History Blog

October 17

Happy Birthday RIP Edward Montgomery Clift(1920–1966) “Rita Hayworth”(Margarita Cansino 1918–1987) Thomas Poston(1921–2007) Robert “Evil” Knievel(1938–2007) Margaret “Margot” Kidder(1948–2018) Norman Macdonald (1958–2021) ; James Seals–80 Michael McKean–74 George Wendt III–73 David “Ziggy” Marley–53 Marshall Mathers III(“Eminem”)–49 David Matthew Macfadyen–47 Chris Lowell–37 Maximillian Irons–36 ; 1919 – RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America ; 1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, Cumbria, England ; 2010 – Spirit Day is an annual LGBTQ awareness day observed on the third Thursday in October. Started in 2010 by Canadian teenager Brittany McMillan, it was initially created in response to a rash of widely publicized bullying-related suicides of gay school students in 2010