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
Category: Historical Events
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
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