1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia
1617 – Peace of Pavia between Spain and Savoye
1818 – Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya
1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica
1926 – NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
1985 – “Tango Argentino” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 performances
1988 – 9th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats New Zealand 25-12
1988 – 17% vote for extreme-right Flemish Block in Belgium
2014 – Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 8th October 2021
1600 – San Marino adopts constitution
1888 – British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Jack Burns wins his lone Open title by 1 stroke from Ben Sayers and David Anderson Jr
1909 – Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
1972 – Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended
1984 – 18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
1995 – Edgar Martinez drives home tying and winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees and win AL Division Series
1998 – José Saramago is the first person from Portugal to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
1999 – New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar.
2016 – New Zealand routs South Africa, 57-14 in Durban to win their 4th Rugby Championship; undefeated All Blacks score 9 tries to 1, 2 each to Israel Dagg, TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett
2019 – FBI confirm Samuel Little is America’s most prolific serial killer, after verifying more than half of his 93 confessed murders
Historical Events for 7th October 2021
1492 – Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course
1907 – France’s Henri Farman flies 30m in a biplane
1927 – Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1928 – Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia
1951 – David Ben-Gurion forms 3rd Israeli government
1954 – Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of the Muslim Brothership, arrested in Egypt
1963 – Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
1971 – “The French Connection” directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey premieres in the US (Academy Awards Best Picture 1972)
1989 – Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
1993 – Massive Muslim demonstration in Xining, China, 12 killed
Historical Events for 6th October 2021
1898 – Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic concert
1908 – Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
1936 – Baseball World Series: Yankees beat Giants, 13-5 at the Polo Grounds to win all-New York series, 4-2
1939 – Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain
1944 – Canadians free Austria
1949 – US President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1959 – Chicago White Sox beat LA Dodgers, 1-0 in Game 5 of Baseball World Series at LA Memorial Coliseum; World Series record attendance 92,706
1963 – LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series
1973 – Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
2017 – British writer Kazuo Ishiguro is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Historical Events for 5th October 2021
610 – Heraclius’ fleet takes Constantinople
1875 – Palace Hotel on Market Street opens in San Francisco
1887 – 1st US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Ellen Hansell wins inaugural event; beats Laura Knight 6-1, 6-0
1944 – Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg’s musical “Bloomer Girl” premieres in NYC
1972 – Herbert Mullin 1st kills, claiming it was to prevent earthquakes
1975 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1991 – The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
2002 – For the first time in its 42-year old history, the Anaheim Angels win a post-season series by beating the Yankees, 9-5 to take the ALDS, 3-1
2014 – French F1 driver Jules Bianchi collides with recovery vehicle during Japanese Grand Prix, dies 10 months later; first F1 death due to racing accident in 21 years (Ayrton Senna 1994)
2020 – India COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000, with 6.6 million known cases, 3rd highest death toll in the world behind the US and Brazil
Historical Events for 4th October 2021
1675 – Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens patents the pocket watch
1824 – Mexico becomes a republic
1830 – Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
1959 – Future Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts in Cleveland Browns, 34-7 win at Chicago Cardinals
1964 – 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81
1985 – Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA
1985 – Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
1989 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1992 – Solheim Cup Women’s Golf, Dalmahoy CC: Europe beats US, 11½-6½; Laura Davies of England wins all her 3 matches
1998 – Australian motorcycle racer Mick Doohan wins the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island to clinch his 5th world 500cc championship; all 5 titles are won with Honda
Historical Events for 3rd October 2021
1918 – Selwyn Theater opens at 229 W 42nd St NYC
1924 – King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne
1944 – 1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland
1953 – 7th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens, 3-1
1960 – New York Yankees beat rival Boston Red Sox, 8-7 at Yankee Stadium, ending season on 15 game winning streak and MLB record 193 HRs
1963 – “Here’s Love” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 338 performances
1972 – USSR performs nuclear test
1991 – 25th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks, Tanya Tucker and Vince Gill wins
2006 – American drama series “Friday Night Lights” starring Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton premieres on NBC
2018 – Cervical Cancer could be eliminated in Australia within decades because of government vaccination program, according to report in “The Lancet Public Health”
Historical Events for 2nd October 2021
1627 – Last Emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty, Chongzhen, comes to the throne after death of his brother Emperor Tianqi
1908 – Cleveland Naps and future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Addie Joss hurls a classic perfect game, beating Ed Walsh and the Chicago White Sox, 1-0
1935 – Mussolini’s Italian army attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1936 – New York Yankees score Baseball World Series record 18 runs in an 18-4 rout of rival NY Giants in Game 2 at the Polo Grounds; Yankees win series 4-2
1955 – “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” premieres on CBS television in the US
1957 – New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores
1965 – Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
1979 – Pope John Paul II visits New York City, and at the U.N. denounces all concentration camps and torture
1981 – Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran
1981 – 17 year old gelding Behavin Jerry, the oldest winning racehorse in modern times, sets record for most career starts by a thoroughbred, 307
Historical Events for 1st October 2021
1653 – Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine
1795 – Belgium is conquered by France.
1827 – The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia
1864 – John Summerfield Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for US President Abraham Lincoln
1919 – Infamous ‘Black Sox’ Baseball World Series begins with Cincinnati Reds’ Dutch Ruether pitching a 6-hitter and hitting 3 RBI on 2 triples and a single for a 9-1 rout of White Sox
1924 – Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi runs world record 4 mile (19:15.4) and 5 mile (24:06.2)at Vilpuri, Russia
1961 – WOLO TV channel 25 in Columbia, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 – WAEO (now WJFW) TV channel 12 in Rhinelander, WI (NBC) begins
1978 – The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
2019 – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex sue British newspaper The Mail on Sunday claiming it published her private letter
Historical Events for 30th September 2021
1808 – Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire in London
1903 – New Gresham’s School officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood in Norfolk, England (expansion of original school founded 1555)
1962 – KCRL TV channel 4 in Reno, NV (NBC) begins broadcasting
1963 – 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office
1967 – USSR’s Kosmos 186 and 188 complete 1st automatic docking
1972 – Pittsburgh right fielder Roberto Clemente doubles off Mets’ Jon Matlack to become the 11th MLB player to record 3000 hits as Pirates beat NY, 5-0
1973 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 – Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout
1989 – NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii and Ascension
2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.