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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 24th October 2020
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
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