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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 11th October 2019
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
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.