The notorious Skandalkonzert is listed on Wikipedia's front page in honor of its anniversary.

 

27 January 1944 End of Leningrad Blockade

 

27-01-2020



Today, world leaders and other dignitaries will remember the liberation of Auschwitz 75 years ago.
That horrible place where all those innocent people are murdered and burned by the nazi's
Never to be forgotten.

 

January 7th 2015 was the day of that terrible attack on the magazine: Charlie Hebdo in France.

 

April 23: 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death

http://time.com/4304578/shakespeare-english-langugae-400th-anniversary-death/

 

April 23: 125th birthday of Sergei Prokofiev

http://rbth.com/arts/music/2016/04/23/sergei-prokofiev-the-composer-who-fled-the-ussr-for-the-us-and-back_587181

 

October 20

Note to gentle readers and contributors. Due to the risk of repeating
myself, this will be my last edition of On This Day. It will be one year
tomorrow, since I began as contributor. In the decision to stay on as
"gleaner of history", I must say it's been a pleasurable learning journey. I
hope others can see fit to carry on this tradition started by KenOC.

Farewell,
Your Historymeister.

1097 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch (First Crusade).
1603 - Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed.
1634 - English King Charles I disbands new "Ship Money" tax.
1714 - Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as English King George I.
1740 - Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia.
1786 - Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US.
1803 - US Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase.
1813 - German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished.
1817 - First Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage.
1818 - 49th parallel forms as border between US & Canada.
1818 - US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country.
1820 - Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million.
1822 - 1st edition of London Sunday Times.
1873 - P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth," opens
(NYC).
1877 - Schubert Symphony 2 premieres.
1883 - Bruch's "Kol Nidre," first performed.
1903 - US wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska and Canada.
1910 - First appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series. Much
later, cork would be in illegal bats.
1926 - Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600.
1934 - Richard Strauss completes "Die Schweigsame Frau".
1939 - "All the Things You Are" recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
1945 - Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens the Nuremberg Nazi war
crime trials.
1955 - Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song).
1955 - Publication of "The Return of the King", the 3rd and final volume of
"The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien by George Allen and Unwin in
London.
1960 - First fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI.
1963 - Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds.
1964 - Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested).
1965 - Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday".
1971 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
1973 - OPEC oil embargo begins.
1973 - QE II opens Sydney Opera House. See pic.
1973 - Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox.
1979 - JFK Library dedicated in Boston.
1982 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler.
1984 - The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.
1986 - Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa.
1987 - 10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near
Indianapolis.
1991 - 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die.
1991 - Formal opening ceremony of International One Mind Zen Center in
Crestone, CO.
1997 - US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on
computers.

 

October 19

1216 - King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his
nine-year-old son Henry.
1722 - Frenchman C Hopffer patents fire extinguisher.
1812 - Napoleon's forces begin their retreat from Moscow.
1845 - Wagner's "Tannhäuser," premieres in Dresden.
1856 - James Kelly & Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne.
1859 - Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope.
1872 - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales.
1901 - Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March," premieres in Liverpool.
1914 - US post office first used an automobile to collect & deliver mail.
1919 - First Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman.
1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is
isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1952 - Alain Bombard departs from the Canary Islands on his solitary journey
across the Atlantic ocean with almost no provisions and only a sextant for
navigation to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive.
1957 - "Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,022
performances.
1957 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals.
1963 - Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
1969 - 20th Formula 1 WDC: Jackie Stewart wins by 26 points.
1971 - Last issue of "Look" magazine is published. See pic.
1975 - "Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 6137 performances.
1976 - US President Gerald Ford signs first major revision of copyright law
since 1909.
1977 - Supersonic Concorde jet's first landing in NYC.
1987 - "Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 804 performances.
2001 - SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island,
carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters with the loss
of 353 people.
2003 - Mother Teresa of Calcutta is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2005 - Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record
with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
2013 - 11 people are killed after a plane crashes in Namur, Belgium.
2014 - A working human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem
cells in the United States.

 

October 18

1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is
completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks
the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1356 - Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event
north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland.
1622 - French King Louis XIII & Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier.
1685 - French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of
French Protestants.
1752 - Premiere of Rousseau's "Le Devin du Village".
1767 - Boundary between MD & PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon.
1776 - In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail".
1855 - Franz Liszt's "Prometheus," premieres.
1867 - US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million).
1869 - Henrik Ibsen's "De Unges Forbund," premieres in Christiania (Oslo).
1873 - Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers, and Yale set rules for college
football.
1878 - Edison makes electricity available for household use.
1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity".
1892 - First commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY).
1904 - Mahler Symphony 5 premieres in Cologne.
1910 - E. M. Forster publishes "Howards End".
1918 - Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1922 - British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded (later called British
Broadcasting Corporation).
1929 - Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
1946 - Copland's Symphony 3 premieres.
1954 - Texas Instruments Inc. announces the first transistor radio.
1955 - University of California discovers anti-proton.
1961 - "West Side Story", the film adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical,
starring Natalie Wood, is released (Best Picture 1962).
1962 - Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for
Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA.
1967 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe.
1967 - Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released.
1968 - Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas. See pic.
1969 - Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners.
1973 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief.
1976 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr.
2012 - Google stock trading is suspended after a premature release of a
quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share
price.

 

October 17

1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by
Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for
eleven years.
1651 - Future King Charles II flees from England.
1662 - Charles II of Great Britain sells Dunkirk to France for 2.5 million
livres (320,000 English pounds).
1814 - London Beer Flood occurs in London killing nine.
1831 - Mendelssohn's 1st Piano Concerto 1 in G, premieres.
1860 - 1st British Golf Open: Willie Park Sr. shoots 164 at Prestwick Club,
Scotland.
1878 - After serving as the opposition for five years, John A. Macdonald is
re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada.
1885 - Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season.
Minimum salary now, $507,500.
1904 - Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors.
1907 - Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic
wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden,
Ireland.
1919 - Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created.
1931 - Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison.
1933 - Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany.
1956 - England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens.
1956 - "Around the World in 80 Days", based on the book by Jules Verne,
directed by Michael Anderson and starring David Nivon and Cantinflas
premieres in NYC.
1957 - French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature.
1961 - NYC Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down, and
it wasn't corrected until December 3rd. See pic.
1967 - "Hair" premieres on Broadway.
1972 - Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is #1.
1977 - Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament.
1984 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield.
1985 - French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature.
1986 - US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal
aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982.
1987 - First indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome).
1988 - 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome.
1989 - Earthquake in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of World Series, kills 67.
1996 - "Taking Sides," opens at Atkinson Theater NYC.
2000 - Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of
Railtrack.
2003 - The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor
skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in
Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest
highrise.
2006 - The United States population reaches 300 million.

 

October 16

1492 - Columbus' fleet anchors at "Fernandina" (Long Island, Bahamas).
1710 - British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia.
1813 - Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's
forces defeated by Prussia, Austria & Russia.
1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster
(parliament) in London is burnt down.
1847 - Charlotte Brontë's book "Jane Eyre" published.
1869 - Hotel in Boston becomes first to have indoor plumbing.
1875 - Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1912 - Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," premieres.
1923 - Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded.
1925 - Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution.
1942 - Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC.
1950 - The first edition of C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe" is released in London.
1956 - "Love Me Tender" with Elvis premieres.
1958 - Britten's "Nocturne," premieres.
1963 - Two secret US military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral.
1967 - Joan Baez & 123 other anti-draft protestors arrested in Oakland. See
pic.
1969 - 100-1 shot NY Mets beat Baltimore Orioles to win 66th World Series.
1970 - Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act as a response to the
October Crisis, the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act in Canadian
history.
1976 - Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec.
1978 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon.
1983 - 25th Ryder Cup: US, 14½-13½ at PGA National Golf Club (Palm Beach
Gardens, Florida, US).
1985 - Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
1986 - US government closes down due to budget problems.
1994 - Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), suffers a stroke.
1996 - 84 killed, 180 injured, as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze
into 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores, Guatemala City.
1998 - Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London
on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
2005 - 56th Formula 1 WDC: Fernando Alonso wins by 21 points.
2013 - The United States ends its 16-day government shut down and avoids
default in a Bi-partisan deal in the Senate.
2013 - 49 killed, after Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes in the Mekong River,
Laos.
2013 - 18 killed, after Typhoon Wipha strikes Japan.

 

October 15

1520 - King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall.
1581 - Commissioned by Catherine De Medici, the 1st ballet "Ballet Comique
de la Reine", is staged in Paris.
1764 - Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple
of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1815 - Napoleon arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile.
1863 - Cliff House opens in SF (first of many on site).
1866 - Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses.
1878 - Edison Electric Light Company incorporated.
1881 - First American fishing magazine, The American Angler published.
1905 - Debussy's "La Mer" premieres.
1917 - A Parisian dancer Mata Hari is executed for espionage by the French
Government after being convicted of passing military secrets to Germany.
1919 - 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money.
1932 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
1937 - Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not" published.
1939 - LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC.
1940 - "The Great Dictator", a satiric social commentary film by and
starring Charlie Chaplin, is released.
1949 - Billy Graham begins his ministry.
1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesized the first oral
contraceptive.
1954 - Hurricane Hazel strikes US & Canada, 348 die.
1964 - Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph.
1966 - Australia bans Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself" as "terribly
obscene".
1966 - LBJ signs a bill creating US Dept of Transportation.
1969 - 3rd Country Music Association Award: Johnny Cash & Tammy Wynette win.
1970 - Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35.
1974 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules).
1980 - George Brett is forced out of World Series with hemorrhoids. Owie.
1980 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein.
1981 - Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is thought
to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California. See pic.
1984 - Central Intelligence Agency Information Act passes.
1985 - Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani.
1987 - The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
1992 - NYC Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of
5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train.
2003 - The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi collides with a pier
at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and
injuring 43. Public transit ain't fo' sissies in NY.
2011 - Legoland Florida (the world's largest Legoland theme park) opens in
Winter Haven, Florida.

 

October 14

1066 - Battle of Hastings, Duke William of Normandy and Norman army defeat
English forces of Harold II.
1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at
Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1586 - Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth.
1884 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
1924 - Schoeberg's "Die Gluckliche Hand" premieres in Vienna.
1926 - AA Milne's book "Winnie the Pooh" released. See pic.
1934 - "Lux Radio Theatre" premieres.
1953 - Belgian Convair crashes at Frankfurt, 44 die.
1953 - Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment.
1957 - Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1.
1957 - QE II becomes the first monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with
the Speech from the Throne.
1960 - Peace Corps first suggested by JFK.
1961 - "How to Succeed in Business" opens at 46th St NYC for 1415 perfs.
1962 - US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba.
1964 - MLK announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1964 - Philips begins experimenting with color TV.
1968 - Beatles "White Album" completed.
1968 - A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, and also
ruptured all major roads and railways nearby.
1969 - The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing
the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of currency decimalisation in 1971.
1970 - 4th Country Music Association Award: Merle Haggard wins.
1975 - Pres Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside.
1979 - 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy.
1982 - President Reagan proclaims war against drugs. How about guns?
1986 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Elie Wiesel (against violence/racism).
1988 - Naguib Mahfouz is first Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize.
1994 - Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin & Shimon Peres.
2001 - 52nd Formula 1 WDC: Michael Schumacher wins by 58 points.
2013 - Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller win the 2013
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on asset prices.
2014 - World Health Organisation announce Ebola virus death toll at 4,447,
and the fatality rate has reached 70%.

 

October 13

54 - Nero suceeds Claudius to become Roman Emperor.
1501 - Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente.
1710 - English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia).
1773 - The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier.
1792 - "Old Farmer's Almanac" is first published.
1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of Executive Mansion (White House).
1860 - First aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston. See pic.
1870 - Gustav Mahler (age 10) gives his first public piano concert.
1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude.
1885 - The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in
Atlanta, Georgia.
1896 - First public screening of a motion picture in New Zealand.
1903 - Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland" premieres in NYC.
1950 - "All About Eve" directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Bette
Davis and Anne Baxter premieres (Best Picture 1951).
1953 - Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno.
1955 - 1st edition of L'express publishes in Paris.
1962 - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen.
1963 - "Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium.
1972 - Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die.
1972 - Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountains, (passengers eat
crash victims to survive, 16 of 45 rescued 2 months later).
1976 - A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
1976 - The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained
by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C..
1982 - IOC Executive Committee approves the reinstatement of Jim Thorpe's
gold medals from the 1912 Olympics.
1983 - Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US
cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
1984 - John Henry becomes first thoroughbred/gelding to win $6 million.
1988 - Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth,
is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages.
1990 - First Russian Orthodox service in over 70 years held in St Basil's
Cathedral.
1993 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith.
1993 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor.
1994 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe.
1995 - Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
1997 - Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH.
2008 - HM Treasury infused £37 billion ($64 billion, 47 billion euros) of
new capital-bailout into Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Lloyds TSB and
HBOS Plc, to avert a financial sector collapse.
2010 - The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as
all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days
underground awaiting rescue.
2012 - Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild sells for $34 million, the highest
sold artwork by a living artist.
2013 - 109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in Datia district,
Madhya Pradesh, India.

 

October 12

1216 - King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably
near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge.
1504 - Queen Isabella I of Spain signs her testament.
1509 - Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy.
1609 - Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice" published in London.
1773 - America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and
Disordered Minds' in Virginia.
1775 - US Navy forms.
1822 - Second eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain.
1823 - Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs).
1850 - First women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns),
opens.
1859 - Self-proclaimed Emperor of the USA, Emperor Norton issues edit
abolishing the US Congress.
1886 - Hurricane and sea surge kills 250 at Indianola TX.
1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 2nd Stain".
1891 - Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated.
1900 - The first modern submarine is commissioned by the U.S.Navy as the USS
Holland, named for its designer John Philip Holland.
1901 - Theodore Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion," "The White House".
1915 - Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford manufactures its 1 millionth
Model T automobile.
1920 - Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting NJ & NYC.
1920 - Man O'War's last race & win.
1928 - First use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital).
1933 - Gangster George Francis Barnes, aka Machine Gun Kelly, is sentenced
to life imprisonment.
1935 - Cole Porters musical "Jubilee," premieres in NYC.
1950 - "Call Me Madam" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 644 performances.
1955 - Hurricane Hazel, kills 68 in Haiti.
1960 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN
General Assembly session.
1962 - Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with
record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages.
1966 - Jimi Hendrix Experience forms with Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding & Mitch
Mitchell. See pic.
1970 - Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East.
1971 - "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 711 perfs.
1977 - Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van.
1985 - Intl Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize.
1986 - QEII and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic
of China.
1991 - Boxer Hector Comacho arrested for driving while getting oral sex.
1991 - Wrestler Rip Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush.
1992 - 5.8 earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die).
1992 - Microwave Observing Project begins (seeking alien life).
1994 - Iranian Fokker F28 explodes between Isfahan & Teheran: 66 killed.
2003 - 54th Formula 1 WDC: Michael Schumacher wins by two points.
2005 - The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi
Jùnlóng and Niè Haishèng for five days in orbit.
2012 - The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, sparking a series
of critical commentary.
2013 - 50 people are killed after a truck veers of a cliff in La Convencion
Province, Peru.
2013 - 15 people are killed by a series of explosions in a fireworks factory
in Vietnam.

 

October 11

1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria.
1521 - Pope Leo X titles King Henry VIII of England "Defender of the Faith".
1737 - Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India.
1852 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is
inaugurated in Sydney.
1871 - Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed.
1881 - David Houston patents roll film for cameras.
1887 - A Miles patents elevator.
1890 - Daughters of American Revolution founded. See 1892 pic.
1902 - 8th US Golf Open: Laurie Auchterlonie shoots a 307 at Garden City NY.
1918 - Major Tsumani shakes Caribbean.
1922 - First woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson).
1929 - Sean O'Casey's "Silver Tassle" premieres in London.
1929 - JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a
nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1939 - Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb.
1950 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license
to broadcast television in color, to CBS.
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia. Thanks,
mate.
1960 - Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die).
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" premieres on NBC with George Carlin as host.
1981 - Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum.
1982 - English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France
in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England.
1983 - Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone
customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial.
1984 - First space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan).
1990 - Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature.
1991 - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute.
1994 - Nobel Prize in economics is awarded to John Harsanyi, John Nash and
Reinhard Selten for their "pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory
of non-cooperative games".
2001 - The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
2012 - A US appeal court overturns a district court ruling banning the sale
of Samsung.
2012 - Mo Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for
Literature.
2013 - 10 people are killed and a hospital fire in Fukuoka prefecture,
Japan.
2013 - 27 people are killed after a migrant boat sinks in the Channel of
Sicily.
2013 - The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the
2013 Nobel Peace Prize.

 

October 10

1375 - Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands.
1695 - King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England.
1780 - Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean, hitting
Barbados first. Atlantic's deadliest recorded hurricane.
1845 - Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis.
1865 - John Hyatts patents billard ball.
1868 - First written account of a Canadian football game.
1868 - Cuba revolts for independence against Spain.
1886 - First dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY.
1888 - Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run PA).
1892 - Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan.
1899 - IR Johnson patents bicycle frame.
1902 - American outlaw Tom Horn's murder trial begins, and he is eventually
found guilty and sentenced to death.
1913 - British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136
killed).
1916 - In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the first owner to raise the price
of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3.
1931 - William Waltons "Belshazzar's Feast" premieres in Leeds.
1933 - First synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale.
1935 - George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway NYC.
1938 - Premier of Shostakovich String Quartet 1.
1954 - 1st National Film Awards (India): "Shyamchi Aai" wins the Golden
Lotus.
1957 - A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, UK becomes the
world's first major nuclear accident.
1959 - Pan Am begins regular flights around the world.
1960 - 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in
Toledo.
1960 - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die.
1961 - "Milk & Honey" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 543 performances.
1963 - "From Russia With Love" second James Bond film based on a novel by
Ian Fleming, starring Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi, premieres in London.
1963 - Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die.
1965 - "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the first
known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson. See
pic.
1973 - US Vice President Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and
resigns.
1978 - US Congress approves Dollar coin honoring women's suffrage campaigner
Susan B. Anthony.
1980 - 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria.
1986 - 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador.
1993 - Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed.
1994 - Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell.
1995 - Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics.
1997 - An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin,
Uruguay, killing 74.
2008 - Singapore becomes the first Asian country to slip into a recession
since the credit crisis began: growth has faltered as a result of less
demand for exports, a reduction in tourism, and the end of the real-estate
boom.
2012 - Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for work on G protein-coupled receptors.
2013 - Alice Munro is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature.
2014 - Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace
Prize.

 

October 9

1000 - Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly L'Anse aux Meadows,
Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America.
1192 - Richard I of England, the Lion Heart, leaves Jerusalem in disguise.
1651 - English parliament passes Navigation Act.
1837 - Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100.
1855 - Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor.
1870 - Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree.
1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail-order business.
1876 - First 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires.
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Red-Headed League".
1900 - 8.3 magnitude earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska.
1926 - NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms.
1938 - Aaron Copland's & Eugene Loring's ballet "Billy the Kid" premieres in
Chicago.
1946 - First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50.
1946 - Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" premieres in NYC.
1947 - First telephone conversation between a moving car and a plane.
1961 - US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police.
1963 - Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die.
1966 - Rolling Stones first LP recorded "Got Live if you Want It".
1980 - First consumer use of home banking by computer by United American
Bank in Knoxville TN.
1985 - "Tango Argentino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 perfs. See pic.
1986 - "Phantom of the Opera" premeires in London.
1989 - 23rd Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Kathy Mattea
win.
1989 - Penthouse Magazine's Hebrew edition hits newstands. Oy!
1997 - Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico.
1999 - The last flight of the SR-71.
2012 - Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics
for work on quantum optics.
2013 - Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel win the 2013 Nobel
Prize in chemistry for their work on multiscale models for complex chemical
systems.
2014 - Patrick Modiano wins the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2014 - Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola
virus.

 

October 8

1075 - Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia.
1085 - San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated.
1604 - Supernova "Kepler's nova" first sighted.
1769 - Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand (Poverty Bay).
1806 - British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve
rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve.
1818 - Two English boxers are first to use padded gloves.
1873 - First women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory
Institute.
1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor".
1892 - Rachmaninov first performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow.
1912 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War.
1928 - Cole Porter & E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris" premieres in NYC.
1928 - Joseph Szigeti debuted Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto.
1933 - Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco as a monument to firefighters.
See pic.
1942 - Comedy duo Abbott and Costello launch their weekly radio show.
1944 - Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto" premieres.
1957 - Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire.
1961 - US Constellation crashes at Richmond Virginia, 74 die.
1961 - 12th Formula 1 WDC: Phil Hill wins by one point.
1965 - Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest building in England.
1970 - Soviet author Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for
Literature.
1973 - OPEC meets with oil companies to discuss revision of 1971 Tehran
agreement and oil prices; negotiations fail.
1974 - Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at
the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United
States.
1978 - Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph).
1979 - "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 perfs.
1980 - USSR & Syria sign peace treaty.
1990 - US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize.
1992 - Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek
Walcott.
2001 - A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner
collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
2011 - Irish professional darts player Brendan Dolan plays 1st perfect 9
dart game on TV in semi-final against James Wade at PDC World Darts
Championship in Dublin.
2014 - The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is awarded the $1 million Birgit
Nilsson Prize.
2014 - Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.

 

1916 - Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeat Cumberland 222-0, the
most lopsided score in the history of college football.

Now, there's a record that's not likely to ever be broken!

 

1916 - Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeat Cumberland 222-0, the
most lopsided score in the history of college football.

Now, there's a record that's not likely to ever be broken!

Baylor may come the closest.

 

October 7

1492 - Columbus misses Florida when he changes course.
1520 - First public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain.
1542 - Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast.
1690 - English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade.
1737 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India).
1806 - Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood.
1856 - Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book &
newspapers.
1907 - France's Henri Farman flies 30m in a biplane.
1913 - Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line.
1916 - Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeat Cumberland 222-0, the
most lopsided score in the history of college football.
1919 - KLM, Royal Ducth Airlines, established (oldest existing airline).
1931 - First infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY.
1946 - Ives' String Quartet 2 premieres. Your historymeister's favorite Ives
piece.
1955 - Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at
a poetry reading in San Francisco.
1958 - US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury.
1960 - CBS-TV "Route 66" premieres.
1960 - Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus", starring Kirk Douglas, is released.
1961 - "Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 perfs.
1963 - Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190.
1965 - 50 mph gust helps Robert Mitera ace 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle
Hills, Omaha, Nebraska to score world's longest straight hole-in-one.
1968 - Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
1973 - 24th Formula 1 WDC: Jackie Stewart wins by 16 points. See pic of The Flying Scot.
1982 - Musical "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway NYC and
runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1986 - First edition of new British newspaper "Independent" published.
1991 - Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of
making sexually inappropriate comments to her.
2001 - Crude oil resumes flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline after
workers welded shut a bullet hole that caused 260,000 US gallons of oil to
spill out.
2009 - A digital version of psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung's 'Red Book' is
published 48 years after his death and contains personal notes on his
subconscious during the period in which he developed his principal theories.
2014 - Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola, the first case outside west
Africa.

 

October 6

1499 - French King Louis XII occupies Milan.
1762 - British troops occupy Manila, Philippines.
1783 - Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock.
1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after
being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October.
1866 - First train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000).
1876 - American Library Association organized in Philadelphia.
1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Resident Patient".
1889 - Moulin Rouge opens in Paris.
1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1893 - Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat.
1898 - Gustav Mahler first conducts Vienna Philharmonic.
1927 - "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC).
1946 - 90°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in October.
Global warming?
1952 - Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still
running).
1956 - Shostakovich String Quartet 6 premieres in Leningrad.
1961 - JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters. And not to ride in
convertibles?
1966 - Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor.
1966 - LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state
of California, other states follow.
1967 - Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies.
1972 - 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico.
1974 - 25th Formula 1 WDC: Emerson Fittipaldi wins by 3 points.
1976 - John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent.
1982 - Fokker Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die.
1986 - Russian nuclear sub K291 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.
1996 - Lois & Clark Kent (fictional characters) wed. See pic.
2014 - John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

 

October 5

610 - Heraclius' fleet takes Constantinople.
1349 - Paris theologist Jean de Fayt warns against the Flagellants at
Avignon.
1465 - French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout.
1789 - French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on
Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees
on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court
moved to Paris.
1796 - Spain declares war on England.
1823 - Weber visits Beethoven.
1864 - Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die).
1869 - A strong hurricane devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime
Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval
officer.
1892 - Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeyville, KS bank holdup.
1900 - 6th US Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 313 at Chicago GC Il.
1905 - Orville/Wilbur Wright's "Flyer III" flight 38.5 km in 38.3".
1919 - Norwegian population agrees to prohibition.
1923 - Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star.
1930 - British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die.
1931 - First nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to WA (Herndon & Pangborn).
1945 - Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set
decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers'
studios.
1946 - 1st Cannes Film Festival ends.
1954 - Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US.
1956 - "The Ten Commandments", directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring
Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner opens in the US.
1962 - Beatles release their first record "Love Me Do".
1962 - "Dr. No", first James Bond film based on the novel by Ian Fleming and
starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress, premieres in London. See pic.
1969 - Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC.
1970 - PBS becomes a US television network.
1975 - 26th Formula 1 WDC: Niki Lauda wins by 19.5 points.
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature.
1993 - Last honor guard at Lenin's mausoleum.
1999 - The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.

 

October 4

1537 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is
printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1648 - Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas first volunteer firemen.
1777 - Battle of Germantown: Gen George Washington's troops attack and are
defeated by the British at Germantown, PA.
1824 - Mexico becomes a republic.
1873 - Toronto Argonaut Football Club forms.
1880 - University of California founded in LA.
1883 - Orient Express' first run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail. See pic.
1897 - George Bernard Shaw's "Devil's Disciple," premieres in NYC.
1900 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Problem of Thor Bridge".
1904 - First day of NYC subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks.
1911 - First public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station).
1915 - Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established.
1926 - Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower.
1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore.
1931 - Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts.
1933 - Esquire magazine is 1st published.
1952 - "Top Banana" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 perfs.
1957 - "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS.
1958 - Transatlantic jet passenger service began (BOAC).
1959 - Shostakovich Cello Concerto 1 premieres in Leningrad.
1963 - Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba & Haiti.
1964 - 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81.
1965 - Pope Paul VI becomes first Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN).
1965 - USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon.
1975 - A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington, North Carolina,
killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated
with the NWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion. One of the survivors is the legendary
Ric Flair.
1976 - Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted
murderers.
1983 - Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car.
1984 - US government closes down due to budget problems.
1985 - Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.
1987 - "The Last Emperor" directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring John
Lone, Joan Chen and Peter O'Toole premieres at the Tokyo Film Festival (Best
Picture 1988).
1992 - El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die.
1997 - The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the
Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI
investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of
approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
2001 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes
into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile.
78 people are killed.
2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
2012 - 19 people are killed after being buried by a landslide in Yunnan,
China.

 

October 3

42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight
an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
1605 - Chinese uprising on Philippines, Tondo/Quiapo massacre.
1683 - The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the
Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and
Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.
1691 - English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland.
1712 - The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy
MacGregor.
1778 - Captain Cook anchors at Alaska.
1789 - Washington proclaims first national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26.
1849 - American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in
Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he
is seen in public before his death.
1863 - Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1872 - Bloomingdale's department store in NYC opens.
1873 - Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc
War.
1908 - The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey
Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
1915 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley, Nevada.
1922 - First facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington,
D.C.
1945 - Elvis's first public appearance at the age of 10.
1947 - First telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed.
1948 - Columbia University reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo.
1952 - First video recording on magnetic tape, LA, CA.
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain!
1955 - "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres.
1961 - "Mr Ed" premieres. See pic.
1971 - 22nd Formula 1 WDC: Jackie Stewart wins by 29 points.
1974 - Pele retires as soccer player.
1974 - Watergate trial begins.
1990 - Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of
obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records.
1992 - Madonna premieres her "Erotica" video on MTV.
1994 - Gary Larson announces he is retiring from doing "Far Side" cartoon.
1995 - OJ Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
in LA, CA.
1997 - Gordie Howe, 69, plays in 7th decade, with IHL'S Detroit Vipers.
1997 - Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record at 280.3 mph.
2003 - Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the shows tigers,
canceling the show for good.
2008 - OJ Simpson found guilty of charges of kidnapping and armed robbery.
2013 - 325 people are killed after a migrant ship catches fire and
shipwrecks of the coast of Lampedusa, Italy.
2013 - 13 people are killed after a passenger plane crashes in Lagos,
Nigeria.
2014 - 83 million accounts are compromised after a cyber attack on JP Morgan
Chase & 9 other financial institutions.