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1.10.704Aengibald gives away bishop Willibrord estate in Waalre
1.10.965John XIII Crescentii elected to succeed Pope Leo VIII
1.10.1273Earl Rudolf van Habsburg becomes Roman Catholics-German king
1.10.1529Meeting between Maarten Luther and Huldrych Zwingli
1.10.1569Duke of Norfolk arrested
1.10.1574"Storm breaks Leiden dike; drowns 20,000 Spanish soldiers"
1.10.1606Spanish troops under Spinola occupies fort Rhine birch
1.10.1632Battle at Castelnaudary: Duke Henri de Montmorency's rebel army loses
1.10.1653Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine
1.10.1657Treaty of Raalte: Willem II no longer viceroy of Overijssel
1.10.1661Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James
1.10.1670Battle at Simbirsk a/d Wolga: Russian army beats Boers
1.10.1688Prince Willem III accept invitation of English crown to occupy
1.10.1705Parliament declares Hungary independently/French Rakoczi becomes king
1.10.1746Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France
1.10.1768English troops under general Gauge lands in Boston
1.10.17911st session of new French legislative assembly
1.10.1791Dutch prince Willem Frederik marries his niece princess Frederika Louise Wilhelmina of Prussia
1.10.1795France annexes Southern Netherlands
1.10.1800Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty
1.10.1801England and France signs Preliminary of London
1.10.1830General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam
1.10.1833Charles Darwin reaches Rio Tercero Argentina
1.10.1837"""Racer's"" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico)"
1.10.1837Treaty with Winnebago Indians
1.10.1838"Civil Code enforced (- Jan 1, 1992)"
1.10.1847Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
1.10.18511st Hawaiian stamps issued
1.10.18635 Russian warships welcomed in New York City
1.10.1863Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens
1.10.1864"Cyclone strikes Calcutta: 70,000 killed"
1.10.1864John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln
1.10.1866Dutch Eindhoven-Venlo railway opens
1.10.1867"Karl Marx' ""Das Kapital,"" published"
1.10.18681st edition of Maasbode published
1.10.18691st postcards are issued (Vienna)
1.10.1871"General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht"
1.10.1874Rotterdam opens drink water pipes
1.10.1879Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause
1.10.1880John Philip Sousa becomes new director of U.S. Marine Corps Band
1.10.1885Special delivery mail service begins in US
1.10.1886"U.S. Mint at Carson City, Nevada closes"
1.10.1888National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time
1.10.1889Soccer team HFC Haarlem forms
1.10.1889Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum
1.10.1890Congress creates Weather Bureau
1.10.1890Yosemite National Park forms
1.10.1892University of Chicago opens
1.10.1893"3rd worst hurricane in U.S. history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)"
1.10.1894"Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska"
1.10.1895Romanians in Costantinople massacred
1.10.1896"Sherlock Holmes adventure ""Veiled Lodger"" takes place"
1.10.1896Yosemite becomes a National Park
1.10.1898Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens
1.10.1898Henry Huntington buys LA Railway
1.10.1898"Jews are expelled from Kiev, Russia"
1.10.1903"1st baseball World Series, Pittsburgh Pirates vs Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox)"
1.10.1904JB van Heutsz becomes gov-general of Netherland Indies
1.10.1904Netherlands and Portugal lay down bounderies splitting Timor
1.10.1906Hugh Jennings resigns as Balt manager to take over at Detroit in 1907
1.10.1907"Plaza Hotel (5th Av and 59th Str, New York) opens"
1.10.19081st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague)
1.10.1908Henry Ford introduces Model T car
1.10.1908"Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1"
1.10.1910Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair)
1.10.1910Explosion at Los Angeles Times kills 21
1.10.1910"Regina Rugby Club's 1st game, losing to Moose Jaw Tigers, 16-6"
1.10.1911United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day
1.10.1912Yanks lose game #100 en route to a 50-102 season
1.10.1919"World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (Black Sox Scandal)"
1.10.1920Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day
1.10.1921"WJZ, Newark New Jersey begins broadcasting"
1.10.1922"Former Chicago Staleys play 1st NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0"
1.10.1922Rogers Hornsby's 3-for-5 ups avg to .401
1.10.1924Fokker F-7 1st flight (Amsterdam to Batavia)
1.10.1924Landis bans Giants Jimmy O'Connell and Cozy Dolan from World Series after they admit an attempt to bribe Phils shortstop Heinie Sand
1.10.1924Paavo Nurmi runs world record 4 mile (19:15.4) and 5 mile (24:06.2)
1.10.1927Pirates clinch NL pennant with a 9-6 win over Reds
1.10.1928Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium bicycled 76 miles 504 yards in 1 hour
1.10.1928Paavo Nurmi runs world record 15m (46:49.6)
1.10.1928U.S.S.R. launches its 1st 5 year plan
1.10.1930Soccer team WHC forms
1.10.1930"World Series opens at Phila's Shibe Park, Philadelphia A's beat St. Louis 5-2"
1.10.1931Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage
1.10.1931World Series is a rematch as A's seek 3rd straight title vs Cards
1.10.1932NHL readmits Ottawa and drops Pittsburgh
1.10.1932Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists
1.10.1932"World Series moves to Chicago, In 5th inning, Babe Ruth waits until he has 2 strikes, points and hits next pitch into center field bleachers"
1.10.1933Antwerp Sports arena opens
1.10.1933"Packers make 5 1st downs, Giants make 0, but still win 10-7"
1.10.1933Washington Senator coach Nick Altrock plays in a game at age 57
1.10.1934"Adolph Hitler expands German army and Navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles"
1.10.1936Generalissimo Francisco Franco establishes state of Spain
1.10.1937Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1.10.1938Cubs clinch NL pennant
1.10.1938Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)
1.10.1939"Churchill calls Soviets ""riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"""
1.10.1940"Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens"
1.10.1941D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow
1.10.1941"H Martin/R Blanes musical ""Best Foot Forward,"" premieres in New York City"
1.10.1941Yankees beat Dodgers 3-2 at Yankee Stadium in opener of World Series
1.10.1942"Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st U.S. jet, makes maiden flight"
1.10.1942Little Golden Books (children books) begins publishing
1.10.1943Allied forces captured Naples during WW II
1.10.1943Averell Harriman named U.S. ambassador to Moscow
1.10.1943Germans attack Jews in Denmark
1.10.1943King's Dragon Guards liberates suburbs of Naples
1.10.1944Newspaper editor Alejandro Cordova assassinated in Guatemala
1.10.1944St. Louis Browns win their only AL pennant
1.10.1945Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army
1.10.1945US Office of Strategic Serbia (OSS) disbands
1.10.194612 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg
1.10.1946"1st NL playoffs, Dodgers vs Cards (St. Louis wins 2 games to 0)"
1.10.1946Bob Feller 348th strikeout of season
1.10.19471st helicopter air mail and express service
1.10.1947NHL Pension Society founded
1.10.1947U.S. control of Haitian customs and governmental revenue ends
1.10.1947"William Wister Haines' ""Command Decision,"" premieres in New York City"
1.10.1948California Supreme Court voids state statue banning interracial marriages
1.10.1948Radio Denmark begins transmitting
1.10.1949People's Rep of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day)
1.10.1949Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa
1.10.1950"Browns lose to Giants, setting club record for fewest points scored by both teams (tied in 1979), New York 6, Cleveland 0"
1.10.1950Phillies win NL pennant on last day of season (10th inning HR)
1.10.1950South Korean troops exceed 38 degrees latitude
1.10.1951"1st Giant-Dodgers playoff game, Giants win 3-1"
1.10.19511st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson
1.10.1951"24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated"
1.10.1952"1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or"
1.10.1952Liberal Party wins Japanese elections
1.10.1952Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion)
1.10.1953Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras
1.10.1953"KJEO TV channel 47 in Fresno, California (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting"
1.10.1953"KYTV TV channel 3 in Springfield, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting"
1.10.1953"WATE TV channel 6 in Knoxville, Tennessee (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting"
1.10.1953"WREX TV channel 13 in Rockford, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting"
1.10.1954British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation
1.10.1955"""Honeymooners"" premieres"
1.10.1955Piet Lieftinck becomes director v/h IMF (World bank)
1.10.1955"WORA TV channel 5 in Mayaguez, PR (TCI) begins broadcasting"
1.10.1956Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track
1.10.1956Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens
1.10.1957B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of U.S.S.R. attack
1.10.1958Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia
1.10.1958Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
1.10.19591st World Series since 1948 not to feature a New York team (LA vs Chic)
1.10.196014th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal
1.10.1960"KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting"
1.10.1960Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1.10.1960South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea
1.10.1961A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha
1.10.1961East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon
1.10.1961"KGIN TV channel 11 in Grand Island, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting"
1.10.1961Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Open
1.10.1961Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovitsch' 12nd Symphony
1.10.1961Roger Maris sets record of 61 home runs (off of Tracy Stallard)
1.10.1961U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1.10.1961"WOLO TV channel 25 in Columbia, South Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting"
1.10.1961"WYAH TV channel 27 in Portsmouth, Virginia (IND) begins broadcasting"
1.10.1962Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)
1.10.1962Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage Beatles through 1977
1.10.1962James Meredith became 1st black at University of Mississippi
1.10.1962"Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests"
1.10.1962Lucy Show premieres
1.10.1962"SF beats Dodgers, 8-0 in 1st of best-of-3 NL playoff"
1.10.1962U.N. gives Netherlands control of New-Guinea
1.10.1962US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope
1.10.1962"WEDH TV channel 24 in Hartford, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting"
1.10.1963"1st time since 1910 no AL player, played in every game"
1.10.1963Nigeria becomes a republic within Commonwealth
1.10.19641st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire
1.10.19642nd Dutch televisienet begins broadcastings
1.10.1964"Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley"
1.10.1964San Francisco cable cars declared a national landmark
1.10.1964"WSJU TV channel 18 in Carolina, PR begins broadcasting"
1.10.1964"WTSJ TV channel 18 in San Juan, PR (NBC) begins broadcasting"
1.10.1964"WWAY TV channel 3 in Wilmington, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting"
1.10.1965Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia
1.10.1965France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1.10.1966"Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases ""The Times"""
1.10.1966"WAEO (now WJFW) TV channel 12 in Rhinelander, WI (NBC) begins"
1.10.1967Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' LA Golf Open
1.10.1967"KBFI (now KDAF) TV channel 33 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (IND) begins"
1.10.1967Pink FLoyd's 1st U.S. tour (arrives in New York City)
1.10.1968"""Night of the Living Dead"" premieres in Pittsburgh"
1.10.1969Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier
1.10.1969Guernsey and Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps
1.10.1969U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1.10.197063 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy
1.10.1970"Last game at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phils-2 Expos-1"
1.10.1971Joseph Luns becomes Secretary-General of NATO
1.10.1971"Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens"
1.10.19721st games of World Hockey Association
1.10.19722nd New York City Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 3:08:41
1.10.19723rd New York City Marathon won by Sheldon Karlin in 2:27:52
1.10.1972"""Don't Play Us Cheap"" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 164 performances"
1.10.1972Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
1.10.1973Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager
1.10.1973U.S.S.R.-West Germany gas tunnel opens
1.10.1974Watergate cover-up trial opens in Washington D.C.
1.10.1975Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles
1.10.1975"Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name ""Tuvalu"""
1.10.1975Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Joe Frazier in Manilla
1.10.1975Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1.10.1975"Reunion Island stops printing stamps, France takes over production"
1.10.19761st Dutch casino opens
1.10.1977"Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games"
1.10.1977Department Of Energy established
1.10.1977Elton John honored by MSG Hall of Fame
1.10.1977"Peter Schats opera ""Houdini"" premieres in Amsterdam"
1.10.1977Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
1.10.1978Comoros adopts constitution
1.10.1978Jane Blalock wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
1.10.1978Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from U.K.
