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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 23rd October 2023
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
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