1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia
1617 – Peace of Pavia between Spain and Savoye
1818 – Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya
1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica
1926 – NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
1985 – “Tango Argentino” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 performances
1988 – 9th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats New Zealand 25-12
1988 – 17% vote for extreme-right Flemish Block in Belgium
2014 – Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus
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Today in History for 9th October 2021
Historical Events
1799 – Sinking of British frigate HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and cargo worth £1,200,000 off Dutch coast
1855 – American inventor Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
1944 – Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders
1975 – Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco
2007 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high
2019 – Turkey launches airstrikes on Kurdish forces in Northern Syria after US President Donald Trump announces decision to pull back US forces
Famous Birthdays
1914 – Roger Goeb, American composer, born in Cherokee, Iowa (d. 1997)
1962 – Jorge Burruchaga, Argentine soccer attacking midfielder and manager (57 caps; Independiente, Nantes), born in Gualeguay, Argentina
1973 – Erin Daniels, American actress (The L Word), born in St. Louis, Missouri
1978 – Juan Dixon, American basketball player, born in Baltimore, Maryland
1982 – António Mendonça, Angolan footballer, born in Luanda, Angola
1996 – Bella Hadid [Isabella Khair Hadid], American fashion model, born in Los Angeles, California
Famous Deaths
1781 – Thomas Erskine, 6th earl of Kellie, Scottish composer and musician, dies at 49
1837 – Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
1868 – Howell Cobb, American politician (U.S. Secretary of Treasury), dies at 53
1963 – Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer, dies at 85
1996 – Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83
2011 – Mark Kingston, English actor (Intimate Contact), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 8th October 2021
1735 – Yongzheng, 4th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1722-35), dies at 56
1945 – Felix Salten [Siegmund Salzmann], Austrian author (Bambi, a Life in the Woods), dies at 76
1967 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd), dies at 61
1970 – Lucien Goldmann, Romanian-French sociologist and philosopher, dies at 57
1970 – Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75
1971 – Christopher Dark [Alfred Francis DeLeo], American actor, (World Without End, The Time Tunnel), dies of a heart attack at 51
1984 – Frederick Brisson, Danish-born film and theater producer, dies at 71 after a stroke
1991 – Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75
1996 – Susan Gautier-Smith, British TV producer, dies of heart failure at 33
2008 – Bob Friend (newscaster), British newscaster (b. 1938)
Historical Events for 8th October 2021
1600 – San Marino adopts constitution
1888 – British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Jack Burns wins his lone Open title by 1 stroke from Ben Sayers and David Anderson Jr
1909 – Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
1972 – Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended
1984 – 18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
1995 – Edgar Martinez drives home tying and winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees and win AL Division Series
1998 – José Saramago is the first person from Portugal to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
1999 – New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar.
2016 – New Zealand routs South Africa, 57-14 in Durban to win their 4th Rugby Championship; undefeated All Blacks score 9 tries to 1, 2 each to Israel Dagg, TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett
2019 – FBI confirm Samuel Little is America’s most prolific serial killer, after verifying more than half of his 93 confessed murders
Today in History for 8th October 2021
Historical Events
1912 – Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
1959 – “At the Drop of a Hat” opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 performances
1994 – BPAA US Women’s Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
2008 – Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology awarded jointly to Harald zur Hausen (cause of cervical cancer) and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier (discovery of HIV)
2012 – 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
2018 – New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees becomes NFL’s all-time leader in passing yards; needs 201 yards to pass Peyton Manning’s record; gets 363 and 3 TD’s in Saints 43-19 win v Washington Redskins at the SuperDome
Famous Birthdays
1883 – Dick Burnett, American musician (Man of Constant Sorrow), born in Monticello, Kentucky (d. 1977)
1924 – Alphons Egli, Swiss politcian and member of the Swiss Federal Council, born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 2016)
1931 – Pepper Rodgers, American football coach (University of Kansas, UCLA, Georgia Tech; USFL: Memphis Showboats), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2020)
1943 – R. L. Stine, American children’s book writer (Goosebumps), born in Columbus, Ohio
