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Today's featured article The Battle of Glasgow was fought on October 15, 1864, at Glasgow, Missouri, as part of Price's Missouri Expedition during the American Civil War. In late 1864, the Confederate leadership in the trans-Mississippi theater planned a campaign into the state of Missouri. Major General Sterling Price led the expedition, and hoped to capture St. Louis. The early defeat at Pilot Knob led him to abandon this plan. Price sent Brigadier General John B. Clark Jr. with two brigades on a side raid to capture a weapons cache at Glasgow. The Union garrison of Glasgow was commanded by Colonel Chester Harding Jr., and was mostly composed of militia and men of the 43rd Missouri Infantry Regiment. After Confederate artillery fired on the Union position, the Union commander rejected a surrender offer; the main attack drove Harding's men back into the town and they burned 50,000 rations to prevent them from falling to the Confederates. They surrendered at 13:30. Clark paroled the Union soldiers and captured needed weapons. The Confederate column rejoined Price's army the next day. (Full article...) Recently featured: Shooting of Stephen Waldorf "The Riddle of the Sphinx" Brighton hotel bombing Selected anniversaries October 15 Draft-card burning in 1967 1529 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The siege of Vienna ended with Austrian forces repelling the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of conquest in Europe by the Ottoman Empire. 1888 – The "From Hell" letter, allegedly from Jack the Ripper, was sent to George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London. 1965 – Vietnam War protests: At an anti-war rally in New York City, David J. Miller burned his draft card (example pictured), the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act. 1979 – President Carlos Humberto Romero of El Salvador was overthrown and exiled in a military coup d'état. Razia Sultana (d. 1240) Marie-Marguerite d'Youville (b. 1701) Franklin Peale (b. 1795) Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (d. 1988) More anniversaries: October 14 October 15 October 16	In the news C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) The comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) (pictured) is visible in the western sky after sunset. The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is divided, with half awarded to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for their work on protein structure prediction and the other half to David Baker for his work on computational protein design. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Lilly Ledbetter Alex Salmond Amaury du Closel Fleur Adcock Kiril Marichkov George Baldock Did you know... Chesmac running on a Telmac-1800 computer ... that as the 1979 computer chess game Chesmac (pictured) could not display a chessboard on screen, players had to replicate the game on a physical chessboard? ... that Samuel Barber said that he could not adequately play his own Piano Sonata? ... that geographer Michael Chisholm and contemporaries became known as "Caesar's Praetorian Guard", in reference to their teacher Gus Caesar? ... that Anne Morrow Lindbergh tried to warn her husband Charles Lindbergh of the backlash that his antisemitic Des Moines speech would receive? ... that Rose Betts wrote the song "Driving Myself Home" as a joke after a blind date, only for it to go viral on TikTok? ... that an art critic felt that Rooms by the Sea was one of Edward Hopper's "strangest" works? ... that when Swedish soccer player Beata Olsson transferred from Florida to Florida State, she said that she did not really know about the schools' rivalry? ... that John Passmore Edwards erected a library in memory of his mother? ... that researchers want Hymenophyllum axsmithii rhizomes so that they can tell whether the filmy fern was up a tree?
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