Til hamingju með daginn, Hrefna Sif.

• 1893 - Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
• 1912 - The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
• 1917 - Russian Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Russia is still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 25 date).
• 1917 - World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.  
• 1934 - Premiere of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.  
• 1963 - Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
• 1967 - Carl B. Stokes was elected as Mayor of the City of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first Black Mayor of a major American city.
• 1989 - Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
• 1989 - Hrefna Sif Jónsdóttir fæðist.
• 1990 - Mary Robinson is first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland
• 1996 - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
• 2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win a public office in the United States.

Athugasemdir

[Þorgerður (IP-tala skráð) 8.11.2008 kl. 13:40]

til hamingju með drotningunna ( prinsessuna) ;) mikið eru þessi börn fljót að eldast, með þessum hraða ná þau okkur fljótlega, knús í fjörðin fagra

[Jón Halldór Guðmundsson, 8.11.2008 kl. 20:26]

Takk fyrir það!