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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 4th October 2020
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
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