1910 – Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.
1943 – Corsica liberated from Italian occupation by General Charles de Gaulle’s Free France resistance forces
1964 – 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81
1979 – USSR performs nuclear test
1985 – Shi’ite Muslims claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
1992 – Solheim Cup Women’s Golf, Dalmahoy CC: Europe beats US, 11½-6½; Laura Davies of England wins all her 3 matches
1998 – Australian motorcycle racer Mick Doohan wins the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island to clinch his 5th world 500cc championship; all 5 titles are won with Honda
2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 3rd October 2025
1683 – Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu
1913 – US federal income tax at 1% is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson
1941 – French right-wing Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire (MSR) blows up six synagogues in Paris with Nazi-provided explosives
1943 – British 8th Army lands at Termoli, East Italy
1974 – Future Basketball Hall of Fame guard Jerry West (“Mr. Clutch”) retires after 14 NBA seasons with the LA Lakers; West scores 25,192 career points and averages 29.1 ppg in 153 playoff games
2004 – Seattle Mariners’ Japanese right fielder Ichiro Suzuki adds two more singles in a 3-0 defeat to Texas to finish the season with an MLB record of 262 hits
2017 – Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”
2021 – MLB Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Hector Neris strikes out three Miami Marlins, setting a new franchise record of 520 in his last game before becoming a free agent
Historical Events for 2nd October 2025
1134 – Storm flood ravages Zeeland County
1941 – Germany launches an attack on Moscow
1942 – WWII: British Royal Navy boards floundering German U-boat U-559, retrieving abandoned Enigma code machine before it sinks; two British sailors go down with the sub
1974 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder Hank Aaron hits his final home run as a member of the Atlanta Braves in a 13-0 drubbing of the Cincinnati Reds, Aaron’s 733rd career home run in his last NL at-bat
1979 – Pope John Paul II visits New York City and at the UN denounces all concentration camps and torture
1983 – Green Bay Packers erupt for an NFL record 49 points in the first half (35 in the second quarter) to clobber the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 55-14 at Tampa Stadium
1990 – Radio Berlin International’s final transmission links to Deutsche Welle of West Germany; the final song is “The End” by The Doors
1998 – With his team struggling at 28 for 3, Australian cricket batsman Steve Waugh smashes a brilliant 157 to guide the tourists to an innings and 99-run win over Pakistan in the first Test in Rawalpindi
Historical Events for 1st October 2025
1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty
1847 – German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG and Halske
1922 – St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Rogers Hornsby goes 3-for-5 in a 7-1 regular season-ending win against the Chicago Cubs, improving his batting average to .401; he is the only MLB player to bat .400 and hit 40 home runs in the same season
1939 – After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces enter the city
1946 – Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller claims his MLB record 348th strikeout of the season in a 4-1 win over Detroit; the record stands for 19 years
1950 – US Open Women’s Golf, Rolling Hills CC: Babe Zaharias ties Open scoring record, -9 291, to beat amateur Betsy Rawls by 9 strokes
1953 – KYTV TV channel 3 in Springfield, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
2023 – Ryder Cup Golf, Marco Simone GandCC, Rome, Italy: Europe dominates the United States 16½-11½ to regain the title; Tyrrell Hatton, Jon Rahm, and Robert MacIntyre unbeaten for Europe
Historical Events for 30th September 2025
1895 – France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
1924 – Allies stop monitoring the German navy
1944 – Calais reoccupied by the Allies
1989 – NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii and Ascension
2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo
2005 – Parliament of Catalonia passes with over 120 votes in favor and 15 against the Project of the New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1 “Catalonia is a nation”
2021 – Former UK policeman Wayne Couzens is given a rare life sentence for raping and killing Sarah Everard, with the judge saying his crime is as bad as a terrorist atrocity
2024 – Montana man is sentenced to six months in prison for illegally using large Marco Polo sheep tissue and testicles to clone giant hybrid sheep for trophy hunting
Historical Events for 29th September 2025
1849 – First passenger train service to Peekskill, New York, operated by the New Haven Railroad
1933 – Little King, cartoon character by Van Beuren, debuts
1946 – First time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cardinals and Dodgers)
1960 – “Tell Laura I Love Her” by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK
1975 – Sharon Crews (now known as Sharon Dahlonega Bush) becomes American television’s first African-American weathercaster on WPGR-TV in Detroit, Michigan
1979 – “Lonesome Loser” by Little River Band peaks at #6 in the US, their third consecutive top ten single
1983 – “A Chorus Line” becomes the longest-running Broadway show with 3,389 performances
1988 – China performs a nuclear test at Lop Nor, China
Historical Events for 28th September 2025
995 – The Duchy of Bohemia’s Slavník dynasty members Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej, and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus II the Pious
1906 – US troops reoccupy Cuba and stay until 1909
1923 – Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves the League of Nations
1941 – Ted Williams ends the baseball season with a .406 batting average
1949 – “My Friend Irma” premieres, first of 16 films starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
1985 – NASA launches Intelsat VA F-12
2012 – Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a male escort
2020 – Stanley Cup Final, Rogers Place, Edmonton, Alberta: Tampa Bay Lightning claim second championship in franchise history with a 2-0 Game 6 win over Dallas Stars; win series 4-2
Historical Events for 27th September 2025
1924 – Giants clinch their fourth consecutive pennant, defeating the Phillies 5-1
1935 – Chicago Cubs win their 21st consecutive game and clinch the NL pennant
1973 – Soyuz 12 carries two cosmonauts into Earth orbit for two days
1978 – US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 – WHOT (Brooklyn, New York pirate radio station) begins on 1620 AM and 92.5 FM
1990 – Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits the White House
2005 – Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th consecutive division title due to Philadelphia’s loss to the New York Mets
2022 – American band “Foo Fighters” and friends hold tribute concert for drummer Taylor Hawkins at Kia Forum, Los Angeles, California; performers include Joan Jett, Stewart Copland, Rush, Alanis Morissette, Def Leppard with Miley Cyrus, Wolfgang Van Halen, and Queen
Historical Events for 26th September 2025
1665 – Height of the Great Plague of London as 7,165 people die throughout the previous week
1835 – Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “Lucia di Lammermoor” premieres at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (now Italy)
1916 – Bishop speaks against Catholics in trade unions
1923 – The Commonwealth Conference is held in London, where Britain recognizes the right of the Dominions to make treaties with foreign powers
1968 – Theater censorship ends in Britain
1992 – Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova 7-5, 6-3 in a battle of the sexes
2014 – 43 students from Ayotzinapa Teachers College go missing and are presumed murdered in Iguala on their way to a protest, one of Mexico’s worst human rights cases
2021 – Ryder Cup Golf, Whistling Straits, Haven, Wisconsin: United States regain title beating Team Europe by a record, 19-9; Dustin Johnson 5-0-0
Historical Events for 25th September 2025
1780 – American army officer Benedict Arnold defects to the British
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded
1981 – Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in as the first female US Supreme Court Justice
1988 – Pope John Paul II beatifies Friar Junípero Serra, founder of the first Californian missions
1997 – Britain’s Andy Green sets a jet-powered car record of 714 mph
2005 – Presidents Cup Golf, Robert Trent Jones GC: Chris DiMarco, Jim Furyk, and Phil Mickelson unbeaten as US beat International team 18½–15½
2022 – Cuba legalizes same-sex marriage as part of a new family code in a national referendum
2023 – Ukraine’s military claims a missile strike three days ago kills the commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol