1861 – Battle of Balls Bluff, VA (Leesburg, Harrison’s Island)
1915 – 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris
1917 – 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WWI: US troops enter front lines at Sommervillier under French command
1921 – Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam
1940 – RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands
1969 – Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
1970 – 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1975 – Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
1979 – 10th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42
2001 – MLB National League Championship: Arizona Diamondbacks beat Atlanta Braves, 4 games to 1
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 20th October 2019
1634 – British King Charles I disbands new “Ship Money” tax
1818 – US and Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
1889 – Gerhart Hauptmann’s play “Vor Sonnenaufgang” premieres in Berlin
1928 – Wien Alaska Airways, Inc. incorporated; the first airline in Alaska and one of the 1st in the US with Noel Wien as president
1947 – HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
1949 – Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark)
1953 – WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1973 – President Nixon discharges Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepts the resignations of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus
1976 – 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
1996 – “Summer and Smoke” closes at Criterion Theater NYC
Historical Events for 19th October 2019
1818 – US Government and Chickasaw Indians sign a treaty
1924 – General Christian Worker’s union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium
1933 – Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936
1943 – Theater Guild presentation of “Othello” opens at Shubert
1944 – John Van Druten’s “I Remember Mama” premieres in NYC
1951 – US President Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
1959 – Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel
1977 – Supersonic Concorde jet’s 1st landing in NYC
1986 – Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in all test cricket (v India, Bombay)
2015 – Canadian federal elections: Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party win a majority with 184 seats
Historical Events for 18th October 2019
1081 – Battle of Dyrrhachium: Southern Italian Normans under Robert Guiscard defeat Byzantine Empire
1908 – Belgium annexes Congo Free State
1912 – The Treaty of Lausanne ends the Italo-Turkish War; Italy annexes Libya
1915 – 3rd Italian offensive at Isonzo
1925 – Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season
1948 – Operation 10 Plagues – Israeli offensive against Egyptian army
1953 – Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
1992 – 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities
2012 – Google stock trading suspended after premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price
2012 – Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan
Historical Events for 17th October 2019
532 – Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1483 – Tomas de Torquemada appointed inquisitor-general of Spain
1787 – Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities
1877 – Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa
1957 – Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed
1959 – Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
1971 – Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 68th World Series
1989 – Earthquake in San Francisco (6.9) cancels 3rd game of World Series, kills 67
1991 – MLB National League Championship: Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 4 games to 3
2006 – The United States population reaches 300 million
Historical Events for 16th October 2019
1813 – Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon’s forces defeated by Prussia, Austria and Russia
1905 – The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred.
1923 – Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded
1957 – Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia
1964 – Harold Wilson’s Labour party wins British election
1964 – China becomes world’s 5th nuclear power
1969 – Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
1973 – Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta
1980 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
2000 – MLB National League Championship: New York Mets beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 1
Historical Events for 15th October 2019
1880 – Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
1918 – British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6
1952 – Henri Cartier-Bresson’s influential photography book “The Decisive Moment” is first published in the US and France
1953 – KOIN TV channel 6 in Portland, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 – Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph
1966 – Black Panther Party created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale
1970 – Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35
1993 – Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1997 – NY jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988
2007 – MLB National League Championship: Colorado Rockies beat Arizona Diamondbacks, 4 games to 0
Historical Events for 14th October 2019
1812 – Work on London’s Regent’s Canal starts.
1863 – Battle at Bristoe Station, Virginia (about 2000 casualties)
1941 – 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk and Riga
1948 – Large scale fighting between Israel and Egypt
1950 – Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison
1951 – Organization of Central American States forms
1954 – Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53
1966 – Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer
1979 – Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3
1996 – Braves blow out St Louis, 14-0 in an NLCS game
Historical Events for 13th October 2019
1716 – Hungarian Emperor Karel VI’s troops occupy Temesvar
1864 – Battle at Darbytown Road, Virginia (337 casualties)
1964 – US sweeps medals in the men’s 200m backstroke at the Tokyo Olympics; Jed Graef swims world record 2:10.3 to win gold ahead of team mates Gary Dilley and Bob Bennett
1966 – 173 US aircraft bomb North Vietnam
1972 – Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series
1980 – 14th Country Music Association Award: Barbara Mandrell, Emmylou Harris and George Jones wins
1987 – West Indies score 4-360 in 50 overs in Cricket World Cup v Sri Lanka
1993 – Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game
1996 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 1
1996 – British Williams driver Damon Hill wins season ending Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka; becomes first son of a F1 World Drivers Champion (Graham Hill 1962, 68) to win title himself; wins by 19 points from Jacques Villeneuve
Historical Events for 12th October 2019
1862 – JEB Stuart completes his “second ride around McClellan”
1933 – John Dillinger escapes from jail in Allen County, Ohio
1943 – US bombs Rabaul, New Britain
1944 – German army retreats from Athens
1950 – “Call Me Madam” opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 644 performances
1961 – “Let It Ride” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC for 68 performances
1973 – Israeli counter offensive in southern Syria
1988 – MLB National League Championship: Los Angeles Dodgers beat New York Mets, 4 games to 3
1993 – “Mixed Emotions” opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 48 performances
2013 – 15 people are killed by a series of explosions in a fireworks factory in Vietnam