On October 5, 1877, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians surrendered to U.S. General Nelson A. Miles in the Bear Paw mountains of Montana, declaring, "Hear me, my chiefs: My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
Clive Barker, the English writer and film director, author of Hellraiser and Lord of Illusions, was born on this day in 1952.
Also on this day in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Nobel Prize for literature. Singer wrote in Yiddish about Jewish life in Poland and the United States, and translations of his work became popular in mainstream America as well as Jewish circles.
In 2005, defying the White House, the Senate voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in U.S. government custody. I suppose that the wretches kept at Guantanamo will be delighted to learn about this snippet of history.
If you want to finish “the” manuscript in 2012, you still have 87 days left.
October 5, Day 279 of 2012
Today is day 279 of 2012
On October 5, 1877, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians surrendered to U.S. General Nelson A. Miles in the Bear Paw mountains of Montana, declaring, "Hear me, my chiefs: My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."