1.10.1978Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians forcing a playoff game with Red Sox
1.10.1979"Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes president"
1.10.1979Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
1.10.1979RKO radio network begins operation
1.10.1979U.S. returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years
1.10.1980Cosmonauts Ryumin and Popov break space endurance record of 176 days
1.10.1981"J Chodorov/N Panama's ""Talent for Murder,"" premieres in London"
1.10.1981U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1.10.1982"EPCOT Center opens in Orlando, Florida"
1.10.1982U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1.10.1982West Germany's Parliament ousts Helmut Schmidt for Helmut Kohl
1.10.1983"Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia crowned Miss Teen of America"
1.10.1984Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus
1.10.1984Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball
1.10.1985"Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed"
1.10.1986President Carter's presidential library dedicated in Atlanta
1.10.19876 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA
1.10.1987Fiji's constitution is suspended
1.10.1987"""Roza"" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 12 performances"
1.10.1988Bradley Center in Milwaukee opens
1.10.1988Lowest batting avg for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313)
1.10.1988Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of Soviet Union
1.10.1988"Robert Englund, actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth"
1.10.1989"Batting titles decided on final day Puckett goes 2-for-5 edges Carney Lansford .339 to .336, Gwynn's 3-for-4 edges Will Clark .336 to .333"
1.10.1989Beth Daniel wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1.10.1989"Dallas Cowboy, Ed ""Too Tall"" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle"
1.10.1989Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
1.10.1989"U.S. issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus"
1.10.1990"10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda"
1.10.1990Meteorite explodes above Pacific Ocean
1.10.1990"President Bush at U.N., condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait"
1.10.1990Serbs in Croatia proclaim autonomy
1.10.1991Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network (WJFK-AM)
1.10.1992Cartoon Cable Network premieres
1.10.1992Greater Pittsburgh International Airport opens
1.10.1992"""Oba Oba '93"" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 22 performances"
1.10.1992Ross Perot re-enters presidental race
1.10.1993Lennox Lewis TKOs Frank Bruno in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1.10.1994"Boon completes his 19th Test century (114 vs. Pak, Karachi)"
1.10.1994Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic
1.10.1994South African President Nelson Mandela visits US
1.10.1994Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curaeao
1.10.1995Bermuda begins using new area code 441
1.10.1995Gail Graham wins FieldCrest Cannon/Carolina LPGA Golf Classic
1.10.1995Indians set record of 30 game lead over 2nd place team
1.10.1995Mike Mussina tosses Balt's 5th consecutive shutout 4-0 win over Tigers
1.10.1995New York Yankees win 1st baseball wildcard ever
1.10.1995Rockies are 1st team to make postseason before 7th year in existence
1.10.1997Carolina Hurricanes 1st game vs Tampa Bay Lightning
2.10.939Battle at Andernach: King Otto and Hermann of Zwaben beat Eberhard of France and Giselbert of Lutherans
2.10.976Hisham II appointed kalief of Cordoba
2.10.1134Storm flood ravages Zeeland county
2.10.1187Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders
2.10.1492King Henry VII of England invades France
2.10.1518English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan
2.10.1535Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)
2.10.1540Venice/Turkey signs peace
2.10.1572Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen
2.10.1586Battle at Zutphen: English-Dutch army
2.10.1608Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
2.10.1614French king Louis XIII (13) declared an adult
2.10.1656U.S. colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers
2.10.1700"Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne"
2.10.1760Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin
2.10.1787Maagden House opens in Amsterdam
2.10.1792Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
2.10.1795Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao
2.10.1799Duke of York and Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands
2.10.1804England mobilizes to protect against French invasion
2.10.1833Charles Darwin rides through Corunda to Santa Fe Argentina
2.10.1833New York Anti-Slavery Society organized
2.10.1836Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle (after 5 years)
2.10.1861Former VP John C Breckinridge flees Kentucky
2.10.1866J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener
2.10.1870Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
2.10.1871"Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy"
2.10.1872Morgan State University founded
2.10.1879"Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure ""Musgrave Ritual"""
2.10.18891st Pan American conference (Washington D.C.)
2.10.18951st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
2.10.1899Orange Free state mobilizes
2.10.1900Belg crown prince Albert von Saksen-Coburg weds Elisabeth of Bayern
2.10.19011st Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow
2.10.1906Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
2.10.1907Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader vs Giants
2.10.1908Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
2.10.19091st rugby match (Twickenham)
2.10.19101st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
2.10.1910"Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record)"
2.10.1913Phillies beat New York Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
2.10.19157.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley Nevada
2.10.1916Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of year
2.10.1916San Diego Zoo founded
2.10.1919"1st edition ""Volkskrant"" (People's newspaper) published in Neth"
2.10.1919"President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed"
2.10.1920"Only tripleheader of century (Reds win 13-4, 7-3 then Pirates win 6-0)"
2.10.1921New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR
2.10.1923British occuping army leaves Constantinople
2.10.1923"Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403"
2.10.1924League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva
2.10.1926Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
2.10.1931Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis
2.10.1932New York Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs in 29th World Series
2.10.1932"Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0"
2.10.1933"Eugene O'Neill's comedy ""Ah, Wilderness,"" premieres in New York City"
2.10.1935Mussolini's Italian armys attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
2.10.1935"NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in U.S., opens"
2.10.1936"1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas"
2.10.1936Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject nazism
2.10.1936French franc devalued
2.10.1936"New York Yankees score World Series record 18 runs, beating Giants 18-4"
2.10.1936Tony Lazzeri becomes 1st Yank to hit a World Series grand slam
2.10.1937Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
2.10.1938Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times)
2.10.1939"Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF"
2.10.194017 German aircrafts shot down above England
2.10.1940British Council receives British Charter
2.10.1940"British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk"
2.10.19416 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo
2.10.1941Germans launch attack on Moscow
2.10.1942"1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago"
2.10.1942"""Queen Mary"" slices cruiser ""Curacao"" in half, killing 338"
2.10.1943"Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island"
2.10.1943"Yankees sweep 14th doubleheader of year, beating Browns, 5-1 and 7-6"
2.10.1944U.S. B-17's drops pamphlets on Walcheren
2.10.19461st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont
2.10.1947"""Music in My Heart"" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 124 performances"
2.10.1947Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
2.10.1947Yankee Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a World Series homer
2.10.1948"""Finian's Rainbow"" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 725 performances"
2.10.1949"St. Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3"
2.10.1949U.S.S.R. recognizes People's Republic of China
2.10.1949"Yanks and Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play final game of season. Yanks win 5-3 and clinch pennant #16"
2.10.1950"1st strip of Charlie Brown, ""Li'l Folks,"" later ""Peanuts"" in 9 papers"
2.10.1950Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions
2.10.1950Chic Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colts (55-13)
2.10.1950"Mao Tse Tung proclaims in telegram to Stalin, China intervenes Korea"
2.10.1950Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases
2.10.19511st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel)
2.10.1951"Dodgers beat Giants 10-0, in 2nd game of play-offs"
2.10.1953"""Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)"" opens at John Golden New York City for 849 perf"
2.10.1953Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in World Series
2.10.19548th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Detroit 2-2 at Detroit
2.10.1954Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal
2.10.1954"New York Giants sweep Cleveland Indians, in 51st World Series"
2.10.19559th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 3-1 at Detroit
2.10.1955Actress Joyce Randolph marries publisher Richard Charles
2.10.1955"""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" premieres"
2.10.1955Chiva Stoica becomes premier of Romania
2.10.1955"WHTN (now WOWK) TV ch 13 in Huntington-Charleston, WV (CBS) begins"
2.10.19561st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
2.10.1957New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores
2.10.1957New York Yankees appear in their 25th World Series
2.10.1958Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day)
2.10.1958"Musical show ""Valmouth,"" 1st produced in London"
2.10.1958U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
2.10.1959"Rod Serling's ""Twilight Zone"" premieres on CBS-TV"
2.10.1960Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
2.10.1961"""Ben Casey"" premieres on NBC-TV"
2.10.1961U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
2.10.1961"WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, D.C. (PBS) begins broadcasting"
2.10.1961"WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting"
2.10.1962"SF beats LA, 8-7 in 4h18m 9 inning playoff game"
2.10.1962U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
2.10.1963Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 Yankees
2.10.1963West German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to U.S.S.R.
2.10.1964Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
2.10.1965Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant
2.10.1965Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
2.10.1965Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 New York Mets
2.10.1965Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans
2.10.1966Los Angeles Dodgers Sandy Koufax clinches 3rd LA pennant in 4 years
2.10.1966Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
2.10.1967Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
2.10.1967Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia
2.10.1967Mickey Wright wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational
2.10.1967Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
2.10.1968"1st London performance of ""Promises Promises"" presented"
2.10.1968"1st time, 2 soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other Cards Bob Gibson beat Tigers Denny McLain 4-0"
2.10.1968Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts
2.10.1968"Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed"
2.10.1968"Peru coup under gen Velasco Alvarado, President Belaunde Terry flees"
2.10.1968Republic Guinea forms (day of republic)
2.10.1969"Seattle Pilots last game in Seattle, lose 3-1 to As in front of 5,473"
2.10.1969U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
2.10.1970Billy Martin named manager of Det Tigers
2.10.1970Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
2.10.1971Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
2.10.1972"Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105"
2.10.1972"Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitches his 2nd no-hitter, beating Mets, 7-0"
2.10.1972Danish population votes for European Common Market membership
2.10.1972"""From Israel with Love"" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 8 performances"
2.10.1972"Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats New York Mets, 7-0"
2.10.1972Ron Johnson becomes 1st New York Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Phila)
2.10.1974Hank Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat
2.10.1976"""Let My People Come"" closes at Morosco Theater New York City after 106 performances"
2.10.1977"Dusty Baker 30th HR joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32), and Ron Cey (30) in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-HR hitters"
2.10.1977Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition
2.10.1977Vivian Brownlee wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
2.10.1978"Syrian and Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed"
2.10.1978Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer and Pinella's fielding
2.10.1980Larry Holmes TKOs Muhammad Ali in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
2.10.1980"Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)"
2.10.1981Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran
2.10.1982"Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700"
2.10.1983Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions
2.10.1983Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat
2.10.1983Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic
2.10.19843 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
2.10.1984"In 1st LCS game played with replacement umps, Cubs cbeat Padres 13-0"
2.10.1984"Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage"
2.10.1985Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris
2.10.1985Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 HR seasons in both leagues
2.10.1986Failed assassination attempt on India premier Rajiv Gandhi
2.10.1986Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306)
2.10.1986New York Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons
2.10.1986Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
2.10.1988"24th Olympic games close at Seoul, Korea"
2.10.1988Gelindo Bordin wins 21st Olympics marathon (2:10:32)
2.10.1988Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his Bernardsville New Jersey Mansion
2.10.1988Minn Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance
2.10.1988Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections
2.10.1988Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson and Robin Givens
2.10.1990Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany
2.10.1990"Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die"
2.10.1990"""Michael Feinstein in Concert -"" opens at Golden New York City for 30 performances"
2.10.1990"Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is ""The End"" by Doors"
2.10.1990U.S. Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to Supreme Court
2.10.1991"Eric Lindros, refused to sign with Quebec Nordiques"
2.10.1991Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 pro tennis matches
2.10.1991Toronto Blue Jays clinches AL East title and becomes 1st team to draw 4 million fans
2.10.1992VP Itamar Franco becomes President of Brazil
2.10.1993Spike Lee weds Tonya Lewis
2.10.1994Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test
2.10.1994"""Show Boat,"" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City"
2.10.1995"""Moon Over Buffalo"" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 308 performances"
2.10.1995"Seattle Mariners beat California Angels, 9-1 in a playoff game to win AL West"
2.10.199630th Country Music Association Award: Brooks and Dunn win
3.10.1143Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II
3.10.1247Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor
3.10.1264Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
3.10.1430Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
3.10.1569Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots
3.10.1574Fleet under Admiral Boisot seize Spanish
3.10.1605"Chinese uprising on Philippines, Tondo/Quiapo massacre"
3.10.1657French troops occupy Mardyke
3.10.1691English and Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland
3.10.1735France and Emperor Karel VI sign peace accord
3.10.1778Capt Cook anchors at Alaska
3.10.1789Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day
3.10.1833Composer Hector Berlioz marries actress Harriet Smithson
3.10.1862"Battle of Corinth, Mississippi"
3.10.1862"Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky"
3.10.1863Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
3.10.1872Bloomingdale's department store in New York opens
3.10.1890Capt Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo
3.10.1899J. S. Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner
3.10.1900Edward Elgar/Cardinal Newmans oratorium premieres in Birmingham
3.10.1904France and Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence
3.10.1904Giants Christy Mathewson strikes out then record 16 Cards
3.10.1904Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal and Industrial School
3.10.1906SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy
3.10.1906"U.S. regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba"
3.10.1906"William Vaughan Moody's ""Great Divide,"" premieres in New York City"
3.10.1913Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
3.10.1918Boris becomes king of Bulgaria
3.10.1918Czar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria does distance of throne
3.10.1918Selwyn Theater opens at 229 W 42nd St. New York City
3.10.1919Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series
3.10.1919"Serbian, Croatian and Slavic parliment accord for 8 hr work day"
3.10.1920Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season
3.10.1920NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
3.10.1922"1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C."
3.10.1922Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate
3.10.1923Germany's Stresemann resigns
3.10.1924King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne
3.10.19261st congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in Vienna
3.10.1926Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22)
3.10.1928"French sun ""Ondine"" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42"
3.10.1929British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with U.S.S.R.
