1806 – Benjamin Banneker, African American astronomer, mathematician and surveyor of Washington, D.C., dies at 74
1868 – Howell Cobb, American politician (U.S. Secretary of Treasury), dies at 53
1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1941 – Helen Morgan, American stage and screen actress, and singer (Show Boat), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 41
1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist (Nobel Prize 1902 for Zeeman effect), dies at 78
1953 – James Finlayson, Scottish-American stage, and silent and “talkie” film actor (Laurel and Hardy films), dies of a heart attack at 66
1954 – Robert H. Jackson, American lawyer and politician (84th Supreme Court justice 1941-54), dies at 62
1974 – Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman and subject of the novel “Schindler’s Ark” and the film “Schindler’s List”, dies at 66
1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1963-64), dies at 92
2012 – Theo Olof, German-Dutch violinist and concert master, dies at 88
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Historical Events for 9th October 2023
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, first Head of State of modern Greece, assassinated in Nafplion
1899 – South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum
1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project
1963 – Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba and Haiti, kills 6,000
1965 – Beatles’ “Yesterday” single goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks
1974 – Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at Madison Square Garden; start of a 37 game road losing streak for Washington
1976 – Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan), scores 163 on 1st day
1986 – Stage musical “Phantom of the Opera” premieres in London, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman; runs for 13,629 performances
1987 – Japanese bank buys “Lady McGill” stamp for $1,100,000
1989 – 27th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0)
Today in History for 9th October 2023
Historical Events
768 – Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks
1740 – Dutch governor general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8,000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia
1924 – Municipal Grant Park Stadium, in Chicago Illinois (now known as Soldier Field) is officially dedicated
1981 – United States Auto Club appeals panel restores disputed Indianapolis 500 victory to disqualified first-across-the-line Bobby Unser
1990 – Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
2015 – Selena Gomez releases her studio album “Revival”, goes to #1 on Billboard 200
Famous Birthdays
1766 – Bedrich Divis Weber, Bohemian composer and musicologist, born in Velichov, Czech Republic (d. 1842)
1933 – Peter Mansfield, British Physician whose discoveries led to MRI (2003 Nobel Prize), born in London (d. 2017)
1935 – Paul Barton, New Zealand cricket batsman (7 Tests, 1 x 100; Wellington), born in Wellington, New Zealand
1944 – Nona Hendryx, American RandB singer-songwriter (Patti LaBelle and Blue Belles; LaBelle – “Lady Marmalade”), born in Trenton, New Jersey
1950 – Mick Malone, Australian cricketer (WA seamer, Test 1977, made 46 took 5-63, 1-14), born in Scarborough, Australia
1955 – Linwood Boomer, Canadian-American actor (Adam-Little House on the Prairie), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
Famous Deaths
1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England, dies at 68
1967 – Andre Maurois [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac), dies at 82
1973 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe [Nubin], American gospel and RandB singer, songwriter, and electric guitarist (“This Train”; “Down By The Riverside”), dies of a stroke at 58
2001 – Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (Footloose, Steel Magnolias, dies at 74
2011 – Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (b. 1989)
2013 – Mark “Chopper” Read, Australian criminal and crime author (Chopper: From the Inside), dies from liver cancer at 58
Famous Deaths for 8th October 2023
1652 – John Greaves, English mathematician and astronomer (attempted to survey the pyramids) (b. 1602)
1656 – John Georg I, Elector of Saxony (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71
1895 – Charles Oberthür, German composer and harpist, dies at 76
1967 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd), dies at 61
1978 – Karl Swenson, American actor (Lars Hanson-Little House on the Prairie), dies of a heart attack at 70
1979 – June Nash, American actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68
1983 – Joan Hackett, American stage and screen actress (Will Penny; Only When I Laugh; Mourning Becomes Electra),, dies of cancer at 49
1997 – Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (b. 1913)
1997 – Robin Lee, American figure skater, dies at 77
2011 – Antonio Iglesias Álvares, Spanish pianist, composer, educator and critic, dies at 93
Historical Events for 8th October 2023
1779 – English engraver and poet William Blake begins study at the Royal Academy, Old Somerset House, London
1903 – J M Synge’s play “In the Shadow of the Glen” premieres in Dublin
1939 – Germany annexes Western Poland
1942 – Comedy duo Abbott and Costello launch their weekly radio show
1944 – Samuel Barber’s “Capricorn Concerto” premieres at The Town Hall, NYC, in a performance by Daniel Saidenberg and his Little Symphony
1956 – Yankees pitcher Don Larsen throws a perfect game as New York beats Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0 in Game 5 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium
1968 – Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (formerly British HMS Venerable) sold to Argentina
1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
2001 – US President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security
2012 – 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
Today in History for 8th October 2023
Historical Events
1625 – English Admiral George Villiers’ fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz, Spain
1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for the murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son
