October 31 Events

2010 American Alexandria Mills, age 18, wins the 60th Miss World pageant in China
2010 A substantially large oil field that is estimated to contain between 8 and 15 billion barrels, is discovered off the coast of Brazil
2009 Margarito Montes, a prominent union leader, is found among fifteen people killed on a ranch in northern Mexico
2006 Bob Barker, from The Price is Right, retires after 35 years as host
2005 Samuel Alito is nominated for the Supreme Court by George W. Bush
1999 EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot
1997 British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life in death of Matthew Eappen 8 months (judge changes to time served)00690901
1995 NHL New Jersey Devils agree to stay in New Jersey
1994 American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed
1993 "Wonderful Tennessee" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 9 performances
1993 25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match
1993 Germany unemployment hits country record of 3.5 million
1993 Rapper Tupac Shakur charged with aggravated assault
1993 U.S. wins Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament
1992 Don Keller makes his 18,000th sky dive
1992 Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years
1992 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: A P Indy, Fraise, Gilded Time, Liza, Lure, Paseana, Thirty Slews at Gulfstream Park
1991 Palestinians attend U.S. mideast peace talks in Madrid
1990 Pakistan make 3-0 drubbing of New Zealand, Waqar Younis 29 series wkts
1989 AR Gurney's "Love Letters," premieres in New York City
1989 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey
1989 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 19 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
1988 1st Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23
1988 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia
1987 1st jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont)
1987 A pair in Coventry, England ties world record for longest singles tennis match at 80 hours 21 minutes
1985 Last day in Test cricket for Zaheer Abbas
1984 Howard Goodall/Melvyn Bragg's musical "Hired Man," premieres in London
1984 Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire
1983 Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album
1983 Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia
1982 "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." closes at St. James New York City after 9 performances
1982 Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pontiff to visit Spain
1981 1st live radio drama in 25 years (Halloween Story on NBC)
1980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m)
1980 Polish government recognizes Solidarity
1980 Senegal routes troops to Gambia due to Libyan threat
1979 Mike Flanagan, wins AL Cy Young Award
1979 U.S. DC-10 crashes at Mexico-City, 74 killed
1978 Iranian oil workers go on strike
1978 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution
1976 Javed Miandad, 206 vs. New Zealand, age 19 years 141 days (29 fours 1 six)
1975 Bob Geldof 1st appearance with Boomtown Rats
1973 Tom Seaver wins NL Cy Young Award
1972 Gaylord Perry wins AL Cy Young award
1971 "On the Town" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 65 performances
1969 George Harrison's "Something" is released in the United Kingdom
1969 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
1968 Linda Eastman moves to U.K. permanently
1968 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game)
1968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 KIMO TV channel 13 in Anchorage, AK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep
1967 SF's Mike McCormick wins NL Cy Young Award
1964 Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks
1963 Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatles and their fans at London Airport
1963 J. Edgar Hoover last meeting with president John F. Kennedy
1963 Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana)
1961 Hurricane Hattie, kills 400 in British Honduras
1961 Federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated playing fields are illegal
1960 Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
1959 U.S.S.R. and Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam
1957 "Jamaica" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 558 performances
1956 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole - Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek
1956 Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal
1956 Brooklyn, New York ends streetcar service
1954 Algerian Revolution against French begins
1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Texas Golf Open
1954 KREM TV channel 2 in Spokane, WA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 TV broadcasting begins in Belgium
1952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands
1951 Second Chamber accept plan-Schuman
1950 Collazo and Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, D.C.
1949 "Regina" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 86 performances
1949 Amsterdam Telegraph-director/SS'er Henri Holdert sentenced to 12 years
1949 WOC (now KWQC) TV channel 6 in Davenport, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1944 Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission
1943 Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Brooklyn (48-10)
1942 94 U boats sunk this month (619,000 ton)
1942 9th day in battle at El Alamein
1941 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton)
1941 Mount Rushmore is completed
1941 Prior to U.S. in WW II, Germany torpedoes U.S. destroyer Reuben James
1940 63 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
1940 Battle of Britain: Germany and Britair control of English Channel, ends
1940 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into Warsaw Ghetto
1939 27 U boats sunk this month (135,000 ton)
1937 Spanish government moves from Valencia to Barcelona
1932 Greek government of Venizelos falls
1925 Cossack officer Reza Chan replaces sultan Ahmad Shah in Persia
1922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy
1922 Karel and Josef Capek's "World We Live In," premieres in New York City
1921 Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st woman track and field association)
1920 Romania annexes Bessarabia
1918 Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in U.S. in 1 week
1917 Eugene O'Neill's "In the Zone," premieres in New York City
1916 Clare Kummer's "Good Gracious Annabelle," premieres in New York City
1914 Great Britain and France declare war on Turkey
1908 4th Olympic games ends in London
1907 Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club's 1st game defeating Strathcona Rugby Foot-ball Club 15-0 at Calgary
1906 George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra," premieres in New York City
1905 Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St. Petersburg
1900 AL President Ban Johnson writes to NL President Nick Young seeking peace
1888 John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tire
1887 Rimski-Korsakov's "Capricio Espagnol," premieres in St. Petersburg
1881 Metropolitan club plays its last game of its non-league season They win 80 of 151 games (18-43 versus NL teams)
1876 Cyclone hits Bengal, about 200,000 die
1871 Founding of Netherland Protestant Union in Dokkum
1868 Standard uniform approved for postal carriers
1864 Nevada admitted as 36th state
1846 Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp
1837 Collision of river boat Monmouth and Trement on Miss; 300 die
1815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp
1808 Holland Brigade battle at Durango, Spain
1794 John Dalton 1st lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society
1793 Execution of Girondins at Paris, during Reign of Terror
1759 Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred
1714 Georg Ludwig van Hannover crowned as English King George I
1617 Laurens Reael resigns as governor-general of East-Indies
1596 English/French/Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish "Drievoudig Covenant"
1552 Emperor Karel and Markgraaf Albecht strike siege for Metz
1541 Michelangelo Buonarroti's paints "last judgement" in Sistine Chapel
1517 Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation
834 1st All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honor the saints
802 Empress Irene of Byzantium driven out

