1830 – King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army
1875 – Palace Hotel on Market Street opens in San Francisco
1895 – First UK individual cycling time trial is held on a 50-mile course north of London; Frederick Thomas Bidlake organiser
1931 – 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon and Pangborn)
1945 – Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers’ studios.
1950 – “Pardon Our French” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 100 performances
1970 – PBS becomes a US television network.
1982 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
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
2005 – Vampire novel “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer is first published by Little Brown
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 4th October 2018
1873 – Toronto Argonauts Football Club (CFL) forms as Argonaut Rowing Club rugby-football squad; oldest existing pro sports team in North America still using original name
1931 – Juan Esteban Montero becomes President of Chile
1952 – “Top Banana” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 performances
1953 – British runner Jim Peters sets world marathon record 2:18:34.8 in the Turku Marathon in Finland
1971 – Borden’s opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
1994 – Soyuz TM-20 launches
1997 – Second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company with $17.3 million in cash taken
2012 – Jordan’s King Abdullah dissolves parliament in preparation for new elections
2017 – English PM Theresa May suffers nightmare speech at Conservative National Conference as her voice fails, pranster interupts and set collapses
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 2018
1657 – French troops occupy Mardyke
1941 – Adolf Hitler says Russia is “already broken and will never rise again” in a broadcast to the German people
1968 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 – Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap
1989 – Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
1991 – 25th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks, Tanya Tucker and Vince Gill wins
1992 – Sinead O’Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live”
1993 – Cleveland Indians play their final MLB game at Cleveland Stadium; lose 4-0 to Chicago White Sox Chicago
2004 – Seattle Mariners Japanese right fielder Ichiro Suzuki adds 2 more singles in a 3-0 defeat to Texas, to finish the season with a MLB record 262 hits
2007 – South Africa’s Mark Boucher breaks Ian Healy’s record to become the wicketkeeper with most dismissals in Test cricket (395); stumps Umar Gul off Paul Harris in 2nd innings of 1st Test win v Pakistan in Karachi
Historical Events for 2nd October 2018
1760 – Russian and Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13]
1933 – Eugene O’Neill’s comedy “Ah, Wilderness” premieres in NYC
1943 – Japanese troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island
1950 – Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions in 55-13 win against Baltimore Colts; Cardinals quarterback Jim Hardy tosses 6 touchdown passes
1952 – Don Liddle beats Bob Lemon 7-4 as the New York Giants complete an unlikely Baseball World Series sweep of the powerful Cleveland Indians; Cleveland season record of 111-43 sets American League mark for regular season wins
1955 – WHTN (now WOWK) TV ch 13 in Huntington-Charleston, WV (CBS) begins
1986 – Astros starter Mike Scott finishes MLB regular season with 306 strikeouts with 8 in a 2-1 win in San Francisco; 3rd NL pitcher to reach 300 in a season
1990 – WW2 Allied nations cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany
1995 – “Moon Over Buffalo” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 308 performances
2016 – Kim Kardashian is robbed at gunpoint of $10 million worth of jewelry in her hotel in Paris
Historical Events for 1st October 2018
1705 – Parliament declares Hungary independently/French Rákóczi becomes king
1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna, which redrew Europe’s political map after the defeat of Napoléon Bonaparte
1863 – Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens
1910 – Explosion at LA Times kills 21
1941 – H Martin/R Blane’s musical “Best Foot Forward” premieres in NYC
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
1952 – 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or
1962 – Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests
1987 – Fiji’s constitution is suspended
2000 – An all-African podium for the men’s marathon at the Sydney Olympics as Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia runs 2:10:11 for the gold medal, 0.20s ahead of Kenyan Erick Wainaina with bronze to Ethiopian Tesfaye Tola
Historical Events for 30th September 2018
1649 – Last Swedish troops vacate Prague
1945 – Bourne End rail crash, Hertfordshire, England killed 43
1953 – WMT (now KGAN) TV channel 2 in Cedar Rapids-Waterloo, IA (CBS) begins
1954 – “Boy Friend” opens at Royale Theater NYC for 483 performances
1962 – JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi
1962 – James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi
1969 – Atlanta’s 10th straight win, clinches NL West pennant
1977 – Ringo Starr releases “Ringo the 4th” album
1984 – Browns set a team record for allowing most sacks (11), KC wins 10-6
1986 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Historical Events for 29th September 2018
1829 – The first units of the London Metropolitan Police appear on the streets of the British capital
1943 – German riots at Amsterdam Jews
1969 – “Bright Promise” TV Daytime Soap; debuts on NBC-TV
1971 – Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for record 50th time in a season
1973 – “Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne” by Looking Glass peaks at #33
1974 – 4th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Katherine Switzer in 3:07:29
1979 – LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit
1989 – Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
1996 – Balt Orioles end season with record 257 HRs
2008 – Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, its largest single-day point loss, following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual
Historical Events for 28th September 2018
1538 – Battle at Preveza: Ottoman fleet under Barbarossa beats Papal alliance off Northwestern Greece
1701 – Divorce legalized in Maryland
1937 – FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1956 – “Johnny Carson Show” TV Variety last airs on CBS-TV
1968 – Janis Joplin announces she’s leaving “Big Brother and Holding Co”
1974 – John Lennon appears as guest DJ on WNEW-FM (NYC)
1975 – Oakland A’s Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad and Rollie Fingers, no-hits California Angels 5-0
1986 – Tight end Brian Foster of RI catches NCAA record 18 passes for 327 yds
1992 – Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies
2012 – Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a male escort
Historical Events for 27th September 2018
1694 – Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 British ships sink and 3,000 die
1894 – Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY
1937 – 1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cubans consulate in Mexico
1967 – Phillies Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year
1982 – Filming begins on “Never Say Never Again”
1990 – Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House
2001 – At its two-day meeting in Vienna, OPEC decides to keep its production quotas unchanged at 23.2 million barrels per day, despite crude oil being at its lowest price levels since 1999
2012 – The 2004 Japanese discovery of the 133th element has been confirmed
2017 – Researchers confirm existence of giant tree rat “Vika” in the Solomon Islands that can crack open coconuts
Historical Events for 26th September 2018
1687 – The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange’s invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1887 – Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
1933 – Sidney Kingsley’s “Men in White” premieres in NYC
1948 – Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
1954 – Typhoon hits Japan – 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600
1957 – Dag Hammarskjöld re-elected secretary-general of UN
1962 – LA Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104)
1978 – NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms
2004 – Ed Whitlock becomes 1st person over 70 to complete a marathon in under 3 hours (2:54:48) at Toronto Marathon