This Day in History for 24th October ◀ Sep October Nov ▶ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 All Events Birthdays Weddings Deaths Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 171 1260 - Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself. 1260 - The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 1360 - The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years War. 1492 - 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany 1531 - Bavaria joins Schmalkaldische Union 1593 - Alleged teleportation of Gil Perez. 1596 - -26] Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary & Germany 1648 - Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Years War in the Holy Roman Empire 1648 - Switzerlands independence recognized in the Treaty of Westphalia 1656 - Treaty of Vilnius: Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant 1681 - Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London 1795 - 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia French Emperor Napoléon BonaparteFrench Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow. 1818 - Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his 1st public concert (Berlin) 1836 - A Phillips patents match 1851 - William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus 1856 - Constitution of South Australia adopted 1857 - Worlds 1st soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in England 1861 - 1st US transcontinental telegram is sent (from San Francisco to Wash DC) 1861 - West Virginia seceded from Virginia 1871 - Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese 1881 - Levi P Morton, US ambas to France drives 1st rivet in Stat of Liberty Microbiologist Robert KochMicrobiologist Robert Koch 1882 - Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis 1885 - Johann Strauss opera Zigeunerbaron (Gypsy Baron) premieres in Vienna 1889 - Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League 1899 - Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army 1900 - General Redvers Buller returns to England 1901 - 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor) 1903 - 1st trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1) 1903 - George Sutton becomes billard champ 1904 - 1st NY subway opens 1908 - Billy Murray hits the charts with Take Me Outto the Ball Game 1909 - Italy and Russia sign the Racconigi Pact in which both nations promise to support the status quo in the Balkans Naval Officer and Explorer Robert ScottNaval Officer and Explorer Robert Scott 1911 - Robert Scotts expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole 1911 - Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years. 1913 - Joe Tinker fired as Cin Reds manager 1916 - Moroccan troops capture Ft Douaumont 1917 - Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army 1922 - German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925 1922 - Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State 1923 - Gen Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship Aviator Orville WrightAviator Orville Wright 1924 - Christian Gen Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing 1924 - Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven 1926 - Harry Houdinis last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. 1929 - Black Thursday, start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8% 1929 - Ruby Vallees Fleishmann Hour begins broadcasting on NBC radio 1929 - Belgium princess Marie-Jose & Italian crown prince Umberto gets engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails 1930 - A bloodless coup détat in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as provisional president. President and Dictator of Brazil Getulio VargasPresident and Dictator of Brazil Getulio Vargas 1931 - George Washington Bridge linking NYC and New Jersey dedicated, opens the next day 1931 - Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion 1932 - British government signs trade treaty with USSR 1933 - Langston Hughes Mulatto premieres in NYC 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia [10/2] 1935 - Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs mgr Charlie Grimm & Chic players W English, B Jurges & B Herman for actions in World Series 1938 - US forbids child labor in factories 1939 - Benny Goodman records Lets Dance 1939 - Joe DiMaggio wins AL MVP, Jimmie Foxx is runner-up 1939 - Nazi require wearing of star of David Baseball Player Joe DiMaggioBaseball Player Joe DiMaggio 1939 - Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware) 1940 - US Fair Labor Standards of 1938 comes into effect - minimum wage, 44 hr week 1940 - Hitler meets Marshal Pétain 1940 - Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball 1940 - Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants 1942 - 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry 1943 - Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting 1944 - Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1944 - US air raid on Jap battleships/cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks 1944 - US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines 1944 - US capt David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Jap planes in Gulf of Leyte 1945 - Charter of United Nations of force became 1945 - France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%) 1945 - UN charter comes into effect 1946 - Netherlands & Indonesia sign cease fire 1946 - A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space. 