October 30 Events

2010 The U.S. launches a search for the people behind an attempt to mail bombs to synagogues and places of worship in Chicago, Illinois
2010 Eastern Japan braces itself as Typhoon Chaba heads its way, carrying winds of up to 162 kilometers per hour near its center
1997 "Cherry Orchard," opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City
1997 Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured
1995 Quebec Referendum votes to remain part of Canada
1994 Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election
1994 Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel's Pentium-processor on Internet
1994 U.S. wins Nichirei LPGA Golf International
1993 Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0
1992 Metropolitan Transportation Authority begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles
1991 Colombian government negotiate with M-19-guerrilla
1991 Mark Sauer becomes CEO of Pittsburgh Pirates
1991 Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain
1991 Singer Clint Black (34) weds actress Lisa Hartman (29)
1990 England and France complete Chunnel
1989 August A Busch III becomes CEO of St. Louis Cardinals
1989 Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal)
1988 2 gambling clubs and 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot
1988 Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1988 Jim Elliott (U.S.) completes 24-hour paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1988 New York Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time
1986 Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made
1985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched
1984 Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award
1982 Portugal revises constitution
1980 Honduras and El Salvador settle their boundary dispute
1980 NASA launches Flt Satcom-4
1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-203
1979 Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham
1978 Uganda troops attack Tanzania
1977 Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07
1976 "Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 49 performances
1976 Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
1976 Reverend Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ
1975 Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year
1975 John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals
1975 Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain
1975 New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
1974 California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH)
1974 Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award
1974 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire
1973 Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award
1972 45 die in a train crash in Chicago, Illinois
1972 Worst U.S. rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago
1970 KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, New Hampshire (IND) 1st broadcast
1968 Jaqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios
1968 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics)
1968 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)
1968 Queen Juliana opens IJ tunnel in Amsterdam
1967 Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968
1967 Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km)
1967 U.S.S.R. Kosmos 186 and 188 make 1st automatic docking and Venmera 13 launch
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open
1965 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open
1965 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia
1964 Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam
1963 Morocco and Algeria signs cease fire
1963 Sandy Koufax wins NL MVP award
1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
1961 U.N. unanimously elects U Thant acting Secretary General of the U.N.
1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square
1960 Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba
1957 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1957 Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
1957 WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast
1957 WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad
1956 Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961
1955 Imtiaz Ahmed scores 209 vs. New Zealand, the record for a no 8 batsman
1954 Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry
1954 U.S. Armed Forces end segregation of races
1953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
1952 Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas
1951 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1950 David Diamond's 3rd Symphony, premieres
1949 "Lost in the Stars" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 281 performances
1949 Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's musical premieres in New York City
1948 20 die and 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania
1948 Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee
1947 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva
1947 Darius Milhauds 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus," premieres in Paris
1945 Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals
1945 U.S. government announces end of shoe rationing
1944 Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," premieres in Washington D.C.
1944 Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
1944 Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau
1944 Scottish Highlanders liberate Waalwijk
1944 Sweden announces intention to stay neutral and refuse sanctuary in WW II
1944 Tholen Island freed
1943 Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina
1943 Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN
1943 Soviet forces under Tolbuchin stick Sivash-bay about
1942 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault
1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea
1941 USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though U.S. is not in war
1940 Cole Porters musical "Panama hattie," premieres in New York City
1939 U.S.S.R. and Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews
1939 German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard
1938 Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"
1931 W2XB TV channel 1 in New York City, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting
1930 Turkey and Greece sign a treaty of friendship
1925 KUT-AM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
1922 Anxious to compete with the Yankees, the New York Giants pay $65,000 and 3 players for Jack Bentley (hits .349 and is 13-1 as pitcher in 1922)
1922 Mussolini forms government in Italy
1919 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball
1918 Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state
1917 British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration
1914 Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins
1911 Clark Griffith is named manager of Washington Senators
1905 "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties
1905 G.B. Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession," premieres in New York City
1905 Tsar of Russia accepts 1st Duma (Parliament)
1901 Battle at Bakenlaagte: Lt-colonel Bensons unit vs Boers
1900 1st-ever U.S. auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in New York City
1899 Battle at Ladysmith Natal: Boers beat Lieutenant-General Whites army
1899 British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown
1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator
1894 Daniel Cooper patents time clock
1893 Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
1888 John J Loud patents ballpoint pen
1888 Ndebele-king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes, Mashonaland 100 pounds per month
1886 Great Britain/Germany divide boundaries in East-Africa
1883 Austria-Hungary/Germany/Romania signs military treaty
1873 P. T. Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth," debuts (New York City)
1871 Philadelphia Athletics beat Chicago for 1st National Association baseball pennant
1868 John Menard of Louisiana is 1st black elected to Congress
1866 Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington Missouri ($2000)
1864 Helena, Montana's capital, founded
1862 Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun
1851 Alfred de Mussets "Bettine," premieres in Paris
1772 Captain Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown
1768 1st Methodist church in U.S. initiated (Wesley Chapel, New York City)
1739 England declares war on Spain: War of Jenkin's Ear
1697 Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Netherlands/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War
1629 King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath
1611 Gustaaf II Adolf (17) becomes king of Sweden
1534 English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope
1503 Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against indians
1493 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica
1489 Peace of Tours, between emperor Maximilian I and Flemings
1485 King Henry VII Tudor crowned "Yeomen of the Guard"
1468 Charles the Stout occupies and plunders Luik
1389 French king Charles VI visits pope Clemens VII
1270 8th and last crusade is launched
1077 German king Henry IV gives away bisdom Utrecht county Staveren
942 Alberic nominates Pope Marinus II (Martinus III)
701 John VI of Greece begins his reign as Catholic Pope

October 29 Events

2010 Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission and the Tokyo Stock Exchange conduct an insider trading investigation of Japanese companies
2010 A series of eight 3G wireless transmitters have been installed along the trail to base camps on Mount Everest, with coverage reaching the summit
2009 Oil giant Dutch Shell warns its outlook remains uncertain after reporting its quarterly profit fell by 73%
2008 Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines merge
1999 Cyclone/tidal surge kills as many as 10,000 in eastern India
1998 John Glenn returns to space at the age of 77 as a payload specialist on the Discovery
1995 "Fool Moon" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City
1995 Sunday New York News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25
1995 U.S. beats Japan, 19-17, at Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament
1994 Antonov AN-12 having an accident at Ust-Ilimsk Kaluga, 21 killed
1994 New York Lotto pays $60 million+
1994 National Museum of American Indian opens (New York City)
1993 Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86
1991 Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as New York Yankee manager
1990 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria
1989 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Nichirei Golf International
1989 New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority opens 63rd street extension to subway
1989 Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
1988 2,000 U.S. anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
1988 China announces a herbal male contraceptive
1988 Jim Elliott (U.S.) begins 24-hour paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1988 Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed)
1987 "Don't Get God Started" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 86 performances
1987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title
1986 Kirk Muller scores New Jersey Devil record 6 point, beat Penguins, 8-6
1986 Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs
1986 West Indies all out for 53 vs. Pakistan (Abdul Qadir 6-16)
1985 Cards' Joaquin Andujar suspended for 10 games for bumping an ump
1984 Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) and Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win New York Marathon
1983 Notre Dame's Gil Fenerty rushes for 337 yards and 6 touchdowns
1982 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
1982 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "Girl is Mine"
1981 Bill Giles becomes CEO of Philadelphia Phillies
1979 Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)
1979 Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1977 "Act" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 233 performances
1977 Texas' Russell Erideben kicks his 3rd 60 yard field goal of the season
1977 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1975 Boston's Fred Lynn is the overwhelming choice as AL Rookie of Year
1975 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1974 Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
1972 Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal
1972 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1970 WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, Georgia (NBC) 1st broadcast
1969 Tom Seaver voted NL Cy Young Award
1969 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R.
1967 Danny Abramowicz begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open
1967 MacDermot, Ragni and Rado's musical "Hair," premieres in New York City
1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon: 6.7 degrees N 162 degrees E
1966 National Organization of Women founded
1965 U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
1964 Bobby Simpson completes cricket century in each innings vs. Pakistan
1964 Karmi'el founded in Galilee
1964 Star of India and other jewels are stolen in New York
1964 Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee
1964 United Rep of Tanganyika and Zanzibar renamed United Rep of Tanzania
1963 "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published
1961 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16
1960 Muhammad Ali's 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6
1959 10 nation soccer league to play all games on New York Randalls Is, announced
1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1958 Dr. F. Mason Sones is 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)
1956 Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
1956 International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco
1956 Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
1955 Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours)
1955 Emile Zatopek runs world record 15 mile (1:14:01) and 25,000m (1:16:36)
1954 Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership
1954 Sweden begins experimental TV
1953 A Baltimore group purchases St. Louis Browns
1950 British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns
1950 Wally Triplett avgs 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns
1950 Cleveland Browns' Marion Motley sets record for highest avg gain in a game with 17.1 (10 attempts), Cleveland 45, Pittsburgh 7
1949 White Sox trade Joe Tipton to A's for Nellie Fox
1948 Israeli forces liberate Meron and Gush-Halev
1947 Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherland form Benelux Union
1947 Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam
1945 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented
1945 Happy Chandler, resigns as U.S. Senator, remains as baseball commish
1944 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda, Netherlands
1944 Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland
1943 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3
1942 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault
1942 Alaska highway completed
1942 Branch Rickey named president/General Manager of Brooklyn Dodgers
1942 Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union
1941 Cole Porters musical "Let's Face It," premieres in New York City
1940 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in U.S. history
1939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
1939 NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3
1932 French liner Normandie is launched
1931 Lefty Grove, A's pitcher who won 31 games, is named the AL's MVP
1930 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach
1929 Black Tuesday, Stock Market crashes triggers Great Depression
1924 "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater
1924 Labour loses British parliamentary election
1923 "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway
1923 Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon
1923 Gibbs/Grey/Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild," premieres in New York City
1923 Textile strike in Enschede, Netherlands, against lower wages, begins
1923 Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)
1920 Ed Barrow appointed General Manager of New York Yankees
1915 Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
1915 Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia
1914 Russia declares war on Turkey
1914 Turkish warships storm Black Sea
1910 Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game
1905 Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fataly injured
1904 1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City and Snyder, Texas)
1904 IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) subway (New York City) opens
1894 1st election of Hawaiian Republic
1889 New York Giants (NL) beat Brooklyn (AA) in world series 6 games to 3
1889 Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia
1889 Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
1888 Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company
1872 J. S. Risdon patents metal windmill
1867 Mail packets "Rhone" and "Wye" capsizes off St. Thomas Virgin Islands
1864 Greek parliament accept new Constitution
1863 International Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
1833 1st U.S. college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1814 "Demologos," 1st steam-powered warship, is launched
1811 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
1794 French troops occupies Venlo
1787 Opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)
1727 Severe earthquake in New England
1709 England/Netherlands sign anti-French "Barrieretraktaat"
1682 William Penn lands at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania
1591 Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX
1552 Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle
1508 Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre
439 Vandalen under Genseric occupy Carthago

October 28 Events

2010 A court settlement determines Verizon must pay $25 million to the U.S. Treasury for overcharging 15 million cell phone customers
2010 In a dispute over the use of rare earth metals, China cancels a meeting with Japan and South Korea
1997 NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league
1996 Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever
1995 Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians in 6 games in World Series
1995 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song
1994 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time
1993 Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years
1993 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns
1992 Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world!
1989 Oakland A's sweep San Francisco Giants in earthquake/BART series
1988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
1988 Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University Washington library
1986 KOB-AM in Albuquerque New Mexico changes call letters to KKOB
1986 KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM's final transmission
1985 Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka vs. Pakistan
1984 14th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30
1984 15th New York City Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53
1984 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
1982 NASA launches RCA-E
1982 Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections
1981 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
1981 New York Yankee George Frazier loses 3 World Series games
1979 Dick Howser (best Yank manager win-lost percentage .636) replaces Billy Martin
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978 Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20)
1976 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (New York Yankees)
1976 Train collision at Goes, Netherlands, 7 die
1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
1975 Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo
1974 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian and Westfall
1974 Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon)
1974 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record)
1973 Sharon Miller wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1972 "Mother Earth" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 12 performances
1971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit
1971 John and Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in New York City
1970 NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
1970 US/U.S.S.R. sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
1966 Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour
1965 630 foot high Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis
1965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion
1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
1962 New York Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Washington Redskins (49-34)
1962 Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1961 "Fiorello!" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 796 performances
1961 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for New York Mets
1959 Buffalo Bills enter AFL
1959 Jean Genet's "Les Nigres," premieres in Paris
1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII
1958 Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322)
1957 WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus
1955 Egypt and Saudi-Arabia sign defense treaty
1954 Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature
1954 Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Philadelphia syndicate
1954 N Richard Nash' "Rainmaker," premieres in New York City
1954 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway
1953 Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)
1953 Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
1952 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Women's Texas Golf Open
1951 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1949 Eugenie Anderson is 1st woman U.S. ambassador
1949 Georges Bidault elected president of France
1948 Flag of Israel is adopted
1946 German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.S.R.
1944 Russia and Bulgaria sign weapon pact
1943 U-220 sinks
1942 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
1940 Greece successfully resists Italy's attack
1940 Meeting between Hitler and Mussolini in Florence
1939 Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia
1939 Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland
1938 Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
1935 Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in New York City
1934 Brooklyn and Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game
1929 Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64
1928 Bradman scores 131 NSW vs. Queensland, 212 minutes, 14 fours
1928 Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia
1927 Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia
1927 KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Netherlands-Indies after 1st regular flight
1924 French-Russian trade agreement signed
1924 White Sox beat New York Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend
1922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government
1921 Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens
1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto
1918 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
1915 Richard Strauss' Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin
1914 German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea
1914 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
1911 Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
1906 Belgian-British "Union Minstry of Haut-Katanga" begins
1904 St. Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints
1900 After over 5 months 2nd Olympic games in Paris France, close
1894 German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg
1893 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique"
1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
1890 Last NL-AA World Series game Brooklyn ties Louisville 3 games and 1 tie
1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland
1882 Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association
1867 Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US
1864 Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends after 1554 casualties
1864 Battle of Wauhatchie, TN
1863 Battle at Wauhatchie Georgia: 865 killed or injured
1858 Macy's Department store opens in New York City
1846 Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada; 42 die
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin
1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
1776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to New Jersey
1746 Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die
1740 Ivan VI becomes czar of Russia
1646 1st Protestant church assembly for indians (Massachusetts)
1636 Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded
1628 Hugenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu
1612 Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I
1610 Thomas West baron De La Mar appointed as 1st Governor of Virginia colony
1595 Battle at Giurgevo: Zsigmond Bathory of Transylvania beats Turks
1574 Prince Willem van Orange installs university
1467 Battle at Brustem: Charles the Stoute beats the Luikenaars
1422 Charles V's son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France
1061 Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus and Pope Honorius II
969 Byzantines troops occupy Antioch Syria
312 Emperor Constantine the Great beats rivaal Maxentius
306 Mark Aurelius Valerius Maxentius proclaimed emperor of Rome

