1940 – Balham tube station in London is bombed by the German Luftwaffe during the Blitz, killing 64-66 people
1945 – Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears
1948 – Large scale fighting between Israel and Egypt
1970 – 4th Country Music Association Award: Merle Haggard wins
1980 – Phils rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals, 7-6 to take WS opener
1986 – Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel, for his efforts to ensure the Holocaust was remembered
1988 – NJ Devils raise their 1st pennant by winning the Patrick Division Playoff Championship
1991 – NY Rangers right wing Mike Gartner becomes the first player to score 500th NHL goals
2002 – MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 1
2007 – “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” featuring Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney Kardashian premieres on the E! cable network in the US
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 13th October 2020
1213 – Battle of Steppes: Hugh Pierrepont, Bishop of Liège and Louis II, Count of Loon defeat Henry I, Duke of Brabant
1871 – The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the Delphic Society at the State Normal School in Geneseo, New York.
1902 – US President Theodore Roosevelt threatens to start using army troops to work coal mines struck since 12 may; this brings the owners to agree to abide by a Commission of Arbitration
1917 – 70,000 people gather to see ‘Miracle of the Sun’, solar visions reportedly by the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal after prophecies by local children
1936 – Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleve Stadium
1958 – Burial of Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the “Miracle of the Sun”
1969 – Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins
1973 – Jordan enters Yom Kippur war
1978 – Tiros N, US’s 1st third generation weather satellite, is launched
2007 – 17th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 27-14 in South Bend
Historical Events for 12th October 2020
1815 – Ex-king Joachim Murat of Naples sentenced to death
1861 – Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union’s Richmond on Mississippi
1864 – War of the Triple Alliance begins with Brazilian troops under the command of Gen. João Propício Mena Barreto invading Uruguay
1879 – British troops occupy Kabul, Afghanistan
1933 – Gangster George Francis Barnes, aka Machine Gun Kelly, is sentenced to life imprisonment
1935 – Cole Porters musical “Jubilee” premieres in NYC
1957 – Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize
1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN General Assembly session
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 7 is launched
Historical Events for 11th October 2020
1737 – Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta, India
1861 – Battle of Dumfries, VA (Quantico Creek)
1865 – President Andrew Johnson paroles Confederate States VP Alexander H. Stephens
1911 – Ty Cobb (AL) and Frank Schulte (NL) are named inaugural MLB MVPs; prize is a car
1919 – First transcontinental air race ends
1923 – Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a World Series game
1939 – NAACP organized Legal Defense and Education Fund
1972 – MLB National League Championship: Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 games to 2
1975 – Islander’s Bryan Trottier’s 1st career hat trick
2012 – A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army
Historical Events for 10th October 2020
1845 – Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
1871 – The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222m in damage
1920 – Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)
1931 – William Waltons “Belshazzar’s Feast” premieres in Leeds
1932 – “Betty and Bob” premieres on radio
1944 – Admiral Halsey’s Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die
1945 – Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series
1963 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia
1978 – British pop music magazine “Smash Hits” first published
1978 – Steve Perry joins Journey
Historical Events for 9th October 2020
1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1806 – Prussia declares war on France
1870 – Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree
1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
1973 – 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942
1976 – “Robber Bridegroom” opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 145 performances
1977 – Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock
1978 – John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical “Ballroom” premieres in NYC
1982 – Attack on synagogue in Rome leaves 1 dead
1990 – Radio stations around world play “Imagine” honoring John Lennon
Historical Events for 8th October 2020
1822 – First eruption of Galunggung in Java sends boiling sludge into valley
1871 – Forest fire destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin, killing between 1,200 and 2,500 people, making it the deadliest wildfire in recorded history
1906 – Karl Nessler demonstrates first ‘permanent wave’ for hair in London
1909 – Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
1956 – Yankees pitcher Don Larsen throws a perfect game as New York beats Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0 in Game 5 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium
1958 – Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time
1973 – Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece
1980 – USSR performs nuclear test
2005 – NHL great Wayne Gretzky gets his first win as a coach as the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Minnesota Wild 2-1 at Jobing.com Arena, Phoenix
2014 – Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
Historical Events for 7th October 2020
1506 – Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna
1882 – 1st World Series Baseball Game 2: Chicago White Stockings (NL) beats Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA), 2-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1959 – “Happy Town” opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances
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)
1985 – KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash’s final transmission
1985 – 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
1995 – Boston’s Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders and Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
2016 – Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent
2019 – Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology awarded to Peter Ratcliffe, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza for discovering how cells sense oxygen
Historical Events for 6th October 2020
1762 – British troops occupy Manila, Philippines
1863 – Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
1906 – The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time.
1919 – White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series
1935 – Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
1948 – KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1948 – “Polonaise” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances
1966 – LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow.
1983 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
2017 – Storm Nate kills at least 22 people passing through Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras
Historical Events for 5th October 2020
1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1915 – Allies land troops at the northern Greek city of Salonika; Greece is nominally neutral but allows the landing
1923 – Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
1945 – Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers’ studios.
1949 – Sportswriter Robert Ruark first reports golfing great Bobby Jones’s rare spinal disease (syringomyelia) which prevent him from playing any form of golf again
1975 – Austrian Niki Lauda wins the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen to claim his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 19.5 points from Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil
1990 – Pittsburgh Penguins left wing Kevin Stevens has 2 goals and 4 assists in 7-4 opening-night win against the Washington Capitals at Capital Centre to set NHL record for most points in a season opener (6)
1990 – “Henry and June” film, based on the book by Anaïs Nin, first film to be given an NC-17 rating in the US, released
1993 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
2017 – Spanish constitutional court suspends Catalan parliament to prevent declaration of independence