27 October

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 27 October:

1. In 1858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the US was born. He was the first president to ride in a plane, drive in a car and ride in a submarine; the first president to travel outside the US, and inspired the teddy bear. Teddy became president at 42, following the assassination of William McKinley. He was so obsessed with conservation that he banned Christmas Trees from the White House. He said, "In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
2. Also born on this date, in 1728, was Captain James Cook, English naval officer whose voyages in the Endeavour led to the discovery of Australia, New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands. Thanks to Cook’s understanding of diet no member of his crew ever died of scurvy.
3. In 2000, a member of a religious group was run down while standing in the middle of Interstate 55 in Illinois trying to convert passing motorists.
4. Scientists announced the discovery of the Myanmar snub-nosed Monkey on this date in 2010.
5. In 1909 Captain Ralph Van Deman's wife made a four minute flight, making her the first woman to ride in an aeroplane. The pilot was Wilbur Wright.
6. A term equivalent to our ‘flying saucer’ was used by the Japanese approximately 700 years before it came into use in the West, on this date in 118. Ancient documents describe an unusual shining object seen tonight, as a flying “earthenware vessel.”
7. In 1936, Wallis Simpson, the future Duchess of Windsor, was divorced from her husband Ernest, leaving her free to marry King Edward VIII.
8. In 1925, Fred Waller received a license from the US Patent Office for water skis.
9. In 2000, a Pig, flying first class on US Airways Philadelphia to Seattle, as a therapeutic companion to a passenger, tried to enter the cockpit.
10. In 1997, six people were hospitalised in Singapore after being hit by a runaway trolley of soft drinks in a hypermarket.

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