Category: Historical Events

1911 – Boston Rustlers’ future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young’s MLB farewell appearance is a disappointment as he loses 13-3 to the Brooklyn Dodgers in his 906th game
1936 – Baseball World Series: Yankees beat Giants 13-5 at Polo Grounds to win all-New York series 4-2
1939 – WWII: Adolf Hitler speech at the Reichstag celebrates the defeat of Poland, offers peace to France and England, and mentions need for “settlement of the Jewish problem”
1947 – Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 5-2 at Yankee Stadium to clinch series, 4 games to 3; 11th championship in team history
1949 – US President Harry Truman signs the Mutual Defense Assistance Act to strengthen NATO allies especially Greece and Turkey
1973 – Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
1987 – Military coup leader Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic
2022 – Former police officer with a history of drug use attacks a daycare center, killing at least 37 people, including 23 children, with a gun and knife in Uthai Sawan, Thailand

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1911 – Boston Rustlers’ future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young’s MLB farewell appearance is a disappointment as he loses 13-3 to the Brooklyn Dodgers in his 906th game
1936 – Baseball World Series: Yankees beat Giants 13-5 at Polo Grounds to win all-New York series 4-2
1939 – WWII: Adolf Hitler speech at the Reichstag celebrates the defeat of Poland, offers peace to France and England, and mentions need for “settlement of the Jewish problem”
1947 – Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 5-2 at Yankee Stadium to clinch series, 4 games to 3; 11th championship in team history
1949 – US President Harry Truman signs the Mutual Defense Assistance Act to strengthen NATO allies especially Greece and Turkey
1973 – Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
1987 – Military coup leader Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic
2022 – Former police officer with a history of drug use attacks a daycare center, killing at least 37 people, including 23 children, with a gun and knife in Uthai Sawan, Thailand

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1430 – Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy visits Brussels
1907 – Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) plays its first game; Montreal defeats Toronto 17-8 in Montreal
1915 – Detroit Tigers speedster Ty Cobb steals his 96th base of the season in a 5-0 loss to the Cleveland Indians; it stands as an MLB record until 1962 (Maury Wills, 104)
1945 – “Meet the Press” premieres on radio
1957 – Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilas is sentenced to 7 years
1965 – Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
2001 – Barry Bonds hits his 71st and 72nd home runs in an 11-10 loss against the LA Dodgers at Pacific Bell Park, breaking Mark McGwire’s MLB single-season home run record
2015 – Floods in South Carolina, a “1,000-year storm,” result in 12 deaths and the failure of 9 dams

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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