1644 – Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Adm Thijssen beats Denen
1668 – Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade
1920 – Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal
1922 – Conservative Andrew Bonar Law forms government in United Kingdom, replacing David Lloyd George’s Liberal government
1943 – First Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau
1947 – NAACP petition on racism “An Appeal to the World” presented to UN
1958 – Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1989 – William Nicholson’s “Shadowlands” premieres in London
2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage
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.
Author: gil7
Today in History for 23rd October 2020
Historical Events
1888 – Pelham Bay Park in Bronx vested
1943 – First Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau
1952 – “Limelight” premieres directed, written, produced and starring Charlie Chaplin and Claire Bloom with appearance by Buster Keaton
1964 – Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia finish 8-1 in inaugural Olympic men’s volleyball competition in Tokyo; Soviets win 10 team round robin on count back of sets won-lost
1984 – Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
1989 – George Harrison releases “Best of Dark Horse 1976-89” album
Famous Birthdays
1773 – Pietro Generali, composer
1902 – Otmar Nussio, Swiss conductor and composer (Boccaccio Suite), born in Grossetto, Italy; (d. 1990)
1905 – Felix Bloch, Swiss/US nuclear physicist (Nobel 1952)
1958 – Jonathan Wolff, American musician and TV theme composer (Seinfeld, Will and Grace), born in Louisville, Kentucky
1971 – Alai Kalaniuvalu, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1976 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor and comedian (Deadpool), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
Famous Deaths
1806 – Franz Seydelmann, German composer, dies at 58
1983 – Tamara Shayne, Russian-American actress (Moma Yoelson-The Jolson Story), dies of a heart attack at 80
1990 – Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies
2003 – Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944)
2007 – Lim Goh Tong, Founder of Genting Group (b. 1918)
2014 – Alvin Stardust [Bernard Jewry], English rock singer(“Jealous Mind”) dies of prostate cancer at 72
Famous Deaths for 22nd October 2020
1383 – Ferdinand I, the wise, king of Portugal, dies
1751 – Willem IV KH Friso, prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 40
1883 – Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (The Headless Horseman), dies at 65
1906 – Paul Cézanne, French artist and Post-Impressionist painter (The Basket of Apples), dies of pneumonia at 67
1942 – Sybren Tulip, NSBer/supt of police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies
1964 – Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan and President of Pakistan Muslim League, dies at 70
1972 – Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits), dies at 82
1978 – John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)
1994 – Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59
2017 – Paul J. Weitz, American test pilot and NASA astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6), dies at 85
Historical Events for 22nd October 2020
1383 – The 1383-85 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder begins after King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne
1575 – Foundation of Aguascalientes (one of 32 Federal Entities of Mexico)
1708 – Great Alliance occupies Rijsel
1799 – Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition
1895 – In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop, crosses more than 30 meters of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse
1963 – BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes on October 22 in UK with the loss of all on board.
1981 – The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.
2000 – German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang, his 4th straight race victory to finish season; 3rd, and 1st of 5 straight F1 World Drivers Championships; wins by 19 points from Mika Häkkinen
2008 – Google Play is launched, the official app store for the Android operating system
2010 – 57th National Film Awards (India): “Kutty Srank” wins the Golden Lotus
Today in History for 22nd October 2020
Historical Events
1797 – Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute descent from a balloon in Paris
1941 – Maxwell Anderson’s “Candle in the Wind” premieres in NYC
1955 – WWNY TV channel 7 in Carthage-Watertown, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1963 – BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes on October 22 in UK with the loss of all on board.
1971 – USSR performs nuclear test
1978 – “King of Hearts” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances
Famous Birthdays
1836 – Mungo Park, Scottish golfer (British Open 1874), born in Inveresk, East Lothian (d. 1904)
1942 – Bobby Fuller, Baytown, Texas, American rock vocalist/guitarist (Bobby Fuller Four)
1943 – Allen James Coage, American HW judo (Olympic bronze 1976), born in NYC, New York
1943 – Catherine Deneuve [Dorleac], actress (Repulsion, Hunger), born in Paris, France
1975 – Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
1978 – Dion Glover, American basketball player, born in Marietta, Georgia
Famous Deaths
1755 – Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b. 1694)
1764 – Jean Marie I’aine Leclair, composer, dies at 67
1954 – Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899)
1970 – René Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered
1987 – Angiolino “Lino” Ventura, Italian actor (Happy New Year, Pain in the A–), dies of a heart attack at 68
1990 – Frank Sinkwich, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1942, U of Georgia; NFL Draft #1 pick Detroit Lions 1943; NFL MVP 1944), dies at 70
Famous Deaths for 21st October 2020
1805 – Johann Baptist Lasser, composer, dies at 54
1905 – Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69
1955 – Roy Minnett, Australian cricketer (all-rounder prior to WWI), dies
1981 – Šrom, Karel, Czech composer, musicologist, and critic, dies at 77
1992 – Jim Garrison, Louisiana District Attorney who investigated JFK assassination, dies at 70
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye, 1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murdered at 40
1995 – Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58
1996 – Robert O’Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49
1996 – Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71
2013 – Major R Owens, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1983-2007), dies at 77
Historical Events for 21st October 2020
1553 – Volumes of Talmud are burned
1555 – English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king
1652 – King Louis XIV returns to Paris
1869 – 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
1899 – Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army)
1914 – Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
1950 – Death penalty abolished in Belgium
1959 – Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York
1979 – Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
2017 – Spanish government suspends Catalonia’s autonomy in the face of a deepening political crisis over the region’s push for independence
Today in History for 21st October 2020
Historical Events
1914 – Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
1915 – William Jennings Bryan’s successor as US Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, sends a note to Britain protesting interference with US shipping
1925 – Sidney Howards “Lucky Sam McGarver” premieres in NYC
1947 – Dutch Dakota explodes near Coopenhagen, 16 die
1975 – Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
2019 – Thailand’s King Vajiralongkorn strips his royal consort Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi of her titles for “misbehaviour and disloyalty against the monarch” two months after she was appointed to them
Famous Birthdays
1847 – Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini)
1952 – Brent Mydland, American rock keyboardist and vocalist (Grateful Dead), born in Munich, Germany
1955 – Eric Faulkner, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
1959 – George Bell, Dom Rep, outfielder (Blue Jays, 1987 AL MVP)
1972 – Masakazu Morita, seiyu and actor
1982 – Matt Dallas, American Actor
Famous Deaths
1204 – Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
1891 – Alpheus Baker, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 63
1919 – Sven August Körling, Swedish composer, dies at 77
1943 – Dudley Pound, British admiral of the fleet and 1st Sea Lord (Jutland, WW II), dies at 66
1969 – Jack Kerouac, American writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road), dies at 47
2003 – Fred Berry, African-American actor (Rerun-What’s Happening), dies at 52
Famous Deaths for 20th October 2020
1187 – Urban III [Umberto Crivelli], Italian Pope (1185-87), dies
1640 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
1794 – James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64
1870 – Michael William Balfe, composer (Bohemian Girl), dies at 62
1876 – Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 68
1913 – Daniel David Palmer, Canadian founder of chiropractic (1897 Palmer School of Chiropractic), dies of typhoid fever at 68
1913 – Leander Schlegel, composer, dies at 69
1994 – Ivan Sviták, Czech philosopher and poet, dies at 69
2007 – Max McGee, American football player (Green Bay Packers), dies at 75
2008 – Gene Hickerson, American football Hall of Famer (b. 1935)
Historical Events for 20th October 2020
1877 – Franz Schubert’s 2nd Symphony in B premieres
1905 – Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
1910 – Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar
1918 – In order to secure a WWI armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions
1930 – British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
1957 – Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary
1971 – Senator in the US Congress Edward Kennedy calls for a withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and all-party negotiations to establish a United Ireland
1979 – Bob Dylan appears on “Saturday Night Live”
1982 – During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
1987 – 10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis