1662 – Charles II of Great Britain sells Dunkirk to France for 2.5 million livres (320,000 English pounds)
1876 – Henry Morton Stanley’s reaches Lualaba River
1899 – Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000
1927 – Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL President
1935 – Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics
1956 – England’s 1st large scale nuclear power station opens
1967 – Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue
1974 – NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak
1975 – 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Miss
2018 – The revived “The Connors” debuts on ABC TV starring Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman, without fired former star Roseanne Barr
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Today in History for 17th October 2022
Historical Events
1556 – Ex-emperor Karel departs Netherland for Spain
1970 – Anwar Sadat sworn in as the 3rd President of Egypt
1971 – It is estimated today that approximately 16,000 households were withholding rent and rates for council houses as part of the campaign of civil disobedience against internment organised by the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Northern Ireland
1972 – Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-a-Lng,” is #1
1981 – Brazilian Nelson Piquet driving for Brabham finishes 5th in the season ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 1 point from Carlos Reutemann
1991 – MLB National League Championship: Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 4 games to 3
Famous Birthdays
1875 – Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer (Yes and No!)
1946 – Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter/actor (Olympic gold 1968, “Soap”), born in Pomona California
1948 – George Wendt, American actor (Norm in Cheers), born in Chicago, Illinois
1958 – Alan Jackson, American country singer (Here in the Real World), born in Newnan, Georgia
1969 – Wood Harris, American actor
1972 – Joe McEwing, American baseball player
Famous Deaths
1705 – Anne “Ninon” de l’Enclos, French patron of the arts, courtesan and writer, dies at 84
1909 – Nicola Spinelli, Italian composer, dies at 44
1944 – Pavel Haas, Czech Jewish composer, murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at 45 (b. 1899)
1979 – Karel Reiner, Czech pianist, composer, and Theresienstadt concentration camp survivor, dies at 69
2008 – Levi Stubbs [Stubbles], American baritone singer (The Four Tops – “It’s the Same Old Song”; “Standing In The Shadows of Love”), dies at 72
2017 – Ingvar Lidholm, Swedish composer (Toccata e Canto), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 16th October 2022
1591 – Gregory XIV [Niccolo Sfondrati], Italian Pope, dies at 56
1891 – Sarah Winnemucca, indian scout, dies
1893 – Carlo Pedrotti, composer, dies at 75
1916 – Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker’s union leader, dies at 73
1918 – Felix Arndt, American composer, dies during the Spanish Flu pandemic at 29
1946 – Granville Bantock, English composer and conductor (Hebridean Symphony), dies at 78
1981 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader and politician (Minister of Defense 1967-74), dies of a heart attack at 66
1983 – George Liberace, American violinist (The Liberace Show), dies of leukemia at 72
1995 – Thomas Augustine Martin, Irish academic, dies at 59
2017 – Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist (Panama Papers), killed by a car bomb at 53
Historical Events for 16th October 2022
1311 – Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens
1861 – Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
1925 – Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1967 – WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 – The People’s Democracy (PD), formed on Oct 9, organise a march of 1,300 students from the Queen’s University of Belfast to the City Hall in the centre of the city, Northern Ireland
1990 – US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
1995 – Million Man March held in Washington, D.C. (over 830,000 African American men attend)
2013 – 49 people are killed after Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes in the Mekong River, Laos
2018 – Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman denies knowledge of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi according to President Trump
2019 – Netflix reveals its most popular original movie was Sandra Bullock’s “Bird Box” and TV series “Stranger Things” for the year
Today in History for 16th October 2022
Historical Events
1551 – English Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset re-arrested
1942 – Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
1976 – Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
1991 – Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league’s anti-drug agreement
1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a Spanish warrant requesting his extradition on murder charges
2021 – NASA probe Lucy launched on mission to fly-by eight Trojan asteroids circling the sun
Famous Birthdays
1811 – Gaetano Capocci, Italian organist and composer (Responsori), born in Rome (d. 1898)
1821 – Albert Franz Doppler, Austrian flautist and composer, born in Lemberg, Austrian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine) (d. 1883)
1854 – Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist
1855 – Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
1897 – Harrison Kerr, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1978)
1927 – Gus Yatron, American boxer and politician (Rep-D-PA, 1969-93), born in Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)
Famous Deaths
1333 – Nicolaas V [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies at about 73
1956 – Jules Rimet, French football administrator (3rd President of FIFA 1921-54), dies at 83
2003 – Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
2004 – Pierre Salinger, American newsman (ABC) and press secretary (John F. Kennedy), dies at 79