1955 – Bill Elliott, American auto racer (Winston Cup 1988), born in Dawsonville, Georgia
1977 – Erna Siikavirta, Finnish musician (Deathlike Silence), born in Espoo, Finland
Famous Deaths
1613 – Sebastian de Covarrubias bon Horozco, Spanish lexicographer, dies at 74
1652 – John Greaves, English mathematician and astronomer (attempted to survey the pyramids) (b. 1602)
1897 – Martin Pluddemann, German composer, dies at 43
1940 – Robert Emden, Swiss astronomer and astrophysicist (Gaskugeln), dies at 78
1952 – Joe Adams, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 74
1986 – Walter Burkemo, American golfer (PGA C’ship 1953), dies at 67
Famous Deaths for 7th October 2021
1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer, dies at about 53
1943 – Eugeniusz Bodo [Bohdan Eugène Junod], Polish film director, producer and comedic actor, dies in the Gulag at 43
1990 – Juan Jose Arevalo, President of Guatemala (1945-51), dies
1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1996 – Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86
2001 – Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
2004 – Hildy Park, American actress and writer (To Tell the Truth), dies of a stroke at 78
2008 – Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)
2011 – Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925)
2012 – John Tchicai, Danish jazz saxophonist and composer (New York Art Quartet), dies at 76
Historical Events for 7th October 2021
1492 – Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course
1907 – France’s Henri Farman flies 30m in a biplane
1927 – Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1928 – Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia
1951 – David Ben-Gurion forms 3rd Israeli government
1954 – Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of the Muslim Brothership, arrested in Egypt
1963 – Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
1971 – “The French Connection” directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey premieres in the US (Academy Awards Best Picture 1972)
1989 – Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
1993 – Massive Muslim demonstration in Xining, China, 12 killed
Today in History for 7th October 2021
Historical Events
1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1908 – Crete revolts against Turkey and aligns with Greece
1922 – Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm’s of Austria
1922 – Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain
1929 – Ramsay MacDonald is first British Prime Minister to address US Congress
1950 – Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head
Famous Birthdays
1881 – Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
1914 – Herman Keiser, American golfer (US Masters 1946), born in Springfield, Missouri (d. 2003)
1952 – Vladimir Putin, Russian politician (President and Prime Minister), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union
1953 – Christopher Norris, American actress (Summer of ’42, Eat My Dust), born in New York City, New York
1964 – Sam Brown, English singer and songwriter (Stop!), born in Stratford, United Kingdom
1987 – Jeremy Brockie, Australian footballer, born in Christchurch, New Zealand
Famous Deaths
336 – Pope Saint Mark, bishop of Rome (336), dies of natural causes
1887 – George James Webb, English-American composer, dies at 84
1924 – Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie), dies at 71
1925 – Hubert Main, American hymn composer, dies at 86
1999 – Rev. Bruce Ritter, American Catholic priest and controversial founder of charity New York City based Covenant House, dies of cancer at 72
2007 – George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931)
Famous Deaths for 6th October 2021
1214 – Alfonso VIII the Noble, King of Castile and Toledo (1158-1214), dies at 58
1585 – Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter and sculptor, dies at 57
1841 – George Childress, American lawyer and statesman (author of Texas Declaration of Independence), commits suicide at 37
1860 – Stephen Elvey, English composer, dies at 55
1874 – Thomas Tellefsen, Norwegian pianist and composer, dies at 50
1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70
1999 – Francis Turner, American civil engineer (oversaw the Interstate Highway System), dies at 90
2003 – Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist (Grizzly Man), dies mauled and eaten by bears in Katmai National Park, Alaska at 46
2007 – Eric McCredie, Scottish pop bassist (Middle Of The Road – “Chirpy, Chirpy, Cheep Cheep”), dies at 62
2015 – Sandra Spuzich, American golfer (US Open 1966), dies of leukemia at 78
Historical Events for 6th October 2021
1898 – Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic concert
1908 – Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
1936 – Baseball World Series: Yankees beat Giants, 13-5 at the Polo Grounds to win all-New York series, 4-2
1939 – Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain
1944 – Canadians free Austria
1949 – US President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1959 – Chicago White Sox beat LA Dodgers, 1-0 in Game 5 of Baseball World Series at LA Memorial Coliseum; World Series record attendance 92,706
1963 – LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series
1973 – Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
2017 – British writer Kazuo Ishiguro is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature