1506 – Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna
1882 – 1st World Series Baseball Game 2: Chicago White Stockings (NL) beats Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA), 2-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1959 – “Happy Town” opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances
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)
1985 – KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash’s final transmission
1985 – 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
1995 – Boston’s Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders and Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
2016 – Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent
2019 – Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology awarded to Peter Ratcliffe, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza for discovering how cells sense oxygen
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Today in History for 7th October 2020
Historical Events
1922 – First radio link, WNJ (Newark) and WGY (Senectady) link for World Series
1922 – Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm’s of Austria
1926 – Italian Great Fascist Council forms
1927 – Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1944 – Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums
1961 – 15th NHL All-Star Game, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: All-Stars beat Chicago Black Hawks, 3-1
Famous Birthdays
1728 – Caesar Rodney, Delaware, judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1929 – Harold Zirin, American astronomer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
1931 – Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa and 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Klerksdorp, Western Transvaal, South Africa
1952 – Vladimir Putin, Russian politician (President and Prime Minister), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union
1952 – Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer (Australian capt in 7 Tests, won 1 lost 6), born in Balwyn, Australia
1974 – Shannon MacMillan, American soccer forward (Olympics 1996), born in Syosset, New York
Famous Deaths
1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer, dies at about 53
1571 – Müezzinzade Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in the Battle of Lepanto
1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
1950 – Willis Carrier, American engineer (developed modern air conditioning), dies at 73
2007 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle road racer, dies in road accident at 32
2009 – Shelby Singleton, American record label owner and producer (Smash Records, Mercury Records), dies of brain cancer at 77
Famous Deaths for 6th October 2020
1861 – Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84
1893 – Ford Madox Brown, British painter, dies at 72
1912 – Auguste Beernaert, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium (1884-94) and Nobel Peace Prize laureare 1909, dies at 83
1956 – Charles E. Merrill, American investment banker (Merrill Lynch), dies at 70
1973 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor (played Ted Roosevelt in 7 movies, Rosemary’s Baby), dies of cancer at 78
1991 – Wendell Phillips, dies at 83 [or 10/13]
1995 – Hughie Charles, English songwriter and impresario, dies at 88
2010 – Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
2012 – Raoul de Keyser, Flemish painter, dies at 82
2019 – Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (only Japanese pitcher to win 400 games; perfect game 1957), dies at 86
Historical Events for 6th October 2020
1762 – British troops occupy Manila, Philippines
1863 – Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
1906 – The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time.
1919 – White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series
1935 – Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
1948 – KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1948 – “Polonaise” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances
1966 – LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow.
1983 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
2017 – Storm Nate kills at least 22 people passing through Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras
Today in History for 6th October 2020
Historical Events
1898 – Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic
1936 – NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series
1942 – Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
1996 – Lois and Clark (fictional characters) wed
2014 – John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2019 – Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters march in defiance of a new ban on face masks
Famous Birthdays
1510 – John Caius, English physician, born in Norwich, England (d. 1573)
1738 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, second child of Francis I Holy Roman Emperor, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1789)
1849 – Basil Zaharoff, Greek arms dealer (merchant of death), born in Muğla, Turkey (d. 1936)
1888 – Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
1954 – David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
1962 – Rich Yett, baseball player
Famous Deaths
1413 – Dawit I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1651 – Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47
1951 – Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated
1972 – Cliff Hall [Robert Clifford Hall], American actor (At This Moment, Dutch Treat, Crime Photographer), dies at 78
1974 – V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian nationalist, Minister of Defense (1957-62), dies at 78
2010 – David Rowbotham, Australian poet and journalist, dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 5th October 2020
1056 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1046-56), dies at 38
1631 – Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth, dies
1915 – Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer, dies at 28
1918 – Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies
1938 – Saint Faustina, Polish saint (b. 1905)
1981 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (Crossfire, Sudden Fear, Rich Man Poor Man), dies of peritonitis and breast cancer at 55
1995 – Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
2001 – Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
2011 – Charles Napier, American actor (Night Stalker, Rambo), dies at 75
2015 – Henning Mankell, Swedish playwright and author (Wallander novels), dies of cancer at 67
Historical Events for 5th October 2020
1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1915 – Allies land troops at the northern Greek city of Salonika; Greece is nominally neutral but allows the landing
1923 – Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
1945 – Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers’ studios.
