1483 – Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible
1652 – Prince of Condé flees Paris
1941 – Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children and old people, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine; additional murders continue on the 14th
1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 8 is launched
1973 – “Badlands” directed by Terrence Malick and starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek premieres at the New York Film Festival
1973 – Jordan enters Yom Kippur war
1978 – Swaziland’s new constitution promulgated bans political parties
2013 – 109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 12th October 2026
1492 – Flemish rebel leader Philip of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein, surrenders his last stronghold, Sluis
1853 – John Morrissey wins the American bare-knuckle heavyweight title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey’s fans
1862 – Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart completes his “second ride around McClellan” during the Raid on Chambersburg
1872 – Montreal Foot Ball Club plays its first-ever game against Quebec City, 0-0 tie
1958 – Christian Social Party win the Municipal elections in Belgium
1978 – Representatives of Israel and Egypt open peace talks in Washington, D.C.
1990 – MLB National League Championship: Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 4 games to 2
2023 – Roman scrolls burned in Mt. Vesuvius eruption at Herculaneum are read for the first time after a computer science student develops a machine-learning algorithm; the first word deciphered is “purple”
Historical Events for 11th October 2026
1573 – Battle of the South Seas: Dutch rebels defeat the Spanish navy
1915 – Bulgarian Prime Minister Vasil Radoslavov announces the country’s entrance into the First World War on the side of the Central Powers
1939 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with economic advisor Alexander Sachs to discuss Albert Einstein’s letter warning about the possibilities of an atomic bomb
1942 – Battle of Cape Esperance: naval battle between the Imperial Japanese navy and US navy begins
1967 – “Yoko Plus Me” art exhibition by Yoko Ono opens in London (the “Me” is John Lennon)
2006 – US sitcom “30 Rock,” created by and starring Tina Fey alongside Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan, first premieres on NBC in the US
2022 – Ringo Starr resumes his All-Starr Band tour with a show in Seattle, Washington, after his testing positive for COVID-19
2023 – Wild beavers are reintroduced to Ealing, London, from Scotland after being absent from the city for 400 years
Historical Events for 10th October 2026
1845 – Naval School (now called the US Naval Academy) opens in Annapolis
1957 – US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware
1973 – MLB National League Championship: New York Mets beat Cincinnati Reds 3-2
1994 – MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds a meeting to determine new movie ratings
1994 – NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor’s #56
2002 – Hungarian writer and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertész is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
2003 – Shirin Ebadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, becoming the first Iranian Muslim woman to receive the prize
2019 – 3,500 women are allowed to attend a football match in Iran for a World Cup qualifier in Tehran for the first time since the Islamic Revolution
Historical Events for 9th October 2026
1865 – First US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
1963 – The French Air Force receives its first nuclear weapons
1968 – WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1989 – 27th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain 3-0 in Tokyo, Japan
1991 – Revival of Paul Osborn’s stage drama “On Borrowed Time,” starring Conrad Bain, George C. Scott, and Nathan Lane, opens at Circle in Square Theater in New York City and runs for 101 performances
2012 – Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics
2018 – President Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, says she is resigning at the end of the year
Historical Events for 8th October 2026
876 – Battle at Andernach: East Frankish king Louis the Younger heavily defeats the West Frankish king Charles the Bald
1906 – Karl Nessler demonstrates the first “permanent wave” for hair in London
1977 – Largest baseball crowd in Pennsylvania, 64,924, sees Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in the 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
1980 – British Leyland starts selling the Mini Metro
1982 – MGM releases comedy film “My Favorite Year,” directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Peter O’Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, and Joseph Bologna
1983 – MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Los Angeles Dodgers 3-1
1986 – “The Color of Money,” directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise, premieres in New York City
2012 – 35 people are killed when a Nigerian military bomb strikes a convoy in Maiduguri
Historical Events for 7th October 2026
1571 – Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of Catholic states formed by Pope Pius V destroys an Ottoman fleet in a significant defeat off Western Greece
1882 – Chicago White Stockings (NL) beat Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) 2-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
1924 – Greek government of Dikalekopoulos forms
1957 – “How to Marry a Millionaire,” the first movie to become a TV sitcom, premieres
1968 – Rioting continues in Derry, Northern Ireland, after the Royal Ulster Constabulary suppresses a civil rights march two days earlier
1975 – US decides John Lennon won’t be deported to the UK for his pot conviction
1994 – Faud Guliyev is appointed premier of Azerbaijan
2018 – China confirms it has detained Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, who resigns from his position after being reported missing
Historical Events for 6th October 2026
1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time
1949 – US President Harry Truman signs the Mutual Defense Assistance Act to strengthen NATO allies especially Greece and Turkey
1965 – William Goodhart’s “Generation” premieres in New York City
1967 – Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco) hippies hold a funeral for “Hippie” to signify the end of “the Summer of Love”
1973 – Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
1986 – Russian nuclear submarine K-291 sinks in the Atlantic Ocean
2012 – New Zealand wins the inaugural Rugby Championship with a 32-16 victory over South Africa in Johannesburg; the undefeated All Blacks score four tries to one, with Dan Carter kicking three conversions, a penalty, and a drop goal
2023 – Imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting the oppression of women in Iran
Historical Events for 5th October 2026
1750 – Carlo Goldoni’s comedy play “Il Teatro Comico” premieres in Venice
1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France
1869 – A strong hurricane known as the Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Maritime Canada. Incredibly, British naval officer Stephen Martin Saxby predicts the storm 10 months earlier in December 1868 through astronomy.
1887 – 1st US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Ellen Hansell wins inaugural event; beats Laura Knight 6-1, 6-0
1916 – Adolf Hitler is wounded in the left thigh by an exploding shell during the Battle of the Somme
1983 – Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1991 – USSR reduces its nuclear weapons arsenal
1994 – 52 members of the cult Order of the Solar Temple (Zonnetempel) die in a mass murder-suicide in Salvan, Switzerland
Historical Events for 4th October 2026
1830 – Provisional Government of Belgium declares independence and succession from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
1901 – Charlie Barr skippered Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (UK), 3-0 on New York City Harbour in 11th America’s Cup yachting challenge series
1922 – Protocol for the Reconstruction of Austria, between the government of Austria and the governments of Great Britain, France, Italy, and Czechoslovakia, for reconstructing the Austrian economy, signed in Geneva, Switzerland
1938 – Baseball World Series: NY Yankees win third straight championship; beat Chicago Cubs, 8-3 at Yankee Stadium for 4-0 sweep
1957 – Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial Earth satellite, into an elliptical low Earth orbit
1985 – Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA
1992 – Solheim Cup Women’s Golf, Dalmahoy CC: Europe beats US, 11½-6½; Laura Davies of England wins all her 3 matches
2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile, killing 78 people