1757 – Osman III, sultan of Turkey (1754-57), dies at 58
1915 – Charles Tupper, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative: 69-day term in 1896), dies of heart failure at 94
1936 – Lorado Taft, American sculptor (Black Hawk), dies at 76
1985 – Kirby Grant, American actor (Rustlers Round-Up, Yukon Gold, Sky King), dies in an auto accident at 74
1988 – Sugar Geise, actress (Rhythm Parade), dies after brief illness at 71
2000 – Steve Allen, American comedian, composer, actor and TV host (Tonight Show; Steve Allen Show), dies of injuries from a car accident at 78
2005 – Al López, American Baseball HOF catcher (MLB All-Star 1934, 41; Brooklyn Dodgers; Boston Bees, Pittsburgh Pirates) and manager (AL Manager of the Year 1959 Chicago WS; Cleveland Indians), dies at 97
2006 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (symbolic anthropology), dies at 80
2009 – Norton Buffalo [Phillip Jackson], American singer-songwriter and country and blues harmonica player, dies of cancer at 58
2019 – Ron Fairly, American baseball utility and broadcaster (MLB All Star 1973, 77; LA Dodgers, Montreal Expos; Seattle Mariners), dies from cancer at 81
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Historical Events for 30th October 2022
1077 – Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV gives the district of Stavoren to the bishop of Utrecht (Conrad, his former tutor)
1739 – Great Britain declares war on Spain: War of Jenkins’ Ear [NS=Oct 19]
1961 – Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb in Red Square as part of de-Stalinization efforts
1974 – “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” horror film premieres in Los Angeles
1989 – Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal)
1991 – Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain
1994 – Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel’s Pentium-processor on the Internet
2003 – “Wicked” premieres on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth
2011 – Czech tennis star Petra Kvitová beats Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 7–5, 4–6, 6–3 in the WTA Championship decider in Istanbul, Turkey
2016 – Canada and the EU sign free trade deal after opposition by Belgium
Today in History for 30th October 2022
Historical Events
1503 – Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against Indians in the Americas
1944 – Aaron Copland’s ballet score “Appalachian Spring” premieres in Washington, D.C. with Martha Graham dancing lead role
1947 – Darius Milhaud’s 3rd Symphony “Hymnus Ambrosianus,” premieres in Paris
1967 – Dolly Parton releases her debut single with Porter Wagoner “The Last Thing On My Mind”
2011 – “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1” based on the book by Stephenie Meyer, directed by Bill Condon, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, premieres at the Rome Film Festival
2021 – World Leader agree historic corporate tax agreement of at least 15% at G20 summit in Rome
Famous Birthdays
1739 – Grigory Potemkin, Russian military leader, statesman and favorite of Catherine the Great, born in Chizhovo near Smolensk (d. 1791)
1840 – William Graham Sumner, American sociologist (Folkways), born in Paterson, New Jersey (d. 1910)
1904 – Alfred Gradstein, Polish composer, born in Częstochowa, Poland (d. 1954)
1961 – Hans Segers, Dutch soccer goalkeeper and coach (Wimbledon), born in Eindhoven, Netherlands
1970 – James Pedro, American lightweight judoka (Olympic bronze 1992, 96), born in Danvers, Massachusetts
1979 – Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress, born in Urasoe, Okinawa, Japan
Famous Deaths
1932 – Paul S Methuen, English baron/fieldmarshal/gov of Natal, dies at 87
1969 – George “Pops” Foster, American jazz double bassist, tuba player, and trumpeter (Louis Armstrong; Sidney Bechet; Earl Hines), dies at 77
1979 – Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, dies at 89
1991 – Johan Mekkink, painter, dies
2007 – John Woodruff, American athlete (Olympic gold 1936), dies at 92
2017 – M V Sridhar, Indian cricketer (scored 366 for Hyderabad v Andhra Pradesh 1994), dies of a heart attack at 51
Famous Deaths for 29th October 2022
1321 – Stefanus VI Uros II Milutin, king of Serbia (1282-1321), dies
1618 – Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet, historian and explorer, beheaded for treason at about 64
1790 – Pieter van Bleiswijk, Grand pensionary of Holland 1771-87, dies at about 66
1920 – Ernst Perabo, German-American composer, dies at 74
1957 – Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl, strangled in her apartment in an unsolved murder at 24
1981 – William O. Walker, American publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85
1986 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1991 – Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies
2002 – Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
2013 – Rudolf Kehrer, Soviet classical pianist of German heritage, dies at 90
Historical Events for 29th October 2022
1833 – 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1939 – NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3
1960 – Cassius Clay’s [Muhammad Ali] 1st professional fight; beats Tunney Hunsaker on points in 6 rounds in Louisville, Kentucky
1970 – WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1970 – The Electoral Reform Society calls for the introduction of Proportional Representation (PR) in elections in Northern Ireland
1977 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
2015 – China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years
2017 – British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes a distant 9th in Mexican Grand Prix at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez; good enough to clinch his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship
2020 – Three people stabbed to death in church in Nice, France, in an terrorist attack, after similar attack and President Macron’s defense of right to publish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad
2020 – Former leader Jeremy Corbyn is suspended from the British Labour Party after saying a report into antisemitism in the party was “overstated”
Today in History for 29th October 2022
Historical Events
1921 – The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed in northern California and Oregon
1932 – French liner Normandie is launched
1945 – Happy Chandler resigns as US Senator, remains as baseball commissioner
