1861 – First US transcontinental telegram is sent (from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.)
1931 – Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion
1946 – Netherlands and Indonesia sign cease fire
1960 – Disaster on USSR’s Baikonoer launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin and team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
1980 – Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar
1984 – 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested
1988 – Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown
1988 – NY Islander’s and NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires
2002 – Twyla Tharp’s rock ballet “Movin’ Out”, set to songs of Billy Joel, opens at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, NYC; runs for 1,303 performances
2012 – Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 23rd October 2022
502 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
1229 – Otto II becomes earl of Gelre
1694 – American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec
1910 – Blanche Scott becomes the first woman to fly at a public event in the US at Fort Wayne, Indiana
1941 – Walt Disney’s animated film “Dumbo” released
1952 – Charlie Chaplin’s “Limelight”, starring himself and Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster Keaton, premieres in New York City; Not released in Los Angeles until 1972, winning Chaplin his only competitive Academy Award for original score
1958 – Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1964 – Dutch 10th dan judoka Anton Geesink wins Open gold medal in the first ever Olympic judo competition in Tokyo; prevents clean sweep of the gold medals by Japan
1974 – Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks’ Big Creek Reservation dedicated
2018 – Megyn Kelly is criticized after making comments supporting blackface on her NBC show
Historical Events for 22nd October 2022
1899 – British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa
1928 – China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants
1942 – Operation Flagpole: US Major General Mark Clark and Brigadier General Lyman Lemnitzer meet Vichy French Général Charles Mast secretly in small fishing village of Cherchell, Algeria to finalize plans for Allied Invasion of North Africa
1978 – New York City Marathon: Grete Waitz of Norway wins in her race debut in world record 2:32:30; Bill Rodgers wins his third straight title in 2:12:12
1978 – Pope John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope
1997 – Larry Flynt sells Hustler to an under-age buyer in a non-zoned area of Cincinnati, Ohio
2012 – MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3
2018 – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison makes a public apology to victims of child sexual abuse in institutions
2018 – Cameroon’s President Paul Biya wins seventh term in office, extending his 36 years in office, in election marred by intimidation and low turnout
2018 – Actress Selma Blair reveals she has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis
Historical Events for 21st October 2022
1816 – The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
1917 – 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WWI: US troops enter front lines at Sommervillier under French command
1964 – Polish 4×100m women’s relay team runs a world record 43.6 to beat the US by 0.3s and win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics; Teresa Ciepły, Irena Kirszenstein, Halina Górecka and Ewa Kłobukowska
1965 – KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1979 – New York City Marathon: Bill Rodgers wins 4th straight men’s title in 2:11:42; defending champion Grete Waitz of Norway takes out women’s event in 2:27:33
1982 – Private funeral service held for Bess Truman, former First Lady of the United States
1984 – Cleveland Browns’ Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal
1995 – Mario Tremblay, selected 22nd NHL coach of Montreal Canadians
2003 – Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
2020 – Pope Francis backs same-sex civil unions in interview in documentary film “Francesco”
Historical Events for 20th October 2022
1536 – King Christian III of Denmark and Norway leads reform in Catholic possessions
1587 – Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League
1839 – Margaret Fuller is appointed editor of new US Transcendental Magazine “The Dial”
1880 – Amsterdam Free University opens
1942 – “Durham Manifesto” issued by the Southern Conference on Race Relations held in Durham, North Carolina, calls for fundamental changes in race relations
1962 – Peter, Paul and Mary’s debut folk album “Peter, Paul and Mary” reaches No. 1 on US album charts
1978 – Police’s 1st US concert (NYC’s CBGBs)
1983 – IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released
1991 – Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo
2018 – President Trump threatens to pull the US out of an arms control agreement with Russia because Russia has violated its terms
Historical Events for 19th October 2022
1882 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley
1913 – At a meeting of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in Durban, NIC secretaries, M. C. Anglia and Dada Osman, severely criticise Mahatma Gandhi and tender their resignations
1953 – Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey
1971 – A group of Northern Ireland Members of Parliament begin a 48 hour hunger strike against the policy of Internment
1980 – Steve McPeak rides 101’9″ unicycle
1993 – UN authorizes arms, military and police supply embargo against Haiti
1996 – Braves beat NY Yanks by record tying 11 runs, 12-1 in a World Series
2017 – New Zealand Labour Party forms a coalition government led by Jacinda Ardern (37), youngest NZ leader in 161 years
2018 – “Halloween” film reboot starring Jamie Curtis makes a record $77m for a horror film with a female lead, biggest debut any film with female lead over 55 in US
2019 – UK parliament votes for the Letwin amendment in a special Saturday sitting, which forces Boris Johnson to ask the EU for an extension and delays vote on his Brexit deal
Historical Events for 18th October 2022
1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church’s foundations down to bedrock
1912 – Black boxer Jack Johnson arrested for violating the Mann Act for “transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes” due to his relationship with white woman Lucille Cameron, allegedly a prostitute. Later convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to a year in prison.
1915 – 3rd Italian offensive at Isonzo
1930 – Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
1953 – WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1968 – Circus Circus hotel opens in Las Vegas, largest permanent big top in the world
1974 – 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena – Pacers beat Spurs 129-121
1979 – “Beatlemania” opens in London
1991 – “Most Happy Fella” closes at NY State Theater NYC
1992 – Philadelphia Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL quarterback scramble record of 3,683
Historical Events for 17th October 2022
1662 – Charles II of Great Britain sells Dunkirk to France for 2.5 million livres (320,000 English pounds)
1876 – Henry Morton Stanley’s reaches Lualaba River
1899 – Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000
1927 – Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL President
1935 – Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics
1956 – England’s 1st large scale nuclear power station opens
1967 – Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue
1974 – NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak
1975 – 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Miss
2018 – The revived “The Connors” debuts on ABC TV starring Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman, without fired former star Roseanne Barr
Historical Events for 16th October 2022
1311 – Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens
1861 – Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
1925 – Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1967 – WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 – The People’s Democracy (PD), formed on Oct 9, organise a march of 1,300 students from the Queen’s University of Belfast to the City Hall in the centre of the city, Northern Ireland
1990 – US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
1995 – Million Man March held in Washington, D.C. (over 830,000 African American men attend)
2013 – 49 people are killed after Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes in the Mekong River, Laos
2018 – Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman denies knowledge of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi according to President Trump
2019 – Netflix reveals its most popular original movie was Sandra Bullock’s “Bird Box” and TV series “Stranger Things” for the year
Historical Events for 15th October 2022
1924 – US President Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument
1954 – Hurricane Hazel makes landfall in the US in North Carolina as a category 4 hurricane, 195 die in US and Canada
1962 – WLOX TV channel 13 in Biloxi-Gulfport, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 – American Don Schollander swims a world record 4:12.2 to win the 400m freestyle gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics; second of Schollander’s 4 gold medals at the Games
1964 – American Al Oerter wins his third of 4 consecutive Olympic men’s discus titles at the Tokyo Olympics; beats Czech Ludvík Daněk by 0.08m
1970 – Anwar Sadat elected 3rd President of Egypt, succeeding the late Gamal Abdel Nasser
1974 – Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J. Flory for work on macro molecules
1979 – NY Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier
1993 – Amstel brewery on Curacao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle
2021 – IPL Cricket Final, Dubai International Stadium: Chennai Super Kings win their 4th IPL title beating Kolkata Knight Riders by 27 runs; Faf du Plessis scores 86 off 59 balls for Player of the Match