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 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.

 

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

 

April 23: 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death

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

 

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

 

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.

 

27 January 1944 End of Leningrad Blockade

 

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