October 27 Events

2010 A free trade accord between India and Malaysia is announced; it would become effective July 2011
2010 In a BBC interview, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said it was 'impossible' for coalition forces to secure victory in Afghanistan
2004 World Series, Boston Red Sox beat Saint Louis Cardinals 4 games to 0
2002 World Series, Anaheim Angels beat San Francisco Giants 4 games to 3
1999 World Series, New York Yankees beat Atlanta Braves 4 games to 0
1997 Dow Jones crashes record 554 pts to 7161
1997 Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million
1997 Microsoft argues it should be "free from government interference"
1997 U.S. releases a redesigned $50 bill
1996 U.S. beats Japan, 21 -14, at Nichirei International Golf Tournament
1995 Contract finalizing Cleveland Browns' move to Baltimore is signed
1995 Meyrick Pringle takes cricket hat-trick in England tour game at Soweto
1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso, Texas
1992 Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies
1992 Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to Decemeber
1992 Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of Tolkien
1992 Tipper Gore (wife of future Vice President) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink
1991 "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 9 performances
1991 "Homecoming" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 49 performances
1991 John Brodie wins Security Pacific Senior Golf Classic
1991 Minn Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7
1990 "Michael Feinstein in Concert" closes at Golden New York City after 30 performances
1990 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled
1988 "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)
1988 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione and Sinatra
1987 Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections
1987 Peter Shaffer's "Lettice and Lovage," premieres in London
1987 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
1986 New York Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
1986 Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"
1985 15th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34
1985 16th New York City Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34
1985 Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
1985 Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time
1985 Hurricane Juan ravages U.S. Gulf states and east coast, 49 die
1985 Kansas City Royals beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
1985 Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's and 2 Renoir's
1984 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1984 Washington State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing
1982 China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
1982 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
1981 Andrew Young, former United Nations Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
1980 Astros owner John McMullen replaces General Manager Tal Smith with Al Rosen
1980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
1979 Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
1979 St. Vincent and Grenadines becomes independent of U.K. (National Day)
1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
1978 Begin and Sadat win Nobel Peace prize
1978 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
1977 Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped
1977 NASA launches space vehicle S-200
1975 Covers of both Time and Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen
1974 Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24)
1973 1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2
1973 Alabama sets offensive record (828 yards), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
1972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
1971 Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire
1971 Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan
1970 "Light, Lively and Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 87 performances
1969 Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen
1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders
1969 St. Vincent and Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
1968 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Golf Invitational
1967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
1967 Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada
1967 NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen
1966 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1966 U.N. deprives South Africa of Namibia
1966 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1965 WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 "Ben Franklin in Paris" opens at Lunt Fontanne New York City for 215 performances
1964 Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians
1964 Singers Sonny and Cher wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms
1963 Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW vs. Qld at Gabba
1963 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
1962 "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 673 performances
1962 Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba
1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
1961 American Basketball League starts play
1961 Outer Mongolia and Mauritania become 102nd and 103rd members of UN
1960 AL admits LA and Washington to the league
1960 Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" and "Stand By Me"
1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
1958 General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan
1958 WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey
1957 WOWL TV channel 15 in Florence, AL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Argentine peso devalued
1955 Satomi Myodo, renews Zen nun vows and takes Buddhist name of Daien Myodo
1954 B. O. Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black general in USAF
1954 President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem
1954 WISN TV channel 12 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 "My Darlin' Aida" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 89 performances
1950 Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony "Triumph of St. Joan," premieres
1948 Albert Camus' "L'etat de Siege," premieres in Paris
1948 Israel recaptures Nizzanim in Negev
1947 "You Bet Your Life," with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio
1947 WMAR TV channel 2 in Baltimore, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
1946 Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)
1945 "Carib Song" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 36 performances
1945 1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine)
1944 Hertogenbosch and Tilburg freed from nazi occupation
1944 Tito reaches free Belgrade
1942 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance
1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz
1941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
1941 Nazi's directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade
1938 DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"
1935 SDAP and NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands
1931 Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2"
1927 Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen
1925 Water skis patented by Fred Waller
1924 Uzbek SSR forms
1922 1st commemoration of Navy Day
1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws
1920 League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
1920 Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
1919 U.S. Congress sign Volstead Act
1916 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)
1914 British battleship Audacious sunk by mine
1913 President Wilson says U.S. will never attack another country
1901 1st complete performance of Debussy's "Nocturnes"
1896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
1893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Georgia and Charleston SC
1886 Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia
1884 Architect Henry Hardenberghs Dakota-complex opens in New York City
1880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday
1871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after New York Times exposed his corruption
1867 Garibaldi marches on Rome
1864 Battle of Boydton Plank Road, Virginia (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad)
1864 Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia near Richmont
1864 Battle of Newtonia, MI
1864 Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed/sinks
1864 Siege of Petersburg, VA
1863 Dutch railway to Harlingen opens
1858 RH Macy and Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106
1830 Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution)
1810 U.S. annexes West Florida from Spain
1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
1787 Federalist letters start appearing in New York newspapers
1775 U.S. Navy forms
1702 English troops plunder St. Augustine, Florida
1688 King James II fires premier Robert Spencer
1676 Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw
1662 England sells Duinkerken to France for 2.5 million livres
1651 English troops occupy Limerick Ireland
1644 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies
1627 English assault on French Il de Re
1605 Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk
1523 English troops occupy Montalidier France
1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain
625 Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

October 26 Events

2010 Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water control and utilization project, announces its water levels have reached full capacity
2010 As a result of a potential fuel pump failure, BMW recalls 150,000 of its vehicles
2009 U.S. Scientists believe to have discovered an antibody that can miminize internal bleeding in trauma victims
2000 World Series, New York Yankees beat the New York Mets 4 games to 1
1997 Bill Glasson wins Las Vegas Golf Invitational
1997 Nichirei LPGA International
1997 Raley's Gold Rush Senior Golf Classic
1997 World Series: Florida Marlins beat Cleveland Indians, 4 games to 3
1996 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Lit de Justice, Storm Song, Jewel Princess, Da Hass, Boston Harbor, Pilsudski, Alphabet Soup at Woodbine
1994 Jordan and Israel sign peace accord
1993 NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte
1993 New Jersey Devils lose 2-0 to Montreal, after winning 1st 7 games of 1993
1988 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service
1988 U.S. - Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK
1987 Dow Jones down 156.83 points
1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads
1986 "Into the Light" closes at Neil Simon Theater New York City after 6 performances
1985 On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the World Series
1984 "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days
1983 Hugh Williams' "Pack of Lies," premieres in London
1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1982 Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards
1982 U.S. budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982
1981 Los Angeles Dodgers beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 2 in 78th World Series
1980 10th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:25:41.3
1980 11th New York City Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:41
1980 St. Louis Cardinals sack Baltimore Colt quarterbacks an NFL record tying 12 times
1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1977 5th and final test of space shuttle Enterprise
1977 Dr. Clifford R Wharton, Jr. named chancellor of State University of NY
1977 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa
1976 Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic
1975 Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit U.S.
1975 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1975 Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball
1975 Mary Bea Porter wins LPGA Golf Inns of America
1974 Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cavaliers and MISL's Crunch
1973 Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army
1973 President Nixon released 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal
1973 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1973 Wings release "Helen Wheels"
1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
1972 Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam
1970 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1970 Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1969 WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston, AL (CBS) 1st broadcast
1968 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy
1968 KMIR TV channel 36 in Palm Springs, California (NBC) begins broadcastng
1968 Soyuz 3 launched
1967 Edward Brooke, born in Washington, D.C, Senator-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, first African American to be elected to the Senate
1967 Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne
1966 1st Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2
1966 U.S. aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die
1965 Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace
1965 Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang
1964 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1963 U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Fallon Nevada
1962 Beatles tape "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why"
1962 John F. Kennedy warns Russia U.S. will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba
1962 Nikita Khrushchev sends note to John F. Kennedy offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if U.S. closed its bases in Turkey offer is rejected
1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle made a flight test
1960 AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins and announces franchises in LA and Washington D.C. for 1961
1958 PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip - New York to Paris
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 U.S.S.R. fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov
1957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
1956 U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
1956 Vietnam promulgates its constitution
1955 1st edition of "Village Voice" (New York City) published
1955 British troops occupy Saudi-Arabic oil field at Boeraimi
1955 Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president
1954 Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine
1954 Walt Disney's 1st television program, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
1953 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia
1952 Pakistan's 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts vs. India
1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m and 15 miles
1951 Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister
1950 630 Dutch volunteers depart (on)to Korea
1950 Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president
1950 Mother Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India
1950 South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary
1949 President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents
1947 Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir accedes to India
1942 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
1942 4th day in battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough
1942 Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes
1941 2nd meeting partisans Tito and Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
1941 U.S. savings bonds go on sale
1939 Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service
1938 Du Pont named its new synthetic fiber "nylon"
1934 While Washington player-mgr Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson owner Clark Griffith's niece and adopted daughter, he is sold to Red Sox
1933 French government of Serraut forms
1931 Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," premieres in New York City
1930 Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "Zolotoy Vyek," premieres in Leningrad
1926 Arthur Goodrich's "Caponsacchi," premieres in New York City
1926 Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 "Belga")
1923 Dutch 2nd Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
1923 Govt-Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
1922 Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists and Benito Mussolini
1921 Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia
1919 B. C. Hilliams musical "Buddies," premieres in New York City
1919 Elgars "Cello concerto op 85" premieres in Queen's Hall London
1919 President Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden
1918 Soldier revolt at Harskamp Veluwe
1917 Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military
1916 Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1913 Huerta elected president of Mexico
1912 Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup)
1912 Woolwich Tunnel under Thames opens
1911 Philadelphia A's beat New York Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series
1905 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St. Petersburg, Russia
1905 Union of Sweden and Norway ends
1903 Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay
1901 1st use of "getaway car" occurs after holding up a shop in Paris
1900 After 4 years of work, 1st section of New York subway opens
1896 Abyssinia and Italy sign peace treaty
1894 German emperor Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg
1887 Detroit (NL) beats St. Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in World Series
1886 Modest Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain," premieres in Russia
1881 Gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona
1869 1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, New York)
1864 Union troops ambush and kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI
1863 Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game
1863 Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva
1863 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer
1861 Pony Express ends
1858 Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine
1830 Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp
1825 Erie Canal between Hudson River and Lake Erie opened
1822 King Willem I obligates inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language
1810 U.S. annexes western Florida
1795 Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and U.S. is signed, establishing southern boundary of U.S. and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi
1787 "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution
1774 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia
1774 Minute Men organized in colonies
1749 Georgia Colony reverses itself and rules slavery is legal
1682 William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York
1674 Prince Willem III occupies Grave
1667 Aru Palakka's occupies Makassar (Goa)
1662 Charles II of England sold Dunkirk to France
1534 Charles V names Joris of Egmont, bishop of Utrecht
1529 Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor
1524 Spanish troops give Milan to France
1492 Columbus' fleet anchors on Ragged Island Range, Bahamas
1492 Lead pencils 1st used
1407 Mobs attack Jewish community of Cracow
1387 Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre sign peace
1366 Comet 55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle) approaches 0.0229 AUs of Earth

