625 – Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1867 – Giuseppe Garibaldi marches on Rome for the second time
1941 – Nazi’s directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade
1945 – “Carib Song” closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 36 performances
1961 – Outer Mongolia and Mauritania become 102nd and 103rd members of UN
1966 – UN deprives South Africa of Namibia
1973 – Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
1975 – Covers of both Time and Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen
1979 – Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
1998 – Helmut Kohl resigns as Chancellor of Germany after 16 years, following a landslide defeat in elections
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 26th October 2019
1916 – Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1922 – Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists and Benito Mussolini
1941 – Second meeting of partisans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
1950 – Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president
1978 – Independent Counsel Act is signed into law.
1983 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1997 – Jacques Villeneuve finishes 3rd in European Grand Prix at Jerez, Spain; first Canadian to win F1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 39 points from Michael Schumacher
2000 – NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 4-2 in Game 5 at Shea Stadium to win “Subway Series”; Yankees 3rd straight Baseball World Series; Yanks infielder Derek Jeter MVP
2015 – 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits northern Pakistan and Afghanistan killing over 300
2018 – Longest Baseball World Series game by both innings and time; LA Dodgers beat Boston Red Sox, 3-2 in the 18th inning (7 hours, 20 mins) in Game 3 at Dodger Stadium with Max Muncy walk-off homer
Historical Events for 25th October 2019
1241 – Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241)
1942 – Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins
1952 – Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan’s 1st Test century 124* v India
1966 – Jimi Hendrix Experience play their first UK gig as a private showcase at The Scotch of St. James in London
1972 – Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hr
1975 – Denver Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St Louis Spirits
1988 – ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy pigs’ popularity as pets
1992 – “Jake’s Women” closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 245 performances
2012 – The double dip recession in the UK economy ends with growth of 1.0% in GDP in the third quarter of 2012, with help from the London Olympic Games
2017 – Chinese Premier Xi Jinping unveils his new ruling council in the Great Hall of the People, none of the five are young enough to succeed him
Historical Events for 24th October 2019
1851 – William Lassell discovers Ariel and Umbriel, satellites of Uranus
1929 – Rudy Vallee’s “The Fleishmann’s Yeast Hour” begins broadcasting on NBC radio
1930 – A bloodless coup d’état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as “provisional president.”
1945 – Charter of United Nations comes into effect
1948 – WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 – “Evening with Yves Montand” opens at John Golden Theatre, NYC for 55 performances
1982 – 13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29
1984 – 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested
1991 – Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders
2002 – Wuxia film “Hero” directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Jet Li released in China (US release 2004)
Historical Events for 23rd October 2019
1694 – American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec
1739 – War of Jenkins’ Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain
1814 – 1st plastic surgery is performed (England)
1935 – Mackenzie King is elected as Prime Minister of Canada for the third time
1944 – Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita’s flagship the heavy cruiser Atago sinks during the Battle of Leyte Gulf
1971 – WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton, FL (ABC) begins
1973 – Richard Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge John Sirica
1977 – 7th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:43:10
1980 – Soviet PM Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness
2001 – Apple releases the iPod
Historical Events for 22nd October 2019
1575 – Foundation of Aguascalientes (one of 32 Federal Entities of Mexico)
1844 – Millerite Adventists wait for appearance of Jesus
1907 – Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum and Bailey circus
1913 – Explosion at Dawson NM coal mine kills 263 mine workers
1930 – 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
1930 – SC Genemuiden soccer team forms
1942 – US gens Clark and Lemnitzer and French gen Mast meet secretly in Algeria
1969 – Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death
1973 – Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War
1997 – Yahoo completes purchase of Four11
Historical Events for 21st October 2019
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
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