1848 – First US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah
1982 – Mt. Palomar Observatory is the first to detect Halley’s Comet on its 13th return
1985 – Intel introduces the 32-bit 80386 microprocessor chip
1988 – Orel Hirsheiser becomes the first player to pitch shutout in playoff and World Series
1991 – Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India
1993 – General Omar al-Bashir is appointed President of Sudan
1993 – IRA bomb attack on fish and chips restaurant in Belfast kills 10 people
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 15th October 2025
1783 – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier makes the first tethered balloon ascent
1877 – First session of the US 45th Congress (1877-79) convenes in Washington, D.C.
1919 – Fourteen horses begin a 300-mile race from Vermont to Massachusetts for a $1,000 prize
1940 – Heavy German air raid on London kills 400 people
1967 – The Motherland Calls, a monumental statue commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad, is completed in Volgograd, Russia, and is then the world’s tallest statue, designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich
1968 – Al Oerter of the US wins the men’s discus with an Olympic record of 64.78 m at the Mexico City Games, achieving his unprecedented fourth consecutive Olympic discus title
1970 – Anwar Sadat is elected as the third President of Egypt, succeeding the late Gamal Abdel Nasser
1987 – Lanford Wilson’s play “Burn This” premieres in New York City
Historical Events for 14th October 2025
1863 – Battle at Bristoe Station, Virginia (about 2000 casualties)
1954 – Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53
1958 – District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members
1978 – NY outfielder Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy; interferes with a throw to 1st, deflects ball away during Yankees, 4-3 Game 4 win over LA Dodgers at Yankee Stadium
1979 – TV adaptation of Helen Keller’s life story “The Miracle Worker” premieres on NBC, starring Melissa Gilbert in title role and Patty Duke, who played Keller in earlier stage and film productions, as teacher Anne Sullivan
1984 – Barbara Damashek’s musical “Quilters” closes at Jack Lawrence Theater, NYC, after 24 performances
2012 – 20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria
2014 – Utah State University receives terrorist threats pertaining to Anita Sarkeesian’s planned lecture the following day
Historical Events for 13th October 2025
1483 – Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible
1960 – Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba
1968 – Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated
1971 – First ever Baseball World Series night game; Pittsburgh Pirates edge Baltimore Orioles, 4-3 in Game 4 at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh
1975 – 9th Country Music Association Awards: John Denver wins
1988 – Concert at Masada ends Israel’s 40th-anniversary festival
1989 – Dow Jones Industrial Average down 190.58 points
2007 – 17th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 27-14 in South Bend
Historical Events for 12th October 2025
1773 – America’s first asylum opens for ‘Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’ in Virginia
1931 – Christ the Redeemer statue opens, standing 30 meters high (98 ft) on top of Mount Corcovado, overlooking Rio de Janeiro, built by engineer Heitor da Silva Costa
1958 – CVP wins municipal elections in Belgium
1970 – Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East
1975 – American Jacqueline Hansen runs women’s world record marathon 2:38:19 in the Nike OTC Marathon, Eugene, Oregon
1992 – 5.8 earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die)
2003 – FIFA Women’s World Cup Final, Home Depot Center, Carson, CA: Nia Künzer scores winner in sudden death extra time as Germany beats Sweden, 2-1
2023 – Roman scrolls burned in Mt. Vesuvius eruption at Herculaneum are read for the first time after a computer science student develops a machine-learning algorithm; the first word deciphered is “purple”
Historical Events for 11th October 2025
1634 – Burchardi flood, known as the second “Grote Mandrenke,” kills about 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark, and Germany
1902 – Commencement of 1st Test Cricket between South Africa and Australia
1954 – Revival of George Abbott, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s musical “On Your Toes” opens at 46th St Theater, NYC; runs for 64 performances
1962 – 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show
1982 – Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire
2007 – Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to British novelist Doris Lessing
2013 – 10 people are killed and a hospital fire in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
2019 – NBA YoungBoy releases the album mixtape “AI YoungBoy 2” which debuts at #1 on the US Billboard 200
Historical Events for 10th October 2025
1888 – Teetotalers’ excursion train crashes, killing 64 at Mud Run, Pennsylvania
1911 – Chinese revolutionaries begin an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty in Wuchang, causing the Viceroy of Huguang to flee the city (Taiwan National Day)
1913 – British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in the Atlantic, killing 136
1968 – George Harrison forms the music publishing company Singsong Ltd, though it only ever publishes one song, “Old Brown Shoe”
1985 – US fighter jets force an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, and the gunmen are placed in custody
1987 – Giants’ Jeffrey Leonard hits a playoff record home run in his fourth consecutive game
1990 – Mexican singer and actress Thalía releases her debut album “Thalía”
2015 – Bombing at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey kills at least 95 and injures 200
Historical Events for 9th October 2025
1876 – First two-way telephone conversation over outdoor wires
1910 – Nap Lajoie challenges Ty Cobb’s batting average with eight hits, six of which are bunts, as Browns’ third baseman Red Corriden plays deep, but Cobb still wins
1921 – Babe Ruth hits 1st World Series home run; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1968 – 2,000 students from Queen’s University Belfast try to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against “police brutality” but are blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley, leading to the formation of the student civil rights group People’s Democracy
1983 – Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) bombing: North Korean agents attempt to assassinate the South Korean President, resulting in 21 deaths, including 9 South Korean government officials, presidential advisors, security team members, and 3 reporters
1986 – Stage musical “The Phantom of the Opera,” written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, premieres in London and runs for 13,629 performances
1992 – An estimated 13-kilogram meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family’s 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
2012 – Women’s rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot by a Taliban gunman as she tries to board her school bus in the Swat district of northwest Pakistan
Historical Events for 8th October 2025
1873 – First women’s prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institution
1950 – Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for the first time and beat the Steelers 30-17
1961 – American Phil Hill’s Ferrari team does not participate in the season-ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, having already clinched the World Drivers’ Championship; English driver Innes Ireland wins Lotus’s first Grand Prix
1975 – San Antonio Spurs, then members of the ABA, defeat the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks 109-107 in the first basketball game played in the Louisiana Superdome
1977 – Largest baseball crowd in Pennsylvania, 64,924, sees Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in the 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
1980 – British Leyland starts selling the Mini Metro
2001 – US President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security
2012 – John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on reprogramming mature cells to become pluripotent
Historical Events for 7th October 2025
1702 – British and Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond
1763 – George III of Great Britain issues the Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlement
1891 – British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Hugh Kirkaldy wins by 2 strokes from brother Andrew Kirkaldy and Willie Fernie; last Open contested in a single day over 36 holes
1919 – KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij), Royal Dutch Airlines, is founded in Amsterdam, making it one of the world’s oldest airlines
1975 – US decides John Lennon won’t be deported to the UK for his pot conviction
1978 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Kansas City Royals 3-1
1986 – Steve Yzerman is named captain of the Detroit Red Wings, a title he holds for over 1,300 games
1993 – Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to American writer Toni Morrison