October 25 Events

2010 Sony takes its original cassette Walkman off the market
2004 World Series, Florida Marlins beat the New York Yankees 4 games to 2
1996 Frank, brother of Yank manager Joe Torre, receives a heart transplant
1995 "Victor/Victoria," opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 738 performances
1994 Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them)
1993 Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead
1993 Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Quebecois wins parliamentary election
1993 Daryll Cullinan hits 337* for Transvaal, SAf 1st-class cricket record
1992 "Dancing at Lughnasa" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 421 performances
1992 "Jake's Women" closes at Neil Simon Theater New York City after 245 performances
1992 Rene Lachemann hired as Florida Marlins 1st manager
1991 Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs vs. India in cric 1-dayer at Sharjah
1990 Evander Holyfield KOs Buster Douglas in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
1988 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets
1988 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series
1986 International Red Cross ousted from South Africa
1986 Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS
1986 Trailing 5-3 with 2 out and no one on in bottom of 10th, New York rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball
1985 Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract
1985 Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
1984 "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC)
1984 Hepatitis virus is discovered
1984 King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels
1984 Rangers beat Devils 11-2
1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1984 West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption
1983 U.S. invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (U.S. Wins!)
1982 David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 minutes, SA vs. Victoria
1981 11th New York City Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe in 2:25:29
1981 12th New York City Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:08:13
1981 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missiles
1981 Allison Roe (2:25:29) and Alberto Salazar (2:08:13) win New York City marathon
1981 George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator
1980 Mike Weaver KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks and her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks
1979 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1978 Israeli Government approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace
1978 Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL)
1976 5th Enterprise, approach and lands test (ALT) flight
1975 Denv Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St. Louis Spirits
1975 U.S.S.R.'s Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing
1974 Air Force fires 1st ICBM
1974 Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad
1974 Wings release "Junior's Farm"
1973 Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship
1973 Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock and Vic Harris
1973 San Francisco Giants trade Willie McCovey to San Diego Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell
1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hour
1972 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks
1971 Belgium and China establish diplomatic relations
1971 General Meeting of United Nations agrees to admit China PR
1971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
1971 U.N. votes to expel Taiwan and admit Red China
1970 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Women's Golf Charities Open
1968 Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
1968 Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby
1966 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam
1965 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"
1964 Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies' Golf Open
1964 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1964 Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety
1963 Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas
1963 Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden
1962 110th member of United Nations admitted (Uganda)
1962 1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation
1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1962 Stevenson demands U.S.S.R. ambassador Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York City
1960 Cuba nationalizes all remaining U.S. businesses
1957 Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed
1956 White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
1955 Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938
1955 Branch Rickey steps down as General Manager of the Pirates
1955 Tappan sells 1st microwave oven
1953 Cleveland Browns' quarterback Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles
1953 Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die
1953 Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony
1953 KIEM TV channel 3 in Eureka, California (NBC/CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine "Donald Duck"
1952 French president inaugurates Donzere-Mondragonstuw Dam
1952 Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan's 1st Test century 124* vs. India
1951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom
1950 Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life
1950 Jean Anouilh's "La Repetition, ou L'Amour Pani," premieres in Paris
1950 Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia
1948 Special Council of Annulment convicts F. Weinreb for collaboration
1947 "Under the Counter" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 27 performances
1947 Bradman scores 156 for SA vs. the Indians, 152 minutes, 22 fours
1947 Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan and Fred Saigh for $4M
1946 1st trial against nazi war criminals in Neurenberg
1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek
1944 Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink
1944 Battle at Samar-island
1944 Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed
1944 Gas output stopped in Amsterdam
1943 Burma railroad completed and opens
1942 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
1942 Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins
1942 Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa
1941 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa, Ukraine
1941 Germany attacks Moscow
1941 Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia
1940 Benjamin O. Davis became 1st Black general in U.S. Army
1940 Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General
1940 Duke, Latouche and Felter's musical premieres in New York City
1940 U.S. Army General Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general
1939 George Kaufman/Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner," premieres in New York City
1939 Nylon stockings go on sale in U.S. for 1st time
1939 William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," premieres in New York City
1938 Japanese troops occupies Hankou and Wuhan
1937 Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money
1937 Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees
1935 Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel Haiti
1932 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant
1932 Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years
1930 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
1930 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
1929 Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
1926 Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach and General Manager of New York Rangers
1925 Lester Patrick takes over New York Rangers
1925 Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno
1924 "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published
1923 Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal
1918 Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die
1917 In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power
1917 Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd
1915 Atty James L. Curtis named minister of Liberia
1907 Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden
1906 U.S. inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting
1903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin
1902 Maksin Gorki's "Na dne," premieres in Moscow
1902 Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die
1900 England annexes Transvaal
1893 Battle of Shangani, Matabeleland: Dr. Jameson beats Ndebeles
1891 1st International 6 day bike race (New York MSG) ends
1885 John Brahms' 4th Symphony in E, premieres
1884 1st World Series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps New York Mets (AA) in 3
1881 Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Clanton engage in "Shootout at OK Corral"
1875 Peter Tsjaikofsky's "1st Pianoconcert up. 23" premieres in Boston
1870 Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore
1870 Postcards 1st used in U.S.
1864 Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas (Mine Creek)
1864 Skirmish at Mine Creek, KS and Turkeytown, AL
1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek, MI (Springfield)
1859 Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool, 459 die
1854 Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die
1854 Prince Menshikov of Krim occupies British base at Balaclava
1825 Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean
1812 U.S. frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
1764 John Adams marries Abigail Smith, marriage lasts 54 years
1760 George III ascends British throne
1671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn
1666 Brandenburg/Brunswick/Denmark/Netherlands form anti-French Quadruple Alliance
1621 Governor Bradford of U.S. colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day
1616 VOC-ship "The Eendracht" discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
1596 Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland
1577 Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns
1555 Emperor Karel puts son Philip II in charge of Netherlands/Naples/Milan
1521 Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam
1492 Christopher Columbus and ship Santa Maria land in Dominican Republic
1492 Columbus' fleet sites "Zandislands" (Ragged Island Range, Bahamas)
1492 Columbus' ship Santa Maria lands at Dominican Republic
1415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeat armored knight
1415 John IV van Bourgondy becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg
1241 Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241)
1147 Battle at Doryleum: Arabs beat Koenraad III's crusaders
1147 King Afonso I of Portugal occupiers Lisbon
1131 Crowning of Louis VII the Young, King of France
625 Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope

October 24 Events

2010 The first black mayor of a town in the former Eastern Bloc of Europe, Peter Bossman, becomes Mayor of Piran, Slovenia
2010 Over 250 people die as a result of the cholera outbreak in the 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak; cholera is detected for the first time in Port-au-Prince
2009 A magnitude 7.0 quake strikes off the coast of Indonesia, setting off a tsunami alert which is then withdrawn
2003 The Concorde made its last commercial flight, landing at Heathrow Airport, London
2001 Eleven die after two trucks collide, head on, in a mountain tunnel in Switzerland
1996 Hasan Raza makes Test Cricket debut for Pakistan age 14 years 238 days
1996 Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yankees win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses)
1995 Total solar eclipse in SW/S Asia (2m09s)
1994 Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed
1993 "Wonderful Tennessee" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 9 performances
1992 Toronto Blue Jays beat Atl Braves, 4 games to 2, in 88th World Series
1991 "Dancing at Lughnasa" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 421 performances
1991 Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders
1990 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1989 After a weeks delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played
1989 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 Reverend Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud
1988 New York Islander's and NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires
1988 Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released
1988 Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown
1987 NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
1986 Dodgers' Bill Russell, 38, announces his retirement
1986 Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria
1984 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested
1984 Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed
1984 Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
1982 "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." opens at St. James Theater New York City for 9 performances
1982 12th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14
1982 13th New York City Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29
1980 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar
1980 John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in the United Kingdom
1980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
1979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy
1979 Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc
1978 Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto
1978 NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs New York Islanders
1976 1st Jewish film and TV festival
1976 6th New York City Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11
1976 7th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10
1976 Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader
1976 Sadiq and Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings vs. New Zealand
1975 Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris
1974 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers)
1973 Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on New Jersey Turnpike
1973 John Lennon sues U.S. government to admit FBI is tapping his phone
1973 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
1971 Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yards)
1971 Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21
1970 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
1969 Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together
1965 Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today," premieres
1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
1964 "Cambridge Circus" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 23 performances
1964 18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan
1964 Belgian para's liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville
1964 Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zaire
1964 Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1964 Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla scores 166 on Cricket debut vs. Australia
1964 Test Cricket debut of Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan and Khalid Ibadulla vs. Australia
1963 "110 in the Shade" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 330 performances
1963 KRO shows 1st Bonanza
1963 Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award
1961 "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden New York City for 55 performances
1960 Disaster on U.S.S.R. (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin and team (165 die-unconfirmed); U.S.S.R. claims killed in plane crash
1959 U.S. premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert
1958 U.S.S.R. lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam
1956 AP names Cincinnati manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year
1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes Prime Minister of Hungary
1953 KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, Arizona (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 Arab Liberation Movement becomes only party of Syria
1951 Jan de Hartog's "4 Poster," premieres in New York City
1951 United Nation publishes its 1st postage stamps
1948 Bernard M. Baruch introduces term "Cold War"
1948 Francis Poulenc's "Sinfonietta," premieres
1948 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis
1948 WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1947 Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States)
1946 Netherlands and Indonesia sign cease fire
1945 France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%)
1945 U.N. charter comes into effect
1944 Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners
1944 U.S. air raid on Japanese battleships/cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks
1944 U.S. aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines
1944 U.S. Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte
1943 Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
1942 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry
1940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
1940 Hitler meets Marshal Petain
1940 Japan eliminates U.S. terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
1940 Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants
1939 Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"
1939 Joe DiMaggio wins AL MVP, Jimmie Foxx is runner-up
1939 Nazi require wearing of star of David
1939 Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)
1938 U.S. forbids child labor in factories
1935 Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs manager Charlie Grimm and Chicago players W English, B Jurges and B Herman for actions in World Series
1933 Langston Hughes' "Mulatto," premieres in New York City
1932 British government signs trade treaty with U.S.S.R.
1931 Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion
1931 George Washington Bridge connecting New York to New Jersey opens
1929 "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
1929 Ruby Vallee's Fleishmann Hour begins broadcasting on NBC radio
1929 Belgium princess Marie-Jose and Italian crown prince Umberto gets engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails
1924 Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing
1924 Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven
1923 General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship
1922 German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925
1922 Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State
1917 Battle at Caporetto: German and Austria smash Italian army
1916 Moroccan troops capture Ft. Douaumont
1913 Joe Tinker fired as Cincinnati Reds manager
1911 Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
1908 Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game"
1904 1st New York subway opens
1903 1st trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1)
1903 George Sutton becomes billard champ
1901 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
1900 General Redvers Buller returns to England
1899 Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army
1889 Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
1885 Johann Strauss' opera "Zigeunerbaron," premieres in Vienna
1881 Levi P. Morton, U.S. ambas to France drives 1st rivet in Stat of Liberty
1871 Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese
1861 1st transcontinental telegram sent ending Pony Express
1861 West Virginia seceded from Virginia
1857 World's 1st soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in England
1856 Constitution of South Australia adopted
1851 William Lassell discovers Ariel and Umbriel, satellites of Uranus
1836 A. Phillips patents match
1818 Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his 1st public concert (Berlin)
1795 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia
1681 Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London
1656 Treaty of Vilnius: Russia and Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant
1648 Treaty of Westphalia ends 30 year war and Holy Roman Empire
1648 Switzerland's independence recognized
1596 Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary and Germany
1531 Bavaria joins Schmalkaldische Union
1492 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany

October 23 Events

2010 The U.N. compound in Herat, western Afghanistan, is attacked by a suicide bomber
2010 If trends in diet and exercise continue, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project estimate 1 in 3 adult Americans will have diabetes by 2050
1997 "Triumph of Love," opens at Royale Theater New York City
1997 At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a black out
1997 Dow Jones drops 186.88 pts
1997 Les Alexander, owner of Houston Rockets buys NHL's Edmonton Oilers
1996 New York Yankees set record by coming back from 6-0 in World Series game to beat Atlanta Braves 8-6, also set record of 7th straight road win
1994 3rd Solheim Cup: U.S. beats Europe, 13-7 at Greenbrier WV
1993 7 killed by IRA-bomb attack in Belfast
1993 Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara Kashmir
1993 Tor Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2, in 89th World Series
1991 "Les Miserables," opens at Mogador Theatre, Paris
1991 Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1991 Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
1990 Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1989 Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
1989 George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976 - 1989" album
1989 Hungary proclaims itself a republic and declares communist rule ended
1989 U.S. 62nd manned space mission STS-34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
1989 William Nicholson's "Shadowlands," premieres in London
1988 Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid
1988 Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by U.S. Senate
1987 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
1984 NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
1984 STS-51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1983 13th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:00
1983 14th New York City Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59
1983 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile
1983 Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 241 U.S. personnel in Beirut
1980 "Tintypes" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 93 performances
1980 McCosker (168) and Dyson (152) make 319 opening stand cricket, NSW vs. WA
1980 Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness
1979 Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minnesota marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches
1978 CBS raises LP prices to $8.98
1978 China and Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension
1978 Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in New York City
1977 7th New York City Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:43:10
1977 8th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38
1977 Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties
1977 Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 3.4-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered
1975 Battle between Cuba and South Africa troops in Angola
1975 Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0
1974 Cubs trade Billy Williams to A's for Manny Trillo, Knowles and Locker
1974 Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation dedicated
1973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1973 UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1973 Yankee General Manager and President Lee MacPhail named AL president
1972 "Pippin" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 1944 performances
1972 Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain
1972 WNJS TV channel 23 in Camden, New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida (ABC) begins
1970 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph)
1969 "Jimmy" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 84 performances
1968 "Maggie Flynn" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 82 performances
1968 Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 minutes 34.9 seconds)
1967 "Henry, Sweet Henry" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 80 performances
1967 New Jersey Americans (later NY/New Jersey Nets) play 1st ABA game
1966 Sandra Spuzich/Jack Rule wins Haig and Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome Golf
1964 Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
1964 Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time
1963 Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," premieres in New York City
1962 Adlai Stevenson speaks at United Nations about Cuba crisis
1962 USAF Major Robert A. Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800m
1962 WCIV TV channel 4 in Charleston, South Carolina (NBC) begins broadcasting
1961 "Kwamina" opens at 54th St. Theater New York City for 32 performances
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1959 Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
1958 De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave"
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1958 U.S.S.R. lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
1957 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1956 Revolt against Stalinist policies begins in Hungary
1955 Dominican League moves to winter baseball for 1st time
1954 Britain, England, France and U.S.S.R. agree to end occupation of Germany
1954 West Germany joins NATO
1954 Pakistan governor-general Ghoelan Mohammed disbands parliament
1954 WSAU TV channel 7 in Wausau, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 France grants Laos' sovereignty
1953 West Germany applies to NATO
1953 WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville, WV (CBS) 1st broadcast
1947 NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN
1947 Husband and wife Dr. Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes
1946 U.N. General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st New York City-Flushing Meadows)
1945 Jackie Robinson signs Montreal Royal contract
1944 1st Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam
1944 Gulf of Leyte battle begin
1944 Soviet army invades Hungary
1944 Vice-Admiral Kurita's sailboat Atago sinks
1943 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau
1943 Burma railway opens
1942 1st ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk
1942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1942 German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad
1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
1935 Gabby Hartnett selected NL MVP
1935 Johnny Revolta wins PGA golf tournament
1934 Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341 m (rec)
1932 "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
1932 Pieter G. Marais, South Africa minister of Education/Development aid
1927 Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan Strauss
1923 Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform
1923 Giants defeat Baltimore Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day
1922 Channing Pollock's "Fool," premieres in New York City
1922 Conservative A Bonar forms new government in England
1921 Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis
1921 Leos Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova," premieres in Brno
1920 Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal
1919 Romberg and Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in New York City
1918 Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris (17)
1917 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st U.S. shot in WW I
1917 Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin and Trotsky
1915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 25,000 women march in New York City, demanding right to vote
1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
1910 Philadelphia A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series
1910 Ritz Hotel in Madrid opens: 200 chambers/100 bathtubs
1905 Edward Milton Royle's "Squaw Man," premieres in New York City
1893 C Dazey's "In Old Kentucky" premieres in New York City (27 seasons)
1890 Opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St. Petersburg)
1888 Pelham Bay Park in Bronx, vested
1886 St. Louis Browns win World Championship by beating Chicago 4-3 in 10
1884 1st World Series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats New York Mets (AA) 6-0
1876 New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
1871 Columbia and Sappho (U.S.) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup
1864 Battle of Westport, Missouri
1864 Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price
1854 The Times give precise British positions in Krim
1853 Maastricht-Aken railway in Netherlands opens
1824 1st steam locomotive is introduced
1814 1st plastic surgery is performed (England)
1812 Failed coup against emperor Napoleon
1805 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
1775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1760 1st Jewish prayer books printed in U.S.
1702 Battle in Bay of Vigo: Netherlands/English fleet destroy Spanish/French fleet
1690 Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking
1684 Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted
1681 French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg
1679 Meal Tub Plot against James II of England
1668 Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade
1644 Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Admiral Thijssen beats Denen
1642 Battle at Edgeville (Warwick): King Charles I vs English parliament
1588 Medina Sidonia's Spanish Armada returns to Santander
1520 King Carlos I crowned, German emperor Charles V
1229 Otto II becomes earl of Gelre
1086 Battle of Zalaka: Alfonso VI vs Almoravids
787 Byzantine empress Irene recovers Iconclastic cult at Nicaea
585 Burgundy king Guntram opens synod of Macon (Mastico)

