1756 – Giacomo Casanova escapes from prison in Venice by climbing onto the roof
1794 – John Dalton’s first lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society
1864 – Nevada admitted as 36th state of the Union
1940 – Battle of Britain, fought between the RAF and Luftwaffe over the English Channel and southern England, ends with a British victory
1943 – Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Bkln (48-10)
1953 – TV broadcasting begins in Belgium
1963 – J. Edgar Hoover’s last meeting with President John F. Kennedy
1968 – Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game)
2000 – A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50
2018 – US and Great Britain call for a cease-fire in Saudi-led war in Yemen, in 3-year war that has claimed over 10,000 lives and created famine conditions
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 30th October 2021
1954 – 1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston)
1957 – WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast
1957 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1972 – Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago, llinois
1974 – “The Rumble in the Jungle”: Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in the 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire; regains world heavyweight boxing title with famous “rope-a-dope” tactic
1985 – “Rockin’ with the Rhythm” second studio album by The Judds is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1986)
1985 – 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched
1987 – “Faith” debut album by George Michael is released
2017 – Actor Kevin Spacey issues apology after actor Anthony Rapp accuses him of inappropriate sexual behaviour when he was 14
2019 – Twitter head Jack Dorsey announces it will no longer take political ads
Historical Events for 29th October 2021
1268 – Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the German Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed with Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily
1508 – Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre
1833 – 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1923 – Textile strike against lower wages begins in Enschede, Netherlands
1941 – Cole Porter’s musical “Let’s Face It” opens at the Imperial Theatre, NYC; runs 547 performances
1974 – Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
1987 – Thomas Hearns wins unprecedented 4th different weight boxing title
2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world’s largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.
2018 – World Scrabble Championship won for the fourth time by New Zealand Malaysian Nigel Richards with the word “groutier” (bad-tempered)
2020 – India records more than 8 million COVID-19 cases, the second country after the US, with a death toll of 120,527
Historical Events for 28th October 2021
1831 – Michael Faraday demonstrates his dynamo invention, an electrical generator
1918 – Republic of Czechoslovakia created with Tomáš Masaryk as its 1st president
1942 – Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President JFK receives letter from Soviet Leaderr Khrushchev suggesting agreement
1973 – Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, designed by architect B. V. Doshi, inaugurated by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
1976 – Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees)
1996 – Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever
2001 – The indie cult hit “Donnie Darko”, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is released
2006 – Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s.
2018 – Michael D. Higgins is re-elected Irish president
Historical Events for 27th October 2021
1920 – Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA is granted a Limited Commercial license by the Department of Commerce
1969 – St Vincent and Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
1979 – Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
1980 – William Safire’s column entitled “The Ayatollah Votes” is published in the New York Times, and was later quoted in a campaign ad for Ronald Reagan in that year’s presidential election
1984 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 – KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
1986 – NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
2002 – World Series Baseball: Anaheim beats San Francisco Giants, 4-1 in Game 7 at Edison Field to win Angels’ first title; MVP: Anaheim 1st baseman Troy Glaus
2005 – Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
2012 – 46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs
Historical Events for 26th October 2021
1913 – José Victoriano Huerta Márquez elected president of Mexico
1927 – Duke Ellington sings “Creole Love Song”
1947 – Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir accedes to India
1962 – JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba
1968 – Striker Antal Dunai scores twice as Hungary outclasses Bulgaria 4-1 to take the men’s football gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
1970 – “Doonesbury” comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1992 – London Ambulance Service thrown into chaos after implementation problems with a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system
1995 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
2007 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Monmouth Park; Day 1 winners: Maryfield, Nownownow, Corinthian
2018 – Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor announces she has converted to Islam
Historical Events for 25th October 2021
1415 – John IV van Bourgondy becomes Duke of Brabant and Limburg
1616 – Dutch East India Company ship “The Eendracht” discovers Dirk-Hartog Island, Australia
1875 – The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist
1918 – Canadian steamship “Princess Sophia” hits a reef off Alaska, 398 die
1937 – Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money
1945 – Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek
1968 – Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská wins the uneven bars and vault gold medals at the Mexico City Olympics; her 6th and 7th career gold medals and her 4th at these Games
1981 – 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missile
1985 – Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
2020 – Chile overwhelmingly votes to scrap their constitution, drafted during dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet
Historical Events for 24th October 2021
1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War.
1656 – Treaty of Vilnius: Russia and Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant
1861 – West Virginia secedes from Virginia
1911 – Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
1930 – A bloodless coup d’état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as “provisional president.”
1944 – US air raid on Japanese battleships and cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks
1984 – 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested
1990 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1992 – World Series Baseball: Toronto Blue Jays beat Atlanta Braves, 4-3 in Game 6 at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium to win their first-ever title; MVP: Toronto catcher Pat Borders
2012 – Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths
Historical Events for 23rd October 2021
1864 – Battle of Westport, Missouri: Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price
1886 – “World Championship” Baseball Series, Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis: St.L Browns edge Chicago White Stockings, 4-3 in 10 innings in Game 6 to take series, 4-2
1954 – Britain, France and US agree to end occupation of Germany
1957 – First test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1958 – Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1974 – Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks’ Big Creek Reservation dedicated
1978 – CBS raises LP prices to $8.98
1978 – China and Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension
2001 – Apple releases the iPod
2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
Historical Events for 22nd October 2021
1812 – Duke of Wellington seizes Burgos, Spain
1875 – First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
1929 – 8th French government of Aristide Briand falls
1930 – 1st concert of BBC Symphony Orchestra, at Queen’s Hall, under Adrian Boult
1942 – 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
2001 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Seattle Mariners, 4 games to 1
2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
2012 – Hurricane Sandy forms in the Western Caribbean Sea
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