1827 – Charles Darwin admitted to Christ’s College, Cambridge
1883 – Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
1914 – Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union and strike rights)
1925 – Pittsburgh Pirates beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series
1965 – WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor, ME (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 – British athlete David Hemery sets a world record 48.12s to beat Gerhard Hennige of West Germany and take the gold medal in the men’s 400m hurdles at the Mexico City Olympics
1970 – Baltimore Orioles beat Cincinnati Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series
1974 – National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
2001 – NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter’s moon Io.
2011 – MLB American League Championship: Texas Rangers beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 2
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 14th October 2018
1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence
1834 – First African-American granted a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter
1929 – Philadelphia A’s set World Series record of 10 runs in an inning
1942 – German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed
1942 – Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution
1958 – Brendan Behan’s “Hostage” premieres in London
1969 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1970 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 – In Midland, Tx 1½-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22′ (7m) down a well
1996 – Braves blow out St Louis, 14-0 in an NLCS game
Historical Events for 13th October 2018
1501 – Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente
1914 – The Belgian government in exile installed at St Adresse at Le Havre
1972 – Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series
1982 – IOC Executive Committee approves the reinstatement of Jim Thorpe’s gold medals from the 1912 Olympics
1988 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1993 – Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game
1994 – Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland v Tasmania)
1996 – NY Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374
1996 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 1
2017 – Hungry bear crisis due to over-fishing leaves 2 people dead and 83 hostile bears shot on Sakhalin Island, Eastern Russia
Historical Events for 12th October 2018
1886 – Hurricane and sea surge kills 250 at Indianola Texas
1901 – Theodore Roosevelt renames “Executive Mansion” as “The White House”
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 – Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel
1966 – Jimi Hendrix Experience forms with Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell
1968 – 19th Summer Olympic Games open at Mexico City, Mexico; first Olympics in Latin America
1972 – “Hurry, Harry” opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 2 performances
1974 – 1st time Wash Caps are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota
1977 – “Throwaway Game” Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers
1985 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Historical Events for 11th October 2018
1687 – Hungary accepts Habsburg sovereignty
1737 – Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta, India
1932 – 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC
1948 – “Where’s Chartev?” opens at St James Theater NYC for 792 performances
1961 – USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m
1968 – Coup d’état in Panama against President Arnulfo Arias
1969 – Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 and 8 follow in next 2 days
1971 – 60th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2)
1984 – 1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)
1991 – Chip Beck ties PGA record lowest 18 hole score of 59 during 3rd round of the Las Vegas Invitational at the Sunrise GC
Historical Events for 10th October 2018
1471 – Battle of Brunkeberg: Swedish regent Sten Sture defeats forces led by Danish King Christian I
1930 – Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
1945 – Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series
1958 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 – Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
1970 – Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1971 – Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962
1974 – Labour Party led by Harold Wilson wins UK general election
1979 – Recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC
2014 – Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
Historical Events for 9th October 2018
1651 – English parliament passes Navigation Act
1655 – Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow
1855 – American inventor Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
1958 – NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series
1961 – World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
1961 – Volcanic eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
1971 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 – Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
1997 – Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico
2011 – German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel finishes 3rd in the Japanese F1 Grand Prix to clinch his second consecutive World Drivers Championship
Historical Events for 8th October 2018
1887 – Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
1917 – Leon Trotsky named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet as Bolsheviks gain control
1933 – Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco as a monument to firefighters
1939 – Germany annexes Western Poland
1957 – Procter and Gamble director N McElroy becomes US Secretary of Defense
1981 – US President Ronald Reagan greets predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat’s funeral
1983 – Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
1990 – 24th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins
1995 – Edgar Martinez drives home tying and winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees and win AL Division Series
1998 – José Saramago is the first person from Portugal to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Historical Events for 7th October 2018
1506 – Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna
1828 – The Greek city of Patras is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.
1942 – Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal to become wrestling champ
1960 – TV series “Route 66” premieres on CBS
1975 – Players’ Association files a suit on behalf of Dodgers’ Andy Messersmith
1979 – “Eubie!” closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances
1984 – MLB National League Championship: San Diego Padres beat Chicago Cubs, 3 games to 2
1985 – Lynette Woodward chosen as 1st woman in Harlem Globetrotters
2013 – Mulatu Teshome becomes president of Ethiopia
2015 – US President Barack Obama apologises to Doctors without Borders President and the President of Afghanistan for the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz
Historical Events for 6th October 2018
1854 – The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1869 – John Brahms’ “Liebeslieder Walzer” premieres
1876 – American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1889 – Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
1917 – Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides
1921 – International PEN is founded in London.
1942 – Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
1961 – JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1977 – DL Coburns “Gin Game” premieres in NYC
1978 – Royals’ George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5