1874 – Samuel J. Tilden elected governor of New York
1939 – US allows “cash and carry” arms sales during WW II
1951 – Ryder Cup Golf, Pinehurst Resort: US wins 9½-2½; Sam Snead playing captain for US; Arthur Lacey non-playing GB skipper
1968 – Battles between Jordanian army and Al Fatah-arm forces
1970 – Genie, a 13 year old feral child found in Los Angeles, California, having been locked in her bedroom by her father for most of her life
1983 – Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed
1989 – Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon
1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
2015 – Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announces his resignation after protests over a Bucharest nightclub fire that killed 32
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 1st November 2023
1248 – Earl William II of Holland crowned as King of Germany
1938 – NL batting champion Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds is named National League MVP; first catcher to win award; Boston Red Sox 1st baseman Jimmie Foxx takes AL award
1945 – First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson
1954 – KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1985 – Netherlands decides definitive sites for cruise missiles
1990 – Rhetoric escalates as George Bush likens Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler
1993 – The Maastricht Treaty, the Treaty on European Union comes into effect
1997 – Louisiana State University running back Kevin Faulk rushes for 212 yards and a school record 5 touchdowns in a 63-28 win at Kentucky’s Commonwealth Stadium, Lexington
2004 – “That’s What I Love About Sunday” single released by American country singer Craig Morgan (Billboard Song of the Year 2005)
2015 – New York City Marathon: Stanley Biwott of Kenya takes men’s division in 2:10:34; compatriot and defending women’s champion Mary Keitany wins easily in 2:24:25
Historical Events for 31st October 2023
1552 – Emperor Karel and Markgraaf Albecht strike siege of Metz
1941 – Clothing factory fire in Huddersfield, England kills 49
1943 – World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.
1957 – Yip Harburg, Fred Saidy, and Harold Arlen’s musical “Jamaica”, starring Lena Horne, opens at Imperial Theater, NYC; runs for 558 performances
1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to USA
1968 – Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game)
1978 – Iranian oil workers go on strike
1984 – Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India’s 6th Prime Minister succeeding his mother Indira Gandhi who was assassinated
1987 – American jockey Chris Antley becomes first rider to win 9 races in a day (4 at Aqueduct / 5 at The Meadowlands)
2017 – Judge on Maui, Hawaii orders man to write ex-girlfriend 144 compliments after violating protection order to send 144 nasty text messages
Historical Events for 30th October 2023
1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis ended by agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
1502 – Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut, India for the second time.
1886 – Great Britain and Germany agree boundaries in East Africa
1894 – Daniel Cooper patents time clock
1930 – Turkey and Greece sign a treaty of friendship
1972 – The Northern Ireland Office issues a discussion document ‘The Future of Northern Ireland’; the paper states Britain’s commitment to the union as long as the majority of people wish to remain part of the United Kingdom
1993 – Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0
2015 – Polish tennis star Agnieszka Radwańska wins the WTA Finals title at Kallang. Singapore; beats Czech Petra Kvitová 6–2, 4–6, 6–3
2016 – Canada and the EU sign free trade deal after opposition by Belgium
2016 – 6.6-magnitude earthquake hits central Italy – strongest in Italy for 36 years
Historical Events for 29th October 2023
1863 – International Committee of Red Cross forms as result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
1864 – Greek parliament accepts new Constitution
1929 – “Black Tuesday” Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the “Great Depression”
1939 – Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
1945 – Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, resigns
1955 – Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours)
2005 – 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
2006 – Lula da Silva is elected President of Brazil defeating Geraldo Alckmin in the second round
2012 – Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage and forces the New York stock exchange to close
2022 – Twin car bombs by a jihadist group in Mogadishu, Somalia, kill 120 people
Historical Events for 28th October 2023
1628 – Huguenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu
1891 – Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
1913 – “Krazy Kat” comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
1922 – First US coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
1939 – Anti-German demonstrations and strikes in Czechoslovakia
1943 – German submarine U-220 sunk by US aircraft in the Atlantic
1954 – Major league owners vote down sale of A’s to a Philadelphia syndicate
2011 – Baseball World Series: St. Louis beats Texas Rangers, 6-2 in Game 7 at Busch Stadium to win Cardinals’ 11th title; MVP: Cardinals 3rd baseman David Freese
2015 – Third Republican presidential candidates debate run by CNBC in Boulder, Colorado
2020 – 15th-century medieval manuscript “The Book of Lismore”, returns to Ireland after donated by Chatsworth Settlement to University College Cork
Historical Events for 27th October 2023
1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam
1676 – Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw
1864 – Battle of Boydton Plank Road, VA (Burgess’ Mill, Southside Railroad)
1935 – SDAP and NVV launches “Plan for Work” in Utrect, Netherlands
1974 – French runner Chantal Langlacé sets female world marathon record (2:46:24) in Neuf-Brisach, France
1978 – US President Jimmy Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
1988 – “Les Miserables” opens at Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia
1990 – Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic’s first president.
1991 – “Homecoming” opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 49 performances
2020 – Organizers of 96th East-West Shrine Bowl college football all-star game, benefiting Shriners Hospitals for Children, announce cancellation of game scheduled for January 23, 2021, in St. Petersburg, Florida, due to COVID-19 issues. The
Historical Events for 26th October 2023
1667 – Arung Palakka’s Bugis forces occupy Makassar, southern Sulawesi
1923 – Dutch Government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
1926 – Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 “Belga”)
1939 – Polish Jews forced into obligatory work service
1942 – Battle of Santa Cruz: Japanese naval offensive against US forces near Solomon Islands
1955 – British troops occupy Saudi Arabian oil field at Boeraimi
1967 – Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself after 26 years on the Peacock Throne
1984 – “The Terminator” directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton is released in the US
1993 – NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte
2007 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Monmouth Park; Day 1 winners: Maryfield, Nownownow, Corinthian
Historical Events for 25th October 2023
1147 – Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum
1828 – St Katharine Docks opens in London, England
1942 – Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins
1953 – Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 10th Symphony
1955 – Branch Rickey steps down as GM of the Pirates
1964 – The Rolling Stones make their 1st appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”; they perform a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Around and Around,” and their own hit “Time Is On My Side”
1968 – Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
1975 – USSR’s Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing
1983 – US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!)
1992 – “Dancing at Lughnasa” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 421 performances
Historical Events for 24th October 2023
1902 – Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts, killing 6,000 people and becoming one of the three largest eruptions of the 20th century
1924 – Nobel prize for physiology or medicine awarded to Dutchman Willem Einthoven “for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram”
1940 – Adolf Hitler meets the Head of the French State Marshal Philippe Pétain
1944 – US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte
1948 – WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 – AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year
1980 – Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
1997 – Marv Albert sentenced in assault case
1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 on comet and asteroid mission
2017 – Dog doping scandal confirmed by officials of Iditarod, Alaskan dog sled race after dogs test positive for a banned substance