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Today in History for 24th October 2022

Historical Events

1596 – -26] Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary and Germany
1656 – Treaty of Vilnius: Russia and Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant
1940 – Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants
1958 – USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam
2012 – Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over $50 million in damage
2020 – Deadliest shipwreck of the year claims 140 lives on a ship that sank with 200 migrants on board off the coast of Senegal

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Famous Birthdays

1808 – Ernst Richter, German musical theorist and composer, born in Großschönau, Saxony, Germany (d. 1879)
1908 – John Alwyne Kitching, British zoologist (d. 1996)
1936 – Bill Wyman, English rock and jazz bassist (Rolling Stones, 1962-93 – “Under My Thumb”), born in Lewisham, London
1943 – José E. Serrano, American politician (Rep-D-New York), born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
1960 – Joachim Winkelhock, German race car driver, born in Waiblingen, West Germany
1972 – T. J. Cunningham, American NFL safety (Seattle Seahawks), born in Aurora, Colorado (d. 2019)

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Famous Deaths

1852 – Daniel Webster, US Secretary of State (1841-43, 1850-52), politician and lawyer, dies at 70
1931 – Murray Bisset, South African cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1899 and 1910), dies at 55
1935 – Abe Landau, American gangster (henchman for Dutch Schultz), murdered at 39
1938 – Ernst Barlach, German writer and artist, dies at 68
1996 – Bruce Matthews, Australian newspaper executive who worked for Rupert Murdoch, dies at 71
2004 – James Cardinal Hickey, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1920)

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Famous Deaths for 23rd October 2022

1616 – Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
1890 – Charles Verlat, Flemish painter, dies at 65
1921 – John B. Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81
1944 – Hana Brady, Jewish Czech Holocaust victim (Hanna’s Suitcase), dies at 13
1957 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (New Look), dies of a heart attack at 52
1966 – Claire McDowell, American silent film actress (Big Parade), dies after long illness at 88
1982 – Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist and composer, dies at 52
1992 – Kees Spermon, Dutch painter and graphic artist, dies
1996 – Alexander Kelly, British pianist and composer, dies at 67
2019 – Bernie Parrish, American NFL cornerback (Pro Bowl 1960, 63; Cleveland Browns; best-selling book, ‘They Call It A Game’), dies of prostate cancer at 83

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Historical Events for 23rd October 2022

502 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
1229 – Otto II becomes earl of Gelre
1694 – American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec
1910 – Blanche Scott becomes the first woman to fly at a public event in the US at Fort Wayne, Indiana
1941 – Walt Disney’s animated film “Dumbo” released
1952 – Charlie Chaplin’s “Limelight”, starring himself and Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster Keaton, premieres in New York City; Not released in Los Angeles until 1972, winning Chaplin his only competitive Academy Award for original score
1958 – Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1964 – Dutch 10th dan judoka Anton Geesink wins Open gold medal in the first ever Olympic judo competition in Tokyo; prevents clean sweep of the gold medals by Japan
1974 – Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks’ Big Creek Reservation dedicated
2018 – Megyn Kelly is criticized after making comments supporting blackface on her NBC show

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Today in History for 23rd October 2022

Historical Events

1888 – Pelham Bay Park in Bronx vested
1934 – Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen attain record balloon height of 10.9 miles (17.5 km) over Lake Erie
1972 – Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain
1983 – 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile
2008 – Joe Sakic scores his final career goal (#625) against the Edmonton Oilers
2015 – Adele releases her single “Hello” – becomes 1st song with more than a million downloads in 1st week (1.1m)

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Famous Birthdays

1516 – Charlotte of Valois, Princess of France as second daughter of King Francis I and his wife Claude, born in Château d’Amboise, France (d. 1524)
1766 – Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French general and marshal, born in Paris (d. 1847)
1922 – Coleen Gray [Doris Bernice Jensen], American actress (Apache Drums, The Killing), born in Staplehurst, Nebraska (d. 2015)
1948 – Brian Ross, American Emmy and Peabody Award television journalist (NBC, 1974-94; ABC, 1994-2019), born in Chicago, Illinois
1961 – Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish soccer goalkeeper (126 caps Spain, 4 Basque Country; FC Barcelona 301 games, Athletic Bilbao, Valencia), born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
1962 – Doug Flutie, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Heisman Trophy 1984, Boston College; Grey Cup MVP 1992, 96, 97; Pro Bowl 1998, Buffalo Bills), born in Manchester, Maryland

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Famous Deaths

1753 – Columban Praelisauer, German music director and composer, dies at 50
1868 – Cullen Whipple, American inventor (pointed screw machine), dies at 67
1989 – Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film actress (b. 1911)
2004 – Edward Toner Cone, American pianist, composer and pedagogue, dies at 87
2005 – John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
2016 – Tom Hayden, American civil rights and antiwar activist and politician (Rep-D-Ca), dies at 76

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Famous Deaths for 22nd October 2022

1625 – Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyō of the Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period, dies at 63
1763 – French van Mieris “the Young”, painter/historian, dies at 73
1915 – Andrew Noble, Scottish physicist who was a founder of the science of ballistics, dies at 84
1919 – Bruce Frederick Cummings, English author (Journal of a Disappointed Man), dies at 30
1954 – Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer and pilot, dies at 54
1965 – Earl Cooper, American auto racer (AAA National Championship 1913, 15, 17; Indianapolis 500 1924 runner-up), dies at 78
1989 – Ewan MacColl [James Miller], Scottish folk singer-songwriter (“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”), dies at 74
1994 – William Frankena, American philosopher, dies at 86
1995 – Edward Totah, art Dealer, dies at 46
2012 – Arthur Jensen, American psychologist, dies at 89

