1913 – Philadelphia A’s beat NY Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series
1944 – Tuvinian People’s Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R
1954 – “On Your Toes” opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 64 performances
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test
1974 – A’s Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract
1977 – Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
1984 – August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” premieres in NYC
1994 – Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar
1995 – O.J. Simpson cancels a TV appearance on Dateline
2018 – Russian Soyuz spacecraft makes emergency landing when rocket fails two minutes after liftoff, with American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut aboard
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 10th October 2019
1695 – King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England
1839 – British troops under General Charles Napier occupy Beirut
1920 – 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) and 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
1947 – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical “Allegro” premieres at Majestic Theater NYC for 318 performances
1957 – Milwaukee Braves beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series
1957 – Braves’ Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series
1961 – “Milk and Honey” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 543 performances
1982 – US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
1985 – Sudan adopts interim constitution
2015 – Bombing at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey kills at least 95, injures 200
Historical Events for 9th October 2019
869 – Charles the Bald crowned king of Lotharingen
1874 – World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland
1966 – Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded “Got Live if you Want It”
1978 – John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical “Ballroom” premieres in NYC
1986 – “Phantom of the Opera” premieres in London, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman
1986 – Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, becomes the 12th NHLer to score 500 goals
1986 – Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
1988 – Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
1991 – “On Borrowed Time” opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 99 performances
2006 – North Korea conducts its first nuclear test, with an estimated yield of between 0.4-2 kilotons
Historical Events for 8th October 2019
451 – Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
1815 – Joachim Murat’s forces land at Pizzo, Italy
1943 – Great Britain establishes bases on Azores
1958 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 – Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
1972 – In Game 2 of ALCS, Oakland A’s Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher
1978 – American Mario Andretti in a Lotus finishes 10th in the season ending Canadian Grand Prix at Île Notre-Dame Circuit, but wins his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 13 points from Ronnie Peterson
1995 – Dolphin’s Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton’s NFL career completions record
1998 – José Saramago is the first person from Portugal to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
2005 – The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC.
Historical Events for 7th October 2019
1936 – 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel
1953 – Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply
1965 – Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1968 – Rioting continues in Derry, Northern Ireland after Royal Ulster Constabulary put down civil rights march two days earlier
1971 – T McNally’s “Where has Tommy Flowers gone?” premieres in NYC
1984 – Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL’s career rushing leader
1985 – KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash’s final transmission
1991 – Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments to her
1994 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1994 – Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan
Historical Events for 6th October 2019
1799 – Battle of Castricum: Franco-Dutch army beats British-Russian army
1861 – Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
1921 – Century Theater opens at 7th Ave and 59th St NYC (demolished 1962)
1931 – Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists)
1939 – Adolf Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1973 – Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
1978 – Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
1983 – Islander’s Mike Bossy’s 25th career hat trick
2014 – John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Historical Events for 5th October 2019
1550 – Foundation of the city of Concepción, Chile.
1864 – Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone, approx 60,000 die
1946 – Newcastle United equals English Football League record for biggest winning margin in a 13-0 thrashing of Newport in a Division 2 match at St. James’ Park; Len Shackleton scores 6, Charlie Wayman 4 for the Toon
1950 – Boston Celtics owner Walter Brown and coach Red Auerbach draw lots out of hat for 3 members of defunct Chicago Stags franchise; hit jackpot with future 6-time NBA champion, Bob Cousy
1957 – 11th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens, 5-3
1973 – Signature of the European Patent Convention.
1981 – Dutch guilder/Deutsche mark revalued up 5.5%
1982 – First regular season NHL game is played in New Jersey (Newark; NJ Devils play a 3-3 tie against Pittsburgh Penguins at Brendan Byrne Arena; Don Lever scores first Devils’ goal
1996 – New York centre fielder Bernie Williams homers from each side of the plate as the Yankees beat Texas, 6-4 to win the AL Division Series, 3 – 1
2010 – Injured Indian cricket batsman VVS Laxman is the hero with 73 not out as the home team chases down 216 to beat Australia with just 1 wicket to spare in the 1st Test at Mohali
Historical Events for 4th October 2019
1931 – Juan Esteban Montero becomes President of Chile
1940 – 12 German aircrafts shot down above England
1959 – Netherlands equal best performance against neighbours Belgium; win, 9-1 in soccer friendly at De Kuip, Rotterdam; Piet van der Kuil and Faas Wilkes score 3 apiece
1965 – “Pickwick” opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 56 performances
1971 – Borden’s opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
1979 – Typhoon Tip forms near Pohnpei in Micronesia, would go on to be the most intense and largest tropical cyclone ever recorded
1986 – Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America
2013 – German singer Helene Fischer releases “Farbenspiel”, most successful album ever by a German female artist, over 2.4 million sold
2017 – Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for their work on cryo-electron microscopy
2017 – Chinese pianist Lang Lang plays Carneige Hall one-handed due to injury with 14 year-old Maxim Lando playing his left hand for Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”
Historical Events for 3rd October 2019
1778 – Captain James Cook anchors at Alaska
1906 – US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba
1942 – Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
1949 – WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
1950 – 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
1950 – Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas
1952 – 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
1970 – WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1973 – Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
2012 – 34 people are killed by a series of bombings in Aleppo, Syria
Historical Events for 2nd October 2019
1866 – J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener
1872 – Phileas Fogg sets out on his journey as depicted in Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days”
1906 – Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs American challenger ‘Fireman’ Jim Flynn in 15 rounds to retain his title in Los Angeles, California
1912 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, at invitation of Gandhi, arrives in South Africa on a 26-day tour; he also visits Tolstoy Farm
1916 – San Diego Zoo founded
1920 – The Chinese sign an agreement with the Russo-Asiatic Bank, largely French and Russian controlled, which will oversee the Chinese Eastern Railway, but give local supervision to China
1925 – Josephine Baker first performs in Paris in La Revue Nègre at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
1944 – US B-17’s drops pamphlets on Walcheren
1971 – Homing pigeon averages a record 133kph in an 1100km race in Australia
2018 – US First Lady Melania Trump arrives in Ghana to begin a four-nation tour of Africa