1667 – Arung Palakka’s Bugis forces occupy Makassar, southern Sulawesi
1923 – Dutch Government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
1926 – Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 “Belga”)
1939 – Polish Jews forced into obligatory work service
1942 – Battle of Santa Cruz: Japanese naval offensive against US forces near Solomon Islands
1955 – British troops occupy Saudi Arabian oil field at Boeraimi
1967 – Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself after 26 years on the Peacock Throne
1984 – “The Terminator” directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton is released in the US
1993 – NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte
2007 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Monmouth Park; Day 1 winners: Maryfield, Nownownow, Corinthian
Author: gil7
Today in History for 26th October 2023
Historical Events
1529 – Thomas More appointed Lord Chancellor of England
1951 – Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister at the age of 76
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1968 – Striker Antal Dunai scores twice as Hungary outclasses Bulgaria 4-1 to take the men’s football gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
2012 – China blocks the New York Times from searches and social media in response to an investigation into Premier Wen Jiabao
2015 – World Health Organization classifies processed meat as carcinogenic
Famous Birthdays
1800 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian general and fieldmarshal, born in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1891)
1934 – Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German composer and musician (Cluster; Harmonia), born in Berlin
1946 – Keith Hopwood, British rock guitarist (Herman’s Hermits – “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter”), born in Davyhulme, Manchester, England
1953 – Jennifer Roberson, American sci-fi author (Shapechangers, Sword-Maker), born in Kansas City, Missouri
1962 – Steve Wren, British pop-rock drummer (Then Jericho – “The Motive”), born in Lambeth, London, England
1970 – Bert Emanuel, American NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons), born in Kansas City, Missouri
Famous Deaths
1671 – Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
1678 – John Jenkins, English composer, dies at about 86
1909 – Itō Hirobumi, Japanese samurai, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (4 terms between 1885 and 1901) and Resident-General of Korea (1905-09), assassinated by a Korean nationalist at 68
1923 – Charles Proteus Steinmetz, German-American electrical engineer (development of alternating current), dies at 58
2018 – György Károly, Hungarian poet and author, dies of cancer at 65
2019 – Robert Evans, American producer and actor (Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 25th October 2023
1495 – John II the Perfect, King of Portugal (1481-95), dies at 40
1922 – Oskar Hertwig, German embryologist (discovered fertilization), dies at 73
1936 – Jaime de Magalhães Lima, Portuguese author and poet (Salmos do Prisoneiro), dies at 76
1973 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian distance athlete (Olympic gold marathon 1960 WR [barefoot], 64 WR; Africa’s first WR breaking athlete in any sport), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 41
1984 – Pascale Ogier, actress (Ghost Dance), dies of a heart attack at 24
1991 – Khigh Dhiegh [Kenneth Dickerson], American actor (Forbidden Nights; The Manchurian Candidate; Hawaii Five-0 – “Wo Fat”), dies of kidney and heart failure at 81
1991 – Margo J. Sylvia (née Lopez), American pop singer (Tune Weavers – “Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby”), dies of heart attack and stroke at 55
2010 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican reggae musician, dies of lung cancer at 59
2011 – Anna van Beers [Graeve], Dutch actress (A Woman like Eve, Diary of a Hooker), dies at 95
2018 – Sonny Fortune [Cornelius Fortune], American jazz saxophonist, dies at 79
Historical Events for 25th October 2023
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
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