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Historical Events for 22nd October 2022

1899 – British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa
1928 – China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants
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
1978 – New York City Marathon: Grete Waitz of Norway wins in her race debut in world record 2:32:30; Bill Rodgers wins his third straight title in 2:12:12
1978 – Pope John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope
1997 – Larry Flynt sells Hustler to an under-age buyer in a non-zoned area of Cincinnati, Ohio
2012 – MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3
2018 – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison makes a public apology to victims of child sexual abuse in institutions
2018 – Cameroon’s President Paul Biya wins seventh term in office, extending his 36 years in office, in election marred by intimidation and low turnout
2018 – Actress Selma Blair reveals she has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis

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Today in History for 22nd October 2022

Historical Events

1335 – Ex-emperor Hanazono (95th Emperor of Japan) became a Zen priest
1899 – British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa
1935 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Twin Hills CC: Johnny Revolta wins his only major title, defeating Tommy Armour, 5 and 4
1980 – 4th government of Martens forms in Belgium
2019 – Chilean president Sebastián Piñera agrees to meet opposition leaders after 15 people killed in growing nationwide protests over living costs and inequality
2020 – The National Hockey League announces the annual NHL All Star Game and the NHL All-Star Skills Competition would be postponed to no earlier than 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Famous Birthdays

1847 – Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, Boer leader in the South African War (1899–1902), born in Winburg, South Africa (d. 1914)
1900 – James Hall, American actor (Hell’s Angels, Four Sons), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 1940)
1915 – Harry Hickox, Big Springs Tx, (Herb-Please Don’t Eat the Daisies)
1918 – Lou Klein, American baseball infielder (St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia A’s) and manager (Chicago Cubs), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1976)
1921 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
1928 – Clare Fischer, American musician, composer and arranger, born in Durand, Michigan (d. 2012)

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Famous Deaths

1674 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter, dies at 53
1847 – Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa
1954 – Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author (one of the modernist Group of Five), dies at 64
1965 – Paul Tillich, German-American theologist (Courage To Be), dies at 79
1994 – David Buchan, Scottish ethno-musicologist, dies at 55
1995 – Kingsley Amis, English author (Lucky Jim), dies of injuries from a fall at 73

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Famous Deaths for 21st October 2022

1637 – Laurens Reael, Dutch vice-governor of Ambon, poet, and admiral, dies at 54
1687 – Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller’s plot), dies
1773 – Johann Conrad Schlaun, German baroque architect, dies at 78
1873 – Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
1886 – Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the MartinFierro), dies at 51
1896 – James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
1924 – Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, Belgian composer, dies at 76
1929 – Owen Dunell, South African cricket batsman (South Africa’s 1st Test captain; 2 Tests), dies at 73
1937 – Lucy Diggs Slowe, American educator (Dean of Women, Howard University, 1922-37), tennis champion (American Tennis Association, 1917), and sorority co-founder (Alpha Kappa Alpha, 1908), dies at 52
1944 – Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)

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Historical Events for 21st October 2022

1816 – The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
1917 – 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WWI: US troops enter front lines at Sommervillier under French command
1964 – Polish 4×100m women’s relay team runs a world record 43.6 to beat the US by 0.3s and win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics; Teresa Ciepły, Irena Kirszenstein, Halina Górecka and Ewa Kłobukowska
1965 – KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1979 – New York City Marathon: Bill Rodgers wins 4th straight men’s title in 2:11:42; defending champion Grete Waitz of Norway takes out women’s event in 2:27:33
1982 – Private funeral service held for Bess Truman, former First Lady of the United States
1984 – Cleveland Browns’ Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal
1995 – Mario Tremblay, selected 22nd NHL coach of Montreal Canadians
2003 – Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
2020 – Pope Francis backs same-sex civil unions in interview in documentary film “Francesco”

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Today in History for 21st October 2022

Historical Events

1925 – Sidney Howards “Lucky Sam McGarver” premieres in NYC
1972 – “Man of La Mancha” closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 140 performances
1976 – NY Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed
1976 – Baseball World Series: defending champions Cincinnati Reds sweep NY Yankees; beat Bombers, 7-2 in Game 4 at Yankee Stadium; MVP: Reds catcher Johnny Bench
2017 – Spanish government suspends Catalonia’s autonomy in the face of a deepening political crisis over the region’s push for independence
2018 – Train derails in Yilan County, Taiwan, killing 18 and injuring 178

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Famous Birthdays

1581 – Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)
1904 – Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, American sci-fi author (Danger Planet)
1916 – Andrea Checchi, Italian actor (The Lady Without Camelias, Two Anonymous Letters), born in Florence, Tuscany (d. 1974)
1971 – Thomas Ulsrud, Norwegian curler (World C’ship gold [skip] 2014; Olympics silver 2010), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 2022)
1973 – Charlie Lowell, American Musician
1980 – Brian Pittman, American Christian rock bassist (Relient K), born in Canton, Ohio

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Famous Deaths

1805 – Horatio Nelson, British admiral and war hero, dies in Battle of Trafalgar at 47
1969 – Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet of the Beat Generation (On the Road, Mexico Blues), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 47
1977 – Ferit Tuzun, Turkish composer, dies at 48
1984 – Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye, 1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murdered at 40
2012 – Dann Cahn, American film editor, dies of natural causes at 89

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