1608 – Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish royal painter, dies
1817 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
1903 – Herbert Oakeley, English composer, dies at 73
1947 – Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
1972 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aviation pioneer and helicopter builder, dies at 83
1979 – Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and President (1963-79), assassinated by the director of the Korean Intelligence Agency at 61
1992 – Jerome Andrews, US/French dancer/choreographer, dies
1995 – Bernhard Heiliger, German artist and sculptor, dies at 79
2010 – Romeu Tuma, Brazilian politician (b. 1931)
2010 – Glen “Frosty” Little, American circus clown (b. 1925)
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Historical Events for 26th October 2020
1881 – Gunfight at the OK Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs, between lawmen (including Wyatt Earp) and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed
1964 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
1972 – Henry Kissinger declares “Peace is at hand” in Vietnam
1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
1988 – Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 months’ advisory service
1988 – US-Soviet effort to free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK
1996 – World Series Baseball: New York beats Atlanta Braves, 3-2 in Game 6 at Yankee Stadium to win club’s 23rd title; MVP: Bronx Bombers’ reliever John Wetteland
2012 – 64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes
2018 – Longest Baseball World Series game by both innings and time; LA Dodgers beat Boston Red Sox, 3-2 in the 18th inning (7 hours, 20 mins) in Game 3 at Dodger Stadium with Max Muncy walk-off homer
2018 – Rhine River in drought with lowest levels since 1920s forces German government to release oil reserves after barge shipments disrupted
Today in History for 26th October 2020
Historical Events
1850 – Robert McClure sights the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time (from Banks Island towards Melville Island)
1901 – First recorded use of “getaway car” occurs after holding up a shop in Paris
1905 – First Soviet (workers’ council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
1930 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s ballet “Zolotoy Vyek” premieres in Leningrad
1950 – 630 Dutch volunteers depart for Korea
1985 – Doug Harvey’s #2 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens
Famous Birthdays
1645 – Aert de Gelder, Dutch painter (King David), born in Dordrecht, Netherlands (d. 1727)
1938 – Charles Stenholm, American politician (Rep-D-Texas, 1979-2005), born in Stamford, Texas
1964 – Vencie Glenn, American NFL safety (NY Giants), born in Grambling, Louisiana
1973 – Seth MacFarlane, American animator, television producer (American Dad!, Family Guy) and filmmaker (Ted), born in Kent, Connecticut
1974 – Lisa [Elizabeth Sakura Narita], Japanese musician (M-Flo), born in Tokyo
1996 – Pasaye, twin born 92 days before his brother (Jan 26), born in Palatine, Illinois
Famous Deaths
1983 – Mike Michalske, American football NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers), dies at 80
1995 – Agha Saadat Ali, Pakistani cricketer (8 not out in 1 inn for Pak 1956), dies at 66
2005 – Keith Parkinson, American fantasy artist, dies of Leukemia at 47
2007 – Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
2009 – Teel Bivins, American politician (b. 1947)
2014 – Jeff Robinson, American baseball player, dies at 52
Famous Deaths for 25th October 2020
625 – Boniface V, Italian Pope (619-25), dies
1845 – Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral, dies at 81
1910 – Hermann Kipper, German music teacher and composer, dies at 84
1957 – Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish sci-fi writer (Time and Gods), dies at 79
1972 – Norman Norell [Levinson], US fashion designer, dies at 72
1980 – Virgil Fox, American organist, dies at 68
1988 – Johnnie Richardson, American RandB musician (Johnnie and Joe), dies at 53
1993 – Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54
1994 – Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist, dies at 81
1999 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (US Open 1991, 99; PGA 1989), dies in a plane crash at 42
Historical Events for 25th October 2020
1577 – Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns
1854 – Prince Menshikov of Crimea occupies British base at Balaclava
1937 – Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees
1956 – White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
1960 – 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
1968 – Longest Olympic field hockey game, The Netherlands beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT)
1978 – “Halloween”, directed by John Carpenter, starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut, is released
1978 – Israeli government approves “in principle”, a draft compromise peace
2012 – The double dip recession in the UK economy ends with growth of 1.0% in GDP in the third quarter of 2012, with help from the London Olympic Games
2018 – First work of art produced by artificial intelligence “Edmond de Belamy” conceived by Obvious sells for $432,500 at Christie’s in New York
Today in History for 25th October 2020
Historical Events
1241 – Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241)
1942 – 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
1952 – Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan’s 1st Test century 124* v India
