Historical Events
1900 – USA, Anthracite coal miners go out on strike for better wages until the October 25, by which time the owners are persuaded that their stand is harming President McKinley’s campaign
1939 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Reigning Wimbledon champion Bobby Riggs beats fellow American Welby van Horn 6-4, 6-2, 6-4
1941 – World War II: A decree issued by the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch “Universal compulsory military training of the citizens of the USSR” in the face of the “Great Patriotic War”
1959 – Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Korea
1992 – NFL decides to suspend World League Football
2004 – SF Giants outfielder Barry Bonds hits his 700th career MLB home run, off San Diego’s Jake Peavy
Famous Birthdays
1825 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, American politician and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, born in Eatonton, Georgia (d. 1893)
1929 – Patricia “Pat” Crowley, American actress (Money from Home, There’s Always Tomorrow), born in Olyphant, Pennsylvania
1938 – Francisco Aritmendi, Spanish athlete (International Cross Country Championships 1964), born in Cogolludo, Spain (d. 2020)
1965 – Bryan Singer, American director
1980 – Asashoryu Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler (born as Dolgorsuren Dagvador)
1986 – Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
Famous Deaths
1823 – Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker, dies at 76
1862 – William Edwin Starke, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at about 48
1948 – Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture), dies at 61
1983 – Humberto Madeiros, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 67
1991 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (NY Phil-1939), dies at 89
1998 – Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)