1947 - Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States) 1948 - Bernard M Baruch introduces term Cold War 1948 - Francis Poulencs Sinfonietta premieres 1948 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis 1948 - WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting 1951 - Jan de Hartogs Four Poster premieres in NYC 1951 - United Nations publishes its first postage stamps 1952 - Arab Liberation Movement becomes only party of Syria 1953 - KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting 1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam 1956 - Margaret Towner becomes first woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) 1956 - AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year 1956 - Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary 1957 - Cin Redlegs decline to move to Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City 1957 - The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. 1958 - USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam 1959 - US premier of D Sjostakovitchs 1st Cello concert 1960 - Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash 1961 - Evening with Yves Montand opens at John Golden NYC for 55 perfs 1962 - Cuban missile crisis: US blockade of Cuba begins 1963 - 110 in the Shade opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 330 perfs 1963 - KRO shows 1st Bonanza 1963 - Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award 1964 - Cambridge Circus closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 perfs 1964 - 18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan 1964 - Belgian paras liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville 1 2 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 228 51 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96) 1378 - David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402) 1607 - John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver 1632 - Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Hol, naturalist (Philosophical Transactions) 1675 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749) 1710 - Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773) 1763 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839) Roman Emperor DomitianRoman Emperor Domitian (51) 1788 - Sarah Josepha Hale, author (Mary Had a Little Lamb) 1789 - Jean C Baud, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-6) 1789 - Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer 1794 - Friedrich B Freiherr von Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant 1796 - August v Platen, writer 1804 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891) 1808 - Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer 1808 - Carl Bernhard von Cotta, Meiningen, Germany, German geologist 1811 - Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor 1815 - John Edwards, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1894 1817 - Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés, Draguignan, France, French chemist and inventor of margarine 1830 - Belva Bennett Lockwood, attorney (1st lady to argue in Supreme Court) 1842 - Josef Nesvera, composer 1844 - Karl Lueger, anti semitic mayor of Vienna 1854 - Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (Heterogenen Gleichgewichte) 1855 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d. 1912) 1857 - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894) 1863 - Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer 1867 - Franco Leoni, composer 1868 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (d. 1969) 1872 - Peter OConnor, Irish athlete (d. 1957) 1873 - Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Southport, Lancashire, U.K., British mathematician (applied mathematics and the theory of special functions) 1875 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958) 1877 - Pavel Grigoryevich, composer 1877 - Rika H E Hopper, Dutch actress (Anastasia) 1878 - Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram) 1881 - Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer 1882 - Sybil Thorndike, England, actress (Saint Joan) 1885 - Ernest Claes, Belgian author (Saints from Zichem) 1886 - Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet (El Libro Blanco) 1887 - Victoria von Battenberg, wife of Spanish king Alfonso 1887 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917) 1890 - Chicago Mainbocher, uniform designer (Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves) 1890 - Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer 1891 - Geertruida M W Truus Bakker, Dutch actress (The Two Orphans) 1891 - Rafael L Trujillo Molina, president/dictator of Dom Rep (1930-61) 1892 - Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter 1894 - Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (d. 1987) 1896 - Jack Warner, [Waters], London England, actor (Christmas Carol) 1897 - Lazar Weiner, composer 1899 - Ferhat Abbas, Algerian pharmacist/MP chairman (1962-63) 1900 - Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages 1900 - Karl Otto Runolfsson, composer 1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959) FBI Agent Melvin PurvisFBI Agent Melvin Purvis (1903) 1903 - Melvin Purvis, Timmonsville South Carolina, American FBI agent 1904 - Moss Hart, Bronx NY, playwright (You Cant Take it With You, Act 1) 1905 - Elizabeth Poston, composer 1906 - Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, painter 1906 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968) 1908 - John Alwyne Kitching, zoologist 1908 - John Tuzo Wilson, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Canadian geologist (contributions to plate tectonics) 1909 - Bill Carr, American athlete (d. 1966) 1911 - Clarence M Kelley, FBI head 1911 - Sonny Terry, rocker Playwright Moss HartPlaywright Moss Hart (1904) 1911 - Paul Grégoire, French Canadian archbishop of Montreal (d. 1993) 1911 - Nathaniel Wyeth, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, USA, American chemist and inventor (created PET plastic beverage bottle) 1913 - Molly Mary Hyde, cricketer 1913 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984) 1915 - Jean Vallerand, composer 1915 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Figaro-Barber of Seville) 1915 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998) 1915 - Roger Milliken, American millionaire 1915 - Marghanita Laski, British Journalist and Novelist(d. 1988) 1917 - Marshall Goldberg, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals) 1919 - Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2008) 1920 - Louise H Lous Hensen, actress (Medea, Uncle Wanja) 1920 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996) 1923 - Denise Levertov, American poet/essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin) 1923 - Reed van Delft, [Hendrika M Schwartz], actress (Golden draagkoets) 1924 - Jose Casanovas, composer 1924 - Piet Roozenburg, World champ checker player (1948 . . 