1860 – Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President
1941 – Einsatz Gruppe kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1945 – House Committee on Un-American Activities begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
1958 – AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
1964 – WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 – Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award
1981 – Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award
1994 – 24th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37
1999 – Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2018 – Colorado elects Jared Polis, the country’s first openly male gay governor
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 5th November 2019
1414 – Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens
1922 – Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent
1938 – Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return
1956 – Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba
1956 – Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
1967 – New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24
1976 – Balt Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award
1976 – USSR performs nuclear test
1985 – “News” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances
2017 – Bodies of 26 migrant teenage girls recovered from the Mediterranean, another 400 migrants rescued
Historical Events for 4th November 2019
1646 – Massachusetts uses death penalty for denying that Holy Bible is God’s word
1862 – Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis
1911 – France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco and Congo
1933 – Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young
1966 – Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1968 – “Wichita Lineman” 12th album by Glen Campbell is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1969)
1978 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 – “Edge of Darkness” first airs on BBC Two, featuring Bob Peck and Joanne Whalley
1992 – NY Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio
2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
Historical Events for 3rd November 2019
1812 – Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma
1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T
1927 – Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley, Vermont
1944 – US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1970 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson wins his second NL Cy Young Award (23-7 record, 274 strikeouts and 3.12 ERA
1970 – Marxist Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile
1980 – Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland A’s
1998 – “400 Degreez” 3rd studio album by Juvenile is released (Billboard no. 1 year end Top RandB/Hip Hop Albums 1999)
2012 – Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase
Historical Events for 2nd November 2019
1327 – King Alfonso IV of Aragon crowned
1922 – Allies deliberate over German mark
1953 – Pakistan becomes islamic republic
1954 – Charles Diggs Jr is elected Michigan’s 1st black congressman to the House of Representatives
1954 – Strom Thurmond is the 1st senator elected by write-in vote (South Carolina)
1983 – Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle
1987 – Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
1993 – First commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial
2012 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Santa Anita Racetrack; Day 1 winners: Hightail, Calidoscopio, Flotilla, Beholder, Zagora, Royal Delta
2015 – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull scraps Knights and Dames from Australia’s honours system
Historical Events for 1st November 2019
1628 – French King Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle
1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars
1848 – Classes begin at Boston Female Medical College, 1st US female medical college
1869 – Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra
1913 – Less than a week after the US non-intervention promise, President Woodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns
1950 – Celtics’ forward Chuck Cooper becomes first African American to play in the NBA in Boston’s 107-84 loss at Fort Wayne Pistons; future Hall of Famer Bob Cousy also debuts for Celtics
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1966 – NFL awards a franchise to New Orleans; name “Saints” alludes to November 1, All Saints Day in Catholic faith
1988 – Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
2012 – 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space
Historical Events for 31st October 2019
1596 – English, French and Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish “Triple Covenant”
1617 – Laurens Reael resigns as governor-general of Dutch East Indies
1907 – Calgary City Rugby Football Club’s 1st game defeating Strathcona Rugby Foot-ball Club 15-0 at Calgary
1980 – Polish government recognizes Solidarity trade union
1982 – “Rock ‘n Roll!: The 1st…” closes at St James NYC after 9 performances
1984 – Howard Goodall and Melvyn Bragg’s musical “Hired Man” premieres in London
1988 – 19°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
2003 – A bankruptcy court approves MCI’s reorganization plans, essentially clearing the telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy.
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
2014 – Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Frank Thomas, Bobby Cox, Tony La Russa and Joe Torre are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY
Historical Events for 30th October 2019
1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis ended by agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
1485 – Henry VII of England crowned at Westminster Abbey
1503 – Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against indians
1918 – Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state
1944 – Scots Highlanders liberate Waalwijk
1945 – Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals
1952 – 4th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Tim Flock wins
1972 – The Northern Ireland Office issues a discussion document ‘The Future of Northern Ireland’; the paper states Britain’s commitment to the union as long as the majority of people wish to remain part of the United Kingdom
1975 – Giants pitcher John “the Count of” Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year
1994 – Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel’s Pentium-processor on the Internet
Historical Events for 29th October 2019
1889 – NY Giants (NL) beat Bkln (AA) in world series 6 games to 3
1889 – Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia
1904 – First intercity trucking service (Colorado City and Snyder, Texas)
1939 – Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
1956 – Suez Crisis erupts into war as Israel invades the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula, to be followed by a planned airborne assault by France and Britain
1958 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 – US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
1970 – WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) 1st broadcast
2002 – Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1,500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
2004 – In Rome, 25 European heads of state sign a Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
Historical Events for 28th October 2019
969 – Byzantine troops occupy Antioch (in modern Syria)
1864 – Second Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri
1864 – Second Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends with 1554 casualties
1924 – French-Russian trade agreement signed
1939 – Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia
1953 – Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
1975 – Venezuela and foreign oil companies agree on nationalization as of January 1, 1976
1995 – 11th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats England 16-8
2015 – Third Republican presidential candidates debate run by CNBC in Boulder, Colorado
2017 – Twin car bomb attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia, kill at least 27, Islamist militant group al-Shabab claim responsibility