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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 1st October 2019
1657 – Treaty of Raalte: Willem II no longer viceroy of Overijssel
1931 – Philadelphia Athletics seek 3rd straight World Series baseball title; beat St. Louis Cardinals, 6-2 in opener at Sportsman’s Park; lose series, 4-3
1932 – Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists
1932 – Babe Ruth’s legendary call; sledged by Cubs dugout, points to center-field before homering into the Wrigley Field bleachers in 5th inning, Game 3 of the World Series; NY Yankees win, 7-5
1943 – Averell Harriman named US ambassador to Moscow
1963 – Nigeria enacts a new constitution and becomes a republic
1979 – US returns Canal Zone (but not the canal) to Panama after 75 years
1985 – Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed
2015 – Cargo ship El Faro goes missing with 33 crew during Hurricane Joaquin near the Bahamas
2017 – Former NFL star, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson is released from Nevada’s Lovelock Prison after 10 years detention for armed robbery and kidnapping
Historical Events for 30th September 2019
1787 – 1st US voyage around the world – Columbia leaves Boston
1936 – Pinewood Studios opens in Buckinghamshire England
1954 – 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned by the US Navy
1955 – American actor and cultural icon James Dean is killed in a car crash aged 24
1957 – French government of Mauroy resigns due to Algeria
1962 – NY Mets lose record 120th game as Cubs turn triple play and beat NY 5-1
1969 – Atlanta’s 10th straight win, clinches NL West pennant
1971 – Last Washington Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit game Yanks trailing 4-2 in 9th with 2 outs, fans rush field
1988 – Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6’8″ to win Olympic gold medal
2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo
Historical Events for 29th September 2019
1364 – Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French in Brittany
1915 – Herbert/Blossoms musical “Princess Pat” premieres in NYC
1923 – Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
1928 – Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 win at Boston
1953 – Balt Mayor D’Alesandro buys Veeck’s interest in Browns for $2,475,000
1961 – “Detectives” TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV
1967 – Gladys Knight and Pips releases “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”
1975 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1991 – Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic at the Los Coyotes CC; her third LPGA title of the month
1996 – Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan)
Historical Events for 28th September 2019
1528 – Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane; about 380 die
1760 – Russian and Austrian army occupies Berlin
1938 – Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message “No war coming”
1963 – “Surfer Joe” by Surfaris peaks at #62
1969 – Joe Kapp (Minnesota Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (52-14)
1971 – UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
1973 – ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT’s involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d’état in Chile.
1974 – “Surfin’ USA” by Beach Boys reenters chart and peaks at #36
1995 – Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign accord to transfer West Bank to the PLO
1996 – Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas and Alabama)