1913 – Isabel Barrows, American editor and penologist (Conference on Negro Question), dies at 68
1918 – Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, dies at 86
1947 – Dudley Digges, Irish actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, The Invisible Man), dies at 68
1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1975 – Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris
1981 – Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-I’m a Big Girl Now), dies at 25
1982 – James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58
1985 – Richie Evans, American auto racer (9 x NASCAR Modified Champion 1973, 78-85), dies in practice accident at 44
1987 – Constantin Alajalov, Armenian-American artist (Ditters and Jitters), dies at 86
1993 – Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54
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Historical Events for 24th October 2021
1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War.
1656 – Treaty of Vilnius: Russia and Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant
1861 – West Virginia secedes from Virginia
1911 – Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
1930 – A bloodless coup d’état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as “provisional president.”
1944 – US air raid on Japanese battleships and cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks
1984 – 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested
1990 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1992 – World Series Baseball: Toronto Blue Jays beat Atlanta Braves, 4-3 in Game 6 at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium to win their first-ever title; MVP: Toronto catcher Pat Borders
2012 – Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths
Today in History for 24th October 2021
Historical Events
1881 – Levi P Morton, US ambassador to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty
1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States’ support to South Vietnam
1957 – The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
1968 – The People’s Democracy (PD) stage a protest demonstration at Stormont Parliament buildings, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1976 – 1st Jewish film and TV festival
1980 – Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
Famous Birthdays
1863 – Manuel Manrique de Lara, Spanish composer (The Oresteia), born in Cartagena, Murcia (d. 1929)
1885 – Ernest Claes, Belgian author (Saints from Zichem), born in Zichem, Belgium (d. 1968)
1924 – Piet Roozenburg, Dutch World champion checker player (1948, 51, 52, 55), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 2003)
1934 – Margie Masters, Australian golfer (Western Open runner-up 1966), born in Swan Hill, Victoria
1950 – Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), born in Camden, New Jersey
1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician, Prime Minister (2015-18), born in Sydney, Australia
Famous Deaths
1930 – Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director (Dr Faustus), dies at 26
1931 – Murray Bisset, South African cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1899 and 1910), dies at 55
1938 – Ernst Barlach, German writer and artist, dies at 68
1982 – James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58
2004 – Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954)
2008 – Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist (b. 1943)
Famous Deaths for 23rd October 2021
1602 – Franciscus Junius, French-Dutch calvinist theologist and vicar, dies at 57
1935 – Otto “Aba Daba” Berman, American gangster (accountant for Dutch Schultz), murdered at 44
1935 – Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], American gangster, murdered at 33
1942 – Ralph Rainger, American film composer, dies at 41
1975 – Charles Brokaw, American actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the War), dies at 77
1976 – Leonard Lee, American vocalist (Shirley and Lee-I’m Gone), dies at 40
1983 – Tamara Shayne, Russian-American actress (Moma Yoelson-The Jolson Story), dies of a heart attack at 80
2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American Mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry, dies at 94
2015 – Bill Keith, American banjoist, dies at 75
2020 – David Barnes, New Zealand sailor (470 world champion 1981, 83, 84), dies from multiple sclerosis at 62
Historical Events for 23rd October 2021
1864 – Battle of Westport, Missouri: Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price
1886 – “World Championship” Baseball Series, Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis: St.L Browns edge Chicago White Stockings, 4-3 in 10 innings in Game 6 to take series, 4-2
1954 – Britain, France and US agree to end occupation of Germany
1957 – First test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1958 – Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1974 – Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks’ Big Creek Reservation dedicated
1978 – CBS raises LP prices to $8.98
1978 – China and Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension
2001 – Apple releases the iPod
2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
Today in History for 23rd October 2021
Historical Events
1760 – First Jewish prayer books printed in North America
1805 – Sailing ship “Aeneus” sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
1814 – One of the first modern plastic surgeries in the west performed by Joseph Carpue on a soldier’s nose in England using Indian techniques
1854 – English newspaper “The Times” gives precise British positions in Crimea during Crimean War