2012 – Eddie Yost, American MLB player, dies from cardiovascular disease at 86
2020 – Rodolfo Fischer, Argentine soccer striker (35 caps; San Lorenzo 271 games), dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 15th October 2022
1891 – William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 54
1920 – Hendrik Peter Staal, Dutch reformed officer and politician, dies at 75
1944 – Philip Mechanicus, Dutch journalist, executed at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at 55
1955 – Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese film score composer (Rashomon; Seven Samurai), dies of tuberculosis at 41
1981 – Frank DeKova, American actor (Chief Wild Eagle-F Troop), dies at 71
1985 – Ted Steele, American orchestra leader (Cavalcade of Stars), dies at 68
1995 – Phil Sidey, English broadcaster (Radio Leeds), dies at 69
2000 – Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
2008 – Chris Mims, American NFL defensive end, 1992-99 (San Diego Chargers; Washington Redskins), dies of cardiomegaly (enlarge heart) at 38
2012 – Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia (1941-55 and 1993-2004), Chief of State (1960-70), independence campaigner and film producer, dies from a heart attack at 89
Historical Events for 15th October 2022
1924 – US President Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument
1954 – Hurricane Hazel makes landfall in the US in North Carolina as a category 4 hurricane, 195 die in US and Canada
1962 – WLOX TV channel 13 in Biloxi-Gulfport, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 – American Don Schollander swims a world record 4:12.2 to win the 400m freestyle gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics; second of Schollander’s 4 gold medals at the Games
1964 – American Al Oerter wins his third of 4 consecutive Olympic men’s discus titles at the Tokyo Olympics; beats Czech Ludvík Daněk by 0.08m
1970 – Anwar Sadat elected 3rd President of Egypt, succeeding the late Gamal Abdel Nasser
1974 – Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J. Flory for work on macro molecules
1979 – NY Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier
1993 – Amstel brewery on Curacao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle
2021 – IPL Cricket Final, Dubai International Stadium: Chennai Super Kings win their 4th IPL title beating Kolkata Knight Riders by 27 runs; Faf du Plessis scores 86 off 59 balls for Player of the Match
Today in History for 15th October 2022
Historical Events
533 – Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals
1955 – Buddy Holley opens for Bill Haley and His Comets in Lubbock, Texas, and impresses Nashville scout Eddie Crandall, leading to a recording contract with a misspelling that creates “Buddy Holly”
1956 – Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
1957 – Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for SF Seals-franchises only, not the players
1966 – Australia bans Troggs’ “I Can’t Control Myself” as “terribly obscene”
2012 – Hilary Mantel wins the 2012 Man Booker Prize for her novel “Bring Up the Bodies”
Famous Birthdays
1711 – Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Queen consort of Sardinia (1737-41), born in Château de Lunéville, Lorraine (d. 1741)
1851 – George Foot Moore, American theologist (Hebrews, Old Testament), born in West Chester, Pennsylvania (d. 1931)
1878 – Paul Reynaud, Premier of France (May-June 1940), born in Barcelonette, France (d. 1966)
1900 – Mervyn LeRoy, American movie producer (Devil at 4 O’Clock), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1987)
1937 – Linda Lavin, American actress (Alice, Barney Miller), born in Portland, Maine
1957 – Mira Nair, Indian-American filmmaker (Monsoon Wedding), born in Rourkela, Odisha, India
Famous Deaths
1674 – Robert Herrick, English poet (‘Gather ye rosebuds while ye may’), dies at 83
1948 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
1960 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70
1964 – Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (“Anything Goes”; “Night And Day”; “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”), dies of kidney failure at 73
1990 – Delphine Seyrig, French actress (Freak Orlando, Reperages) dies of lung disease at 58
2005 – Matti Wuori, Finnish politician, dies of cancer at 60
Famous Deaths for 14th October 2022
1256 – Kujō Yoritsugu, 5th shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan, dies at 16
1719 – Arnold Houbraken, Dutch painter and writer, dies at 59
1758 – Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal, dies at 62
1930 – Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies
1993 – Bertie Clarke, West Indian cricketer (6 wkts for WI in 1939), dies at 75
1993 – Guy Malary, Haitian lawyer/minister of Justice, murdered at 50
1994 – Gioconda de Vito, Italian-British violinist, dies at 87
2002 – Norbert Schultze, American composer and songwriter (b. 1911)
2006 – Gerry Studds, American politician (Rep-D-MA, 1973-97), first openly gay member of US Congress, dies at 69
2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, English actor (Falcon Crest, Manimal), dies of bowel cancer at 58
Historical Events for 14th October 2022
1700 – Rabbi Judah Hasid and Chayim Molocho arrive in Jerusalem
1951 – Organization of Central American States forms
1960 – Belgian senator Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
1964 – Little known American distance runner Billy Mills scores major upset by winning the 10,000m at the Tokyo Olympics; beats Mohammed Gammoudi of Tunisia by 0.4s; only American to ever win the event
1965 – Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
1969 – Race riots in Springfield, Massachusetts
1970 – Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92
2002 – MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 1
2019 – British Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive in Pakistan to begin a 5-day royal tour
2021 – Record price for a Banksy artwork paid of 18.5 million pounds ($25.4 million) for “Love is in the Bin”, that was famously shredded on purchase in 2018