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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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Today in History for 27th October 2021

Historical Events

1676 – Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw
1922 – 1st commemoration of Navy Day (USA)
1948 – Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).
1950 – Paul Creston’s 3rd Symphony, “Triumph of St Joan” premieres
1980 – Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
1992 – Tipper Gore (wife of future VP) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn’t have to watch it blink

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Famous Birthdays

1760 – August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal, born in Schildau, Saxony (d. 1831)
1873 – Henry Tate, Australian composer and poet, born in Melbourne (d. 1926)
1910 – Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne and Guinness brewing heir, born in Mandatory Palestine (d. 1992)
1917 – Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer, anti-apartheid politician and co-founder (African National Congress), born in Nkantolo, Bizana, South Africa (d. 1993)
1966 – Timm Rosenbach, NFL quarterback (New Orleans Saints), born in Everett, Washington
1982 – Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor (Battle Royale), born in Tokyo

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Famous Deaths

1789 – John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
1933 – Julius Klengel, German cellist and composer, dies at 74
1968 – Lise Meitner, Austrian-Swedish physicist (discovered the nuclear fission of uranium, dies at 89
1974 – Rudolf Dassler, German entrepreneur who founded sportswear company Puma, dies at 76
1991 – George Barker, English poet, dies at 78
2009 – David Shepherd, English cricket umpire (b. 1940)

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Famous Deaths for 26th October 2021

1440 – Gilles de Rais, French marshal, killer of 140 children, hanged
1858 – Isac Baker Woodbury, American composer, and musicologist (The Dulcimer: Or the New York Collection of Sacred Music), dies at 39
1896 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1941 – Victor Schertzinger, American composer and director (Uptown NY), dies at 53
1944 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1945 – Paul Pelliot, French Sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and his discovery of many important Chinese texts among the Dunhuang manuscripts, dies at 67
1979 – Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and President (1963-79), assassinated by the director of the Korean Intelligence Agency at 61
1980 – Marcello Caetano, last Portuguese prime minister of the Estado Novo regime (1968-1974), dies in exile of a heart attack at 74
1983 – Mike Michalske, American football NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers), dies at 80
2004 – Bobby Ávila, Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman (MLB All-Star 1952, 54, 55; AL batting champion 1954; Cleveland Indians), dies of diabetes and lung ailment at 80

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Historical Events for 26th October 2021

1913 – José Victoriano Huerta Márquez elected president of Mexico
1927 – Duke Ellington sings “Creole Love Song”
1947 – Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir accedes to India
1962 – JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba
1968 – Striker Antal Dunai scores twice as Hungary outclasses Bulgaria 4-1 to take the men’s football gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
1970 – “Doonesbury” comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1992 – London Ambulance Service thrown into chaos after implementation problems with a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system
1995 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
2007 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Monmouth Park; Day 1 winners: Maryfield, Nownownow, Corinthian
2018 – Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor announces she has converted to Islam

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Today in History for 26th October 2021

Historical Events

1887 – “World Championship” Baseball Series, Sportsman’s Park, Detroit Wolverines (NL) beat St Louis Browns (AA), 10 games to 5 in series played in bitterly cold conditions
1941 – Second meeting of partisans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
1970 – Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
1975 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1997 – World Series Baseball: Florida beats Cleveland Indians, 3-2 in Game 7 at Pro Player Stadium, Miami for Marlins first-ever title; MVP: Florida pitcher Liván Hernández
2017 – US President Donald Trump declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency

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Famous Birthdays

1673 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Romanian historian and Monarch of Moldova (1710-11), born in Silişteni, Moldavia (d. 1723)
1789 – Joseph Mayseder, Austrian violinist and composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1863)
1880 – Andrei Bely [Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev], Russian writer (Petersburg), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1934)
1893 – Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet (Seobe), born in Csongrád, Austria-Hungary (d. 1977)
1929 – Hans Peter Haller, German composer, born in Radolfzell, Germany (d. 2006)
1977 – Jon Heder, American actor (Napoleon Dynamite), born in Fort Collins, Colorado

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Famous Deaths

1896 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1903 – Herbert Oakeley, English composer, dies at 73
1966 – Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
1982 – Giovanni Benelli, archbishop of Florence/Pope candidate, dies
1991 – Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist’s 485 lb umbrella
2008 – Delmar Watson, American child actor (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Heidi, Annie Oakley), dies at 82

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Famous Deaths for 25th October 2021

1676 – Justus G Schottel [Schottelius], German linguistic/poet, dies at 64
1826 – Philippe Pinel, French physician (the father of modern psychiatry), dies at 81
1956 – Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67
1959 – Bob Murphy, TV host (RFD America), dies at 42
1967 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American playwright and writer (Years of Grace), dies at 81
1971 – Albert van Dalsum, Dutch actor and director (Wilton’s Zoo; Little Rascal), dies at 82
1976 – Raymond Queneau [M Presle], French writer (Last Days), dies at 73
2003 – Hemu Adhikari, Indian cricket batsman (21 Tests; HS 114 1st Test v WI 1948), dies at 84
2013 – Hal Needham, American stuntman, dies from cancer at 82
2018 – Sonny Fortune [Cornelius Fortune], American jazz saxophonist, dies at 79

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Historical Events for 25th October 2021

1415 – John IV van Bourgondy becomes Duke of Brabant and Limburg
1616 – Dutch East India Company ship “The Eendracht” discovers Dirk-Hartog Island, Australia
1875 – The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist
1918 – Canadian steamship “Princess Sophia” hits a reef off Alaska, 398 die
1937 – Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money
1945 – Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek
1968 – Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská wins the uneven bars and vault gold medals at the Mexico City Olympics; her 6th and 7th career gold medals and her 4th at these Games
1981 – 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missile
1985 – Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
2020 – Chile overwhelmingly votes to scrap their constitution, drafted during dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet

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Today in History for 25th October 2021

Historical Events

1671 – Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn
1885 – Johannes Brahms’ 4th Symphony in E premieres
1929 – Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe in the Teapot scandal – 1st US Cabinet member to go to jail
1930 – 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
2013 – 74 Boko Harem members killed in a coordinated assault in Borno State, Nigeria
2020 – Chile overwhelmingly votes to scrap their constitution, drafted during dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet

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Famous Birthdays

1906 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (World Heavyweight Champion 1933-34), born in Sequals, Italy (d. 1967)
1926 – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter, born in Peshawar, Pakistan (d. 2007)
1936 – Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian (Winston Churchill biography), born in London, England
1971 – Laura Chapot, equestrian show jumper (Olympics 1996)
1973 – Steve White, American football defensive end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1979 – Rob Hulse, English footballer (Sheffield United), born in Crewe, England

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Famous Deaths

79 – Gaius Plinius Secundus [Pliny the Elder], Roman admiral and writer, dies during eruption of Mount Vesuvius [approx date, month of eruption disputed]
1942 – Ted Arnold, English cricketer (England all-rounder in 10 Tests 1903-05), dies at 65
1991 – Bill Graham, rock concert promoter (Filmore, Dylan), dies at 60
1992 – Roger Miller, American country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me), dies at 56
2013 – Marcia Wallace, American actress (Carol-Bob Newhart Show), dies from pneumonia at 70
2019 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer (Mode of Shang), dies at 96

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