October 22 Events

2010 The fourth named cyclone of the 2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Cyclonic Storm Giri, lands in western Burma with winds of 144mph
2010 In Uganda, 20 people die and 20,000 people are sickened by an outbreak of jiggers
1997 Cleveland Marquis Grissom World Series hitting streak ends after 15 games
1997 Coldest World Series game Marlins vs Cleveland (38 degrees F)
1997 Yahoo completes purchase of Four11
1997 New York Ranger Wayne Gretsky wife Janet is knocked unconcious and gets 2 stitches while watching the game as a plexiglass falls on her
1997 2nd longest 9 inning World Series game (4:12) as Marlins and Indians were tied 7-7 going into the 9th, Mariners win 14-11
1997 Compaq testifies Microsoft threaten to break Windows 95 agreement if they showcased a Netscape icon
1996 New York Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season home run, as Yankees tie record of 6th straight post season road win (en route to 8)
1995 "Swinging On a Star" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 97 performances
1994 "Philadelphia, Here I Come" closes at Criterion New York City after 52 performances
1994 Statue of Sam Houston unveiled in Texas
1994 Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (53,832 km)
1993 Actor James Coburn (65) weds Paula Murad (37)
1993 Cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk
1992 Atlanta, becomes 1st U.S. team to win a World Series game out of US
1992 Space Shuttle STS-52 (Columbia 13) launches into space
1992 Wendy Wasserstein's "Sisters Rosensweig," premieres in New York City
1991 General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion
1989 Denver Nuggets beat Jugoplastika Split 135-129 in 3rd McDonald Open
1989 Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia
1988 Elton John sells out MSG for a record 26th time
1988 Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery
1987 "Cabaret" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 262 performances
1987 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky
1986 "Into the Light" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City for 6 performances
1985 Bret Saberhagen gives Kansas City Royals their 1st World Series win
1984 NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires
1984 Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack
1982 Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels
1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified
1981 Start of 1st-class game at Newcastle, NSW vs. Queensland
1981 U.S. national debt tops $1 trillion
1981 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1980 4th government of Martens forms in Belgium
1980 New South Korean constitution comes into effect
1979 "One Mo' Time" with Vernel Bagners premieres in New York City
1979 Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in New York for medical treatment
1979 Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest
1978 "King of Hearts" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 48 performances
1978 8th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:32:30
1978 9th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:12:12
1978 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Houston Exchange Golf Classic Clubs
1978 Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8)
1978 Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession
1978 Pope John Paul II installed
1977 International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 and 2 launched into Earth orbit
1976 Rick Barry (SF), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
1975 "Me and Bessie" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 453 performances
1975 Cincinnati Reds beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 72nd World Series
1975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus
1975 Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna
1975 World Football League disbands
1974 Yankees trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds
1973 Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon
1973 Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War
1972 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA GAC Golf Classic
1972 Oakland A's 1st championship; beat Reds, 4 games to 3 in World Series
1971 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1969 KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara, California changes call letters to KDB-AM
1969 Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death
1968 Apollo 7 returns to Earth
1967 17th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 23 -8 at Champions Golf Club Texas
1967 Joe DiMaggio is hired as executive Vice President of A's by Charlie Finley
1967 Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA Carlsbad Jaycee Golf Open
1966 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon
1964 EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers," they go on to become The Who
1964 French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize
1964 U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss
1963 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
1962 John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba
1962 John F. Kennedy imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
1962 John F. Kennedy receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote
1962 Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1961 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights and Flemish language in Belgium
1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Golf Civitan
1960 Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer
1959 "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 448 performances
1959 Bob Merrill's musical "Take me Along," premieres in New York City
1957 Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany
1957 KJAC TV channel 4 in Port Arthur-Beaumont, Texas (NBC) 1st broadcast
1956 France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella
1956 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1955 WWNY TV channel 7 in Carthage-Watertown, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization
1953 Laos gains full independence from France
1951 Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed
1951 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1950 Los Angeles Rams beat Baltimore Colts 70-27
1949 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland
1949 Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:21.2)
1948 Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel
1946 2 British ships sink near Albania
1944 Kurita's Vice-Admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo
1942 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
1942 U.S. General Clark and Lemnitzer and French General Mast meet secretly in Algeria
1941 Maxwell Anderson's "Candle in the Wind," premieres in New York City
1939 1st TV NFL game-Eagles vs Dodgers
1938 Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine
1936 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii
1935 18th PGA Championship: Johnny Revolta at Twin Hills CC Oklahoma City
1933 Primo Carnera beats Paulin in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1932 Charles de Broqueville becomes premier of Belgium
1932 George Kaufman and Edna Ferbers "Dinner at 8," premieres in New York City
1930 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
1930 Blake and Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930," premieres in New York City
1930 South Carolina Genemuiden soccer team forms
1929 French government of Briand falls
1929 James H. Scullin forms Australia government
1928 China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants
1928 ESL Robinson's "Far-Off Hills," premieres in Dublin
1928 President Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
1922 Lucerne Street in Bronx named
1922 Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera
1913 Explosion at Dawson New Mexico coal mine kills 263 mine workers
1907 Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum and Bailey circus
1906 3,000 blacks demonstrate and riot in Philadelphia
1904 Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship
1899 British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa
1897 World's 1st car dealer opens in London
1895 David Belasco's "Heart of Maryland," premieres in New York City
1885 John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players, 1st baseball union
1884 General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi
1884 Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds New York City to determine baseball champion
1883 1st New York Horse Show held (Madison Square Garden)
1883 Original Metropolitan Opera House (New York City) grand opening (Faust)
1881 Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its 1st concert
1875 Sons of American Revolution organizes
1868 Jacques Offenbach's opera "Genevieve de Brabant," premieres in New York City
1862 Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory
1862 Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
1861 1st telegraph line linking West and East coasts completed
1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of Republic of Texas
1819 1st ship sails by Erie-channel (Rome-Utica)
1812 Duke of Wellington seizes Burgos Spain
1799 Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition
1797 1st sky diver (Andre-Jacques Trim, above Paris)
1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris)
1746 Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter
1721 Czar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator"
1708 Great Alliance occupies Rijsel
1335 Ex-emperor Hanazono became a Zen priest