3.10.1929Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister
3.10.1929"Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia"
3.10.1932"Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations"
3.10.1933"Gustave ""Staf"" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant"
3.10.1935Italy invades Ethiopia
3.10.1936"Yanks set new attendance record of 64,842 in 3rd game of World Series"
3.10.1939Lemmer-Urk Dike closes
3.10.1940France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status
3.10.1940Reds beat Tigers ending NL's 10-game World Series losing streak
3.10.1940U.S. forms parachute troops
3.10.1941"Adolf Hitler says Russia is ""broken"" and would ""never rise again"""
3.10.1941"All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS"
3.10.1941Nazi's blow up 6 synagoges in Paris
3.10.1942Franklin D. Roosevelt forms Office of Economic Stabilization
3.10.1942Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
3.10.1942"New York Yankees Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 and suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season"
3.10.1943"British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy"
3.10.1943"Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland"
3.10.19441st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland
3.10.1944RAF bombs West Kapelse
3.10.1945"Elvis Presley's 1st public appearance, he is 10"
3.10.1945Tigers and Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time
3.10.1945World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member
3.10.1946Cards beat Dodgers 8-4 at Ebbets Field to win NL playoffs 2-0
3.10.1947"1st telescope lens 200"" (508 cm) in diameter completed"
3.10.1947"""Under the Counter"" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 27 performances"
3.10.1947"With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his World Series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs and he lost game"
3.10.1947"WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, D.C. (ABC) begins"
3.10.1948Columbia U reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo
3.10.1948NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of week
3.10.1949"WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta"
3.10.19501st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
3.10.1950Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army
3.10.1950"Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas"
3.10.1951Bobby Thomson HR-Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers
3.10.19521st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia
3.10.1952"1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca"
3.10.1952Great Britain performs nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia
3.10.1953"10th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 6 -5 at Wentworth, England"
3.10.19537th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 3-1 at Montreal
3.10.1953"KGGM TV channel 13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (CBS) begins broadcasting"
3.10.1954"""Father Knows Best"" premieres"
3.10.1954"KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting"
3.10.1955"""Captain Kangaroo"" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain!"
3.10.1955Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes President of Brazil
3.10.1955"""Mickey Mouse Club"" premieres"
3.10.1955"Soviet battleship ""Novorossiisk"" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea"
3.10.1955"WDBJ TV channel 7 in Roanoke, Virginia (CBS) begins broadcasting"
3.10.1955"WTVS TV channel 56 in Detroit, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting"
3.10.1956Sal Maglie and Dodgers defeat Yanks 6-3 in opening game of World Series
3.10.1957Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin
3.10.195913th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal
3.10.1960"Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, and record 193 HRs"
3.10.1960"""Flair"" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke"
3.10.1960Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil
3.10.1960San Francisco's White House department store 1st to accept BankAmericard
3.10.1961"""Dick Van Dyke Show"" premieres on CBS-TV"
3.10.1961"KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting"
3.10.1961"""Mr Ed"" premieres"
3.10.1961"""Sail Away"" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 167 performances"
3.10.1962"Dodgers set major league-record season attendance of 2,755,184"
3.10.1962"""Stop the World, I Want to Get Off"" opens at Shubert New York City for 886 performances"
3.10.1962Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
3.10.1963"""Here's Love"" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 338 performances"
3.10.1963"Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die and 100,000 injured"
3.10.1964"Yankees clinch their 5th straight pennant, and 29th in club's history"
3.10.1965Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season
3.10.1965Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
3.10.1965Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
3.10.1966Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president
3.10.1967"KGSC (now KICU) TV channel 36 in San Jose, California (IND) begins"
3.10.1967King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp)
3.10.1967"William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72"
3.10.1968"Howard Sacklers ""Great White Hope,"" premieres in New York City"
3.10.1968Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaunde Terry in Peru
3.10.1968U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
3.10.1970Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
3.10.1970"""Coco"" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 333 performances"
3.10.1970"WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting"
3.10.1971"Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000"
3.10.1972Balt Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later
3.10.1972Indians set a team record for lowest team batting avg .234
3.10.1972Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
3.10.1972Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies (almost of their 59 wins)
3.10.1972U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
3.10.1973Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
3.10.1974Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleve Indians)
3.10.1974Pele retires as soccer player
3.10.1975"George Harrison releases ""Extra Texture"" album in UK"
3.10.1975Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap
3.10.1976"Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat and drives in his 2,297th run"
3.10.1976Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election
3.10.1977"""Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)"" opens at Imperial New York City for 66 performances"
3.10.1977Indira Gandhi arrested
3.10.1978Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
3.10.19804 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris
3.10.1981Brewers (since 1970) and Expos (1969) clinch their 1st-ever postseason
3.10.1981Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike
3.10.1981Mike Weaver beats Quick Tillis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
3.10.1982"Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)"
3.10.1982Milwaukee whips Baltimore 10-2 to win AL East championship
3.10.1982Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
3.10.1982"Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm"
3.10.1982Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours
3.10.1983"Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release ""Say, Say, Say"" in UK"
3.10.198521st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
3.10.1985Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution
3.10.1985Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine
3.10.1985South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution
3.10.1986Baltimore loses assuring Orioles of their 1st last-place finish
3.10.1986"Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die"
3.10.1987Benito Santiago ends longest catcher/rookie hitting streak at 34
3.10.1987"Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile"
3.10.1987U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
3.10.1988"26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days"
3.10.1988Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway bet 44th and 45th Sts New York City
3.10.1988Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
3.10.1988"WBMW-FM, Washington D.C. changes calls to WJFK and begins airing Howard Stern"
3.10.1989Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
3.10.1990East Germany and West Germany merge to become Germany
3.10.1990"Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records"
3.10.1990George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades
3.10.1990"Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 home runs (& 51st)"
3.10.199125th Country Music Association Award:
3.10.1992Atlanta Braves win franchise record 98th game (old record 95 in 1957)
3.10.1992LeVar Burton weds Stephanie Cozart
3.10.1992"Madonna premieres her ""Erotica"" video on MTV"
3.10.1992Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on SNL
3.10.1992Toronto Blue Jays win AL East title
3.10.1993"Battle at TV station Ostankino/Moscow townhall, about 25 killed"
3.10.1993Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow
3.10.1993Evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker (52) weds Roe Messner (58)
3.10.1993"Giants need to beat Dodgers to force a playoff game with Braves for NL West title, but Dodgers destroy Giants 12-1, Giants end year 103-59"
3.10.1993Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Copenhagen
3.10.1993"Indians play their last game at Cleveland Stadium, Chicago wins 4-0"
3.10.1993Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 U.S. Rangers
3.10.1993"""White Liars/Black Comedy"" closes at Criterion New York City after 38 performances"
3.10.1994Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil
3.10.1994"Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing ""Far Side"" cartoon"
3.10.1995"1st 1st-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW vs. W Prov)"
3.10.1995O. J. Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman
3.10.1996Thunderdome in Tampa Bay renamed Tropicana Field
3.10.1997Carolina Hurricanes 1st home game vs Pitts Penguins
3.10.1997"Gordie Howie, 69, plays in 7th decade, with IHL'S Detroit Vipers"
3.10.1997Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record at 280.3 mph
3.10.1997"Vancouver Canucks beats Mighty Ducks, 3-2 in Japan"
4.10.1209Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach
4.10.1518Henry VIII's daughter Mary marries French crown prince
4.10.15351st full English translation of the Bible printed in Switzerland
4.10.1539King Henry VIII and Anna of Kleef marry
4.10.1571Synod of Emden
4.10.1582Last Julian calender day in Spain/Portugal/pontifical states
4.10.16361st code of law for Plymouth Colony
4.10.1636"Battle at Wittstock, Brandenburg: Sweden beat Ferdinand III"
4.10.1636In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st law drafted
4.10.1648Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
4.10.1675Christian Huygens patents pocket watch
4.10.1712Utrecht banishes poor Jews
4.10.1767Prince Willem V marries Prussian princess Wilhelmina
4.10.1777Battle of Germantown
4.10.1777Gen George Washington's troops attacked British at Germantown Pa
4.10.1824Mexico becomes a republic
4.10.1830Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
4.10.1834"Franz Grillparzer's ""Der Traum ein Leben,"" premieres in Vienna"
4.10.1854Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair
4.10.1862Battle of Corinth ends
4.10.1864National black convention meets (Syracuse New York)
4.10.1864"New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms"
4.10.1873Toronto Argonaut Football Club forms
4.10.1880University of California founded in Los Angeles
4.10.1881Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano
4.10.1883"Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail"
4.10.18951st U.S. Golf Open: Horace Rawlins shoots a 173 at Newport GC RI
4.10.1895Horace Rawlins wins 1st U.S. Open golf tournament (Newport RI)
4.10.1897"George Bernard Shaw's ""Devil's Disciple,"" premieres in New York City"
4.10.1900"Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure ""Problem of Thor Bridge"""
4.10.1901Columbia (U.S.) beats Shamrock II (England) in 12th America's Cup
4.10.1904"1st day of New York City subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks"
4.10.1906Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36 .763) of year
4.10.1910"Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England"
4.10.19111st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station)
4.10.1913Bkln Dodger Jake Daubert earns a new Chalmers auto as NL MVP
4.10.1913Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in a game
4.10.1914Dardanellen (French and English) fleet bombs Turkish forts
4.10.1915Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah is established
4.10.1916"Market Street's ""Path of Gold"" lit for 1st time"
4.10.1917"British assault on Broodseinde, France"
4.10.1918"Musical ""Sometime"" with Mae West premieres in New York City"
4.10.1921League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
4.10.1922"For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ and WGY)"
4.10.1922Protocol of Genevia signed: Austria gains independence
4.10.1923Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns decision
4.10.1924New York Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series
4.10.1925Harry Heilmann's 6 hits edges Ty Cobb .393 to .389 as batting champ
4.10.1926Dahlia is officially designated as San Francisco city flower
4.10.1928"25th World Series begins, New York Yankees vs St. Louis Cardinals"
4.10.1928KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet
4.10.1930"A's Jack Quinn, 46, pitches 2 inn, is oldest to play in World Series"
4.10.1931Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts
4.10.1931Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile
4.10.1932Anti-semite Julius Gombos forms new government in Hungary
4.10.1932Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators
4.10.1932Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna
4.10.1933Esquire magazine is 1st published
4.10.1936Italian lire devalued
4.10.1936"Record 66,669 at Yankee Stadium for 4th game of World Series"
4.10.1939Last Polish troops surrender
4.10.194012 German aircraft shot down above England
4.10.1940Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in Alps
4.10.1940"French Vichy-regime proclaims end of ""Statut of the Juifs"""
4.10.1940Wrestling returns to Madison Square Garden after 12 year lay off
4.10.1942German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
4.10.1943Corsica freed by Free French
4.10.1943German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)
4.10.1944"1st All St. Louis World Series, all games played at Sportsman's Park"
4.10.1944British troops land on Greek continent
4.10.1944St. Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance
4.10.1947"Negro League World Series, New York Cubans beat Cleveland Buckeyes, 6-5"
4.10.1948"Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game"
4.10.1948World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft)
4.10.1949American Contract Bridge League votes 58 % to keep blacks out
4.10.1949United Nations' permanent New York City headquarters is dedicated
4.10.1950French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam
4.10.1951"In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn"
4.10.1952"""Top Banana"" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 356 performances"
4.10.1953Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:17:39.4)
4.10.1953Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam in World Series
4.10.1955"Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7"
4.10.1955Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul
4.10.1956Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
4.10.1957"""Leave It to Beaver,"" debuts on CBS"
4.10.1957"U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite"
4.10.195812th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-3 at Montreal
4.10.19585th French republic forms
4.10.19591st World Series game played west of St. Louis (in LA)
4.10.1959Cleveland Browns' Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts
4.10.1959Dmitri Sjostakovitch 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad
4.10.1959"Los Angeles Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394"
4.10.1959Netherlands beats Belgium 9-1
4.10.1959U.S.S.R. Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
4.10.1960Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
4.10.1961U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
4.10.1961Whitey Ford's 3rd straight World Series shutout
4.10.1962"USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m"
4.10.1962Whitey Ford's World Series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends
4.10.1963Gambia achieves full internal self-government
4.10.1963"Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti"
4.10.196410th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills
4.10.19643 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81
4.10.1964"Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss and Ga"
4.10.1964Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples
4.10.1964Patriots' Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against Broncos
4.10.1964Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St. Louis
4.10.1965"""Pickwick"" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 56 performances"
4.10.1965Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
4.10.1965U.S.S.R. launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
4.10.1966Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism
4.10.1966France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
4.10.1966Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
4.10.1967"1st World Series since 1948 not to feature Yanks, Giants or Dodgers"
4.10.1969"Baseball's 1st divisional playoff games, Mets beat Braves 9-5 and Orioles beat Twins 4-3 in 12 innings"
4.10.1969Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn Myrtle Beach el
4.10.1969U.N. starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
4.10.1970"Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma"
4.10.1970Kansas City Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal
4.10.1970Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages
4.10.1970"WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting"
4.10.1971Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
4.10.1971"KMPH TV channel 26 in Visalia-Fresno, California (IND) begins broadcasting"
4.10.1971U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
4.10.1972"Ted Williams manages his final game as Rangers lose to Royals, 4-0"
4.10.1973"Hans of Manens ballet ""Adagio Hammerklavier"" premieres in Amsterdam"
4.10.1974"John Lennon releases ""Walls and Bridges"" album"
4.10.1976Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke
4.10.1976Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers
4.10.1977Pier 39 opens in San Francisco
4.10.1978Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
4.10.1979"Hugh Leonards ""Life,"" premieres in Dublin"
4.10.1979U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
4.10.1980Mike Schmidt's 2-run HR clinches NL East title for Phillies
4.10.1981Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
4.10.1981Meadowlands Arena opens in New Jersey
4.10.1981Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest International gymnastics participant
4.10.1982Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR
4.10.1983Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car
4.10.1984U.S. government closes down due to budget problems
4.10.1984Yanks clinch AL East
4.10.1985"Henry G. Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia"
4.10.1985Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
4.10.1986New York Yankee Dave Righetti saves doubleheader for then record 46 saves
4.10.1986Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde
4.10.1986"Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America"
4.10.1987James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals)
4.10.1987"1st ""Scrub Sunday"" of NFL football with replacement players"
4.10.1987Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win AL pennant
4.10.1988Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid
4.10.1989Giants Will Clark hits 1st NLCS grand slam since 1977
4.10.1989U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
4.10.1990"""Stand Up Tragedy"" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 13 performances"
4.10.1991NHL New York Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier
4.10.1991San Jose Sharks lose 4-3 to Vancouver Canucks in their 1st NHL game
4.10.1991"Whiteland Janice, driven by Mike Lachance, wins Kentucky Futurity"
4.10.19921st time AL East and West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor and Oak
4.10.1992"2nd Solheim Cup: Europe beats U.S., 11 -6 at Dalmahoy CC Scotland"
4.10.1992"""Anna Karenina"" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 46 performances"
4.10.1992"El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die"
4.10.1992Miami Dolphen Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards
4.10.1992"""Real Inspector Hound"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances"
4.10.1993Troops of President Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament)
4.10.1994"7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+"
4.10.1994"Keith Moore is charged with stealing $5,000,000 from Sting"
4.10.1994Soyuz TM-20 launches
4.10.199529th Country Music Association Award: Krauss Jackson win
4.10.1995Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners
4.10.1996BPAA U.S. Bowling Open by Dave Husted
4.10.1996BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Liz Johnson
4.10.1996Shahid Afridi scores century in 37 balls for Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka
4.10.1997Farm Aid 10 concert cancelled due to weak ticket sales
5.10.610Heraclius' fleet takes Constantinople
5.10.8694th Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) opens
5.10.1349Paris' theologist Jean de Fayt warns for flagellanten at Avignon
5.10.1430Duke Philip the Good of Bourgondy visits Brussels
5.10.1450Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
5.10.1465French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout
5.10.1511Eedgenootschap signs anti-French Saint League
5.10.1511Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss
5.10.1568Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Stuart
5.10.1568Willem of Oranges army occupies Brabant
5.10.1572Spanish army under Alva's son Don Frederik plunders Mechelen
5.10.1582"Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries"
5.10.1632Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Groningen
5.10.1693Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages
5.10.1750"Carlo Goldoni's ""Il teatro comica,"" premieres in Venice"
5.10.1762"Opera ""Orfeo Ed Euridice"" is produced (Vienna)"
5.10.1777"Washington begins assault on Germantown, Penn"
5.10.1796Spain declares war on England
5.10.1813Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
5.10.1823Weber visits Beethoven
5.10.1830King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army
5.10.1833Charles Darwin moves with Parana to Santa Fe Bajada Argentina
5.10.1862"Battle of Big Hatchie River, MS"
5.10.1862"Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas"
5.10.1863Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides
5.10.1864"Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South"
5.10.1864"Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)"
5.10.1867Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska
5.10.1875"Palace Hotel on Market Street, San Francisco opens"
5.10.1877"Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War"
5.10.1892"Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup"
5.10.1896"William Gillette's ""Secret Service,"" premieres in New York City"
5.10.1897Solomon Andrees baloon/polar expedition reaches White Island
5.10.19006th U.S. Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 313 at Chicago GC Ill
5.10.1900Harry Vardon wins U.S. Open golf tournament
5.10.1905"Orville/Wilbur Wright's ""Flyer III"" flight 38.5 km in 38.3"""
5.10.1906"Henry Mathewson (New York Giants, Christy's brother) walks 14 men"
5.10.1907Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
5.10.1907"Philadelphia A's Rube Vickers no-hits Washington Senators, 4-0 in 5 inning game"
5.10.1908"Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar"
5.10.1908White Sox Ed Walsh tops Detroit 6-1 for his 40th victory
5.10.1910"Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic"
5.10.1911Italian troops occupy Tripoli
5.10.1912Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
5.10.1912Red Sox defeat A's 3-0 for then AL record 105th win
5.10.1912Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium
5.10.1916Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured
5.10.1919Norwegian population agrees to prohibition
5.10.1921"1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0"
5.10.1921Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
5.10.1922Yanks and Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series game
5.10.1923Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
5.10.19241st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in New York City Daily News
5.10.1925"WSM-AM in Nashville, Tenn begins radio transmissions"
5.10.1930"British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die"
5.10.1931"1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Washington (Herndon and Pangborn)"
5.10.1931"Paul Green's ""House of Connelly,"" premieres in New York City"
5.10.1937"Minister Romme says unemployment is 25% ""quarter of Romme"""
5.10.1941"Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yanks score 4 and win 7-4"
5.10.1942"5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred"
5.10.1942"St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series"
5.10.1943U.S. air raid on Wake
5.10.1944Harold Arlen/ET Harburgs musical premieres in New York City
5.10.1944Kerkrade (Neth) liberated
5.10.1945Indonesian army forms
5.10.1945"""Meet the Press"" premieres on radio"
5.10.1945Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam
5.10.1946"""Yours Is My Heart"" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 36 performances"
5.10.19471st Presidential address televised from White House-HS Truman
5.10.1947Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in World Series
5.10.1949"WBNS TV channel 10 in Columbus, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting"
5.10.1949"WOR (now WWOR) TV channel 9 in NY-Secaucus, New York (IND) begins"
5.10.1950"""Pardon Our French"" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 100 performances"
5.10.195219th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow
5.10.19526th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 1-1 at Detroit
5.10.1953"50th World Series sees New York Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as New York Billy Martin's 12 hits set record; Yanks win record 5th consec WS"
5.10.1953Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of U.S.
5.10.1954Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern U.S.
5.10.1956Yogi Berra becomes 4th Yank to hit a World Series grand slam
5.10.195711th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 at Montreal
5.10.1957"12th Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7 -4 at Lindrick GC, England"
5.10.1957Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years
5.10.1958"KRTV TV channel 3 in Great Falls, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting"
5.10.1958U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
5.10.1958U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
5.10.1960British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
5.10.1960Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
5.10.1960"KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting"
5.10.1961China and Nepal sign treaty
5.10.1962"Beatles release their 1st record ""Love Me Do"""
5.10.196317th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-3 at Toronto
5.10.1963Hyde St. Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
5.10.1963Little Richard joins Everly Brothers Tour
5.10.1964"KIXE TV channel 9 in Redding, California (PBS) begins broadcasting"
5.10.1964San Francisco Fire Department Museum is dedicated
5.10.1965"Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups"
5.10.1965Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite
5.10.1968Battles between Catholic demonstrators and police in Londonderry
5.10.1968"KPLM (now KESQ) TV channel 42 in Palm Springs, California (ABC) begins"
5.10.1969Carol Mann wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
5.10.1969Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC
5.10.1969Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal
5.10.1970"John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane"
5.10.1970PBS becomes a network
5.10.1970Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
5.10.1975U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
5.10.1976Seattle and Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters Ruppert Jones (Seattle) and Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st
5.10.1977"""Hair"" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 43 performances"
5.10.1978Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
5.10.1978Sweden's Falldin government falls
5.10.1980Formal opening of meditation hall of Zenshin Temple in Riverdale Bronx
5.10.1980Kathy Whitworth/Donna Caponi Young win Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
5.10.1980"Yanks set AL attendance mark at 2,627,417"
5.10.1981Dutch guilder/Deutsche mark revalued up 5.5%
5.10.1981Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American
5.10.1982"1st New Jersey Devils game, tie the Pitts Penguins 3-3 at the Meadowlands"
5.10.1982China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
5.10.1982Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia
5.10.1982"Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico"
5.10.1983Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize
5.10.198413th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched
5.10.1985Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
5.10.1986London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
5.10.1988Chilean population agrees at referendum against Pinochet regime
5.10.1988Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism
5.10.1988Brazil adopts its Constitution
5.10.1990Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos)
5.10.1991Actor Ted Shackelford (Knots Landing) weds Annett Wolf
5.10.1991Carlos Huerta's NCAA record streak of successful points after a touchdown ends at 157
5.10.1991"Fresno State ties NCAA record with 49 points in a quarter, as they route New Mexico 94-17"
5.10.1991"Military transport plane crashes at Djakarta, 133 dies"
5.10.1991New Jersey Devils begin their 10th Anniversary with a 7-2 win over the Blues
5.10.1991U.S.S.R. reduces nuclear weapons arsenal
5.10.19921st overturn of a George Bush veto (cable bill)
5.10.1992El Al cargo jet crashes into apartment complex in Amsterdam (250 die)
5.10.1992New York senator Alphonse D'Mato fillerbusters for 15 hours 20 mins
5.10.1992U.S. Air goes on strike
5.10.1993China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
5.10.1993Last honor guard at Lenin's mausoleum
5.10.1993Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor
5.10.199428th Country Music Association Award
5.10.1994"52 members of Zonnetempel, murdered"
5.10.1995"""Company"" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 68 performances"
5.10.1996Caroline Pierce wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
5.10.1996Cleveland Indians strike out 23 Baltimore Orioles in 12 inn playoff game
5.10.1996New York Yankee Bernie Williams switch hits home runs in a post season game
5.10.199735th Tennis Fed Cup: France beats Netherlands in Den Bosch Netherlands (4-1)
5.10.1997Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA CoreStates Betsy King Classic
5.10.1997"Davis Love III wins golf's Buick challenge, shooting a 267"
5.10.1997STS 86 (Atlantis 20) lands
5.10.1997Vantage Senior Golf Championship
6.10.891Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
6.10.1111Boudouin VII becomes earl of Flanders
6.10.1499French king Louis XII occupies Milan
6.10.1567Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of Netherlands
6.10.1689Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII
6.10.1762English troops occupy Manila Philippines
6.10.1777Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British
6.10.1781Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War
6.10.1783Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock
6.10.1799Battle at Castricum: French and Bataafs army beats English/Russian army
6.10.1811French emperor Napoleon visits Utrecht
6.10.1857American Chess Association organized; 1st major U.S. chess tournament (New York City)
6.10.1861"Naval Engagement at Charleston, South Carolina USS Flag vs BR Alert"
6.10.1861Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
6.10.1863Battle at Baxter Springs Kansas
6.10.1863"Dr. Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn"
6.10.1866"1st train robbery in U.S. (Reno Brothers take $13,000)"
6.10.1869"John Brahms' ""Liebeslieder Walzer,"" premieres"
6.10.1871Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour
6.10.1876American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
6.10.1882"1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0"
6.10.1884Naval War College forms in Newport RI
6.10.1886"Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure ""Resident Patient"""
6.10.1889Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
6.10.1889Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
6.10.1890Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
6.10.1893Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
6.10.1898Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic
6.10.1908Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
6.10.1908"Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant"
6.10.1908Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season
6.10.1910Braves beat Phillies 20-7
6.10.1911Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
6.10.1911Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game
6.10.1912"Pirates Owen ""Chief"" Wilson hits record 36th triple of season"
6.10.1918"U.S. ship Otranto sinks between Scotland and Ireland, 425 die"
6.10.1919Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria
6.10.1919White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series
6.10.1920"1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleve's Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln"
6.10.1921Century Theater opens at 7th Ave and 59th St. New York City (demolished 1962)
6.10.1921"Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yanks (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0"
6.10.1922Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslavakia
6.10.1923"1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)"
6.10.19232nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms
6.10.1923U.S. lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)
6.10.1923U.S.S.R. adopts experimental calendar
6.10.1925Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen Pangulos arrested
6.10.1926"Babe Ruth hits 3 home runs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5"
6.10.1927"""Jazz Singer,"" 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (New York City)"
6.10.192811th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms CC Baltimore
6.10.1928Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China
6.10.1928Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail
6.10.192912th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest CC Los Angeles
6.10.1931Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists)
6.10.1935Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
6.10.1935Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
6.10.1936New York Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series
6.10.1938Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
6.10.1939Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain
6.10.1939Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
6.10.1940Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat and Skyline in SF
6.10.1941"German army occupies Briansk, U.S.S.R."
6.10.1941"New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series"
6.10.1942Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
6.10.1943"Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island"
6.10.1943"Himmler wants acceleration of ""Final Solution"""
6.10.1944"Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel"
6.10.1944Canadians free Austria
6.10.1944HM Zwaardvis sinks U168 at Java
6.10.1944Soviets march into Hungary and Czechoslovakia
6.10.1945General Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train)
6.10.1945Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge
6.10.1945"Tavern owner ""Billy Goat"" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series and is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs"
6.10.194690 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
6.10.1946President Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
6.10.1947"New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series"
6.10.1948"KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, California (IND) begins broadcasting"
6.10.1948"""Polonaise"" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 113 performances"
6.10.1949"Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years and $10,000 fine"
6.10.1949President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
6.10.1951Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb
6.10.1953"WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting"
6.10.1955LSD made illegal in U.S.
6.10.1956Dmitri Shostakovitch's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad
6.10.1956Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
6.10.1956"South African politician ""Kobie"" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan"
6.10.1957U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
6.10.1957Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open
6.10.1958US nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole
6.10.1959"Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)"
6.10.1959"Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon"
6.10.1961John F. Kennedy advises Americans to build fallout shelters
6.10.1961U.S.S.R. performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar and Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
6.10.196216th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto
6.10.1962U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
6.10.1963"Barbra Streisand appears on ""Judy Garland Show"""
6.10.1963"Los Angeles Dodgers sweep New York Yankees, in 60th World Series"
6.10.1964"""Cambridge Circus"" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 23 performances"
6.10.1965"Supremes release ""I Hear a Symphony"""
6.10.1965"William Goodhart's ""Generation,"" premieres in New York City"
6.10.1966"Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout"
6.10.1966Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor
6.10.1967Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies
6.10.1967U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
6.10.1969"WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting"
6.10.1972"22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico"
6.10.1973Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
6.10.1974Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic
6.10.1974"""Mack and Mabel,"" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 66 performances"
6.10.1976Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack
6.10.1976"""Gang of Four"" arrested in Beijing"
6.10.1976"John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent"
6.10.1976"President Ford says there is ""no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"""
6.10.1977"DL Coburns ""Gin Game,"" premieres in New York City"
6.10.1977Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat Kansas City Royals 5-3 in 5th and deciding playoff game
6.10.1978Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of U.S. university (Chic)
6.10.1978Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
6.10.1978"Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in ""Some Girls"""
6.10.1978"Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5"
6.10.1979"Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9"""
6.10.1979Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House
6.10.1980Guyana adopts constitution
6.10.1980John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges
6.10.1982Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
6.10.1982"Fokker's Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die"
6.10.1983Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs
6.10.1983China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
6.10.1983Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
6.10.1983New York Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands
6.10.1983U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
6.10.1984Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open
6.10.1985Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia
6.10.1985Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games and also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
6.10.1986Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean
6.10.1987Milt coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic
6.10.1988Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
6.10.1990Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun
6.10.1990U.S. 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
6.10.1991Elizabeth Taylor weds for 8th time (Larry Fortensky)
6.10.1991Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship
6.10.1991New York Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
6.10.1991Orioles last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers)
6.10.1993"Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time"
6.10.1994Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa
6.10.1994European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria
6.10.1995BPAA U.S. Women's Open won by Cheryl Daniels
6.10.1995"Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit"
6.10.1996Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate
6.10.1996Caroline Pierce wins JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
6.10.1996New York Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals
7.10.336St. Mark ends his reign as Catholic Pope
7.10.1492Columbus misses Florida when he changed course
7.10.1506Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna
7.10.1520"1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain"
7.10.1542Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast
7.10.1571Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain and Italy) destroys Turkish fleet
7.10.1579English royal marriage of queen Elizabeth I to duke of Anjou
7.10.1637Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda
7.10.1690English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade
7.10.1702English/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond
7.10.1714People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth
7.10.1737"40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)"
7.10.1763"George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement"
7.10.1765Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York
7.10.1777Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga and Battle of Bemis Hts
7.10.1780"British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC"
7.10.1806Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
7.10.1816"1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans"
7.10.1826Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in U.S.) begins operations
7.10.1840Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands
7.10.1856"Cyrus Chambers, Jr. patents folding machine that folds book and newspapers"
7.10.1864Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil-CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett
7.10.1868Cornell University (Ithaca New York) opens
7.10.1870Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon
7.10.187116-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters
7.10.1879Germany and Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant
7.10.1882"1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0"
7.10.1886Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
7.10.1900"The term ""orienteering"" is 1st used for an event"
7.10.1904New York Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12)
7.10.1907France's Henry Farman flies 30m in a double decker plane
7.10.1908Crete revolts against Turkey and aligns with Greece
7.10.1908Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact
7.10.1913Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
7.10.1915Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
7.10.1916"222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech and Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee"
7.10.19191st London-Amsterdam airline service (Brit Aerial Transport and KLM)
7.10.1919"Fritz Kreisler and F Jacobi's ""Apple Blossoms,"" premieres in New York City"
7.10.1919"KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)"
7.10.1922"1st radio link, WNJ (Newark) and WGY (Senectady) link for World Series"
7.10.1922Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain
7.10.1922Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria
7.10.1923"Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138"
7.10.1924"160 consecutive days of 100 degrees at Marble Bar, Australia begins"
7.10.1924"Greek government of Dikalekopoulis, forms"
7.10.1926Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
7.10.1926Italian Great Fascist Council forms
7.10.1927Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
7.10.1928Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)
7.10.1928Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia
7.10.1929Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address U.S. Congress
7.10.1931"1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York"
7.10.1933"New York Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series"
7.10.1935"Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series"
7.10.19367th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel
7.10.1937"Johan Wagenaar's ""Feestmars"" premieres in Amsterdam"
7.10.1938Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J
7.10.1940Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
7.10.1941"German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R."
7.10.19421 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad
7.10.1942Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth)
7.10.1942"Maxwell Andersons ""Eve of St. Mark,"" premieres in New York City"
7.10.1942U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations
7.10.1942"Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ"
7.10.1943"Weill/Perelman/Nash' musical ""One Touch of Venus,"" premieres in New York City"
7.10.1944Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen
7.10.1944Fieldmarshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin
7.10.1944Riots in Amersfoort/Utrecht/Strugle
7.10.1944"Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums"
7.10.1944Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp
7.10.1945Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes
7.10.1946"Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet, premieres"
7.10.1947Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series
7.10.1949German Dem Rep formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day)
7.10.1949Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier of German DR
7.10.1949Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president of German DR
7.10.1950New York Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series
7.10.1950U.S. forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel
7.10.1950Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head
7.10.1950"Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game, 5-2"
7.10.1950"William H. Jackson, becomes deputy director of CIA"
7.10.1950Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies
7.10.1951David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
7.10.1952"1st ""Bandstand"" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)"
7.10.1952New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series
7.10.1952Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
7.10.1953"Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply"
7.10.1954"Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt"
7.10.1954Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem
7.10.1955Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched
7.10.1956Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open
7.10.1957"""American Bandstand"" premieres"
7.10.1957"KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting"
7.10.1957Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational
7.10.1958Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
7.10.1958U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
7.10.1959"Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of U.S.S.R.'s Luna 3"
7.10.1959"""Happy Town"" opens at 84th St. Theater New York City for 5 performances"
7.10.19602nd John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debate
7.10.1960"""Route 66"" premieres"
7.10.196115th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago
7.10.1961"""Bye Bye Birdie"" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 607 performances"
7.10.19628th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball
7.10.1962U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
7.10.1963Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
7.10.1963"Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190"
7.10.1963John F. Kennedy signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
7.10.1964New York Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 and 29th in 61 World Series
7.10.196550 mph gust carries 165 lb Robert Mitera's tee shot 447
7.10.1965"Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups"
7.10.1965"Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one"
7.10.1967Beatles turn down $1 million New York concert offer by Sid Berstein
7.10.1967"Rolf Hochhuths ""Soldaten,"" premieres in West Berlin"
7.10.1968Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
7.10.1969"WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting"
7.10.1971"T McNally's ""Where has Tommy Flowers gone?,"" premieres in New York City"
7.10.1972"1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2"
7.10.1973Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
7.10.1974German DR amends constitution
7.10.1975"Players' Assn, files a suit on behalf of Dodgers Andy Messersmith"
7.10.1975U.S. decides John Lennon won't be deported due to U.K. pot conviction
7.10.1977Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
7.10.1977U.S.S.R. adopts constitution
7.10.1978Los Angeles Dodgers win the pennant
7.10.1978U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
7.10.1979"""1940's Radio Hour"" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 105 performances"
7.10.1979Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns
7.10.1979Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
7.10.1979"""Eubie!"" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 439 performances"
7.10.1979U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
7.10.1980Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns
7.10.1981Hosni Mubarak became acting-president of Egypt
7.10.1981In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
7.10.1982"""Cats"" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 5000+ performances"
7.10.1982Olof Palme forms Swedish government
7.10.1984"Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, San Diego Padres win pennant"
7.10.1984Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader
7.10.198521st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
7.10.1985KHQ-AM in Spokane Washington's final transmission
7.10.1985"Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters"
7.10.1985PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
7.10.1986"1st edition British newspaper ""Independent"" begins publishing"
7.10.1988Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as New York Yankee manager
7.10.1988Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
7.10.1988Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by U.S.S.R.
7.10.1988Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time
7.10.1988Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson
7.10.1988"WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 and WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (New York City radio)"
7.10.1989Howard Stern's U.S. Open Sores Tennis match
7.10.1989Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
7.10.1989Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
7.10.1990Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
7.10.1990Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
7.10.1991Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
7.10.1991Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her
7.10.1991"Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal and Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in New York thoroughbred racing history"
7.10.1992Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)
7.10.1993"""Les Miserables,"" opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines"
7.10.1993"Massive Moslem demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed"
7.10.1993Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison
7.10.1993"""She Loves Me"" opens at Atkinson Theater New York City for 294 performances"
7.10.1994China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
7.10.1994Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan
7.10.1994Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government
7.10.1994Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
7.10.1995"Boston's Fleet Center opens, New York Islanders and Boston Bruins tie at 4-4"
7.10.1995Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees
8.10.314Battle at Cibalae: emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius
8.10.451Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
8.10.876Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare
8.10.1085San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated
8.10.1492Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico
8.10.1600San Marino adopts constitution
8.10.1604"Supernova ""Kepler's nova"" 1st sighted"
8.10.1625Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz
8.10.1633Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government
8.10.1690Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
8.10.1712French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast
8.10.1740Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia
8.10.1775Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army
8.10.1806"British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve"
8.10.1813Treaty of Ried between Bayern and Austria
8.10.1815"Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo, Italy"
8.10.18182 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves
8.10.18221st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
8.10.1835"HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago"
8.10.18401st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
8.10.1842Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach
8.10.1856"Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War"
8.10.1860Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens
8.10.1862"Battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted"
8.10.1862Otto von Bismarck becomes German republic chancellor
8.10.1865Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
8.10.1871"Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin"
8.10.1871"Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4miles (10 km) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation"
8.10.18731st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
8.10.1886"Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure ""Noble Bachelor"""
8.10.1887Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
8.10.1892"Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs ""Prelude in C-sharp-Minor"" in Moscow"
8.10.1895Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
8.10.1896Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks
8.10.1897Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera
8.10.1898"1st Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2"
8.10.1903"J. M. Synge's ""In the Shadow of the Glen,"" premieres in Dublin"
8.10.1904"1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, New York)"
8.10.1906"Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London"
8.10.1908"New York Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)"
8.10.1909Chicago Cubs beat New York Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
8.10.19121st Balkan War begins - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
8.10.1912"Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War"
8.10.1915"Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British and Germans killed"
8.10.1915"Phillies win their 1st and only World Series game before 1980, beating"
8.10.1915"Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally"
8.10.1917Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet
8.10.1918"Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans"
8.10.1922"New York Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series"
8.10.1924British Labour government of MacDonald falls to Communists
8.10.1927New York Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series
8.10.1927Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)
8.10.1928"Cole Porter and E Ray Goetz' musical ""Paris,"" premieres in New York City"
8.10.1928Eastern Soccer League forms in U.S.
8.10.1929A's Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs
8.10.1929Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi
8.10.1930"Philadelphia A's beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series"
8.10.1933"Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters"
8.10.1933Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish government
8.10.1934Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
8.10.1935Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie and Harriet)
8.10.1938"G Kaufman and Moss Hart's ""Fabulous Invalid,"" premieres in New York City"
8.10.1939Germany annexes Western Poland
8.10.1939"New York Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win"
8.10.1940"Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series"
8.10.1940German troops occupies Romania
8.10.1941Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built
8.10.1942"Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)"
8.10.1943Great-Britain establishes bases on Azores
8.10.1944"""Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"" debut on CBS radio"
8.10.1944"Samuel Barber's ""Capricorn Concerto,"" premieres"
8.10.1945Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
8.10.1946Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as president of China
8.10.1946"Milt plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die"
8.10.19504th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit
8.10.1950"Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17"
8.10.1951Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League
8.10.1951"""Music in the Air"" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 56 performances"
8.10.1952"2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)"
8.10.1952Chinese offensive in Korea
8.10.1953"Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in and drops white players from his group"
8.10.1953"WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins"
8.10.1955"Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga launched"
8.10.1956"Don Larsen, New York, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn"
8.10.1957Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
8.10.1957Procter and Gamble-director N McElroy becomes U.S. Min of Defense
8.10.1957Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (New York City)
8.10.1957Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire
8.10.1958Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time
8.10.1958Dr. Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker in Stockholm
8.10.1958"KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting"
8.10.1958U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
8.10.1959"""At the Drop of a Hat"" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 216 performances"
8.10.1959Conservatives win British election
8.10.1959"Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series"
8.10.1960Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer
8.10.1961Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Bill Brannin's Swing Parade Golf Tournament
8.10.1961"U.S. Constellation crashes at Richmond, Virginia, 74 die"
8.10.1961U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
8.10.1961"Whitey Ford breaks Babe Ruth's World Series record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, running his streak to 32"
8.10.1962Algeria admitted as 109th member of U.N.
8.10.1962"North Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party"
8.10.1963Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
8.10.1964Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st U.S. chief engraver to retire (than die)
8.10.1965Djakarta Moslems set fire to PKI-headquarter
8.10.1965"London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England"
8.10.1965Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms
8.10.1965U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
8.10.1966"Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52)"
8.10.1968Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina
8.10.1970Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
8.10.1971"John Lennon releases his megahit ""Imagine"""
8.10.1971U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
8.10.1972"""From Israel with Love"" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 8 performances"
8.10.1972Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
8.10.1972"In Game 2 of ALCS, A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher"
8.10.1973NLCS game 3 brawl between Cins' Pete Rose and New York Met Bud Harrelson
8.10.1973Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece
8.10.1976Sex Pistols sign with EMI
8.10.1977"Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)"
8.10.1978Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph)
8.10.1978"Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City"
8.10.1979"J McHugh and A Malvin's musical ""Sugar Babies,"" premieres in New York City"
8.10.1979"""Sugar Babies"" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 1208 performances"
8.10.1980"Bob Marley collapses on stage, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital"
8.10.1980British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
8.10.1980U.S.S.R. and Syria sign peace treaty
8.10.1980U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
8.10.1981"1st broadcast of ""Cagney and Lacey"" on ABC-TV"
8.10.1981"President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral"
8.10.1981USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Al Unser
8.10.1982"New Jersey Devils 1st victory, beating New York Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands"
8.10.1982Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions
8.10.19831st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
8.10.1983Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to New York Islanders 8-7
8.10.198418th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
8.10.1985"Alain Boubil/Herbert Kretzner's ""Les Miserables,"" premieres in London"
8.10.1985Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident
8.10.1985"""Rembrandt and Hitler or Me"" premieres in Amsterdam"
8.10.1986"Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0"
8.10.1986RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs
8.10.1988"Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage"
8.10.1988Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
8.10.1989"Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series"
8.10.199024th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins
8.10.1990Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
8.10.1990U.S. doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
8.10.1992Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
8.10.1992Ottawa Sentors 1st NHL game
8.10.1992"Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus"
8.10.1993"Howard Stern releases his 1st book ""Private Parts"""
8.10.1993Qn Elizabeth's nephew Viscount Linley (32) weds Serena Stanhope (24)
8.10.1993U.N. lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
8.10.1994BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
8.10.1995Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record
8.10.1995Edgar Martinez drives home tying and winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees and win AL Division Series
9.10.680"Husain ibn 'Ali, Shi'i religious leader, enters martyrdom"
9.10.768Charles the Great and Charlamane II divide French republic
9.10.869Charles the Bare crowned king of Lotharingen
9.10.1000"Leif Ericson discovers ""Vinland"" (possibly New England)"
9.10.1192Richard Coeur de Leeuw leaves Jerusalem in disguise
9.10.1290"Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves"
9.10.1446Korean Hangual alphabet devised
9.10.1514"King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII"
9.10.1573Don Frederik disbands siege of Alkmaar
9.10.1597Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort
9.10.1617Peace of Pavia (Spain and Savoye)
9.10.1621Turkey and Poland signs Peace of Chotin
9.10.1635Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
9.10.1651English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off
9.10.1655Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow
9.10.1668"Mass society storms palace of ""heretics"" Spanish Governor Jose de Paternina"
9.10.1701"Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven"
9.10.1708Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy
9.10.1716England and France sign treaty
9.10.1740Netherlands gov-general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia
9.10.1760Russian/Austrian army occupies Berlin
9.10.1776Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay
9.10.1794French troops occupy Hertogenbosch
9.10.1799British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast
9.10.1804Hobart Tasmania founded
9.10.1817University of Gent officially opens
9.10.1818Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya
9.10.1820"Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador"
9.10.1837"Steamboat ""Home"" sinks off Okracoke North Carolina killing 100"
9.10.1855Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
9.10.1855"Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope"
9.10.1863"Battle of Brady Station, Virginia (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)"
9.10.1864Battle of Tom's Brook-Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is wipped by Custer and Merrit's cavalry divisions
9.10.18651st U.S. underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
9.10.1870Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree
9.10.1872Aaron Montgomery started his mail-order business
9.10.1874"World Postal Union forms in Bern, Switzerland"
9.10.1876"1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires"
9.10.1877American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland)
9.10.1888Washington Monument opens for public admittance
9.10.1890"Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure ""Red-Headed League"""
9.10.18991st British troops reaches Durban South Africa
9.10.1899South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum
9.10.1900"8.3 earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska"
9.10.1903"11"" (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hours (New York City)"
9.10.1905"Philadelphia A's meet Giants in World Series, Giants win 3-0"
9.10.1909Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game
9.10.1910"Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won"
9.10.1914German troops take Antwerp in World War I
9.10.1915"Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders"
9.10.1915"Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York"
9.10.1915"Louis Kaufmans ""Unchastened Woman,"" premieres in New York City"
9.10.1915Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st President to attend a World Series game
9.10.1916Babe Ruth begins 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings
9.10.1916Babe Ruth pitches and wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1
9.10.1920"1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1"
9.10.1921Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
9.10.1926Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution
9.10.1926NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
9.10.1928"Marcel Pagnol's ""Topaz,"" premieres in Paris"
9.10.1928New York Yankees become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series
9.10.1928"New York Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game"
9.10.1929"G Kaufman and R Lardner's musical ""June Moon,"" premieres in New York City"
9.10.1930"1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls"
9.10.1934"St. Louis Cardinals beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series"
9.10.1936Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
9.10.1938"A Copland and E Lorings ballet ""Billy the Kid,"" premieres in Chicago"
9.10.1938Cleveland Browns and Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game
9.10.1938"New York Yankees sweep Cubs in 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win"
9.10.1944British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow
9.10.1944British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin
9.10.1944Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders
9.10.1944German occupier turn off electricity in Amsterdam
9.10.1944"St. Louis Cardinals beat St. Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series"
9.10.1945British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
9.10.19461st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
9.10.1946"Eugene O'Neill's ""Iceman Cometh,"" premieres in New York City"
9.10.19471st telephone conversation between a moving car and a plane
9.10.1947"""High Button Shoes"" opens at Century Theater New York City for 727 performances"
9.10.1947"Julie Styne and Sam Cohn's musical ""High Button Shoes,"" premieres in New York City"
9.10.1948"WXYZ TV channel 7 in Detroit, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting"
9.10.1949New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 46th World Series
9.10.19515th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 2-2 at Toronto
9.10.1951Gil McDougald's World Series grand slam helps Yanks beat Giants 13-1
9.10.1953British premier Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution
9.10.1953Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor
9.10.1954"KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting"
9.10.1955Betty Jameson wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open
9.10.195610th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal
9.10.1957Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
9.10.1958Israeli Navy inaugrates it's 1st submarine
9.10.1958New York Yankees appear in 9 and win 7 of last 10 World Series
9.10.1958New York Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series
9.10.19591st phone call between auto and plane
9.10.1959Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton
9.10.1960"Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2"")"
9.10.1961"New York Yankees beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series"
9.10.1961Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth
9.10.1961U.S. members of Communist Party obliged to report themselves to Police
9.10.1961Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
9.10.1961World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
9.10.1961Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning
9.10.1962Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130
9.10.1962"NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m"
9.10.1963"British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns"
9.10.1963"Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die"
9.10.1963French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons
9.10.1963"Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba and Haiti, kills 6,000"
9.10.1965"16th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 19 -12 at Royal Birkdale, England"
9.10.1965"Beatles' ""Yesterday,"" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks"
9.10.1966"Baltimore Orioles sweep Los Angeles Dodgers, in 63rd World Series"
9.10.1966John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at a London art gallery
9.10.1966"Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded ""Got Live if you Want It"""
9.10.1968Government seizes oil fields in Peru
9.10.1968"WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting"
9.10.1969"Supremes release ""Someday We'll Be Together"""
9.10.1970Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
9.10.1971Japans emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands
9.10.1971U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
9.10.1972"""Dude"" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 16 performances"
9.10.19731st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942
9.10.1973Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
9.10.1973Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal
9.10.1973Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors
9.10.1974Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager (Cleve Indians)
9.10.1974"Race riot in Boston due to ""busing"""
9.10.1974"Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to New York Rangers at MSG Washington Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak"
9.10.1975Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco
9.10.1975Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
9.10.1976Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut NZ vs. Pak Javed 1st wkt
9.10.1976"""Robber Bridegroom"" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 145 performances"
9.10.1976"TCricket est debut of Javed Miandad, scores 163 on 1st day"
9.10.1976"Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1"
9.10.1977Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic
9.10.1977"Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock"
9.10.1977Yanks rally for 3 in 9th and beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31
9.10.197812th Country Music Association Award
9.10.1978"John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical ""Ballroom,"" premieres in New York City"
9.10.1979"Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford, Conn"
9.10.19801st consumer use of home banking by computer
9.10.1980Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
9.10.1980Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot
9.10.1982"Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead"
9.10.19834 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
9.10.1984Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st U.S. woman to walk in space
9.10.1985"Central Park's Strawberry Fields, dedicated"
9.10.1985"""Tango Argentino"" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 198 performances"
9.10.1985U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
9.10.1986"Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals"
9.10.1986"""Phantom of the Opera"" premeires in London"
9.10.1986Senate convicted U.S. District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
9.10.1987"Japanese bank buys ""Lady McGill"" stamp for $1,100,000"
9.10.198817% vote extremely-right Flemish Block in Belgium
9.10.1988"Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series"
9.10.1989"1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his Los Angeles Raiders beat New York Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football"
9.10.1989"23rd Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Kathy Mattea wins"
9.10.198927th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0)
9.10.1990"David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice"
9.10.1990"Radio stations around world play ""Imagine"" honoring John Lennon"
9.10.1990Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
9.10.1991"Bush declares ""total confidence"" in nominee Clarence Thomas"
9.10.1991"""On Borrowed Time"" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 99 performances"
9.10.1991"San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win, 4-3"
9.10.1992Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to New York
9.10.1994Darmstadt creates element 110
9.10.1996"Howard Stern's book ""Miss America"" released in paperback"
9.10.1997ABL players allowed to own stock in the league
9.10.1997Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico
9.10.1997NC's Dean Smith winningest college basetball coach retires
9.10.1997New York Rangers are 1st NHL team to open with 4 straight ties
9.10.1997Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo
10.10.680Battle at Kerbela: Kalief Yazid beats pretender al-Hussein
10.10.1375Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands
10.10.1471Battle of Brunkeberg Stockholm (Sten Sture beats Christian I)
10.10.1549Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector and imprisoned
10.10.1578Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen
10.10.1631Saxon army occupies Prague
10.10.1695"King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England"
10.10.1720French government proclaims strike on banknotes
10.10.1733France declares war on emperor Charles VI
10.10.1760Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)
10.10.1780"Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean"
10.10.1787Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army
10.10.1799Convention of Alkmaar: English/Russian invasion army departs
10.10.18021st non indian settlement in Oklahoma
10.10.1839British troops under Gen Charles Napier occupy Beirut
10.10.1845Naval School (now called U.S. Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
10.10.1846"Alexis the Tocqueville writes about ""Algerian problem"""
10.10.1846Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
10.10.1854"U.S. Assay Office in New York City, New York opens"
10.10.1857American Chess Association formed (New York City)
10.10.1863"Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)"
10.10.1865John Hyatts patents billard ball
10.10.18681st written account of a Canadian football game
10.10.1868Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
10.10.1874Fiji becomes a British possession
10.10.1886"1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, New York (tuxedo)"
10.10.1888"Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)"
10.10.1892"Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan"
10.10.1899IR Johnson patents bicycle frame
10.10.1902S Afr's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht
10.10.1904"Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete games AL 1,098, NL 1,089"
10.10.1904Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St. New York City
10.10.1904Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 41 game winner Chesbro loses 1st game and chance at pennant
10.10.1908"Baseball Writers Association, formed"
10.10.1911Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day)
10.10.1913British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill)
10.10.1913Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic and Pacific waters mix
10.10.1913Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China
10.10.1914German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
10.10.1916"In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3"
10.10.1917Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter
10.10.1917Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St. New York City
10.10.1918Baden's Geisz forms government
10.10.1919Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna
10.10.19201st Grandslam in WS (Smith) and 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
10.10.1920Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play
10.10.1920Indian's Elmer Smith hits 1st World Series grand slam
10.10.1920Indians' Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st post-season grand slam
10.10.1920Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)
10.10.1920"Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie"
10.10.1921"NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10"
10.10.1923"New York Giants and New York Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium"
10.10.1923Saxony gets Social Democratic and Communist coalition government
10.10.1924Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca
10.10.1924Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7
10.10.1926"St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series"
10.10.1930AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP and BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
10.10.1930Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
10.10.1931A J Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canada's Big 4
10.10.1931"St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series"
10.10.1931"William Waltons ""Belshazzar's Feast,"" premieres in Leeds"
10.10.1932"""Betty and Bob"" premieres on radio"
10.10.1932Dnjepr Dam in U.S.S.R. put into operation (world's biggest)
10.10.1933"1st synthetic detergent, ""Dreft"" by Procter and Gamble, goes on sale"
10.10.1935Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy
10.10.1935"George Gershwin's ""Porgy and Bess"" opens on Broadway"
10.10.1935League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
10.10.1935"""Porgy and Bess,"" by George Gershwin, New York premiere"
10.10.1936Bradman scores 212 in 202 mins in a cricket testimonial game
10.10.1937New York Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series
10.10.1938Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
10.10.1938Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st String Quartet
10.10.1941German U-boat torpedoes U.S. destroyer Kearney
10.10.1942"1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt"
10.10.1943Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
10.10.1943"U.S. bombers accidentally strike Enschede Neth, causing 151 deaths"
10.10.1944"Adm Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die"
10.10.1944U.S. takes Okinawa
10.10.1945"Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series"
10.10.1946"Max Frisch' ""Die Chinesische Mauer,"" premieres in Zurich"
10.10.1947"""Allegro"" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 318 performances"
10.10.1947"Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical ""Allegro,"" premieres in New York City"
10.10.1948"Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland"
10.10.19493rd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Toronto
10.10.1951"Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game"
10.10.1954Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out
10.10.1956"Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match vs. Aus, Karachi"
10.10.1956On Skowron's grand slammer New York Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
10.10.1957Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale
10.10.1957Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series
10.10.1957"Milwaukee Braves beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series"
10.10.1957"President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant"
10.10.1957U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
10.10.1958U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
10.10.1958U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
10.10.1959"""Happy Town"" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 5 performances"
10.10.1959Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
10.10.1959Pan Am begins regular flights around World
10.10.196016 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
10.10.1960Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die
10.10.1960"""Laughs and Other Events"" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 8 performances"
10.10.1960Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
10.10.1960"WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting"
10.10.1961Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros and New York Mets
10.10.1961"""Milk and Honey"" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 543 performances"
10.10.1961Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
10.10.1961U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
10.10.1962Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
10.10.1963"Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die"
10.10.1963"Netherland population hits 12,000,000"
10.10.1963"Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by U.S., UK, U.S.S.R."
10.10.196418th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
10.10.196418th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2 at Toronto
10.10.1965"""Drat! - The Cat!"" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 8 performances"
10.10.1965Supreme appear on Ed Sullivan Show
10.10.1965"""Vinland Map"" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson"
10.10.1967"Brendan Behans ""Norstal Boy,"" premieres in Dublin"
10.10.1968"Detroit Tigers beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series"
10.10.1968George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd.
10.10.1968Lee Evans of U.S. sets 400 meter record at 43.86
10.10.1968U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
10.10.1970Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
10.10.1971"1st game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1"
10.10.19715th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins
10.10.1971"Fenholt and Webber's musical ""Jesus Christ Superstar,"" premieres in New York City"
10.10.1971"Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962"
10.10.1972Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
10.10.1973New York Mets beat Cin Reds in Game 5 of the NLCS
10.10.1973Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns
10.10.1974A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley
10.10.1974"Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles"
10.10.1974Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
10.10.1974U.S. Gen George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series
10.10.1975Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
10.10.1975Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)
10.10.1976Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow
10.10.1976"Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33"
10.10.1976New Jersey Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
10.10.197711th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins
10.10.1978Aerosmith's Steve Tyler and Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb
10.10.1978"British pop magazine ""Smash Hits,"" 1st published"
10.10.1978Congress approves Susan B. Anthony Dollar
10.10.1978Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya
10.10.1978Steve Perry joins Journey
10.10.1978Yanks and Dodgers play in World Series # 75
10.10.1979Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood
10.10.1979Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game
10.10.1979Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
10.10.1979Recorded trace of snow in Central Park New York City
10.10.1980"4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria"
10.10.1980Very Large Array radio telescope network dedicated
10.10.1980Yanks lose 4-2 and are swept by Royals in AL Championship series
10.10.1981Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo
10.10.1982Brewers beat Angels in ALCS
10.10.1982Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia
10.10.1982"Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint"
10.10.1982U.S. imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
10.10.198317th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
10.10.1983Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM
10.10.1983Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers
10.10.1985Sudan adopts interim constitution
10.10.1985"U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody"
10.10.1986"7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador"
10.10.1986Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns
10.10.1987"Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album ""Tunnel of Love"""
10.10.1987"Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks"
10.10.1987Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record HR in his 4th cons game
10.10.1988"22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win"
10.10.1988"Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989"
10.10.1990Oakland A's sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS
10.10.1990U.S. 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space
10.10.1991Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
10.10.1991Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
10.10.1991U.S. cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
10.10.1992Actress Ally Sheedy weds actor David Lansbury
10.10.1992Actress Heather Thomas weds entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham
10.10.1992"Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague, Netherlands"
10.10.1993Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception (97 yds)
10.10.1993"Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed"
10.10.1993"Ted Kennedy, Jr. (32) weds psychiatrist Katherine Gershman (34)"
10.10.1994Lt-general Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti
10.10.1994MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
10.10.1994New York Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56
10.10.1994Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell
10.10.1994"Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar"
10.10.1995"""Garden District"" opens at Circle in the Sq Theater New York City"
10.10.1995"Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners"
10.10.1995Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
10.10.1996Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in New York City
11.10.732Battle at Tours: France under Karel Martel beat Moors
11.10.1492Columbus' ships sites land on the horizon (Bahamas)
11.10.1521"Pope Leo X titles King Henry VIII of England ""Defender of the Faith"""
11.10.1531Battle at Kappel: Swiss RC kantons beat protestant
11.10.1540"Emperor Karel names his son Philip, duke of Milan"
11.10.1573Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy
11.10.1643Battle at Wincebt: English New Model-army beats royalists
11.10.1674"Pierre Corneille's ""Surena,"" premieres in Paris"
11.10.1687Hungary accepts Habsburgse sovereignty
11.10.1689Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia
11.10.1698"France, England and Netherlands signs 1st Extermination treaty"
11.10.1726Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England
11.10.1737"Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys of Calcutta India"
11.10.1746Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Neth armies
11.10.1776Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British
11.10.1797Battle at Kamperduin: English fleet destroys Bataafse
11.10.1797"British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, Netherlands"
11.10.1811"The Juliana, 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation"
11.10.1861"Battle of Dumfries, Virginia (Quantico Creek)"
11.10.1863"Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee"
11.10.1864Slavery abolished in Maryland
11.10.1865President Johnson paroles CSA VP Alexander Stephens
11.10.1868Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine
11.10.1871"Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed"
11.10.1873Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to University of Toronto
11.10.1881David Houston patents roll film for cameras
11.10.1887A Miles patents elevator
11.10.1890"1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 secs, Washington D.C.)"
11.10.1890Daughters of American Revolution forms
11.10.1895Emperor Menelik II of Addis Ababa draws against Italians
11.10.1899South African Boers declare war on Great Britain
11.10.19028th U.S. Golf Open: Laurie Auchterlonie shoots a 307 at Garden City NY
11.10.1902Commencement of 1st Test Cricket between South Africa and Australia
11.10.1902Lawrence Auchterlonie wins U.S. Open golf tournament
11.10.1906"San Francisco begins school for ""Asians"""
11.10.1906White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game
11.10.1911"Ty Cobb (AL) and Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto"
11.10.1913"Philadelphia A's beat New York Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series"
11.10.1914German troops occupy Gent
11.10.1915Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins
11.10.19191st transcontinental air race ends
11.10.1922"1st woman FBI ""special investigator"" appointed (Alaska Davidson)"
11.10.1922Turkey and Greece sign cease fire
11.10.1923Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs in a World Series game
11.10.1925Belgian episcopelian sspeaks against Flemish activism
11.10.1925"New York Giants play 1st NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0"
11.10.1927Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible)
11.10.1929"Sean O'Casey's ""Silver Tassle,"" premieres in London"
11.10.1931"100,000 extreme-right Germans form ""Harzburger Front"""
11.10.1932"1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, New York City"
11.10.1932Stalin forces Zinoviev and Kamenev out of Communist Party
11.10.1936"""Professor Quiz,"" 1st radio quiz show premieres"
11.10.1939Albert Einstein informs Franklin D. Roosevelt of possibilities of atomic bomb
11.10.1939Bucky Harris signs to manage Washington again
11.10.1939"Gertrude Lawrence's ""Skylark,"" premieres in New York City"
11.10.1939NAACP organized Legal Defense and Education Fund
11.10.19411st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front
11.10.1943"New York Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, to become 1st team to win 10 World Series"
11.10.1944Allies bomb sea wall at Veere
11.10.1945"Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung"
11.10.1945JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere)
11.10.1947Brazil and Chile break diplomatic relations with U.S.S.R.
11.10.1948"Cleveland Indians beat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series"
11.10.1948"""Love Life"" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 252 performances"
11.10.1948"""Where's Chartev?"" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 792 performances"
11.10.1954"""On Your Toes"" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 64 performances"
11.10.1954Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam
11.10.1955All Peron feast days disposed of in Argentina
11.10.1955Persia signs Pact of Baghdad
11.10.19561st Pakistan vs. Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day
11.10.1956"AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners"
11.10.1956Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
11.10.1958"2nd U.S. Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back"
11.10.1958"""Goldilocks"" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 161 performances"
11.10.1959"KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting"
11.10.1960"Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)"
11.10.1960Radio-TV exec John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Det Tigers
11.10.1961U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
11.10.1961"USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m"
11.10.19621st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show
11.10.19622nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
11.10.1964Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Hillside House Ladies' Golf Open
11.10.1967"World Series record 3 consecutive home runs (Carl Yastremski, Reggie Smith, and Rico Petrocelli) by Red Sox"
11.10.1967Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
11.10.1968"Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours"
11.10.1968Billy Martin named manager of Twins
11.10.1968Panama revolts
11.10.1969Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3
11.10.1969Rome: 2nd bishop synod
11.10.1969Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 and 8 follow in next 2 days
11.10.197160th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2)
11.10.1971"Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times"
11.10.1971Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show
11.10.1971Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam
11.10.1972Panama adopts constitution
11.10.1972Prison uprising at Washington D.C. jail
11.10.1972Reads beat Pirates in NLCS
11.10.1973Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant
11.10.1974A's Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract
11.10.1975Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham
11.10.1975Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick
11.10.1975Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host
11.10.1975"""Saturday Night Live"" premieres with guest host George Carlin"
11.10.197610th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins
11.10.1976"Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing and ""Gang of Four,"" arrested and charged with plotting a coup"
11.10.1977Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
11.10.1978Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
11.10.1978Belgium government of Tindemans resigns
11.10.1978Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th
11.10.1979Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan
11.10.1979German DR frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro and Nico Hubner
11.10.1979"""Most Happy Fella"" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 53 performances"
11.10.1980Cosmonauts Popov and Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
11.10.1980Dallas Mavericks 1st game at Reunion Arena beat San Antonio 103-92
11.10.1980U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
11.10.1981"Expos beat Phillies, 3 games to 2, in NLCS"
11.10.1981Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
11.10.1981LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)
11.10.1981Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
11.10.1981Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 and win only Eastern Championship Series
11.10.198216th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson and Ricky Skagg
11.10.1982"English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England"
11.10.1982Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire
11.10.1983"Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial"
11.10.1984"1st space walk by U.S. woman, Kathryn D. Sullivan"
11.10.1984"August Wilson's ""Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,"" premieres in New York City"
11.10.1984NASA launches space vehicle S-208
11.10.1984VP candidate debate-Graldine Ferraro (D) and George Bush (R)
11.10.1985Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
11.10.1985President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
11.10.1985U.S. intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists
11.10.1986Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Iceland
11.10.1987"200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington"
11.10.1990Center for Urban archaeology opens in New York City South Street Seaport Museum
11.10.1990"""Miser"" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 93 performances"
11.10.1990Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
11.10.1990Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
11.10.1991Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her
11.10.1991Chip Beck ties PGA lowest 18 hole score of 59
11.10.1991Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute
11.10.1992Toronto down 6-1 in 7th beats A's 7-6 in 11th in AL playoff
11.10.19921st 3-way presidential debate (Bush-Clinton-Perot)
11.10.1992"Deion Sanders, plays for Atlanta Falcons (NFL) and Braves (Baseball)"
11.10.1993Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack
11.10.1993US warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti
11.10.1994"Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar"
11.10.1994"Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), lands"
11.10.1995John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches
11.10.1995O. J. Simpson cancels a TV appearance on Dateline
11.10.1996Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million
11.10.1997Dennis Rodman returns from 2nd longest NBA suspension (11 games)
11.10.1998Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail LPGA Tournament
12.10.638Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope; Pope Severinus elected
12.10.642John IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
12.10.1165Rambam reaches Jerusalem
12.10.1285"180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire"
12.10.1366King Frederick III of Siciliy forbids decorations on synagogues
12.10.1459Battle at Ludfor: Richard of York defeated
12.10.1492Columbus arrives in Bahamas [real Columbus Day]
12.10.1492Flemish rebel leader Philip van Kleef surrenders
12.10.1504Queen Isabella I of Spain signs her testament
12.10.1509Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy
12.10.1518Pontifical ambassador interrogates Martin Luther
12.10.1549John Dudley earl of Warwick becomes English premier
12.10.1576Rudolf II succeeds Maximilian II as arch duke of Austria
12.10.1609"Children's rhyme ""Three Blind Mice,"" published in London"
12.10.1654"Kruittoren van Delft, explodes, 50-100 killed"
12.10.1659English Rump-government fires John Lambert and other generals
12.10.1692Massachusetts Bay discontinues witch trials
12.10.1702Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch and English fleet destroy and occupy Spanish silver fleet and French squadron
12.10.1711Karel VI Habsburg crowned Roman Catholic emperor
12.10.1729Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Gelderland
12.10.1730Christian VI succeeds Frederik IV as king of Denmark
12.10.1775U.S. Navy forms
12.10.1776British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in Bronx
12.10.1792Columbus Day is 1st celebrated
12.10.1798Flemish uprising against French occupied Boerenkrijg
12.10.1798"Friedrich von Schillers ""Wallensteins Lager,"" premieres in Weimar"
12.10.1815Ex-king Joachim Murat van Naples sentenced to death
12.10.18222nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain
12.10.1823Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs)
12.10.1833Charles Darwin begins return trip to Buenos Aires
12.10.1836"18"" of snow falls in Bridgewater, New York"
12.10.1850"1st women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens"
12.10.1853"John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans"
12.10.1854Lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute
12.10.1860British and French troops capture Beijing
12.10.1861Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi
12.10.1862"JEB Stuart completes his ""2nd ride around McClellan"""
12.10.1862Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf troops in Missisippi
12.10.1862"Skirmish at Monocacy, Maryland"
12.10.1871President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan
12.10.1872Montreal Foot Ball Club 1st game playing Quebec City to 0-0 tie
12.10.1879British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan
12.10.1881Henry M. Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
12.10.1886"Hurricane and sea surge kills 250 at Indianola, Texas"
12.10.1886"Start of Sherlock Holmes ""Adventure of 2nd Stain"""
12.10.1891Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated
12.10.1892Pledge of Allegiance 1st recited in public schools
12.10.1899South Africa Boer Republic declares war on England
12.10.1901"Theodore Roosevelt renames ""Executive Mansion,"" ""The White House"""
12.10.1903Lyric Theater opens at 213 W 42nd St. New York City
12.10.1907Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 0 with 1 tie in 4th World Series
12.10.1913"John McGraw, after drinking, blames Wilbert Robinson's coaching mistakes for World Series lose, Robertson blames McGraw and is fired"
12.10.1914"1st battle at Ypres, begins"
12.10.1915Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile
12.10.1915"Theodore Roosevelt criticizes U.S. citzens who identify themselves, with dual nationalities"
12.10.1916"Boston Red Sox beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 13th World Series"
12.10.19181st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)
12.10.1918"Cloquet Minnesota and 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die"
12.10.1918Forest fire in Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin kills about 800
12.10.1920"Cleveland Indians beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 5 games to 2 in 17th World Series"
12.10.1920Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City
12.10.1920Man O'War's last race and win
12.10.1920Soccer team Quick '20 forms
12.10.1923New York Giant's Casey Stengel HR beats Yanks 1-0 in World Series
12.10.1924Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow
12.10.1925Albert Michelsen runs world record marathon (2:19:01.8)
12.10.1925German-Russian trade agreement signed
12.10.1927"Hermann Gorner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet"
12.10.1929"Cubs blow 8-0 World Series lead, A's score 10 in 1 inning"
12.10.19311st International Conference on Calendar Reform
12.10.1933Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
12.10.1933"John Dillinger escapes from Allen County, OH, jail"
12.10.1935"Cole Porters musical ""Jubilee,"" premieres in New York City"
12.10.1940Hitler begins operation-Seelowe (invasion of England)
12.10.1941Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow
12.10.1942Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division
12.10.1942U.S. Navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance
12.10.1943"U.S. bombs Rabaul, New Britain"
12.10.1944German army retreats from Athens
12.10.1948Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager
12.10.1949Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US
12.10.1950"""Call Me Madam"" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 644 performances"
12.10.1952Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s vs. N Zone (Ind) his 1st fc cricket tons
12.10.1952"KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver, CO (ABC) begins broadcasting"
12.10.1953U.S. and Greece signs peace treaty (US bases)
12.10.1955"Hurricane Connie, kills 43 in NC, SC, Virginia and Maryland"
12.10.1955"Hurricane Hazel, kills 68 in Haiti"
12.10.1956Marga Klompe becomes 1st Dutch women elected minister
12.10.19571st coml flight between California and Antartica
12.10.1957Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize
12.10.1957"""Mask and Gown"" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 39 performances"
12.10.1957"""Simply Heavenly"" closes at Playhouse Theater New York City after 62 performances"
12.10.1958CVP wins municipal elections in Belgium
12.10.1958U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
12.10.1958"WJRT TV channel 12 in Flint, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting"
12.10.1960John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon's 3rd presidential debate
12.10.1960Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly
12.10.1961"""Let It Ride"" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 68 performances"
12.10.1961U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
12.10.1962U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
12.10.1962US/U.S.S.R. sign joint space effort in telecommunications and meteorology
12.10.1963"Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel"
12.10.1963"At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck"
12.10.1963"""Student Gypsy"" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 16 performances"
12.10.19641st time 3 people in space
12.10.1964"KCSM TV channel 60 in San Mateo-SF, California (PBS) begins"
12.10.1964"Launch of Voskhod 1, 1st 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov)"
12.10.1964Voskhod 1 launched: 1st flight with 3 cosmonauts
12.10.1964"WSBK TV channel 38 in Boston, MA (IND/ABC/CBS/NBC) begin"
12.10.1964"WUCM TV channel 19 in University Center, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting"
12.10.1966Jimi Henrix Experience fors with Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell
12.10.1967"St. Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 64th World Series as Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 World Series"
12.10.1968"19th Olympic games open at Mexico City, Mexico"
12.10.1968Equatorial Guinea (Spanish Guinea) declares independence from Spain
12.10.1968"""Noel Coward's Sweet Potato"" closes at Barrymore New York City after 17 performances"
12.10.1968Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame
12.10.19691st time 5 people in space
12.10.1969"KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California changes call letters to KAPN"
12.10.1969"KHOF (now KAGL) TV ch 30 in San Bernardino/Glenda, California (IND) begins"
12.10.1969Soyuz 7 is launched
12.10.1969Yoko Ono suffers another miscarriage
12.10.1970Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East
12.10.1971"""Jesus Christ Superstar"" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 711 performances"
12.10.197246 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk
12.10.1972Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot
12.10.1972"""Hurry, Harry"" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 2 performances"
12.10.1972Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole
12.10.1973Israeli counter offensive in southern Syria
12.10.1973Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
12.10.1973Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP
12.10.19741st time Washington Caps are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota
12.10.1975Jacqueline Hansen runs women's world record marathon (2:38:19)
12.10.1975NASA launches space vehicle S-195
12.10.1975Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
12.10.1976"4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach and land test (ALT) flight"
12.10.1976Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party
12.10.19774th test of space shuttle Enterprise
12.10.1977"Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van"
12.10.1977"""Throwaway Game"" Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers"
12.10.1978Representatives of Israel and Egypt open talks in Washington
12.10.1978Sid Vicious charged in murder of girlfriend Nancyh Spungen
12.10.1979Pressure in nucleus of tropical cyclone at Guam hits record 870 hpa
12.10.1980"7 stabbed at Blood, Sweat and Tears concert in LA"
12.10.1980Amy Alcott wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
12.10.1980"""Your Arm's Too Short to Box"" closes at Ambassador New York City after 149 performances"
12.10.198115th Country Music Association Award:
12.10.1981"""Marlowe"" opens at Rialto Theater New York City for 48 performances"
12.10.1982"38.6 cm (15.2"") of rainfall, Angoon Alaska (state record)"
12.10.1982Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor getrs world sereis record 5 hits
12.10.1984"IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die"
12.10.1985Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61A mission
12.10.1985International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize
12.10.1985U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
12.10.1986California Angels within 1 pitch of pennant victory lose to Red Sox
12.10.1987"21st Country Music Association Award: Hank William, Jr. wins"
12.10.1987"George Harrison releases ""Got My Mind Set On You"""
12.10.1987Minnesota Twins beat Detroit Tigers for AL pennant
12.10.1987Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize
12.10.1988George Bush and Michael Dukakis meet in 2nd debate
12.10.1988"Israel and China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations"
12.10.1989Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Vikings for 12 players
12.10.1989"Musical ""Buddy"" with Paul Hipp premieres in London"
12.10.1990U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
12.10.1991Doug Flutie of BC Lions sets CFL passing record of 582 yards despite losing to Edmonton 45-38 in overtime
12.10.1991Mike Lerch of Princeton ties NCAA record with 370 receiving yards
12.10.1991Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN
12.10.1991Steven Spielberg weds Kate Capshaw
12.10.1991Wrestler Rip Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush
12.10.19925.8 earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die)
12.10.1992Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave search for occupied planets
12.10.1992"Brett ""Hitman"" Hart beats Ric Flair for WWF Heavyweight title"
12.10.1992Expo '92 closes in Seville Spain
12.10.1992Howard Stern radio show premieres in Albany New York (WQBK 103.5 and 103.9 FM)
12.10.1992Microwave Observing Project begins (seeking alien life)
12.10.1992Washington Redskin Art Monk sets NFL record with 820th reception
12.10.1993"""Mixed Emotions"" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 48 performances"
12.10.1994Contact with Venus orbitter Magellan broken
12.10.1994Iranian Fokker's F28 explode between Isfahan and Teheran: 66 killed
12.10.1995"""Patti LuPone on Broadway"" opens at Walter Kerr New York City for 46 performances"
12.10.1997David Duval wins Michelob Championship at Kingsmill Golf Club
12.10.1997Juli Inkster wins LPGA Samsung World Championship
12.10.1997Transamerica Senior Golf
13.10.1213Battle at Steppes-Bishop Pierrepont and Louis II beat Henry I of Brabant
13.10.1307French king Philip IV convicts templars because of heresy
13.10.1483Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible
13.10.1492English Admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock
13.10.1501Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente
13.10.1534Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III
13.10.1629Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies
13.10.1652Prince of Conde flees Paris
13.10.1659Gen-major John Lambert drives out English Rump-govt
13.10.1660Denmark king Frederik III makes coup
13.10.1702Dutch/English troops occupy Luik
13.10.1710English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia)