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
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 3rd October 2023
1143 – Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II
1899 – J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner
1918 – Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria abdicates the throne in favour of his eldest son Tsar Boris III
1941 – Adolf Hitler says Russia is “already broken and will never rise again” in a broadcast to the German people
1960 – New York Yankees beat rival Boston Red Sox, 8-7 at Yankee Stadium, ending season on 15 game winning streak and MLB record 193 HRs
1961 – Noël Coward’s musical “Sail Away”, starring Elaine Stritch, opens at Broadhurst Theater, NYC; runs for 167 performances
1965 – Dual Melbourne Cup winning Australian jockey Pat Glennon rides French colt Sea Bird to victory in the Prix de l’Arc De Triomphe to claim an impressive double after the thoroughbred’s English Derby win
2004 – Final game in Montreal Expos team history is played in NYC against the Mets at Shea Stadium, an 8-1 defeat; Jamey Carroll scores the final Expos run and Endy Chavez is the last Expos batter
2021 – Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady becomes NFL’s all-time leader in career passing yardage in 19-17 win vs NE Patriots at Gillette Stadium: Brady 22-43 for 269 yards to pass Drew Brees’ high of 80,358
2022 – Ringo Starr postpones five dates of his All-Starr Band tour in Canada due to his testing positive for COVID-19
Historical Events for 2nd October 2023
1899 – Orange Free state mobilizes
1924 – League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva
1943 – New York Yankees sweep 14th MLB doubleheader of year, beating St. Louis Browns, 5-1 and 7-6 at Yankee Stadium
1949 – USSR recognizes People’s Republic of China
1955 – “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” premieres on CBS television in the US
1976 – “Let My People Come” closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 106 performances
1990 – Radio Berlin International’s final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is “The End” by 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 1st Test in Rawalpindi
2011 – TV spy drama “Homeland” starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis premieres on Showtime
2012 – 20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria
Historical Events for 1st October 2023
1189 – Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre
1890 – Germany’s anti-socialist laws lapse
1898 – Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens
1936 – Generalissimo Francisco Franco establishes state of Spain
1960 – Nigeria gains independence from Great Britain (National Day)
1964 – WTSJ TV channel 18 in San Juan, PR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1975 – “The Thrilla in Manila”; Muhammad Ali stops Joe Frazier in 14 rounds in Quezon City, the Philippines to retain his WBC/WBA heavyweight title
1981 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya
2011 – Martin Dempsey is appointed US Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Obama
2019 – Indian government bans the export of onions, an important food staple to control prices, causing shortages in Bangladesh and Nepal
Historical Events for 30th September 2023
1619 – Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp
1903 – New Gresham’s School officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood in Norfolk, England (expansion of original school founded 1555)
1937 – Ryder Cup Golf, Southport and Ainsdale GC: US wins 8-4; first time the host team loses the competition
1949 – Pirates Ralph Kiner hits his 54th HR and NL record 16th in September
1950 – WSM TV channel 4 in Nashville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1966 – Bechuanaland, in southern Africa, gains independence from Great Britain, becomes Republic of Botswana
1968 – AL and NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires
1977 – Ringo Starr releases album “Ringo the 4th”
1977 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
2021 – Canada observes its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, honoring victims and survivors of residential schools for indigenous children
Historical Events for 29th September 2023
855 – Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1953 – “Buick-Berle Show” debuts on NBC-TV
1957 – Buddy Holly and The Crickets release 2nd single “Oh Boy!”/”Not Fade Away”
1957 – NFL NY Giants play their last game at Polo Grounds, 9-1 loss to Pittsburgh
1967 – International Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system
1984 – “Pretty Mess” by Vanity peaks at #75
1986 – USSR releases American journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
1987 – “thirtysomething” debuts on ABC-TV
2008 – Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, its largest single-day point loss, following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual
2020 – Scientists confirm the existence of three new underground lakes on Mars using radar on Esa’s Mars Express spacecraft
Historical Events for 28th September 2023
1924 – General Plutarco Calles elected President of Mexico
1928 – US recognizes the Chinese nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek
1941 – Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg
1961 – American medical drama series “Dr. Kildare”, starring Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, premieres on NBC-TV
1961 – “Purlie Victorious”, a farce by Ossie Davis, opens on Broadway
1962 – “Jan Murray Show” last airs on NBC-TV
1963 – Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates record 25.78 mph (415 k) for 440 yds
1984 – Krzysztof Penderecki’s initial version of “A Polish Requiem” premieres with Mstislav Rostropovich leading the Stuttgart Radio Symphony
1995 – Dennis Martínez’ fastball breaks Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett’s jaw, in what becomes his final career plate appearance, in Cleveland Indians 12-4 win
2013 – 27 villagers are killed by Boko Harem in northeast Nigeria
Historical Events for 27th September 2023
1854 – French fishing vessel SS Vesta collides with American passenger paddle-wheel ship SS Arctic off Newfoundland in heavy fog, sinking the larger passenger ship; 322 killed, most of the survivors were crew members
1916 – 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians
1919 – British troops withdraw from the North Russian town of Archangelsk after fighting Bolsheviks/Soviets
1937 – 1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)
1942 – Heavy German assault in Stalingrad
1988 – Canadian Finn class sailor Lawrence Lemieux abandons race 5 to assist injured competitor after being in 2nd place; selfless act is awarded with the Pierre de Coubertin medal
1989 – Oakland wins AL West and SF wins NL West title
1992 – Pittsburgh Pirates win their 3rd straight NL East title
2014 – Hawthorn Football Club defeats the Sydney Swans in the 2014 AFL Grand Final 137-74
2016 – American “boy band” pop music group ‘Why Don’t We’ (WDW) forms in Los Angeles
Historical Events for 26th September 2023
1404 – Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established
1792 – Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France
1887 – Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
1926 – JB Fagan’s stage drama “And So to Bed”, based on the life of Samuel Pepys, premieres in London
1940 – Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Woolston, Southampton for second time, 30 killed
1949 – Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign torn down, reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood
1963 – 1st edition of NYC Review of Books
1964 – Braves (25) and Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn
1999 – Ryder Cup Golf, The Country Club, Brookline: US wins 14½-13½ after trailing 10-6 going into the singles; win first 6 matches to set up victory; poor American crowd and team behaviour heavily criticised
2021 – German election: center-left Social Democrats win most seats but not a majority over ruling conservative Christian Democratic Union without its retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel
Historical Events for 25th September 2023
1639 – First printing press in America set up in Cambridge under the guaranty of Harvard College
1867 – Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Washington, D.C.
1929 – Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
1947 – 2nd Cannes Film Festival ends with six different awards presented including Best Musical for Vincente Minnelli’s” Ziegfeld Follies” and Walt Disney’s “Dumbo” Best Animation
1970 – Ringo Starr releases his 2nd solo album “Beaucoups of Blues”, a collection of country music recorded in Nashville, Tennessee
1973 – 3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
1987 – Major General Sitiveni Rabuka stages a second Fijian coup and declares Fiji a republic
1989 – Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits and 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons
2008 – The “Celtic Tiger” slides into recession for the first time in over two decades, recording a 0.5% fall in second quarter GDP, following a 0.3% decline in the first quarter
2019 – Australia’s Capital Territory becomes the 1st state in Australia to legalize recreational marijuana