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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 13th October 2023
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
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