[Vaneyes]

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.

 

[Vaneyes]

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.

 

[Vaneyes]

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.

 

[Vaneyes]

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.

 

[Vaneyes]

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.

 

[TxllxT]

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

 

[Vronsky]

April 23: 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death

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

 

[Rogerx]

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

 

[Rogerx]

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.

 

[TxllxT]

27 January 1944 End of Leningrad Blockade

 

[AeolianStrains]

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