1700 – Rabbi Judah Hasid and Chayim Molocho arrive in Jerusalem
1951 – Organization of Central American States forms
1960 – Belgian senator Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
1964 – Little known American distance runner Billy Mills scores major upset by winning the 10,000m at the Tokyo Olympics; beats Mohammed Gammoudi of Tunisia by 0.4s; only American to ever win the event
1965 – Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
1969 – Race riots in Springfield, Massachusetts
1970 – Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92
2002 – MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 1
2019 – British Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive in Pakistan to begin a 5-day royal tour
2021 – Record price for a Banksy artwork paid of 18.5 million pounds ($25.4 million) for “Love is in the Bin”, that was famously shredded on purchase in 2018
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 13th October 2022
1890 – The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
1914 – Garrett Morgan patents his safety hood device, which would later be refined into the gas mask
1914 – Pro-German Boers begin opposition to British authority in South Africa
1943 – Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
1944 – Riga, capital of Latvia, freed
1958 – Burial of Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the “Miracle of the Sun”
1985 – “Sunday in the Park with George” closes at Booth NYC after 604 performances
1991 – MLB American League Championship: Minnesota Twins beat Toronto Blue Jays, 4 games to 1
2011 – Italian conductor Ricardo Muti is awarded the second $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
2018 – Oldest known human remains from Poland at 115,000 years from revealed to be Neanderthal child from Ciemna Cave eaten by a large bird
Historical Events for 12th October 2022
1815 – Ex-king Joachim Murat of Naples sentenced to death
1854 – Ashmun Institute (later Lincoln University) opens near Oxford, Pennsylvania
1879 – British troops occupy Kabul, Afghanistan
1915 – Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citizens who identify themselves with dual nationalities
1924 – Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow
1975 – NASA launches space vehicle S-195
1977 – 4th test of space shuttle Enterprise
1989 – Musical “Buddy” with Paul Hipp premieres in London
1995 – “Patti LuPone on Broadway” opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 46 performances
2019 – Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall on the Izu Peninsula near Tokyo, Japan, bringing record rainfall and killing at least 56 people
Historical Events for 11th October 2022
1864 – Slavery abolished in Maryland
1939 – NAACP organized Legal Defense and Education Fund
1948 – “Love Life” opens at 46th St Theater, NYC; runs for 252 performances
1950 – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS
1967 – World Series record 3 consecutive HRs hit by Carl Yastrzemski, Reggie Smith and Rico Petrocelli as Boston Red Sox beat St Louis Cardinals, 8-4 in Game 6 at Fenway Park
1968 – Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
1976 – Mao Zedong’s widow Jiang Qing and the “Gang of Four” are arrested and charged with plotting a coup
1984 – 1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)
1985 – President Reagan bans import of South African Krugerrands to the USA
1990 – Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
Historical Events for 10th October 2022
1799 – Convention of Alkmaar: British-Russian invasion army departs Holland
1846 – Neptune’s moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1923 – NY Giants and NY Yankees become first teams to play each other in 3 consecutive Baseball World Series; Giants win Game 1, 5-4; first WS game played at Yankee Stadium
1951 – Baseball World Series: two-time defending champion NY Yankees beat NY Giants, 4-3 at Yankee Stadium for 4-2 series victory; MVP: Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto
1957 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1973 – US Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after pleading no contest to allegations of tax fraud
1978 – Aerosmith’s Steve Tyler and Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb
1979 – Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
1980 – Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
1990 – Mexican singer and actress Thalia releases her debut album “Thalía”
Historical Events for 9th October 2022
1915 – Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York
1941 – Coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1961 – Tanganyika, in east Africa, becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1971 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito visits the Netherlands
1973 – Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal
1975 – Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco
1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1987 – Japanese bank buys “Lady McGill” stamp for $1,100,000
2007 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high
2015 – Selena Gomez releases her studio album “Revival”, goes to #1 on Billboard 200
Historical Events for 8th October 2022
1085 – San Marcos ministry in Venice initiated
1930 – Baseball World Series: Philadelphia A’s beat St Louis Cards, 7-1 at Shibe Park for a 4 games to 2 series victory to retain title
1944 – Samuel Barber’s “Capricorn Concerto” premieres
1950 – Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17
1972 – MLB Detroit Tiger pitcher Lerrin LaGrow and Oakland A’s shortstop Bert Campaneris, each fined and suspended when Campaneris flung his bat at the mound after getting hit by a pitch
1984 – NBC’s premiere of TV made “The Burning Bed”, based on Francine Hughes
1985 – Little Richard seriously injured in a single car accident in Los Angeles
1994 – BPAA US Women’s Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
2004 – Kenyan Wangari Maathai is the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”
2018 – Nobel prize for Economics awarded to William Nordhaus for climate change and Paul Romer for endogenous growth theory
Historical Events for 7th October 2022
1908 – Crete revolts against Turkey and aligns with Greece
1927 – Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1958 – Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
1960 – TV series “Route 66” premieres on CBS
1968 – Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1973 – Scotsman Jackie Stewart wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship despite withdrawing from the season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen; wins title by 16 points from Emerson Fittipaldi
1978 – LA Dodgers win the pennant
1993 – Massive Muslim demonstration in Xining, China, 12 killed
1994 – Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
2021 – Zanzibar born writer Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Historical Events for 6th October 2022
1911 – Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
1912 – Pirates Owen “Chief” Wilson hits record 36th triple of season
1935 – Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
1946 – 90°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
1990 – Solar Polar Orbiter ‘Ulysses’ launched
1996 – Lois and Clark (fictional characters) wed
2002 – The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
2008 – MESSENGER spacecraft performs a second Mercury flyby
2010 – Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instagram
2018 – Australia records the biggest comeback in Rugby Championship history in beating Argentina 45-34 in Salta; Wallabies trial 31-7 at halftime but score 5 second half tries to none to overwhelm Pumas
Historical Events for 5th October 2022
1813 – Battle of the Thames; American forces under General William Henry Harrison defeat Tecumseh’s Confederacy and their British allies led by Henry Procter near Chatham, Upper Canada
1912 – NY Highlanders last game at Hilltop stadium; beat Washington, 8-6; Brooklyn Dodgers last game at Washington Park; lose 1-0 v NY Giants
1931 – 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon and Pangborn)
1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1943 – US air raid on Wake, Japanese execute 98 US prisoners in retaliation
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
1970 – MLB Championship Series both end on the same day with same score; (AL) Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins, 3-0; (NL) Cincinnati Reds down Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0; Orioles win WS, 4-1
1975 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 – “Hair” opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 43 performances
1988 – Israel bans Meir Kahane’s Kach Party on grounds of racism