1932 – British government signs trade treaty with USSR
1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket, launched from Whites Sands US, takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1959 – US premier of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1st Cello concert
1976 – 1st Toronto International Film Festival opens
1982 – 12th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14
1987 – NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
1991 – “Dancing at Lughnasa” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 421 performances
1997 – Marv Albert sentenced in assault case
2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.
2017 – Albert Einstein’s “Theory of Happiness”, written as a note for a bellboy instead of a tip in Tokyo in 1922 sells for $1.56 million
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 23rd October 2020
1644 – Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Adm Thijssen beats Denen
1668 – Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade
1920 – Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal
1922 – Conservative Andrew Bonar Law forms government in United Kingdom, replacing David Lloyd George’s Liberal government
1943 – First Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau
1947 – NAACP petition on racism “An Appeal to the World” presented to UN
1958 – Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1989 – William Nicholson’s “Shadowlands” premieres in London
2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage
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 2020
1383 – The 1383-85 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder begins after King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne
1575 – Foundation of Aguascalientes (one of 32 Federal Entities of Mexico)
1708 – Great Alliance occupies Rijsel
1799 – Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition
1895 – In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop, crosses more than 30 meters of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse
1963 – BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes on October 22 in UK with the loss of all on board.
1981 – The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.
2000 – German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang, his 4th straight race victory to finish season; 3rd, and 1st of 5 straight F1 World Drivers Championships; wins by 19 points from Mika Häkkinen
2008 – Google Play is launched, the official app store for the Android operating system
2010 – 57th National Film Awards (India): “Kutty Srank” wins the Golden Lotus
Historical Events for 21st October 2020
1553 – Volumes of Talmud are burned
1555 – English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king
1652 – King Louis XIV returns to Paris
1869 – 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
1899 – Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army)
1914 – Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
1950 – Death penalty abolished in Belgium
1959 – Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York
1979 – Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
2017 – Spanish government suspends Catalonia’s autonomy in the face of a deepening political crisis over the region’s push for independence
Historical Events for 20th October 2020
1877 – Franz Schubert’s 2nd Symphony in B premieres
1905 – Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
1910 – Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar
1918 – In order to secure a WWI armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions
1930 – British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
1957 – Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary
1971 – Senator in the US Congress Edward Kennedy calls for a withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and all-party negotiations to establish a United Ireland
1979 – Bob Dylan appears on “Saturday Night Live”
1982 – During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
1987 – 10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
Historical Events for 19th October 2020
1864 – US Brigadier General Emory Upton (25) promoted to Major General
1926 – John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle
1948 – “My Romance” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 95 performances
1953 – 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service
1960 – France grants Mauritania independence
1967 – Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27′ 4 3/4″
1974 – Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90)
1990 – HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague
2001 – SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks killing 353
2019 – US Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorses Bernie Sanders for president
Historical Events for 18th October 2020
1889 – 1st all NYC World Series NY Giants (NL) play Bkln (AA)
1918 – NHL’s Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P. J. Quinn
1962 – US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon
1968 – Circus Circus hotel opens in Las Vegas, largest permanent big top in the world
1969 – Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
1977 – West German commandos liberate Boeing 737 with 86 hostages at Mogadishu
1992 – Start of Zimbabwe’s 1st Test match, v India at Harare
2009 – QB Tom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdown passes in one quarter
2012 – Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan
2019 – 1st all-female spacewalk by NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir outside the International Space Station
Historical Events for 17th October 2020
1346 – Battle of Neville’s Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years
1797 – Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions and France
1871 – Great Britain annexes Griqualand, South Africa
1894 – Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
1945 – Loyalty Day in Argentina, mass demonstrations held to release Juan Perón
1959 – Queen Elizabeth II is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
1965 – “On A Clear Day You Can See Forever” opens in NYC for 280 performances
1969 – NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY
1978 – NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series
2019 – The ‘Blob’, mysterious yellow slime organism (physarum polycephalum) with 720 sexes, moves and can solve problems to go on display at the Paris Zoological Park
Historical Events for 16th October 2020
1849 – British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras
1904 – Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur
1926 – Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200
1942 – Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
1949 – WDAF TV channel 4 in Kansas City, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1969 – T Agee and Ed Kranepool HR, Tommie Agee makes 2 great catches, New York Mets win Baseball World Series 4-1
1978 – Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Herbert A Simon
1979 – First global telenovela Mexican “Los ricos también lloran” (The Rich Also Cry) premieres, second foreign series to be screened in the Soviet Union
1982 – Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley’s comet on 13th return
2013 – 21 people are killed after a minibus hits a land mine in Nawa, Syria
Historical Events for 15th October 2020
1897 – Aaron and Samuel Bloch carry 1st Mail Pouch
1925 – Pittsburgh Pirates beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series
1932 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
1941 – Jews caught outside Nazi Ghetto walls in occupied Poland could be put to death
1951 – First synthesis of an oral contraceptive (norethindrone) made by Luis E. Miramontes under direction of Carl Djerassi and George Rosenkranz at Mexican drug company Syntex
1953 – John Patrick’s “Teahouse of the August Moon” premieres in New York
1969 – Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
1997 – Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Jens Christain Skou, Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker for their work on enzymes in the body
2005 – Riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
2011 – Global protests break out in 951 cities in 82 countries