1962 – 110th member of UN admitted (Uganda)
1984 – Rangers beat Devils 11-2
1997 – 9th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 52-20 in South Bend
Famous Birthdays
1909 – Whitner “Whit” Bissell, American actor (Time Machine, Soylent Green, The Magnificent Seven), born in NYC, New York (d. 1996)
1912 – Minnie Pearl [Sarah Ophelia Colley], American country comedienne (Grand Old Opry, Hee-Haw), born in Centerville, Tennessee (d. 1996)
1912 – Jack Kent Cooke, Canadian entrepreneur, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins), born in Hamilton, Canada (d. 1997)
1960 – Hong Sang-soo, South Korean filmmaker (Right Now, Wrong Then), born in Seoul
1963 – Tracy Nelson, American actress (Glitter, Square Pegs, Father Dowling), born in Santa Monica, California
1970 – Adam Goldberg, American actor (The Hebrew Hammer), born in Santa Monica, California
Famous Deaths
1415 – Eduard, duke of York, dies at 45
1415 – Robert of Bar, French knight, dies at the Battle of Agincourt
1926 – Frederick Jr Zech, composer, dies at 68
1957 – Maria “Mary” Beekman, actress (Modern Landhaaien), dies at 73
1973 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian Olympic marathon champion (Olympic gold, marathon 1960, 64) and Africa’s first world record breaking athlete in any sport, who won the 1960 Olympics marathon barefoot, dies of a brain haemorrhage at 41
1991 – Margo J. Sylvia, rocker (Tune Weavers), dies of heart attack and stroke at 55
Famous Deaths for 24th October 2020
1579 – Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 51
1708 – Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
1785 – Jean-Jacques Robson, Flemish composer, dies at 64
1944 – Lauri S A Haarla, Finnish writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja), dies at 54
1952 – Frederick Jacobi, American composer, dies at 61
1969 – Otto Jochum, German composer, dies at 71
1985 – Lásló Jósef Bíró, Hungarian inventor (ballpoint pen), dies at 86
1994 – Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies
2004 – Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954)
2016 – Bobby Vee, American pop singer (Night has a Thousand Eyes), dies at 73
Historical Events for 24th October 2020
1932 – British government signs trade treaty with USSR
1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket, launched from Whites Sands US, takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1959 – US premier of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1st Cello concert
1976 – 1st Toronto International Film Festival opens
1982 – 12th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14
1987 – NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
1991 – “Dancing at Lughnasa” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 421 performances
1997 – Marv Albert sentenced in assault case
2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.
2017 – Albert Einstein’s “Theory of Happiness”, written as a note for a bellboy instead of a tip in Tokyo in 1922 sells for $1.56 million
Today in History for 24th October 2020
Historical Events
1903 – George Sutton becomes billards champion
1943 – Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
1963 – “110 in the Shade” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 330 performances
1968 – Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on £50 bail
1984 – Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth’s atmosphere 5 months after it failed
2018 – Scientists confirm East Island in Hawaii, half a mile long, has been wiped out after contact with Hurricane Walaka
Famous Birthdays
1863 – Manuel Manrique de Lara, Spanish composer (The Oresteia), born in Cartagena, Murcia (d. 1929)
1895 – Jack Warner [Waters], British actor (Dixon of Dock Green, Christmas Carol), born in London, England (d. 1981)
1926 – Y. A. Tittle, American NFL quarterback (Baltimore, San Francisco, NY Giants, MVP 1963), born in Marshall, Texas (d. 2017)
1968 – Robert Wilonsky, American journalist, born in Dallas, Texas
1972 – Pat Williams, American football defensive tackle (Buffalo Bills), born in Monroe, Louisiana
1972 – Tom Fletcher, NFL defensive safety (Seattle Seahawks)
Famous Deaths
1821 – Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and patriot, President of the Continental Congress, dies at 81
1953 – Ernest Irving, English composer, dies at 74
1971 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (Evocations), dies at 95
1996 – Eugene Polyakov, Russian balletmaster (Paris Opera Ballet), dies at 53
2016 – Bobby Vee, American pop singer (Night has a Thousand Eyes), dies at 73
2017 – Robert Guillaume [Williams], American actor (Rafiki- The Lion King, Sports Night, Benson, Soap), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 23rd October 2020
930 – Daigo, 60th Emperor of Japan (897-930), dies at 45
1774 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist, dies at 59
1935 – Otto “Aba Daba” Berman, American gangster, murdered
1975 – Barboura Morris, actor (Wasp Woman, Machine-Gun Kelly), dies at 43
1984 – Oskar Werner, Austrian film actor and director (Farenehit 451), dies of a heart attack at 61
1994 – Robert Lansing, American actor (12 O’Clock High, Equalizer, A Man for All Seasons, Chariots of Fire), dies of cancer at 66
1996 – Ronald Alfred Gardyne “Rags” Butler, sailor, dies at 68
2002 – Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (It’s Always Fair Weather), dies at 87
2005 – Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945)
2016 – Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (1972-95), dies at 84