1972 – International music revue “From Israel with Love” closes limited run at Palace Theater, NYC, after 8 performances
1980 – USSR and Syria sign peace treaty
1986 – Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
2016 – 140 people are killed in an air strike during a wake in Sanaa, Yemen
Famous Birthdays
1834 – Walter Kittredge, American musician during American Civil War, born in Merrimack, New Hampshire (d. 1905)
1959 – Carlos I. Noriega, Peruvian-American astronaut (STS 84, sk 97), born in Lima, Peru
1961 – Ted Kooshian, American jazz pianist (Hubub!; Standard Orbit Quartet; Clowns Will Be Arriving), born in San Jose, California
1965 – Martin Mayhew, American NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Bucs), born in Daytona Beach, California
1970 – Anne-Marie Duff, English actress (Shameless), born in London, England
1977 – Erna Siikavirta, Finnish heavy metal keyboardist (Deathlike Silence, 2006-08; Lordi, 1997-2005), born in Espoo, Finland
Famous Deaths
1772 – Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, French composer and violinist, dies at 60
1925 – Abraham Pieter Cornelis van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister (Liberal, 1918-27), dies at 89
1987 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek politician and 2nd President of Greece (1975-1980), dies at 88
1990 – B.J. Wilson, British session and touring rock drummer (Procol Harum, 1967-77; Joe Cocker), dies of a drug overdose complications and pneumonia at 43
1995 – Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45
2008 – Eileen Herlie [Herlihy], Scottish-American actress (All My Children; The Angel with the Trumpet), dies of complications from pneumonia at 90
Famous Deaths for 7th October 2023
1911 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
1944 – Helmut Lent, German night-fighter ace in World War II, dies at 26
1951 – Anton Philips, Co-Founder of Royal Philips Electronics N.V., dies at 77
1985 – Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish composer, dies at 81
1986 – Cheryl Crawford, American actress and producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon), dies at 84
1994 – Paul Swift, American actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60
1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1995 – Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59
1995 – Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91
2010 – Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor (b. 1966)
Historical Events for 7th October 2023
1806 – Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgwood
1826 – Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
1864 – -Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road, Virginia
1950 – US forces invade North Korea by crossing 38th parallel
1952 – First “Bandstand” broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)
1955 – Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn
1975 – MLB National League Championship: Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 games to 0
2001 – Crude oil resumes flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline after workers welded shut a bullet hole that caused 260,000 US gallons of oil to spill out
2012 – ICC Men’s Cricket T20 World Cup, Colombo: West Indies beat Sri Lanka by 36 runs for first title; Player of the Series: Australian all-rounder Shane Watson (249 runs • 11 wickets)
2016 – Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize for attempts to end armed conflict with FARC
Today in History for 7th October 2023
Historical Events
1763 – George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement
1919 – KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
1943 – Weill, Perelman and Nash’ musical “One Touch of Venus” premieres in NYC
2010 – Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat”
2018 – Romanian referendum to ban same sex marriage fails with only 20.4% voting
2019 – Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology awarded to Peter Ratcliffe, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza for discovering how cells sense oxygen
Famous Birthdays
1881 – Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
1916 – Walt Rostow, American economist and political theorist (The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto), born in NYC, New York (d. 2003)
1951 – John Mellencamp, American rock singer-songwriter (“Jack and Diane”; “Small Town”; “Pink Houses”), co-founder of Farm Aid, and actor (Falling From Grace), born in Seymour, Indiana
1955 – Yo-Yo Ma, Chinese-American cellist (2001 National Medal of Arts, 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom), born in Paris, France
1973 – Dida, Brazilian footballer, born in Bahia, Brazil
1982 – Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer, born in Longvic, France
Famous Deaths
1555 – Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488)
1925 – Hubert Main, American hymn composer, dies at 86
1999 – Deryck Guyler, British actor (Please Sir!; Sykes), dies at 85
2005 – Doug Young, American national and world powerlifting champion, dies of a heart attack at 61
2008 – Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)
2016 – Johnny Gleeson, Australian cricket spin bowler (29 Tests, 93 wickets, BB 5/61; NSW CA), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 6th October 2023
1868 – Léon Kreutzer, French composer and music critic, dies at 51
1919 – Ricardo Palma, Peruvian writer and poet (Tradiciones Peruanas), dies at 86
1924 – Jacques Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer and jurist, dies at 75
1951 – Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated
1970 – Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Sruby), dies at 69
1981 – Anwar Sadat, 3rd President of Egypt (1970-81, Nobel 1978), assassinated by fundamentalist army officers at 62
1991 – Wendell Phillips, dies at 83 [or 10/13]
2010 – Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
2020 – Johnny Nash, American pop-reggae-soul singer-songwriter and record producer (I Can See Clearly Now), dies at 80
2022 – Judy Tenuta, American stand-up comedienne and accordion player, dies of ovarian cancer at 72