55) 1925 - Jayaaram N Reddy, South African politician/banker 1925 - Ken Slasher Mackay, cricketer (exciting Aussie all-rounder) 1925 - Luciano Berio, Oneglia Italy, composer (Chemins) 1926 - Y A Tittle, AAFC/NFL QB (Baltimore, SF, NY Giants, MVP 1963) 1927 - Renato de Grandis, composer 1927 - Gilbert Bécaud, French composer and actor (d. 2001) 1928 - Gabriel Laub, Polish writer 1928 - Ken Hough, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in two Tests v England 1959) 1929 - George H Crumb, Charleston WV, composer (Pulitzer 1968-Echoes of Time) 1929 - James Brosnan, baseball player/writer (Long Season) 1929 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 2004) 1929 - Hubert Aquin, French-Canadian novelist and activist (d. 1977) 1930 - Big Bopper, [JP Richardson], Sabine Pass Tx, vocalist (Chantiily Lace) 1930 - Johan Galtung, Norway, polemologist (Meaning of Nonviolence) 1930 - Raj Bagri, Indies/British merchant in metal 1930 - Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia 1931 - Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer (Stimmen Verstummen) 1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) Economist/Nobel Laureate Robert MundellEconomist/Nobel Laureate Robert Mundell (1932) 1932 - Robert Mundell, Kingston, Ontario, economist and Nobel laureate (1999) 1933 - Norman Rush, American writer 1934 - Arvind Apte, cricketer (brother of Madhav Scored 8 & 7 in one Test) 1934 - Margie Masters, LPGA golfer 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 3 of 3 Film Producer Robert EvansFilm Producer Robert Evans (1969)1969 - Love Story actress Ali MacGraw (30) weds film producer Robert Evans (39) 1976 - Pediatrician Benjamin Spock (73) weds Mary Morgan 2013 - Country music singer-songwriter Ashley Monroe (27) weds MLB pitcher John Danks (28) at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 119 996 - Hugo Capet, king of France (987-96), dies at 58 1375 - King Valdemar IV of Denmark (bc. 1320) 1521 - Robert Fayrfax, composer, dies at 57 1537 - Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of Henry VIII, dies 1572 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (bc. 1508) 1579 - Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 51 Astronomer Tycho BraheAstronomer Tycho Brahe (1601) 1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, dies in Prague at 54 1649 - Ferdinand van Boisschot, South Neth diplomat, dies at about 89 1655 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63 1667 - Gabriel Metsu, Dutch painter, buried 1667 - Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer, dies at 87 1669 - William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600) 1672 - John Webb, English architect (b. 1611) 1679 - Barent Avercamp, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 66 1708 - Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician 1785 - Jean-Jacques Robson, composer, dies at 64 1789 - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer, dies at 69 1789 - Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet, dies at 68 1799 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59 1821 - Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740) 1842 - Bernardo OHiggins, Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule, dies at 64 American Statesman Daniel WebsterAmerican Statesman Daniel Webster (1852) 1852 - Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70 1860 - Elie Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician, dies at 80 1864 - James Jay Archer, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 46 1869 - Joseph Jackson Lister, British optician who perfected the optical microscope by designing the achromatic objective lens, dies at 83 1875 - Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer 1897 - Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73 1898 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824) 1901 - Paul Henrion, composer, dies at 82 1902 - Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 69 1912 - Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83 1915 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828) 1918 - Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, dies at 86 1922 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839) 1925 - Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Lusy), dies at 56 1929 - Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, dies at 74 1930 - Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor/director (Dr Faustus), dies at 26 1931 - Murray Bisset, cricketer (S Afr)/Chief Justice of Rhodesia, dies 1938 - Ernst Barlach, writer, dies at 68 1940 - Victor Hollaender, composer, dies at 74 1940 - Pierre Weiss, French physicist (theory of ferromagnetism) dies at 75 1942 - Arthur Dolphin, cricketer (1 Test England 1921, 1 run, 1 catch), dies 1943 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (b. 1912) 1944 - Lauri S A Haarla, Finnish writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja), dies at 54 1944 - Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (b. 1877) 1945 - Robert Ley, German nazi, commits suicide 1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Min of Defense/PM (1942-45), executed at 58 1948 - Franz Lehar, Austrian/Hungarian composer (Wiener Frauen), dies at 78 1949 - Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer, dies at 70 1952 - Frederick Jacobi, composer, dies at 61 1953 - Ernest Irving, composer, dies at 74 1955 - Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, British Anthropologist (Structural Functionalism and studies of Andaman Islanders and Australian Aborigines), dies at 74 1956 - Henry Nicholas Ridley, British botanist (Malay Peninsula rubber industry), dies at 100 1958 - Esther Delterne, Flemish actress/revue-artists, dies at 81 1958 - Martin Fallas Shaw, composer, dies at 83 1963 - Beverly Wills, actress (Beverly-I Married Joan), dies at 29 1966 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896) 1967 - Lyle Latell, actor (Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon), dies at 63 1969 - Otto Jochum, composer, dies at 71 1970 - Richard Hofstadter, US historian, dies at 54 1971 - Carl Ruggles, US composer (Evocations), dies at 95 1971 - Chuck Hughes, Detroit Lion collapses during game & later, dies 1971 - Fernand Quinet, Belgian composer/conductor (Guerre), dies at 73 Baseball Player Jackie RobinsonBaseball Player Jackie Robinson (1972) 1972 - Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player (Bkln Dodgers), dies at 53 1973 - Jack Iverson, cricketer (5 Tests 21 wickets S1024 15 23), dies 1974 - David Oistrach, Russian violinist, dies at 65 1975 - Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris 1975 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (b. 1888) 1976 - Richard Sturzenegger, composer, dies at 70 1980 - Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33), dies at 30 1981 - Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-Im a Big Girl Now), dies at 25 1982 - James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58 1983 - Jessica Savitch, news anchor (NBC-TV), dies at 35 1984 - Edith Massey, actress (Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies at 66 1984 - Walter Woolf King, actor/TV host (Lights Cameras Action), dies at 85 1985 - Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (b. 1941) 1985 - Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905) 1987 - Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist, dies at 86 1991 - Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek), dies of cardiac arrest at 70 1991 - Leon Clements, journalist (Interlijnen), dies at 43 1992 - Alexander V Van de Wall Bake, staff leader/gov KMA Breda, dies 1992 - Laurie Colwin, novelist (Happy All the Time), dies at 48 1993 - Ben Scholtens, historian (Gaama Duumi), murdered at 39 1993 - Desmond Nuttall, English theorist, dies at 49 1993 - Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54 1994 - Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies 1994 - Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankain presidential candidate, murdered 1994 - Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), dies of stroke at 54 1995 - Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82 1995 - Ronald Selby Wright, minister, dies at 87 1996 - Arthur Axmann, head of Hitler Youths in (1940-45), dies at 83 1996 - Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive, dies at 71 1996 - Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, diplomat, dies at 96 1996 - Roderick Barclay, diplomat, dies at 87 1996 - Sid Pye, drummer, dies at 55 1997 - Don Messick, cartoon voice (Astro-Jetsons, Bamm Bamm), dies at 62 2001 - Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937) 2002 - Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (b. 1969) 2002 - Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921) 2002 - Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)1964 - Dr Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zambia 1964 - Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1964 - Khalid Billy Ibadulla scores 166 on Cricket debut v Australia 1964 - Test Cricket debut of Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan & Khalid Ibadulla v Aust 1965 - Benjamin Brittens Voices for Today premieres 1965 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament 1968 - Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on £50 bail 1968 - The Peoples Democracy (PD) stage a protest demonstration at Stormont Parliament buildings, Belfast, Northern Ireland 1969 - Hanif, Mushtaq & Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together 1970 - Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show 1970 - Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile 1971 - Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds) 1971 - Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21 1971 - President of Sinn Féin Ruairi OBrady, then (SF), address a SF Ard Fheis in Dublin, claiming that the North of Ireland must be made ungovernable as first step in achieving a united Ireland 1973 - Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ Turnpike 1973 - John Lennon sues US government to admit FBI is tapping his phone 1973 - Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus 1974 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers) 1975 - Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris 1976 - 1st Jewish film & TV festival 1976 - 6th NYC Womens Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11 1976 - 7th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10 1976 - Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as Chinas party leader 1976 - Sadiq & Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings v NZ 1978 - Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto 1978 - NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs NY Islanders 1979 - Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy Musician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartneyMusician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartney 1979 - Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc 1980 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1980 - Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar 1980 - John Lennon releases (Just Like) Starting Over in UK 1980 - Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity 1981 - Pablo Picassos 1937 painting Guernica goes on display in Madrid Spain to celebrate the centenary of the artists birth 1982 - Rock n Roll!: The 1st... opens at St James Theater NYC for 9 perfs 1982 - 12th NYC Womens Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14 1982 - 13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29 Tennis Player Steffi GrafTennis Player Steffi Graf 1982 - Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match 1984 - 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested 1984 - Intelsat 5 re-enters Earths atmosphere 5 months after it failed 1986 - Dodgers Bill Russell, 38, announces his retirement 1986 - Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria 1987 - Borks supreme court nomination rejected by senate 1987 - NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike 1988 - NY Islanders & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires 1988 - Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released 1988 - Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown 1989 - After a weeks delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played NHL Right Winger Mike BossyNHL Right Winger Mike Bossy 1989 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1989 - Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud 1990 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1991 - Dancing at Lughnasa opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 421 perfs 1991 - Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders 1992 - Toronto Blue Jays beat Atl Braves, 4 games to 2, in 88th World Series 1993 - Wonderful Tennessee opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 9 performances 1994 - Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed 1995 - Total solar eclipse in SW/S Asia (2m09s) 1996 - Hasan Raza makes Test Cricket debut for Pakistan age 14 yrs 238 days 1996 - Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yanks win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses) 1997 - Marv Albert sentenced in assault case 1998 - Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission 2002 - Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC. 2003 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight. 2004 - 10 people, including 4 family members of Rick Hendrick, are killed in a plane crash near Martinsville Speedway. The plane was owned by NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports. 2006 - Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the motive clause, an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act. 2008 - Bloody Friday saw many of the worlds stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices. 2008 - Iceland receives a £1.3 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the first European country to require an emergency loan with the aim of stabilising the collapsed currency and strengthening the tax system as well as the nationalised banks 2009 - First International Day of Climate Action, organized with 350.org, a global campaign to address a claimed global warming crisis. 2012 - Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths 2012 - 3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in Downey, California 2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over $50 million in damage 2013 - St Louis Cardinals defeat Boston Red Sox to tie the MLB 2013 World Series 1-1 ◀ 1 2 Famous Birthdays Birthdays 101 - 200 of 228 1936 - Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch politican (VVD) 1936 - Bill Wyman, England, rocker (Rolling Stones-Under My Thumb) 1936 - David Nelson, NYC, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet) 1936 - Rainer Kunad, composer 1937 - Miguel Angel Coria, composer 1938 - Fred E Finn, SF California, pianist (Mickie Finns) 1939 - Uri Sharvit, composer 1940 - David Sainsbury, English billionaire/founder (Dutch Soc-Dem) 1940 - F Murray Abraham, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Amadeus, Mad Man) 1941 - Frank AM Aendenboom, Flemish actor (Lion of Flanders) 1941 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer 1943 - Jose Serrano, (Rep-D-New York) 1944 - Ted Templeman, rocker 1944 - Viktor Prokopenko, Ukranian footballer and coach (d. 2007) 1945 - Anthony Christian, English artist 1945 - Gérald Larose, Quebec labour union executive 1946 - Jerry Edmonton, Canada, rock drummer (Steppenwolf) 1947 - Edgar Broughton, rocker Actor Kevin KlineActor Kevin Kline (1947) 1947 - Kevin Kline, St Louis, actor (Sophies Choice, Big Chill) 1948 - Dale Buffin Griffin, rock drummer (Mott The Hoople) 1948 - Kweisi Mfume, (Rep-D-Maryland)/CEO (NAACP) 1948 - Paul and Barry Ryan, British composers-singers 1949 - Robert Pickton, Canadian charged with the first degree murder of twenty-six women 1950 - Terry Buffin, rock drummer (British Lions) 1950 - Steven Greenberg, American composer 1950 - Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player 1951 - Todd Crespi, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Magician) 1953 - Billy Thomas, Ft Meyers Fla, singer (McBride & Ride-I Count on You) 1953 - James di Donato, twin who swam the butterfly 406 miles 1953 - Jonathan di Donato, twin who swam the butterfly 406 miles 1954 - Doug Davidson, Glendale CA, actor (Paul Williams-Young & Restless) 1954 - Jaap J Feenstra, Dutch MP (PvdA) 1954 - Perry Lee Tiny Tavares, rocker 1954 - Brad Sherman, American politician 1954 - Thomas J. Mulcair, Quebec politician 1954 - Mike Rounds, American politician 1954 - Jozef Ráž, Slovak musician 1955 - Ghulam Parkar, cricketer (Indian batsman v England 1982) 1956 - Dale Maharidge, American author 1957 - Ron Gardenhire, German-born American baseball manager 1957 - John Kassir, American actor and comedian 1958 - Mathilde Santing, Dutch rock singer (Breast & Brow) 1958 - Pam Gietzen, LPGA golfer 1960 - Carolien de Windt, Suriname/Dutch singer (Mai Tai) 1960 - Ian Baker-Finch, Nambour Queensland, PGA golfer (1991 British Open) 1960 - B.D. 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