1147 – Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum
1828 – St Katharine Docks opens in London, England
1942 – Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins
1953 – Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 10th Symphony
1955 – Branch Rickey steps down as GM of the Pirates
1964 – The Rolling Stones make their 1st appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”; they perform a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Around and Around,” and their own hit “Time Is On My Side”
1968 – Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
1975 – USSR’s Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing
1983 – US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!)
1992 – “Dancing at Lughnasa” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 421 performances
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Today in History for 25th October 2023
Historical Events
1953 – Cleveland Browns’ QB Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles
1962 – American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
1968 – American swimmer Claudia Kolb wraps up the women’s individual medley double in Mexico City, winning the 400m I/M in Olympic record 5:08.5; she also won the 200m I/M in OR 2:24.7
1984 – King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels
1985 – Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract
1987 – Baseball World Series: Minnesota Twins beat St Louis Cardinals, 4-2 at HHH Metrodome for 4-3 series win and franchise first in Minneapolis; MVP: Twins pitcher Frank Viola
Famous Birthdays
1877 – Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram), born in Oyster Bay, New York (d. 1957)
1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter (The Three Dancers, Guernica) and sculptor who co-founded the Cubist movement, born in Malaga, Andalusia, Spain (d. 1973)
1898 – Sidney James van den Bergh, Dutch businessman and politician, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1977)
1951 – Richard Lloyd, American guitarist (Television), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1960 – Hong Sang-soo, South Korean filmmaker (Right Now, Wrong Then), born in Seoul
1979 – Milena Roucka, Canadian model and professional wrestler, born in Vancouver, British Columbia
Famous Deaths
1907 – Edmund Hart Turpin, English composer, dies at 72
1921 – Bat Masterson, American gunfighter in the Wild West, dies of a heart attack at 67
1939 – Cornelis JK van Aalst, president Dutch Business Society, dies at 73
1954 – Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Ulla Bella), dies at 79
1984 – Pascale Ogier, actress (Ghost Dance), dies of a heart attack at 24
1988 – Johnnie Richardson, American RandB musician (Johnnie and Joe), dies at 53
Famous Deaths for 24th October 2023
1789 – Joaquín Martínez de Oxinagas, composer, dies at 69
1852 – Daniel Webster, US Secretary of State (1841-43, 1850-52), politician and lawyer, dies at 70
1898 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter, dies at 73
1902 – Władysław Zaremba, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 69
1985 – Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
1988 – Henry Armstrong, American boxer (world featherweight, lightweight, welterweight [19 x title defences] champion), dies at 75
1996 – Sid Pye, drummer, dies at 55
2002 – Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
2005 – Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)
2012 – Anita Björk, Swedish actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People), dies at 89
Historical Events for 24th October 2023
1902 – Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts, killing 6,000 people and becoming one of the three largest eruptions of the 20th century
1924 – Nobel prize for physiology or medicine awarded to Dutchman Willem Einthoven “for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram”
1940 – Adolf Hitler meets the Head of the French State Marshal Philippe Pétain
1944 – US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte
1948 – WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 – AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year
1980 – Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
1997 – Marv Albert sentenced in assault case
1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 on comet and asteroid mission
2017 – Dog doping scandal confirmed by officials of Iditarod, Alaskan dog sled race after dogs test positive for a banned substance
Today in History for 24th October 2023
Historical Events
1931 – Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion
1944 – US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines
1963 – Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award
1971 – Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)
1980 – Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
2004 – 10 people including NASCAR driver Ricky Hendrick and 4 family members are killed in a plane crash near Martinsville Speedway in Virginia; plane owned by NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports
Famous Birthdays
1863 – Manuel Manrique de Lara, Spanish composer (The Oresteia), born in Cartagena, Murcia (d. 1929)
1886 – Delmira Agustini, Uruguayan poet (El Libro Blanco), born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 1914)
1887 – Octave Lapize, French cyclist (Tour de France 1910), born in Paris, France (d. 1917)
1904 – Moss Hart, American playwright (You Can’t Take it With You, Act 1), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 1961)
1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician, Prime Minister (2015-18), born in Sydney, Australia
1988 – Joshua Shalikar, American actor (Honey I Blew Up the Kid), born in East Brunswick, New Jersey
Famous Deaths
1949 – Joaquín Nin, Cuban composer and pianist, father of Anaïs Nin, dies at 70
1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1993 – Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54
1998 – Mary Calderone, American physician and founder (planned parenthood), dies at 94
2003 – Ross Taylor [Robert Murray Taylor], Scottish transplant surgeon who pioneered kidney transplantations in the U.K., dies from cancer of the stomach at 70
2016 – Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan politician, President of Uruguay (2000-2005), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 23rd October 2023
1764 – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
1799 – William Paca, American judge and signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 58
1899 – Penn Symons, British Major General during Second Boer War, dies in battle during the Battle Of Talana Hill at 56
1928 – François Victor Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies at 79
1948 – Eugeniusz Morawski-Dabrowa, Polish composer, dies at 71
1954 – Henri Zagwijn, Dutch composer and musicologist, dies at 76
1996 – Ronald Alfred Gardyne “Rags” Butler, British sailor, dies at 68
2005 – John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
2005 – William Hootkins, American actor, dies at 57
2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry (Nobel 1985), dies at 94
Historical Events for 23rd October 2023
1588 – Remnants of Medina Sidonia’s Spanish Armada returns to Santander, Spain
1934 – Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen attain record balloon height of 10.9 miles (17.5 km) over Lake Erie
1944 – Soviet army invades Hungary
1974 – Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks’ Big Creek Reservation dedicated
1978 – Punk rock singer Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker’s Detention Center in NYC
1997 – At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a power blackout due to sabotage
2008 – Joe Sakic scores his final career goal (#625) against the Edmonton Oilers
2009 – The UK markets had contracted by 0.4% in the third quarter against what was expected to be a period of growth, as a result of unexpectedly poor performance by the service sector
2010 – MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2
2012 – 12 people are killed and 40 are injured in a hospital fire in Tainan, Taiwan
Today in History for 23rd October 2023
Historical Events
1813 – The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).
1819 – 1st ship sails through the Erie Canal from Rome, New York to Utica, New York
1886 – “World Championship” Baseball Series, Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis: St.L Browns edge Chicago White Stockings, 4-3 in 10 innings in Game 6 to take series, 4-2
1973 – Yankee GM and President Lee MacPhail named AL president
1989 – Browns’ Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
1996 – New York Yankees set record recovering from 0-6 in Baseball World Series game to beat Braves, 8-6 in Game 4 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium; record 7th straight post-season road win
Famous Birthdays
1805 – Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author and painter (Nachsommer), born in Oberplan, Bohemia (d. 1868)
1869 – Jacobus H “Koos” Speenhoff, Dutch cabaret singer, born in Kralingen, Holland (d. 1945)
1876 – Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
1936 – Barry Sinclair, New Zealand cricket batsman and captain (21 Tests, 3 x 100s; Wellington CA), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 2022)
1965 – Al Leiter, American pitcher (Florida Marlins, NY Mets), born in Toms River, New Jersey
1987 – Seo In-Guk, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor (The Master’s Sun), born in Ulsan, South Korea
Famous Deaths
1890 – Charles Verlat, Flemish painter, dies at 65
1899 – Penn Symons, British Major General during Second Boer War, dies in battle during the Battle Of Talana Hill at 56
1978 – Maybelle Carter, American country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
2001 – Ronald William Kirby, British artist, dies at 72
2003 – Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician. dies of an aneurysm at 59
2009 – Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor and comedian (Irma la Douce, The Dean Martin Show), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 22nd October 2023
1674 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter, dies at 53
1708 – Herman Witsius [Wits], Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 72
1927 – Ross Youngs, American Baseball HOF right fielder (World Series 1921, 22; NY Giants), dies of Bright’s disease at 30
1966 – Hewlett Johnson [Red Dean of Canterbury], English bishop, dies at 92
1973 – Pablo Casals [Pau Casals i Defilló], Spanish cellist, conductor and composer, dies at 96
1982 – Savitri Devi [Maximiani Portas], Greek French Nazi writer, dies at 77
1985 – Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian operatic soprano, dies at 91
1994 – David Buchan, Scottish ethno-musicologist, dies at 55
1998 – Eric Ambler, English author of thrillers and spy novels (Epitaph for a Spy), dies at 89
2017 – George Young, Scottish-Australian musician, songwriter and record producer (the Easybeats, Flash and the Pan), dies at 70
Historical Events for 22nd October 2023
1721 – Tsar Peter the Great titles himself “Emperor of All Russia”
1906 – Henry Ford becomes President of Ford Motor Company
1922 – Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, NY, named after a knight in Wagner’s opera
1929 – 8th French government of Aristide Briand falls
1929 – James H Scullin forms Australia government
1930 – 1st concert of BBC Symphony Orchestra, at Queen’s Hall, under Adrian Boult
1942 – Operation Flagpole: US Major General Mark Clark and Brigadier General Lyman Lemnitzer meet Vichy French Général Charles Mast secretly in small fishing village of Cherchell, Algeria to finalize plans for Allied Invasion of North Africa
1987 – American composer John Adams’s first opera, “Nixon in China”, premieres at the Houston Grand Opera, in Houston, Texas
2004 – Discovery and isolation of new wonder material Graphene announced in paper by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (Nobel Prize 2010). Incredibly they used scotch tape to peal layers off Graphite.
2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.