1830 – Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
1910 – Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.
1964 – Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples
1976 – US Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after telling a racial joke
1979 – Hugh Leonards “Life” premieres in Dublin
1983 – Richard Noble driving Thrust2 reaches new land speed record of 650.88 mph (1,047.49 km/h) at Black Rock Desert, Nevada
1986 – NY Yankees closer Dave Righetti saves both doubleheader games at Fenway Park for 5-3 and 3-1 wins v Boston; Righetti’s MLB record 46th save
1990 – U.S. premiere of Fox TV’s “Beverly Hills, 90210” starring Luke Perry, Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty
1992 – “Anna Karenina” closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 performances
2012 – Turkey’s parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 3rd October 2020
1247 – Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor
1922 – 1st facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.
1944 – RAF bombs West Kapelse
1955 – WDBJ TV channel 7 in Roanoke, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1970 – WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 – Roric Harrison homers as Baltimore beats Cleveland, 4-3; last AL pitcher to homer until MLB inter-league play 25 years later
1983 – Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release “Say, Say, Say” in UK
1992 – Madonna premieres her “Erotica” video on MTV
2004 – Final game in Montreal Expos team history is played in NYC against the Mets at Shea Stadium, an 8-1 defeat; Jamey Carroll scores the final Expos run and Endy Chavez is the last Expos batter
2017 – King Felipe of Spain speaks out against the Catalan referendum saying organizers have “broken the rule of law”
Historical Events for 2nd October 2020
976 – Hisham II appointed kalief of Cordoba
1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1904 – White Sox left-hander Doc White’s streak of 45 consecutive MLB scoreless innings is snapped by the New York Highlanders in Chicago; White Sox win, 7-1 at South Side Park III
1960 – Mickey Wright becomes first player in LPGA Tour history to average fewer than 74 strokes per round to win the Vare Trophy after a season average of 73.25; first of 5 consecutive Vare Trophies for Wright
1964 – Philadelphia’s Alex Johnson-Bobby Wine-Tony Taylor-Vic Power combine for Phillies’ 3rd triple play of the season (tying MLB record) in 4-3 win v Cincinnati Reds
1968 – Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed
1980 – Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
1991 – NHL #1 draft pick Eric Lindros rejects Quebec Nordiques’ offer of a 10 year, $50m contract
1991 – Steffi Graf beats Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria 6-2, 6-2 in the Volkswagen Cup in Leipzig to become the youngest woman to win 500 professional tennis matches
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 1st October 2020
1795 – France annexes Southern Netherlands
1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1903 – First Baseball World Series game ever played; Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Americans 7-3 at Huntington Avenue; Jimmy Sebring hits first home run; Deacon Phillippe is winning pitcher and Cy Young the loser
1910 – Regina Rugby Club (to become CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders) plays first game, losing to Moose Jaw Tigers, 16-6
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
1933 – New York Giants make no 1st downs, but still beat the Green Bay Packers, 10-7 in a week 3 NFL matchup at Borchert Field, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1965 – Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia
1987 – 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA
1992 – “Oba Oba ’93” opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 22 performances
2015 – Mudslide on the outskirts of Guatemala City leaves at least 131 dead and 300 missing
Historical Events for 30th September 2020
1399 – King Richard II of England’s (supposed) abdication read out in the House of Commons by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In reality deposed by his cousin and successor Henry IV
1857 – US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland and Jarvis Island, south of Hawaii
1864 – Black soldiers given US Medal of Honor
1915 – Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
1927 – Yankees slugger Babe Ruth smacks his MLB record 60th home run off Tom Zachary in 8th inning of New York’s 4-2 win over Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium
1935 – The Boulder Dam (later the Hoover Dam), astride the border of U.S. states Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
1942 – Admiral Chester Nimitz’s B-17 finds Guadalcanal using National Geographic map
1950 – Radio’s “Grand Ole Opry” is broadcast on TV for 1st time
1977 – Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns
2012 – Ryder Cup Golf, Medinah CC: Europe retains Cup 14½-13½; win 8 and tie 1 of the 12 singles matches after trailing 10-6
Historical Events for 29th September 2020
1918 – WWI: Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line
1920 – Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10
1953 – US government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China
1973 – Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
1976 – SF Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0
1979 – Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
1979 – “Girls Talk” by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65
1980 – Malcolm McDowell wed Mary Steenburgen
1995 – Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead over 2nd-place team (KC) (27½ games)
2007 – Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, the magnox reactor and Calder hall was demolished in a controlled explosion.
Historical Events for 28th September 2020
1652 – English-Dutch sea battle at Kentish Knock
1850 – US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
1937 – FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1945 – Robert T Duncan appears as Tonio in “I Pagliacci”
1967 – Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, D.C.
1968 – “Noël Coward’s Sweet Potato” opens at Barrymore NYC for 17 performances
1974 – California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
1984 – 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi)
2015 – DNA controllers for the age women go into menopause announced in “Nature Genetics” by research team from Exeter and Cambridge universities
2017 – Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus reveals she has breast cancer
Historical Events for 27th September 2020
1881 – Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small “crowd” of 12
1912 – W. C. Handy publishes “Memphis Blues”, considered the 1st blues song
1921 – American swimmer Johnny Weismuller sets his first 2 world records in the 100m and 150yd freestyle events the A.A.U. Nationals meet in Brighton Beach, NY
1938 – Jewish lawyers forbidden to practise in Germany
1940 – Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces
1963 – At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at 190,000,000
1979 – Elton John, sick with flu, collapses in the Hollywood Universal Amphitheater
1996 – The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
2015 – “Junts per Si” pro-independence alliance win parliamentary majority in Catalonia
2018 – India’s Supreme Court rules overturns 158-year old rule, section 497, decriminalizing adultery because it was discriminatory against women
Historical Events for 26th September 2020
1629 – Sweden and Poland signs Peace of Altmark
1887 – Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
1890 – US stops minting $1 and $3 gold coin and 3 cent piece
1892 – 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa’s band (NJ)
1918 – Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI
1945 – All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
1954 – KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1977 – Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate “Skytrain” service, London to NY
1992 – 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates
2019 – WHO announces 800,000 children in DR Congo will be vaccinated in nine days in worlds’s largest measles epidemic that has taken over 3,500 lives
Historical Events for 25th September 2020
1396 – Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies
1820 – French Physicist François Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself
1829 – Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar
1861 – Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1911 – French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed
1980 – Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show, a lawsuit follows
1985 – Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
1988 – Hungarian swimmer Tamás Darnyi wins the 200m individual medley gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in world record 2:00.17; wraps up medley double at the Games
1989 – Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
1991 – Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens