3761 BC - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar). 336 - Pope Saint Marks death ends his reign as Catholic Pope leaving the papacy vacant 1492 - Columbus misses Florida when he changes course 1506 - Pope Julius II & France occupy Bologna 1513 - Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians. 1520 - 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain 1542 - Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast 1571 - Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations destroys Ottoman fleet in significant loss off Western Greece 1637 - Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda 1690 - English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade 1702 - British/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond The Warrior Pope Julius IIThe Warrior Pope Julius II 1714 - People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth 1737 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India) 1763 - George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north & west of Alleghenies to white settlement 1765 - Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY 1777 - Americans beat British in 2nd Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Heights 1780 - British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC 1806 - Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood 1816 - 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans 1825 - Miramichi Fire, disaster in New Brunswick 1826 - Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations 1828 - The Greek city of Patras is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison. 1840 - Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands 1856 - Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers 1864 - -Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road, VA 1864 - Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor, Brazil - CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett 1868 - Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens 1870 - Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon 1871 - 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicagos 185 firefighters 1879 - Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant 1882 - 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0 1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba 1900 - The term orienteering is first used for an event 1904 - NY Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12) 1907 - Frances Henry Farman flies 30m in a double decker plane 1908 - Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece 1908 - Serbia & Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact 1912 - The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction. Ford Motor Company Founder Henry FordFord Motor Company Founder Henry Ford 1913 - Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line 1916 - Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeat Cumberland 222-0, the most lopsided score in the history of college football 1916 - The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport, Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters 1919 - First London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport & KLM) 1919 - Fritz Kreisler & F Jacobis Apple Blossoms premieres in NYC 1919 - KLM, Royal Ducth Airlines, established (oldest existing airline) 1922 - First radio link, WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series Football, Baseball & Basketball Player & Coach John HeismanFootball, Baseball & Basketball Player & Coach John Heisman 1922 - Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain 1922 - Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comms of Austria 1923 - Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138 1924 - Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms 1926 - Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage 1926 - Italian Great Fascist Council forms 1927 - Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game 1928 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0) 1928 - Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia 1929 - Ramsay MacDonald is first British premier to address US Congress Runner nicknamed the Runner nicknamed the Flying Finn Paavo Nurmi 1931 - 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY 1933 - NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series 1935 - Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series 1935 - Himmler/Hess/Heydrich inspect the concentration camp at Dachau 1936 - 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel 1937 - Johan Wagenaars Feestmars premieres in Amsterdam 1938 - Germany requires all Jewish passports be stamped with letter J 1940 - Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series 1940 - World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States. 1941 - German army occupies Viarma, USSR 1942 - 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad 1942 - Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth) 1942 - Maxwell Andersons Eve of St Mark premieres in NYC 1942 - US & British government announce establishment of United Nations 1942 - Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ 1943 - Weill/Perelman/Nash musical One Touch of Venus premieres in NYC 1944 - Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen German WWII Field Marshal Erwin RommelGerman WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel 1944 - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin 1944 - Riots in Amersfoort/Utrecht/Strugle 1944 - Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums 1945 - Dutch author A M de Jongs murderer Ton van Gog escapes 1946 - Charles Ives 2nd string quartet premieres 1947 - Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series 1949 - German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day). Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president, Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier 1950 - NY Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series 1950 - US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel 1950 - Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head MLB Pitcher Whitey FordMLB Pitcher Whitey Ford 1950 - Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game 5-2 1950 - William H Jackson becomes deputy director of CIA 1950 - Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies 1951 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government 1952 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series 1952 - First Bandstand broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host) 1952 - Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins 1953 - Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply Radio and Television Personality Dick ClarkRadio and Television Personality Dick Clark 1954 - Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt 1954 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem 1955 - Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn 1955 - Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem Howl for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco. 1956 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open 1957 - American Bandstand premieres 1957 - KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting 1957 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational 1958 - Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court 1958 - US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury 1 2 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 232 1573 - William Laud, English archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45) 1576 - John Marston, English writer (d. 1634) 1577 - Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/archbishop 1589 - Maria Magdalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1631) 1698 - Henri Madin, composer 1713 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759) 1728 - Caesar Rodney, Delaware, judge/signer (Declaration of Independence) 1734 - Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (Dutch Guyana) 1744 - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819) 1746 - William Billings, Boston Mass, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon) 1748 - Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18) 1758 - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer 1769 - Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846) 1774 - Ferdinando Orlandi, composer 1786 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871) 1798 - Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas) 1801 - Adolf Muller, composer 1802 - Bernhard Molique, German violinist and composer 1817 - Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 1821 - Richard Heron Anderson, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879 1821 - William Sill, with The Underground Railroad 1826 - William Brimage Bate, US Confederate brig-gen/(Gov-D-Tenn, 1882-86) 1835 - Felix Draeseke, composer 1841 - Nicolaas Petrovic Njegos, king of Montenegro (1910-18) 1849 - James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (Raggedy Man) 1854 - Christiaan R de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War 1866 - Martha McChesney Berry, US, founded Berry School for Children 1866 - Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942) 1868 - Fred H Hovey, tennis champ (US Open-1895) 1870 - Uncle Dave Macon, entertainer 1879 - Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr 1879 - Joseph Bovet, composer 1880 - Jaime Pahissa, composer 1881 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918) Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Niels BohrNobel Prize Winning Physicist Niels Bohr (1885) 1885 - Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922) 1886 - Johannes B Tielrooy, Dutch literary (Chateaubriand) 1887 - A C Jack Russell, cricketer (prolific England batsman post-WW I) 1887 - Jack Mulhall, Wappinger Falls NY, actor (Ken Murray Show) 1888 - Henry A Wallace, (D/P) 33rd VP (1941-45)/founder Progressive Party 1889 - Clarence Muse, Balt MD, actor (Sam-Casablanca, Black Stallion) 1892 - Dwain Esper, director (d. 1982) 1894 - Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer 1894 - Del Lord, American director (d. 1970) 1896 - Cyril Allcott, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in their early Tests) 1896 - Elijah Muhammad, US, leader of Nation of Islam 1898 - Alfred Wallenstein, Chicago Illinois, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29) 1900 - Heinrich Himmler, a leading Nazi and head of the Gestapo 1901 - Frank X Boucher, Ottawa, All-star NHL center (Ottawa, NY Rangers) 1901 - Ralph Rainger, composer 1901 - Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos 1902 - Willemina J H Mascha ter Weene, dancer/ballerina 1903 - Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist 1904 - Chuck Klein, Indianapolis In, Philadelphia Phillies (43 HRs in 1929) 1905 - Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], Flagstaff Az, actor (Andys Gang) 1906 - James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68) 1907 - Tutta Rolf, Norway, actress (Whalers) 1907 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001) 1908 - Richard Caldicot, London England, actor (Horses Mouth) 1909 - Shura Cherkassky, pianist 1909 - Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (d. 1990) 1909 - Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983) 1910 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986) 1911 - Joe Jones, Chicago IL, drummer 1911 - Vaughn Monroe, Akron Oh, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show) 1911 - Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995) 1912 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002) 1913 - Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer 1913 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist (Het Parool, Kinks) 1914 - Alfred Drake, [Capurro], Brooklyn NY, singer/actor (Kiss Me Kate) 1914 - Sarah Churchill, London, actress (All Over Town, Royal Wedding) 1915 - Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja) [NS] 1915 - Roman Padlewski, composer 1916 - Walt W Rostow, NYC, economist (Politics & Stages of Growth) 1917 - Helmut Dantine, Vienna Austria, actor (Shadow of the Cloak) 1917 - June Allyson, Bronx, actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas) 1918 - Guido Aristarco, film critic 1919 - Gabriel Dell, Barbados, actor (Steve Allen Show) 1919 - George Duby, historian 1919 - Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician 1920 - Georg Leber, German politician (SPD), (d. 2012) 1921 - John Arthur Giles Gere, English art historian (Pre-Raphaelite painter) 1922 - Martha Stewart, Bardwell Ky, singer/actress (Daisy Kenyon, Doll Face) 1922 - Reina Prinsen Geerligs, [Leentje Vandendriesch], Dutch antifascist 1922 - Grady Hatton, American baseball player, (d. 2013) 1923 - Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps 1923 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002) 1926 - Diana Lynn, LA CA, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go) 1926 - Ivan Jirko, composer 1926 - Marcello Abbado, composer 1927 - Al Martino, Phila, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (Godfather) 1927 - R. D. Laing, Govanhill, Glasgow, Scottish psychiatrist 1928 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980) 1929 - Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993) 1929 - Graeme Ferguson, Canadian filmmaker and executive 1929 - Harold Zirin, Boston, Massachusetts, astronomer, (d. 2012) 1931 - Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of S Afr (Nobel Peace Prize 1982) 1932 - Joannes M Gijsen, Bishop of Roermond 1933 - Paul B Price, Cataret NJ, actor (Busting Loose) 1934 - Imamu Amiri Baraka, [Everett Leroi Jones], US, poet/writer 1934 - Ulrike Meinhof, German Red Army member 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 8 of 8 1776 - Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg. Kennedy Family Matriarch Rose Fitzgerald KennedyKennedy Family Matriarch Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1914) 1914 - 44th US Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (26) weds John F. Fitzgeralds mother, Rose Fitzgerald (24) 1965 - Actress and comedian Phyllis Diller (48) weds actor Warde Donovan 1978 - Country singer Merle Haggard (41) weds his backup singer Leona Williams (35) 1989 - Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander 1995 - Cheers actor Ted Danson (47) weds Academy Award-winning actress Mary Steenbergen (42) 2006 - Comedian-actor Tim Allen (53) weds actress Jane Hajduk (39) at an outdoor ceremony in Grand Lake, Colorado 2012 - Media personality Jack Osbourne (26) weds Lisa Stelly on the Big Island of Hawaii Famous Divorces Divorces 1 - 2 of 2 Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike TysonHeavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson (1988)1988 - Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson 2004 - Actress Andie MacDowell (46) divorces businessman Rhett Hartzog (45) after nearly three years of marriage Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 99 of 99 290 - [Christian] Sergius, roman soldier/martyred saint, decapitated 336 - Pope Saint Mark, bishop of Rome (336), dies of natural causes 929 - Charles III, the Plain, King of France (893-929), dies 1368 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338) 1488 - Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at about 52 1553 - Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (bc. 1500) 1555 - Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488) 1571 - Müezzinzade Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in the Battle of Lepanto 1577 - George Gascoigne, English poet 1612 - Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist, dies at 70 1620 - Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547) 1637 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587) 1639 - John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68 1651 - Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559) 1653 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581) 1660 - Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50 1681 - Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philological/diplomat, dies at 61 1708 - Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (b. 1666) 1766 - Andre Cheron, composer, dies at 71 1772 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720) 1777 - Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle 1780 - Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36 1787 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711) American Statesman George MasonAmerican Statesman George Mason (1792) 1792 - George Mason, American statesman, advocated for The Bill of Rights (b. 1725) 1793 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718) 1796 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710) 1800 - Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged 1811 - August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist, dies at 68 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet and critic, dies in Baltimore at 40 1864 - Alexander Gardiner, US Union brig-general, dies in battle 1864 - John Gregg, US judge/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 36 Author Edgar Allan PoeAuthor Edgar Allan Poe (1849) 1887 - George James Webb, composer, dies at 84 1890 - John Hill Hewitt, composer, dies at 89 1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809) 1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832) 1906 - Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848) 1911 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835) 1915 - Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74 1918 - C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70 1919 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856) 1924 - Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71 1925 - Hubert Platt Main, composer, dies at 86 1925 - Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880) 1926 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856) 1939 - Harvey (William) Cushing, US neurologist, dies at 70 1943 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899) 1943 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880) 1951 - Anton F Philips, CEO (Philips), dies at 77 1956 - Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886) 1959 - Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack 1959 - PM Kassem of Iraq, assassinated 1962 - Mauritius Dekker, [Boris Robazki], writer (Boots in Jail), dies at 66 1963 - Grace Darmond, silent screen actress (Below the Surface), dies at 69 1963 - Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and director (M), dies of internal hemorrhage at 63 1964 - Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84 1966 - Johnny Kidd, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates), dies at 26 in a car crash 1966 - Smiley Lewis, [Overton Amos Lemons], rocker, dies at 46 1967 - Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies 1969 - Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888) 1976 - Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73 1981 - Wouter Paap, composer, dies at 73 1981 - Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (b. 1895) 1988 - Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73 1990 - J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies 1990 - John Cat Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84 1990 - Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies Baseball Player and Manager Leo DurocherBaseball Player and Manager Leo Durocher (1991) 1991 - Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86 1992 - Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62 1992 - Ed Blackwell, US jazz drummer (Quartet), dies 1992 - Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904) 1993 - Agnes de Mille, choreographer (Oklahoma!, Rodeo), dies at 88 1993 - Cyril Cusack, actor (Fahrenheit 451), dies of neuron disease at 82 1993 - Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63 1994 - James Hill, director, dies at 75 1994 - Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82 1994 - Paul Swift, US actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60 1995 - Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59 1995 - Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91 1996 - Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86 1998 - Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915) 2001 - Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955) 2001 - Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909) 2001 - Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913) 2003 - Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (b. 1932) 2003 - Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912) 2003 - Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931) 2004 - Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942) 2005 - Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949) 2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958) 2007 - Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975) 2007 - George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931) 2008 - Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913) 2009 - Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917) 2010 - Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor (b. 1966) 2010 - Milka Planinc, former PM of Yugoslavia (b. 1924) 2010 - T Lavitz, American musician (b. 1956) 2011 - Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925) 2012 - John Martin Tchicai, Danish saxophonist, dies at 76 2013 - Patrice Chéreau, French film and opera director, dies from lung cancer at 68
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