October 30 1463 Marie of Burgundy died age 70 Wife of Adolph I, Duke of Cleves. Marie was the 2^nd child of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria, and an elder sister of Philip the Good. Born in Dijon, she became the 2^nd wife of Adolph, Count of Mark in May 1415. He was made the 1^st Duke of Cleves in 1417. They were the grandparents of King Louis XII of France and the great-grandparents of John III, Duke of Cleves, father of Anne of Cleves, who was fourth Queen consort of Henry VIII of England. John (the Fearless) and Margaret (of Bavaria) are great grand parents of Maria Guelders Queen of Scots to James 2^nd Stewart King, and thus ancestors of all Scots royalty thereupon, and English from 1603.

1649 –sometime in October – first publication of Eikonoklastes by John Milton, a rebuttal of Eikon Basilike.

1842 – Allan Cunningham, died, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)

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1882 William Frederick Halsey, Jr. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on October 30, 1882, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1904. Halsey served on escort vessels during World War I and later earned his Naval Aviator’s Wings at the advanced age of 52, the oldest person to do so in the history of the U.S. Navy. Halsey commanded the South Pacific Area in 1942 (at age 60) and was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the Third Fleet in 1944. He provided support for General Douglas MacArthur’s invasion of the Philippines in 1944. The Japanese surrender in World War II took place on Halsey’s flagship, the battleship USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay.

Halsey was promoted to Five-Star Fleet Admiral (one of only five men to have held that rank) in December 1945. He retired from active duty with the Navy in 1947, becoming President of International Telecommunications Labs, Inc. Halsey died on August 16, 1959 and was buried in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery, next to his father Captain William Frederick Halsey.

Fleet Admiral William Frederick “Bull” Halsey, Jr. was the 2^nd great-grandson of Archibald Gracie from Dumfries, Scotland. http://chicagoscots.net/HC%20Newsletters/2009%20July.htm

1940 Destroyer “STURDY”, local Western Approaches escort for Halifax/UK convoy SC8, ran aground off the west coast of Scotland, on Tiree Island. She was a total loss. Monthly Loss Summary
43 British, Allied and neutral ships of 132,000 tons in UK waters. www.naval-hitsory.net

1942 The Battle of El Alamein, Egypt, is usually divided into five phases, consisting of the break-in (23–24 October), the crumbling (24–25 October), the counter (26–28 October), Operation Supercharge (1–2 November) and the breakout (3–7 November).

Pipe Major McLaren of the 7^th Battalion The Black Watch plays the newly composed tune “El Alamein.” Infront of him stand two drummers, wearing dark Black Watch (Campbell) tartan kilts, and half a dozen pipers.

 All the soldiers wear khaki drill shirts with the Divisional sign, HD, on the sleeve; Tam O’ Shanter bonnets with red hackles; khaki hose, red flashes, boots and puttees with white tapes wound around the ankle. 

The Black Watch was honoured, in 1756, as the Royal Highland Regiment. Since then pipers have worn the red Royal Stewart tartan. The pipe bag is covered in Black Watch tartan and the ribbons on the pipe drones are in Royal Stewart and Black Watch tartans. The pipers wear sporrans.

http://www.rememberingscotlandatwar.org.uk/Accessible/Exhibition/171/My-flea-bit-dugout-in-Tobruk-Montgomerys-victory-at-El-Alamein

Pipe Major Roy’s kilt (Royal Stewart) with a bullet hole. Pipe Major Roy, 2^nd Battalion The Black Watch, had been wounded in Crete. Taken prisoner he had escaped from Greece in a British submarine. He rejoined the 2^nd Battalion The Black Watch and was at Tobruk. While wearing his kilt and piping, he was wounded again.

2012 New York University Langone Medical Center evacuated due to flooding when backup generators fail due to flooding of emergency generators.

1981. New York University Library.

Hurricane Sandy causes $1 billion in damage to the Medical center, alone. Federal aid requested of $1.2 billion. All 200 patients at NYU Medical center were evacuated, following 600 patients evacuated earlier. 24 ambulances circled the block to take patients every 4 minutes. Hospital underwater, elderly and children evacuated. First Avenue between 31^st and 34^th street.     In 1884, Andrew Carnegie (Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) gave $50,000 to Bellevue Hospital Medical College (now part of New York University Medical Center) to found a histological laboratory, now called the Carnegie Laboratory. The Carnegie Laboratory, the first facility in the U.S. devoted to teaching and research in bacteriology (bacteria were only discovered by Pasteur circa 1850) and pathology,

2012 Flooded Times Square subway station shows similar flooding to the Carnegie flooded hospital. (maybe photoshopped, the lights are pretty strong for a tunnel which was flooded – however the subways and tunnels were flooded for the first time ever.)

Hurricane Sandy over Manhattan. (probably Photoshopped) The light is too good with the Hurricane coming over.

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