1982 – Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
1988 – First scheduled Soviet shuttle launch (postponed)
2017 – British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes a distant 9th in Mexican Grand Prix at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez; good enough to clinch his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship
Famous Birthdays
1704 – John Byng, English admiral executed by firing squad at 52 for neglecting his duty in defence of Minorca, born in Southill, Bedfordshire, England (d. 1757)
1853 – Josephine Beall Bruce, African-American activist (NACW) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1923)
1882 – Jean Giraudoux, French writer and playwright (The Madwoman of Chaillot), born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France (d. 1944)
1923 – Dietrich Manicke, German composer, born in Wurzen, Saxony, Germany (d. 2013)
1937 – Sonny Osborne, American bluegrass banjo player (The Osborne Brothers – “Rocky Top”), born in Roark, Kentucky (d. 2021)
1938 – Ralph Bakshi, Krymchak-American animator and film maker (Fritz the Cat; Lord of the Rings (1978); Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures), born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
Famous Deaths
1677 – Charles Coypeau Dassoucy, French poet and singer, dies at 72
1919 – A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
1965 – Bill McKechnie, American Baseball HOF manager (World Series 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates, 1940 Cincinnati Reds) and coach (World Series 1948 Cleveland Indians), dies at 79
1979 – Ramon “Tiki” Fulwood, American funk drummer (Parliament-Funkadelic; Miles Davis), dies of stomach cancer at 35
1983 – Sten Broman, Swedish composer, dies at 81
2011 – Jimmy Savile, British entertainer and suspected sexual predator, dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 28th October 2022
1637 – Foppe van Aitzema, diplomat, dies at about 57
1806 – Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
1914 – Richard Heuberger, composer, dies at 64
1922 – Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer and poet (Flemish Motion), dies at 81
1927 – Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77
1980 – Leon Janney (Ramon), American actor (Charly, Stolen Paradise, Hawk), dies of cancer at 63
1991 – Lydia Hodson Copeland, America’s Jr Miss (1972), dies at 37
2001 – Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
2002 – Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (HandM stores), dies at 85
2020 – Billy Joe Shaver, American country singer-songwriter (“When I Get My Wings”), dies of a stroke at 81
Historical Events for 28th October 2022
1646 – First Protestant church assembly for American Indians established in Massachusetts
1848 – The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
1893 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts first performance of his Symphony Number Six in B minor, “Pathetique”, in St. Petersburg, Russia, 9 days before his death
1904 – St Louis police try a new investigation method – fingerprints
1946 – German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
1953 – Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
1979 – Dick Howser (best Yank manager win-lost pct .636) returns to New York, replacing Billy Martin
1995 – 11th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats England 16-8
2015 – Longest ever 1st game of Baseball World Series (5 hours, 9 minutes); Kansas City Royals beat New York Mets, 5-4; also joint longest by innings (14)
2018 – Baseball World Series: Boston Red Sox beats LA Dodgers, 5-1 in Game 5 at Dodger Stadium to win 9th title in franchise history; MVP: Boston utility Steve Pearce
Today in History for 28th October 2022
Historical Events
1619 – Japanese Keichō Embassy headed by Hasekura Tsunenaga leaves Sendai aboard the Japanese-built Date Maru galleon for Acapulco
1886 – Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City
1915 – Richard Strauss’ Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin
1916 – Australian government holds a national referendum seeking support for the proposal of compulsory conscription; it is rejected
1959 – Jean Genet’s play “Les Negres” premieres in Paris
1995 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Belmont Park; winners: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled’s Song
Famous Birthdays
1703 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician, born in Portes, Gard, France (d. 1768)
1930 – John Mayer, Indian violinist and composer (Indo-Jazz Fusions), born in Calcutta, Bengal, British India (d. 2004)
1948 – Telma Hopkins, American singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn – “Tie A Yellow Ribbon”), and actress (Family Matters), born in Louisville, Kentucky
1958 – Manzoor Hussain, Pakistani field hockey striker (Olympic gold 1986; World Cup gold 1978, 82; 175 caps, 86 goals), born in Sialkot, Pakistan (d. 2022)
1966 – Aris Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician
1985 – Richard Smith, American entrepreneur
Famous Deaths
1639 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
1897 – Hercules Robinson, British colonial administrator (Ceylon, Fiji, New Zealand, South Africa), dies at 72
1929 – Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of the German Empire (1900-09), dies at 80
1994 – Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies
2005 – Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926)
2010 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlander statesman (b. 1938)
Famous Deaths for 27th October 2022
1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian physician, burnt at stake for heresy at Champel near Geneva
1605 – Akbar, 3rd Mughal Emperor of India (1556-1605), dies at 63
1771 – Johann Gottlieb Graun, composer, dies
1796 – Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer, dies at 45
1848 – Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, Russian composer, dies at 46
1958 – Frederik Gerretson [Geerten Gossaert], historian/poet/politician, dies at 74
1977 – James M. Cain, American writer (Postman Always Rings Twice), dies at 85
1990 – Jacques Demy, French director (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), dies of AIDS at 59
1990 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American bandleader, dies at 90
2017 – Ladislav Kubík, Czech-American composer (Aulos; Subterranean River) and educator (Florida State University, 1990-2017), dies at 71