 2008
• Holidays
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• Birthdays
  • ♦ 1601  F. de Beaune
  • ♦ 1849  James Whitcomb Riley
  • ♦ 1879  Joe Hill
  • ♦ 1885  Niels Bohr
  • ♦ 1905  Andy Devine
  • ♦ 1911  Vaughn Monroe
  • ♦ 1917  June Allyson
  • ♦ 1927  R.D. Laing
  • ♦ 1931  Bishop Desmond Tutu
  • ♦ 1951  John Cougar Mellencamp
  • ♦ 1955  Yo-Yo Ma
• Events
  • ♦ 1571 Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish and Italians in Battle of Lepanto
  • ♦ 1765 The Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York
  • ♦ 1777 British defeated by Americans at the Battle of Saratoga
  • ♦ 1826 Granite Railway (first chartered railway in US) begins operations
  • ♦ 1849 That the play is the tragedy, "Poe," / And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
  • ♦ 1931 First infra-red photographis taken, in Rochester, NY
  • ♦ 1949 Democratic Republic of Germany (East) is formed.
  • ♦ 1959 Luna 3 photographs the far side of the moon.
  • ♦ 1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
• Reminders
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