1282 – Nichiren Daishonin, founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism, dies, his ashes are interred at Taisekiji Temple
1890 – The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
1921 – Baseball World Series: NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 1-0 at the Polo Grounds for a 5-3 series win; final WS played in best-of-nine format; Yankees first ever WS appearance
1949 – “Touch and Go” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 176 performances
1964 – Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser wins her third consecutive Olympic 100m freestyle gold medal at the Tokyo Games; Olympic record 59.05s
1975 – Rock vocalist Neil Young undergoes throat surgery
1975 – 9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins
1982 – IOC Executive Committee approves the reinstatement of Jim Thorpe’s gold medals from the 1912 Olympics
1993 – Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.
2019 – Kurdish forces make a deal with Syrian army for them to patrol border areas in north east Syria to combat Turkish offensive after US President Donald Trump pulls out US forces
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 12th October 2023
642 – John IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1576 – Rudolf II succeeds Maximilian II as Holy Roman Emperor
1925 – German-Russian trade agreement signed
1929 – Chicago Cubs blow 8-0 Game 4s lead; Philadelphia A’s score World Series record 10 runs in 1 inning in 10-8 win
1967 – Baseball World Series: Lou Brock steals WS record 7 bases as St Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 7-2 at Fenway Park for a 4-3 series win; MVP: Cards pitcher Bob Gibson
1986 – California Angels within 1 pitch of pennant victory lose to Red Sox
1989 – Dallas running back Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Minnesota Vikings for 5 players and 6 future draft picks including future stars Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith and Darren Woodson
2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
2008 – Anna Kournikova and Andy Roddick defeat Martina Navratilova and Jesse Levine in a match for charity, raising over $400,000 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation and Atlanta AIDS Partnership Fund
2018 – US air strike in central Somalia kills about 60 al-Shabab militants
Historical Events for 11th October 2023
1142 – Treaty of Shaoxing ratified with Chinese southern Song Dynasty agreeing to pay tribute to northern Jin dynasty
1906 – San Francisco Board of Education orders segregation in separate schools of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean children sparking diplomatic crisis
1922 – Turkey and Greece sign cease fire
1929 – JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1931 – 100,000 extreme-right Germans form “Harzburger Front”
1945 – JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere)
1946 – New York Yankees trade infielder Joe Gordon to Cleveland Indians for pitcher Allie Reynolds
1954 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam
1960 – Radio/TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers
1976 – 10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins
Historical Events for 10th October 2023
1471 – Battle of Brunkeberg: Swedish regent Sten Sture defeats forces led by Danish King Christian I
1760 – Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)
1892 – Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan
1957 – A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England becomes the world’s first major nuclear accident
1963 – American chemist and anti-nuclear weapons campaigner Linus Pauling wins the Nobel Peace Prize the same day the first nuclear test treaty comes into effect
1964 – 18th NHL All-Star Game, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: All-Stars beat Toronto, 3-2; MVP: Jean Béliveau, Montreal, C
1965 – The Supremes appear on the “The Ed Sullivan Show”
1979 – Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
1990 – Mexican singer and actress Thalia releases her debut album “Thalía”
2019 – 3,500 women are the first to be allowed to attend a football match in Iran for a World Cup qualifier in Tehran, since the Islamic revolution
Historical Events for 9th October 2023
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, first Head of State of modern Greece, assassinated in Nafplion
1899 – South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum
1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project
1963 – Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba and Haiti, kills 6,000
1965 – Beatles’ “Yesterday” single goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks
1974 – Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at Madison Square Garden; start of a 37 game road losing streak for Washington
1976 – Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan), scores 163 on 1st day
1986 – Stage musical “Phantom of the Opera” premieres in London, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman; runs for 13,629 performances
1987 – Japanese bank buys “Lady McGill” stamp for $1,100,000
1989 – 27th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0)
Historical Events for 8th October 2023
1779 – English engraver and poet William Blake begins study at the Royal Academy, Old Somerset House, London
1903 – J M Synge’s play “In the Shadow of the Glen” premieres in Dublin
1939 – Germany annexes Western Poland
1942 – Comedy duo Abbott and Costello launch their weekly radio show
1944 – Samuel Barber’s “Capricorn Concerto” premieres at The Town Hall, NYC, in a performance by Daniel Saidenberg and his Little Symphony
1956 – Yankees pitcher Don Larsen throws a perfect game as New York beats Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0 in Game 5 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium
1968 – Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (formerly British HMS Venerable) sold to Argentina
1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
2001 – US President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security
2012 – 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
Historical Events for 7th October 2023
1806 – Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgwood
1826 – Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
1864 – -Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road, Virginia
1950 – US forces invade North Korea by crossing 38th parallel
1952 – First “Bandstand” broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)
1955 – Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn
1975 – MLB National League Championship: Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 games to 0
2001 – Crude oil resumes flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline after workers welded shut a bullet hole that caused 260,000 US gallons of oil to spill out
2012 – ICC Men’s Cricket T20 World Cup, Colombo: West Indies beat Sri Lanka by 36 runs for first title; Player of the Series: Australian all-rounder Shane Watson (249 runs • 11 wickets)
2016 – Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize for attempts to end armed conflict with FARC
Historical Events for 6th October 2023
1683 – 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown, Philadelphia
1917 – Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides
1925 – Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen Pangulos arrested
1948 – Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya
1958 – US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains a record 60 days under the north pole
1978 – Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven” film premieres starring Richard Gere
1988 – Oakland A’s sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
1996 – Lois and Clark (fictional characters) wed
2002 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá as a Catholic saint
2015 – Nobel prize for Physics awarded to Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur McDonald (Canada) for work on neutrinos
Historical Events for 5th October 2023
1632 – Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Groningen
1864 – Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone, approx 60,000 die
1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1945 – Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam
1954 – 10th General Conference on Weights and Measures opens, will define the Kelvin as the primary unit of temperature (after William Thomson, Lord Kelvin)
1963 – 17th NHL All-Star Game, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Toronto Maple Leafs tie All Stars, 3-3; MVP: Frank Mahovlich, Toronto, LW
1964 – San Francisco Fire Department Museum dedicated
1991 – Fresno State ties NCAA football record with 49 points in a quarter (2nd), as they route New Mexico, 94-17 at Bulldog Stadium, Fresno
1991 – Military transport plane crashes at Jakarta, 133 dies
2018 – Banksy work “Girl With Balloon” automatically shreds moments after being sold for 1 million pounds in London, renamed “Love is in the Bin”
Historical Events for 4th October 2023
1209 – Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach
1809 – Spencer Perceval becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland retires due to ill health
1906 – Chicago Cubs beat Pittsburg Pirates, 4-0 to end MLB season at 116-36 with .763 winning percentage; unmatched since
1911 – 1st escalator installed on the London Underground at Earl’s Court Station
1959 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad
1965 – Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Catholic Pope to leave Italy since 1809, and 1st to visit Western Hemisphere, spending 14 hours in NYC to address the UN, meet with US President Lyndon Johnson, visit the World’s Fair and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and celebrate mass at Yankee Stadium
1986 – NY Yankees closer Dave Righetti saves both doubleheader games at Fenway Park for 5-3 and 3-1 wins v Boston; Righetti’s MLB record 46th save
1997 – Farm Aid 10 concert in Texas cancelled due to weak ticket sales and moved to Illinois
1999 – “Breathe” single released by Faith Hill (Billboard Song of the Year 2000)
2012 – Turkey’s parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria