1796 – John Adams elected as 2nd president of the United States of America
1856 – A British fleet bombards Canton
1868 – John Willis Menard from Louisiana is elected the first black US Congressman (opposition to his election means he never sits in Congress)
1888 – Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes
1908 – William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th U.S. President over William Jennings Bryan (D)
1937 – Howie Morenz Memorial Game, Montreal Forum: NHL All-Stars beat Montreal All Stars, 6-5
1943 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1954 – Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe
1956 – Suez Crisis: After several days of fighting, Israeli forces capture the Gaza Strip
1969 – Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 2nd November 2022
1923 – Bloody street fights in Aachen led to establishment of the ill-fated Rhenish Republic
1923 – Gustav Stresemann’s SPD-ministers in Germany, step down
1958 – Los Angeles Rams beat Chicago Bears, 41-35 before 90,833 fans at the Los Angeles Coliseum; NFL single-game attendance record
1974 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1978 – Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
1986 – New York City Marathon: Grete Waitz of Norway wins her 8th NYC event in 2:28:06; Gianni Poli of Italy, men’s champion in 2:11:06
1990 – Golden State Warriors register a 162-158 win over the Denver Nuggets at McNichols Arena, with the 320 total points setting an NBA record for most points scored by 2 teams in a non-overtime game
1993 – Rudy Giuliani wins the New York mayoral election, becomes 1st Republican mayor since 1965
1997 – Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam
2012 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Santa Anita Racetrack; Day 1 winners: Hightail, Calidoscopio, Flotilla, Beholder, Zagora, Royal Delta
Historical Events for 1st November 2022
1886 – Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka was established with 37 students.
1946 – First Basketball Association of America game; New York Knicks beat Toronto Huskies, 68-66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
1956 – Indian states of Punjab, Patiala and most of the East Punjab States Union merge as the Punjab State
1958 – USSR performs nuclear test
1965 – Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
1970 – KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting
1989 – Despite 107 from Desmond Haynes, Saleem Malik with 71 leads Pakistan to 4 wicket win v West Indies in cricket’s Nehru Cup Final in Kolkata, India
1991 – Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
2004 – “That’s What I Love About Sunday” single released by Craig Morgan (Billboard Song of the Year 2005)
2013 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Santa Anita Racetrack; Day 1 winners: London Bridge, Outstrip, Goldencents, Chriselliam, Beholder
Historical Events for 31st October 2022
1793 – Execution of Girondins in Paris during Reign of Terror
1815 – Cornishman Sir Humphry Davy patents miner’s safety lamp
1868 – Standard uniform approved for US postal carriers
1913 – 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway is dedicated
1944 – Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission
1955 – Mgr Alfrink appointed archbishop of Utrecht
1980 – Polish government recognizes Solidarity trade union
1992 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Gulfstream Park; winners: A P Indy, Fraise, Gilded Time, Liza, Lure, Paseana, Thirty Slews
2000 – A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50
2012 – The New York stock exchange opens after being closed for two days after Hurricane Sandy
Historical Events for 30th October 2022
1077 – Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV gives the district of Stavoren to the bishop of Utrecht (Conrad, his former tutor)
1739 – Great Britain declares war on Spain: War of Jenkins’ Ear [NS=Oct 19]
1961 – Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb in Red Square as part of de-Stalinization efforts
1974 – “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” horror film premieres in Los Angeles
1989 – Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal)
1991 – Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain
1994 – Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel’s Pentium-processor on the Internet
2003 – “Wicked” premieres on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth
2011 – Czech tennis star Petra Kvitová beats Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 7–5, 4–6, 6–3 in the WTA Championship decider in Istanbul, Turkey
2016 – Canada and the EU sign free trade deal after opposition by Belgium
Historical Events for 29th October 2022
1833 – 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1939 – NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3
1960 – Cassius Clay’s [Muhammad Ali] 1st professional fight; beats Tunney Hunsaker on points in 6 rounds in Louisville, Kentucky
1970 – WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1970 – The Electoral Reform Society calls for the introduction of Proportional Representation (PR) in elections in Northern Ireland
1977 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
2015 – China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years
2017 – British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes a distant 9th in Mexican Grand Prix at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez; good enough to clinch his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship
2020 – Three people stabbed to death in church in Nice, France, in an terrorist attack, after similar attack and President Macron’s defense of right to publish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad
2020 – Former leader Jeremy Corbyn is suspended from the British Labour Party after saying a report into antisemitism in the party was “overstated”
Historical Events for 28th October 2022
1646 – First Protestant church assembly for American Indians established in Massachusetts
1848 – The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
1893 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts first performance of his Symphony Number Six in B minor, “Pathetique”, in St. Petersburg, Russia, 9 days before his death
1904 – St Louis police try a new investigation method – fingerprints
1946 – German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
1953 – Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
1979 – Dick Howser (best Yank manager win-lost pct .636) returns to New York, replacing Billy Martin
1995 – 11th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats England 16-8
2015 – Longest ever 1st game of Baseball World Series (5 hours, 9 minutes); Kansas City Royals beat New York Mets, 5-4; also joint longest by innings (14)
2018 – Baseball World Series: Boston Red Sox beats LA Dodgers, 5-1 in Game 5 at Dodger Stadium to win 9th title in franchise history; MVP: Boston utility Steve Pearce
Historical Events for 27th October 2022
1644 – Second Battle of Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies
1913 – President Woodrow Wilson says US will never attack another country
1922 – 1st commemoration of Navy Day (USA)
1952 – “My Darlin’ Aida” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 89 performances
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 – Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to John Tinbergen
1973 – 1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2
1985 – Baseball World Series: KC Royals rout St Louis Cardinals, 11-0 at Royals Stadium for 4 games to 3 series win; MVP: KC pitcher Bret Saberhagen
1986 – Paul McCartney releases single “Pretty Little Head”
1990 – “Michael Feinstein in Concert” closes at Golden NYC after 30 performances
Historical Events for 26th October 2022
1859 – Steam clipper Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, Wales;, in a storm that took down over 100 vessels; approximately 450 passengers and crew killed on voyage returning to Liverpool from Australia
1869 – 1st American steeplechase horserace at Westchester, NY
1951 – Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m and 15 miles
1952 – Pakistan’s 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts v India
1958 – PanAm flies first transatlantic jet from New York to Paris
1988 – Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 months’ advisory service
2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in Californian history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego
2015 – World Health Organization classifies processed meat as carcinogenic
2015 – “Spectre”, 24th James Bond film, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig premieres in London
2015 – 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits northern Pakistan and Afghanistan killing over 300
Historical Events for 25th October 2022
1596 – Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland
1942 – Field Marshal Rommel back in North Africa
1947 – Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan and Fred Saigh for $4M
1947 – “Under the Counter” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 27 performances
1968 – Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon’s baby; she later suffers a miscarriage
1984 – West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption
1985 – Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract
1991 – Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs v India in cricket 1-dayer at Sharjah
1992 – “Jake’s Women” closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 245 performances
2009 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 4 games to 2