1949 – Sportswriter Robert Ruark first reports golfing great Bobby Jones’s rare spinal disease (syringomyelia) which prevent him from playing any form of golf again
1975 – Austrian Niki Lauda wins the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen to claim his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 19.5 points from Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil
1990 – Pittsburgh Penguins left wing Kevin Stevens has 2 goals and 4 assists in 7-4 opening-night win against the Washington Capitals at Capital Centre to set NHL record for most points in a season opener (6)
1990 – “Henry and June” film, based on the book by Anaïs Nin, first film to be given an NC-17 rating in the US, released
1993 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
2017 – Spanish constitutional court suspends Catalan parliament to prevent declaration of independence
Today in History for 5th October 2020
Historical Events
1862 – Battle of Hatchie Bridge, Tennessee; confederate forces avoid capture by Union army
1892 – Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup
1919 – Norwegian population agrees to prohibition
1958 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1993 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1997 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Den Bosch, Netherlands: Sandrine Testud wins both her singles to lead France to 4-1 win over the Netherlands; France’s first title
Famous Birthdays
1684 – Johann Jacob de Neufville, German composer, born in Nuremberg (d. 1712)
1808 – Winand Staring, Dutch geologist (Geology of Netherlands), born in Wildenborch, Vorden, Netherlands (d. 1877)
1924 – Jose Donoso, Chilean writer (The Place Without Limits), born in Santiago (d. 1996)
1925 – Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (Frank and Ernest), born in Burt, Iowa (d. 2006)
1957 – Bernie Mac, American comedian (d. 2008)
1966 – Jan Verhaas, Dutch snooker referee
Famous Deaths
1285 – Philip III “the Bold”, King of France (1270-85), dies of dysentery at 40
1787 – Thomas Stone, US attorney and signer of the US Declaration of Independence, dies at about 44
1967 – Clifton Williams, American major and NASA astronaut, dies at 35, in T-38 jet crash
1992 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations), dies of lung cancer at 52
1998 – Michal Kováč, President of Slovakia (1993-98), dies at 86
2002 – Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
Famous Deaths for 4th October 2020
1072 – Sancho II, king of Castile/bro of Alfonso VI, murdered at about 35
1880 – William Lassell, British astronomer who discovered satellites of Uranus and Neptune, dies at 81
1904 – Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor (designed the Statue of Liberty), dies of tuberculosis at 70
1935 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
1968 – Francis Biddle, 58th United States Attorney General (1941-45), dies at 82
1975 – Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress, businesswoman and philanthropist (co-founder and majority owner of MLB’s New York Mets), dies at 72
1992 – Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
2000 – Benjamin Orr [Orzechowski], American rock bassist and singer (The Cars – “Just What I Needed”, “Drive”) dies of pancreatic cancer at 53
2004 – Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
2019 – Diahann Carroll, American actress (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty), dies at 84
Historical Events for 4th October 2020
1830 – Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
1910 – Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.
1964 – Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples
1976 – US Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after telling a racial joke
1979 – Hugh Leonards “Life” premieres in Dublin
1983 – Richard Noble driving Thrust2 reaches new land speed record of 650.88 mph (1,047.49 km/h) at Black Rock Desert, Nevada
1986 – NY Yankees closer Dave Righetti saves both doubleheader games at Fenway Park for 5-3 and 3-1 wins v Boston; Righetti’s MLB record 46th save
1990 – U.S. premiere of Fox TV’s “Beverly Hills, 90210” starring Luke Perry, Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty
1992 – “Anna Karenina” closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 performances
2012 – Turkey’s parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria