Date Change! Mark your calendar...

In order to get the Brooks Museum, we had to change the date. The new date is... (insert drum roll)... October 25th!

Please mark your calendars and leave plenty of time for events on Friday, Saturday and maybe even Sunday...

Here are the Ghost Hauntings reported for October 25, 2007. Thought I would share!















Just in case you are curious about what has happened in history on this date other than last years Haunting

As supplied by Wikipedia:

Events
732 - The army of Charles Martel defeats the Arabs at the Battle of Tours.

1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.

1315 - Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on Liverpool Castle.

1415 - The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.

1760 - George III becomes King of Great Britain.

1813 - War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.

1854 - The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).

1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange was created.

1875 - The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.

1917 - Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia.

1935 - Hurricane floods Haiti, killing over 2,000 people.

1936 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis.

1938 - The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".

1944 - The USS Tang (SS-306) under Richard O'Kane (the top submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own torpedo.

1944 - The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers' occupation.

1962 - Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba

1970 - The wreck of Confederate submarine Hunley was found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship in warfare.

1971 - The United Nations seated the People's Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations)

1972 - The Washington Post reports that White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman was the fifth person to control a secret cash fund designed to finance illegal political sabotage and espionage during the 1972 presidential election campaign (see also Watergate scandal).

1980 - Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.

1983 - Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were executed in a coup d'état.

1991 - History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.

1992 - Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.

2004 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8.

2007 - The first Airbus A380 passenger flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ380, flying scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney, Australia.