1914 – Dardanelles: French and British fleet bombards Turkish forts
1923 – Young Stribling ostensibly beats Mike McTigue on points in Columbus, Georgia for world light-heavyweight boxing title; referee Harry Ertle later calls fight a draw, claims coerced by promoters to award fight to Stribling; McTigue retains title
1949 – United Nations’ permanent NYC headquarters is dedicated
1965 – Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
1976 – US Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after telling a racial joke
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
1987 – First “Scab Sunday” of NFL football with replacement players as a result of players strike; chiefly related to the expiration of 1982 Collective Bargaining Agreement; players returned October 15
1991 – Whiteland Janice, driven by Mike Lachance, wins Kentucky Futurity
1992 – 1st time AL East and West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor and Oak
2001 – Brendan Shanahan scores a hat trick in Red Wings 4-3 OT win at San Jose; becomes second player in NHL history to score an opening-night hat trick twice in his career
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 2nd October 2022
1134 – Storm flood ravages Zeeland county
1912 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, at invitation of Gandhi, arrives in South Africa on a 26-day tour; he also visits Tolstoy Farm
1919 – US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed
1932 – New York Yankees win their 12th consecutive World Series game and sweep the Fall Classic for the third time; Bronx Bombers bang out 19 hits as they rout Chicago Cubs, 13-6 at Wrigley Field
1947 – New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra hits the first pinch-hit home run in Baseball World Series history off Ralph Branca in the 7th inning of a 9-8 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 3
1958 – Musical show “Valmouth” 1st produced in London
1961 – WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, D.C. (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 – All Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents for possession of marijuana in San Francisco, California
1984 – Due to a strike by MLB umpires, first 4 NLCS games played with replacement umpires; Game 1: Chicago Cubs beat SD Padres, 13-0
1988 – Pakistan’s Supreme Court orders free elections
Historical Events for 1st October 2022
1670 – -4] Battle at Simbirsk a/d Wolga: Russian army beats Boers
1908 – 1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague)
1914 – The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth
1921 – WJZ, Newark NJ begins broadcasting
1952 – Liberal Party wins Japanese elections
1962 – US National Radio Astronomy Observatory installs a 300′ (91m) radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia
1964 – Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley
1965 – France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1971 – Walt Disney World opens in Bay Lake, Florida
2018 – More than 80,000 American died of the flu during 2017-2018 winter, highest in ten years, according to US heath officials
Historical Events for 30th September 2022
1626 – Battle between King Bethlen Gabor and Earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends
1744 – France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell’Olmo.
1813 – Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla
1904 – White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days
1919 – Elaine Massacre: Arkansas state militia and rioters kill over 200 hundred Black people in response to sharecroppers’ attempt to organize against landowners; trials of survivors for murder leads to Supreme Court enacted judicial reforms
1934 – St Louis Card clinch pennant as Dizzy Dean wins his 30th of year
1962 – KMEX TV channel 34 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1962 – KCRL TV channel 4 in Reno, NV (NBC) begins broadcasting
1973 – New York City Marathon: American Nina Kuscsik retains her crown in 2:57:07; Tom Fleming wins men’s race in 2:21:54
1974 – General Francisco da Costa Gomesz succeeds General António de Spínola as President of Portugal
Historical Events for 29th September 2022
1863 – Opera “The Pearl Fishers” (Les Pêcheurs de Perles) by Bizet is first produced at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris
1914 – Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant
1944 – Browns last in AL attendance, only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH
1950 – “Tin Pan Alley TV” last airs on ABC-TV
1954 – Bennekom (Netherlands) soccer team forms
1963 – Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley and Everly Bros)
1967 – Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead for the 1st time, playing at the Straight Theater in San Francisco, California
1972 – Robert McNamara, former US Secretary of Defense, is almost thrown overboard on a ferry by an artist wanting to confront him on his role in escalating US involvement in the Vietnam war (no charges pressed)
1994 – Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
2006 – US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced
Historical Events for 28th September 2022
1829 – Walker’s Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston
1920 – 8 Chicago White Sox baseball players are indicted by a grand jury, charged with fixing 1919 World Series; infamous “Black Sox scandal”
1930 – Lou Gehrig’s errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
1959 – “Hennesey” debuts on CBS-TV
1972 – David Bowie sells out his 1st show at NYC’s Carnegie Hall
1981 – “Physical” single released by Olivia Newton-John (Billboard Song of the Year 1982)
1988 – Despite totally dominating his sport for 14 years, Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka wins his only Olympic gold medal with a vault of 5.90m at the Seoul Games
1995 – Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld v W Prov
1995 – Dennis Martínez pitch breaks Kirby Puckett’s jaw in Indians 12-4 win
1996 – 1st ODI played in Kenya between home team and Sri Lanka
Historical Events for 27th September 2022
1854 – Steamship “Arctic” collides with “vesta” off Newfoundland coast due to heavy fog, killing 322
1864 – Jesse James’ gang surprise attack train: 150 killed
1900 – Victory Theater (Republic, Belasco) opens at 207 W 42nd St NYC
1910 – 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)
1919 – Democratic National Committee votes to allow female members
1953 – KOLO TV channel 8 in Reno, NV (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit
1988 – Senate votes for major federal tax code changes
1989 – Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
2003 – Smart 1 satellite is launched by the European Space Agency from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, for a moon orbit.
Historical Events for 26th September 2022
1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1835 – Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “Lucia di Lammermoor” premieres at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (now Italy)
1933 – Sidney Kingsley’s “Men in White” premieres in NYC
1953 – KERO TV channel 23 in Bakersfield, CA (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 – NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1957 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 – 1st edition of NYC Review of Books
1970 – A groups of Protestant youths attack the Catholic Unity Flats as rioting continues in the Protestant Shankill Road area
1982 – “Doll’s Life” closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 5 performances
1992 – 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates
Historical Events for 25th September 2022
1093 – Anselmo d’Aosta, Italian Benedictine monk seated as Anselm of Canterbury, Archbisop of Canterbury
1654 – England and Denmark sign trade agreement
1781 – -26] Joan Derks scatters “On the People of Netherlands” pamphlets
1861 – Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1878 – British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health announcements on the dangers of smoking
1897 – 1st British bus service opens
1992 – Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea)
1994 – Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
2007 – Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen’s 15th studio album “Magic”, made with the E Street Band
2008 – Supernatural-fantasy film “Painted Skin” directed by Gordon Chan, starring Donnie Yen, Chen Kun and Zhou Xun is released
Historical Events for 24th September 2022
1629 – Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies
1829 – Russia and Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
1853 – France annexes New Caledonia
1929 – New York Yankee pitcher Tom Zachary ends season 12-0, record for most pitching wins without a loss in one season
1958 – 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Iowa
1970 – Soviet space probe Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon
1988 – Swimmer Silke Hörner wins her second gold medal of the Seoul Olympics as part of the victorious East German 4 x 100m medley relay team
1995 – Emillio and Gloria Estefan’s boat hits and kills a jet skier
1996 – US President Bill Clinton signs the “Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty” at the United Nations
2020 – David Attenborough breaks Jennifer Aniston’s record as the fastest person to reach 1 million followers on Instagram