1989 – Browns’ Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
2019 – Hong Kong Legislative Council scraps the extradition bill that sparked months of protests and unrest
Famous Birthdays
1905 – Alexander Shamil’yevich Melik-Pashayev, Georgian conductor and composer (Bol’shoy Theatre, 1931-62), born in Tblisi (d. 1964)
1917 – Robert Bray, American actor (Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West), born in Kalispell, Montana (d. 1983)
1950 – Harry Sacksioni, Dutch guitarist (Around the Corner)
1968 – Bettina Fulco Villella, Argentinian tennis star (1993 Futures), born in Mar Del Plata, Argentina
1969 – Sanjay Gupta, American neurosurgeon and medical reporter (CNN), born in Novi, Michigan
1986 – Emilia Clarke, English actress (Game of Thrones), born in London, England
Famous Deaths
1892 – Emin Pasha, German explorer and governor (Equatoria), murdered at 52
1901 – Georg von Siemens, German banker and politician (Deutsche Bank), dies at 62
1942 – Georg Stumme, German general, commandant of African corps, dies at 56
1984 – David Gorcey, actor (Angel’s Alley), dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
2008 – Kevin Finnegan, British Middleweight Boxing Champion (b. 1948)
2011 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American Mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry, dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 22nd October 2021
1565 – Jean, Vicomte d’Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
1763 – French van Mieris “the Young”, painter/historian, dies at 73
1854 – Jeremias Gotthelf [Albert Bitzius], Swiss writer (The Black Spider), dies at 57
1883 – George Coulthard, Australian rules footballer and cricketer (Test for Australia 1882), dies at 27
1934 – Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd, American gangster and FBI Most Wanted criminal, shot dead at 30 by the FBI in Ohio
1952 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss-German psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist, dies at 78
1969 – Giovanni Martinelli, Italian opera singer (NY Met), dies on 84th birthday
1986 – Ivor Francis, actor (Dusty’s Trail), dies at 68
2002 – Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
2012 – Arthur Jensen, American psychologist, dies at 89
Historical Events for 22nd October 2021
1812 – Duke of Wellington seizes Burgos, Spain
1875 – First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
1929 – 8th French government of Aristide Briand falls
1930 – 1st concert of BBC Symphony Orchestra, at Queen’s Hall, under Adrian Boult
1942 – 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
2001 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Seattle Mariners, 4 games to 1
2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
2012 – Hurricane Sandy forms in the Western Caribbean Sea
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
Today in History for 22nd October 2021
Historical Events
1926 – J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal
1956 – Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1991 – General Motors announces 9 month loss of $US2.2 billion
1992 – Atlanta Braves become 1st American team to win a Baseball World Series game outside of United States; beat Toronto Blue Jays, 7-2 in Game 5 at SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario
1996 – NY Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season HR, as Yanks tie record of 6th straight post season road win (en route to 8)
2019 – Chilean president Sebastián Piñera agrees to meet opposition leaders after 15 people killed in growing nationwide protests over living costs and inequality
Famous Birthdays
1870 – Ivan Bunin, Russian poet and novelist (Gentleman from San Francisco-Nobel 1933), born in Voronezh, Russian Empire (d. 1953)
1873 – Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat, born in Ekenäs, Finland (d. 1950)
1947 – Haley Barbour, American politician, governor of Mississippi
1961 – Sanath Kaluperuma, cricketer (four Tests for Sri Lanka 1984-88)
1975 – Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
1978 – Dion Glover, American basketball player, born in Marietta, Georgia
Famous Deaths
1613 – Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer
1881 – Janis Cimze, Latvian composer, Father of Latvian choir music, dies at 67
1928 – Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (1908-09, 1910-13, 1914-15), dies at 66
1942 – Gustave “Staff” de Clercq, leader Flemish Nationally Covenant, dies
1979 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and conductor (1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony), dies at 92
1994 – Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies
Famous Deaths for 21st October 2021
1204 – Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
1500 – Go-Tsuchimikado, 103rd Emperor of Japan, dies at 58
1627 – Frederik de Houtman, navigator/governor of Ambon, dies at about 56
1773 – Johann Conrad Schlaun, German baroque architect, dies at 78
1975 – Charles Reidpath, American athlete (Olympic gold 1912), dies at 86
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye, 1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murdered at 40
1995 – Maxene Andrews, American singer (Andrew Sisters-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy), dies of heart attack at 79
2007 – Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts), dies at 56
2013 – Bud Adams Jr., American NFL team owner (Tennessee Titans), dies at 90
2019 – Willie Brown, American Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback, coach and executive (Super Bowl 1976, 80, 84; Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders), dies at 78