1588 – Remnants of Medina Sidonia’s Spanish Armada returns to Santander, Spain
1934 – Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen attain record balloon height of 10.9 miles (17.5 km) over Lake Erie
1944 – Soviet army invades Hungary
1974 – Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks’ Big Creek Reservation dedicated
1978 – Punk rock singer Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker’s Detention Center in NYC
1997 – At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a power blackout due to sabotage
2008 – Joe Sakic scores his final career goal (#625) against the Edmonton Oilers
2009 – The UK markets had contracted by 0.4% in the third quarter against what was expected to be a period of growth, as a result of unexpectedly poor performance by the service sector
2010 – MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2
2012 – 12 people are killed and 40 are injured in a hospital fire in Tainan, Taiwan
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 22nd October 2023
1721 – Tsar Peter the Great titles himself “Emperor of All Russia”
1906 – Henry Ford becomes President of Ford Motor Company
1922 – Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, NY, named after a knight in Wagner’s opera
1929 – 8th French government of Aristide Briand falls
1929 – James H Scullin forms Australia government
1930 – 1st concert of BBC Symphony Orchestra, at Queen’s Hall, under Adrian Boult
1942 – Operation Flagpole: US Major General Mark Clark and Brigadier General Lyman Lemnitzer meet Vichy French Général Charles Mast secretly in small fishing village of Cherchell, Algeria to finalize plans for Allied Invasion of North Africa
1987 – American composer John Adams’s first opera, “Nixon in China”, premieres at the Houston Grand Opera, in Houston, Texas
2004 – Discovery and isolation of new wonder material Graphene announced in paper by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (Nobel Prize 2010). Incredibly they used scotch tape to peal layers off Graphite.
2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
Historical Events for 21st October 2023
310 – St Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1708 – Dutch and English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel)
1917 – Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee
1948 – UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
1959 – Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
1975 – Red Sox Carlton Fisk’s 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS
1977 – The European Patent Institute is founded.
1984 – Austrian Ferrari driver Niki Lauda becomes a 3-time Formula 1 World Drivers champion when he finishes 2nd in the season ending Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril; wins title by just 0.5 from Alain Prost
1991 – 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif
2020 – Parents of 545 children cannot be found that were separated at the US-Mexico border according to American Civil Liberties Union
Historical Events for 20th October 2023
1813 – German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished
1856 – Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in Netherlands opens
1910 – The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, launched from Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland
1920 – “1st Year” with Frank Craven premieres in NYC
1922 – Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place
1935 – Communist forces end their Long March at Yan’an, in Shaanxi, China, bringing Mao Zedong to prominence
1962 – Peter, Paul and Mary’s debut folk album “Peter, Paul and Mary” reaches No. 1 on US album charts
1968 – US women’s 4 x 100m relay team sets world record 42.88s to win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics; Margaret Bailes, Barbara Ferrell, Mildrette Netter and Wyomia Tyus
1977 – Plane chartered by rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd runs out of fuel and crashes in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi. Six people are killed, including band members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gains, and Cassie Gaines, and road manager Dean Kilpatrick
1979 – Bob Dylan make his only appearance on “Saturday Night Live” performing three songs from his album Slow Train Coming: ‘When You Gonna Wake Up’, ‘Gotta Serve Somebody’ and ‘I Believe in You’’
Historical Events for 19th October 2023
1739 – England declares war on Spain [OS=Oct 30]
1932 – Jimmie Foxx wins AL MVP and Chuck Klein wins NL MVP
1944 – US Navy says Black women can join WAVES
1960 – KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 – Derry Citizen’s Action Committee, formed Oct 9, stages illegal sit-down at Guildhall Square as part of large civil disobedience campaign
1970 – Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale, California
1970 – John Frazier kills Ohta’s declares WW 3 has begun
1989 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1994 – 160 killed in fighting in Tsjetsjenie (Chechnya)
2014 – A working human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem cells in the United States
Historical Events for 18th October 2023
1889 – First all-NYC “World Championship” Baseball Series; New York Giants (NL) play Brooklyn Bridegrooms (AA); Giants go on to win series, 6-3
1921 – Charles Strite granted US patent #1,394,450 for his invention, the automatic pop-up toaster
1932 – Belgium government of Renkin falls
1968 – Polish sprinter Irena Szewińska runs a world record 22.58s to beat Australian Raelene Boyle by 0.16s and win the 200m gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
1974 – Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists and 12 blocks
1974 – Andre van de Louw appointed Mayor of Rotterdam
1979 – Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop
1989 – East German state/party leader Erich Honecker resigns
1999 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 1
2023 – At least 500 Palestinians killed in explosion on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Gaza Strip, with local officials blaming Israeli missile attack and Israelis blaming misfired Palestinian rocket
Historical Events for 17th October 2023
1855 – Bessemer steelmaking process patented
1918 – Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic
1921 – Belgium’s public library law goes into force
1956 – “Around the World in 80 Days”, based on the book by Jules Verne, directed by Michael Anderson and starring David Nivon and Cantinflas, premieres in New York
1957 – French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
1964 – New York Yankees catcher fire Manager Yogi Berra
1971 – Cleveland Metroparks’ Rocky River Nature Center opens
1972 – Bob Randall’s “6 Rooms Riv Vu,” premieres in NYC
1978 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
2017 – Islamic State headquarters Raqqa declared under full control of US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello after 4 months of fighting
Historical Events for 16th October 2023
1600 – Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines
1775 – Portland, Maine burned by British
1849 – Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
1968 – Americans Tommie Smith (gold 19.83 WR) and John Carlos (bronze) famously give the Black Power salute on the 200m medal podium during the Mexico City Olympics to protest racism and injustice against African-Americans
1976 – Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
1980 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1987 – Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35)
1990 – US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
1997 – “Side Show,” opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 91 performances
2018 – Man Booker Prize is won by Anna Burns’ “Milkman”, the first winner from Northern Ireland
Historical Events for 15th October 2023
1582 – Gregorian calendar introduced in Spain, Portugal and pontifical states, after skipping 10 days after Oct 4 to sync the calendar
1756 – Saxon army surrenders to Prussia
1954 – Hurricane Hazel makes landfall in the US in North Carolina as a category 4 hurricane, 195 die in US and Canada
1955 – Buddy Holley opens for Bill Haley and His Comets in Lubbock, Texas, and impresses Nashville scout Eddie Crandall, leading to a recording contract with a misspelling that creates “Buddy Holly”
1972 – 61st Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Bucharest (3-2)
1983 – Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games
1984 – Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud
1988 – Amnesty International’s “Human Rights Now!” Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005 – Riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested
2007 – Fox Business Network (FBN), American financial cable network is launched
Historical Events for 14th October 2023
530 – Discorus ends his reign as Catholic anti-Pope
1912 – Cretan representatives are admitted to the Greek assembly; in doing so the Greek Government challenges the Turkish Government
1925 – Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)
1952 – “Buttrio Square” opens at New Century Theater NYC for 7 performances
1957 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne
1966 – Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer
1968 – American sprinter Jim Hines runs a world record 9.95s to beat Lennox Miller of Jamaica and Charles Greene of the US, and win the 100m gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner
2018 – Flash floods in Aude region, France kill at least 10 people
2018 – Afghan batsman Hazratullah Zazai becomes only the 6th player in cricket history (3rd in T20) to hit 6-sixes in an over; scores 62 in 17 balls in Kabul Zwanan loss v Balkh Legends in Afghanistan Premier League