1954 – 1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston)
1957 – WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast
1957 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1972 – Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago, llinois
1974 – “The Rumble in the Jungle”: Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in the 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire; regains world heavyweight boxing title with famous “rope-a-dope” tactic
1985 – “Rockin’ with the Rhythm” second studio album by The Judds is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1986)
1985 – 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched
1987 – “Faith” debut album by George Michael is released
2017 – Actor Kevin Spacey issues apology after actor Anthony Rapp accuses him of inappropriate sexual behaviour when he was 14
2019 – Twitter head Jack Dorsey announces it will no longer take political ads
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Today in History for 30th October 2021
Historical Events
1502 – Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut, India for the second time.
1944 – Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau
1947 – Darius Milhaud’s 3rd Symphony “Hymnus Ambrosianus,” premieres in Paris
1963 – Morocco and Algeria sign cease fire
1969 – WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, NH (IND) 1st broadcast
2004 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Lone Star Park; winners: Ghostzapper, Wilko, Ashado, Better Talk Now, Oujja Board, Sweet Catomine, Singletary, Speightstown
Famous Birthdays
1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist (Nobel Prize 1939 in Physiology or Medicine – first commercially available antibiotic and marketed under the brand name Prontosil), born in Lagow, Brandenburg (d. 1964)
1945 – Glenn Poshard, American politician (Rep-D-Illinois), born in Herald, Illinois
1953 – Kathleen Cody, American actress (Charley and the Angel), born in The Bronx, New York
1970 – James Pedro, American lightweight judoka (Olympic bronze 1992, 96), born in Danvers, Massachusetts
1970 – Patrice Tardif, Canadian NHL center (LA Kings), born in Thetford Mines, Quebec
1983 – Trent Edwards, American football player (Buffalo Bills), born in Los Gatos, California
Famous Deaths
1602 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
1944 – Paul Ladmirault, French composer, dies at 66
1956 – Pío Baroja y Nessi, Spanish Basque writer, author of over 100 novels (The Struggle for Life, Zalacain the Adventurer), dies at 83
1996 – John Young, Scottish actor and TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 80
2008 – Pedro Pompilio Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
2018 – Hardy Fox, American member of avant-garde band The Residents, dies at 73
Famous Deaths for 29th October 2021
1846 – Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronomist, dies at 90
1853 – William Richard Bexfield, English composer, dies at 29
1885 – George McClellan, Union army major general, dies of a heart attack at 58
1927 – Leonard Nelson, German philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45
1947 – Frances Cleveland, American First Lady (1885-89 93-97), wife of Grover Cleveland dies at 83
1963 – Michael Holliday [Norman Milne], British pop singer (“The Story of My Life”), dies of a suspected drug overdose at 38
1985 – John Lodge, American actor (Witchmaker) and politician (79th Governor of Connecticut), dies at 82
1991 – Mario Scelba, Prime Minister of Italia (1954-55), dies
2013 – Rudolf Kehrer, Soviet classical pianist of German heritage, dies at 90
2018 – Larry Snyder, American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey (US Champion Jockey by wins 1969; George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award 1989), dies from cancer at 76
Historical Events for 29th October 2021
1268 – Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the German Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed with Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily
1508 – Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre
1833 – 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1923 – Textile strike against lower wages begins in Enschede, Netherlands
1941 – Cole Porter’s musical “Let’s Face It” opens at the Imperial Theatre, NYC; runs 547 performances
1974 – Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
1987 – Thomas Hearns wins unprecedented 4th different weight boxing title
2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world’s largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.
2018 – World Scrabble Championship won for the fourth time by New Zealand Malaysian Nigel Richards with the word “groutier” (bad-tempered)
2020 – India records more than 8 million COVID-19 cases, the second country after the US, with a death toll of 120,527
Today in History for 29th October 2021
Historical Events
1889 – “World Championship” Baseball Series, Polo Grounds, NYC: defending champion NY Giants (NL) beat Brooklyn Bridegrooms (AA), 3-2 in Game 9 to claim series, 6-3
1923 – Mustafa Kemal officially confirms Turkey as a republic (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), now commemorated annually as the Republic Day of Turkey
1923 – Gibbs, Grey and Wood’s revue “Runnin’ Wild” (introducing “The Charleston”) opens on Broadway, New York City
1949 – White Sox trade Joe Tipton to A’s for Nellie Fox
1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia
1987 – “Don’t Get God Started” opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 86 performances
Famous Birthdays
1908 – Stewart Myles MacPherson, Canadian-born British broadcaster (WWII), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba (d. 1995)
1934 – Ramon Sender, Spanish composer, born in Madrid, Spain
1952 – Arnell Carmichael, rock keyboardist (Raydio)
1977 – Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor (CSI: Miami), born in New Westminister, British Columbia
1978 – Kelly Smith, English football player (Arsenal Ladies), born in Watford, England
1981 – Reema Sen, Indian actress, born in Kolkata, India
Famous Deaths
1802 – Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, French composer, dies at 95
1957 – Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl, strangled in her apartment in an unsolved murder at 24
1994 – Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer (Picture Page, Dressing Up), dies at 84
1996 – Patricia Ticia Anne Ingrams, broadcaster, dies at 50
2002 – Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
2015 – Murphy Anderson, American comic artist (DC Comics), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 28th October 2021
1973 – Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
1975 – Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (The Blues and the Abstract Truth), dies at 43
1992 – Joan Maloney Rio, dancer, dies of cancer at 57
1994 – Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies
1996 – Jack Tinker, British drama critic, dies at 58
2004 – Gil Mellé, American jazz saxophonist and composer, dies at 72
2005 – Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
2010 – Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1934)
2010 – Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist (b. 1932)
2020 – Miguel Ángel Castellini, Argentine boxer (WBA, lineal light middleweight titles 1976-77), dies from COVID-19 at 73
Historical Events for 28th October 2021
1831 – Michael Faraday demonstrates his dynamo invention, an electrical generator
1918 – Republic of Czechoslovakia created with Tomáš Masaryk as its 1st president
1942 – Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President JFK receives letter from Soviet Leaderr Khrushchev suggesting agreement
1973 – Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, designed by architect B. V. Doshi, inaugurated by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
1976 – Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees)
1996 – Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever
2001 – The indie cult hit “Donnie Darko”, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is released
2006 – Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s.
2018 – Michael D. Higgins is re-elected Irish president
Today in History for 28th October 2021
Historical Events
1061 – Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus and Pope Honorius II
1538 – The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established on Hispaniola
1612 – Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I
1848 – The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
1970 – NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
1984 – 14th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30
Famous Birthdays
1879 – Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, Spanish composer, born in Madrid (d. 1953)
1909 – Ādolfs Skulte, Latvian composer, born in Kiev, Ukraine (d. 2000)
1924 – Alfonso Montecino, Chilean-American composer, born in Osorno, Chile (d. 2015)
1930 – John Mayer, Indian composer (Indo-Jazz Fusion), born in Calcutta, Bengal, British India (d. 2004)
1938 – David Dimbleby, English TV presenter and political commentator, born in Surrey, England
1960 – Landon Curt Noll, Astronomer, Cryptographer and Mathematician: youngest to hold the world record for the largest known prime 3 times
Famous Deaths
1857 – Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
1973 – Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
1980 – Leon Janney (Ramon), American actor (Charly, Stolen Paradise, Hawk), dies of cancer at 63
1992 – Joan Maloney Rio, dancer, dies of cancer at 57
2006 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (WBC heavyweight champion 1986), dies from blows to the head by his nephew at 52
2010 – Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist (b. 1932)
Famous Deaths for 27th October 2021
1439 – Albert II of Germany, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, dies at about 42
1580 – John Bonga, beggar, dies
1781 – Herman-Francois Delange, Belgian composer, dies at 66
1962 – Rudolph Anderson, U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba
1977 – Peg Leg Sam [Arthur Jackson], American country blues harmonica player, singer and comedian, dies at 65
1987 – Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer (Test average 47 72, 1st-class avg 71), dies at 76
1992 – David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
1996 – Belinda Quirey, dance historian and teacher, dies at 84
2009 – David Shepherd, English cricket umpire (b. 1940)
2015 – Betsy Drake, French-born American actress and writer (Every Girl Should be Married), dies at 92
Historical Events for 27th October 2021
1920 – Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA is granted a Limited Commercial license by the Department of Commerce
1969 – St Vincent and Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
1979 – Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
1980 – William Safire’s column entitled “The Ayatollah Votes” is published in the New York Times, and was later quoted in a campaign ad for Ronald Reagan in that year’s presidential election
1984 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 – KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
1986 – NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
2002 – World Series Baseball: Anaheim beats San Francisco Giants, 4-1 in Game 7 at Edison Field to win Angels’ first title; MVP: Anaheim 1st baseman Troy Glaus
2005 – Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
2012 – 46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs