1468 – Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy’s troops.
1935 – Philadelphia Eagles beat Boston Redskins, 7-6 at Fenway Park; respective quarterbacks combine to throw an NFL record 11 interceptions
1946 – Emperor Hirohito proclaims a new Japanese constitution
1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson is elected President of the United States in a landslide, defeating Republican candidate Barry Goldwater
1978 – Dominica gains independence from UK and adopts constitution
1988 – Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
1997 – Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra becomes 6th player to be unanimous choice for American League Rookie of the Year; leads AL in hits (209), triples (11), multi-hit games (68); also sets AL rookie-record with 30-game hitting streak
1998 – “Shakespeare in Love” directed by John Madden and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes premieres in New York (Best Picture 1999)
2007 – Navy beats Notre Dame 46-44 in triple overtime, ending the Fighting Irish’s NCAA Football-record winning streak against the Midshipmen at 43 games; last Navy win over Notre Dame, 35-14 in 1963
2018 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Churchill Downs; Day 2 winners: Shamrock Rose, Stormy Liberal, City of Light, Sistercharlie, Roy H, Expert Eye, Monomoy Girl, Enable, Accelerate
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 2nd November 2020
1895 – Belmont Stakes: Fred Taral aboard Preakness winner Belmar wins in 2:11½; race run in November as NY Jockey Club closed out its affairs
1916 – Battle of Verdun: Fort Vaux reconquered from Germans by French troops without firing a shot
1954 – Charles Diggs Jr is elected Michigan’s 1st black congressman to the House of Representatives
1964 – Columbia Broadcasting System buys 80% share in the New York Yankees Baseball Club for $11.2 million; later purchases club outright
1969 – Quarterbacks Billy Kilmer of New Orleans and St Louis’ Charlie Johnson each pass for 6 touchdowns for combined NFL record of 12 passing TDs in a game; Saints beat Cardinals, 51-42 at Busch Memorial Stadium
1983 – “Thriller” single released worldwide by Michael Jackson
1993 – Dow Jones hits record 3697.64
1994 – NFL announces the expansion Carolina Panthers would play in the NFC West, while the Jacksonville Jaguars is assigned to the AFC Central
2004 – George W. Bush is re-elected as President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate John Kerry
2012 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Santa Anita Racetrack; Day 1 winners: Hightail, Calidoscopio, Flotilla, Beholder, Zagora, Royal Delta
Historical Events for 1st November 2020
1462 – Archduke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna
1765 – Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies
1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
1950 – Celtics’ forward Chuck Cooper becomes first African American to play in the NBA in Boston’s 107-84 loss at Fort Wayne Pistons; future Hall of Famer Bob Cousy also debuts for Celtics
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1964 – Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon
1965 – Ernie Terrell retains WBA heavyweight boxing title; beats Canadian George Chuvalo in 15 round points decision in Toronto
1974 – Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)
1985 – Nostalgia Television begins on cable
1996 – Shaquille O’Neil makes his Hollywood debut as Los Angeles Lakers beat Phoenix Suns, 96-82 at the Forum, Inglewood; O’Neil scores 23 points and pulls down 14 rebounds in 35 minutes
Historical Events for 31st October 2020
1924 – World Savings Day announced in Milan, Italy, by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks)
1949 – WOC (now KWQC) TV channel 6 in Davenport, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1964 – London’s notorious Windmill Theatre closes
1975 – Bob Geldof’s first appearance with The Boomtown Rats
1989 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 – Pakistan make 3-0 drubbing of NZ, Waqar Younis 29 series wkts
1993 – German unemployment hits national record of 3.5 million
2003 – Mahathir Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir’s 22 years in power
2015 – 8th Rugby World Cup Final, Twickenham, London: All Blacks fly-half Dan Carter lands 4 penalties and 2 conversions as New Zealand defeats Australia, 34-17
2017 – Terrorist attack in New York when a truck mows down people on a cycle lane, killing 8, injuring 10
Historical Events for 30th October 2020
1137 – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
1389 – French King Charles VI visits pope Clemens VII
1871 – Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago for 1st National Association baseball pennant
1944 – Scots Highlanders liberate Waalwijk
1944 – Aaron Copland’s ballet score “Appalachian Spring” premieres in Washington, D.C. with Martha Graham dancing lead role
1948 – 20 die and 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora, Pennsylvania
1974 – California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH)
1994 – Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel’s Pentium-processor on the Internet
1997 – Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured
2015 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Keeneland Racetrack; Day 1 winners: Hit It A Bomb, Liam’s Map, Catch A Glimpse, Stopchargingmaria
Historical Events for 29th October 2020
1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco
1867 – Mail packets “Rhone” and “Wye” capsize off St Thomas, Virgin Islands
1929 – “Black Tuesday” Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the “Great Depression”
1930 – 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach
1956 – International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco
1964 – The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar renamed The United Republic of Tanzania
1972 – Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal
1982 – Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release “Girl is Mine”
1987 – “Don’t Get God Started” opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 86 performances
1998 – Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.
Historical Events for 28th October 2020
1538 – The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established on Hispaniola
1612 – Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I
1646 – First Protestant church assembly for American Indians established in Massachusetts
1740 – Ivan VI becomes Tsar of Russia [OS=Oct 17]
1922 – Italian fascists conduct the March on Rome, leading to the assumption of power by Benito Mussolini
1946 – German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
1954 – N Richard Nash’ “Rainmaker” premieres in NYC
1979 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
2017 – Twin car bomb attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia, kill at least 27, Islamist militant group al-Shabab claim responsibility
2018 – Political crisis in Sri Lanka after President Sirisena sacks Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe and the cabinet, suspends parliament for two weeks with one man killed in protests
Historical Events for 27th October 2020
625 – Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva
1780 – Samuel Williams and the first U.S. astronomical expedition to record an eclipse of the sun observes the event at Penobscot Bay
1920 – League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
1955 – “Rebel Without a Cause”, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Dean and Natalie Wood, is released
1955 – Satomi Myodo, renews Zen nun vows and takes Buddhist name of Daien Myodo
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 – NLF leaves People’s Republic of South-Yemen
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
1997 – Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million
Historical Events for 26th October 2020
1881 – Gunfight at the OK Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs, between lawmen (including Wyatt Earp) and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed
1964 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
1972 – Henry Kissinger declares “Peace is at hand” in Vietnam
1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
1988 – Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 months’ advisory service
1988 – US-Soviet effort to free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK
1996 – World Series Baseball: New York beats Atlanta Braves, 3-2 in Game 6 at Yankee Stadium to win club’s 23rd title; MVP: Bronx Bombers’ reliever John Wetteland
2012 – 64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes
2018 – Longest Baseball World Series game by both innings and time; LA Dodgers beat Boston Red Sox, 3-2 in the 18th inning (7 hours, 20 mins) in Game 3 at Dodger Stadium with Max Muncy walk-off homer
2018 – Rhine River in drought with lowest levels since 1920s forces German government to release oil reserves after barge shipments disrupted
Historical Events for 25th October 2020
1577 – Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns
1854 – Prince Menshikov of Crimea occupies British base at Balaclava
1937 – Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees
1956 – White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
1960 – 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
1968 – Longest Olympic field hockey game, The Netherlands beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT)
1978 – “Halloween”, directed by John Carpenter, starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut, is released
1978 – Israeli government approves “in principle”, a draft compromise peace
2012 – The double dip recession in the UK economy ends with growth of 1.0% in GDP in the third quarter of 2012, with help from the London Olympic Games
2018 – First work of art produced by artificial intelligence “Edmond de Belamy” conceived by Obvious sells for $432,500 at Christie’s in New York