History of October

During the month of October the following events have happened in our world's history.

October 01, 0331 - BC Alexander of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela
October 01, 1837 - Treaty with Winnebago Indians
October 01, 1847 - Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
October 01, 1851 - 1st Hawaiian stamps issued
October 01, 1869 - 1st postcards are issued in Vienna
October 01, 1896 - Yosemite becomes a National Park
October 01, 1898 - Henry Huntington buys the LA Railway
October 01, 1903 - 1st Baseball World Series
October 01, 1908 - Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory beats Walter Johnson 2-1
October 01, 1908 - Henry Ford introduces the Model T car
October 01, 1912 - Yanks lose game #100 enroute to a 50-102 season
October 01, 1921 - Yanks win their 1st pennant
October 01, 1932 - Babe Ruth's famous homerun called off of Cubs Charlie Root
October 01, 1938 - Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)
October 01, 1940 - Penn Turnpike pioneer toll thruway opened
October 01, 1942 - 1st jet propelled airplane tested
October 01, 1946 - Bob Feller 348th strikeout of the season
October 01, 1947 - 1st helicopter air mail & express service LA Ca
October 01, 1949 - People's Rep of China proclaimed (National Day)
October 01, 1951 - 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador - Eugenie Anderson
October 01, 1952 - 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station Portland Or
October 01, 1958 - Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
October 01, 1960 - Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
October 01, 1961 - Roger Maris sets record of 61 homers last off of Tracy Sallard
October 01, 1962 - The Lucy Show premiers
October 01, 1962 - US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' radio telescope
October 01, 1962 - Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show
October 01, 1964 - SF cable cars declared a national landmark
October 01, 1971 - Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida opens
October 01, 1975 - Reunion Island no longer prints stamps France takes over production
October 01, 1977 - Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
October 01, 1978 - Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians setting up a play off game with Red Sox
October 01, 1979 - US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)
October 01, 1982 - EPCOT Center opens
October 02, 0322 - BC Aristotle dies of indigestion
October 02, 1608 - Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope
October 02, 1833 - NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
October 02, 1836 - Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle
October 02, 1870 - Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
October 02, 1889 - 1st Pan American conference
October 02, 1908 - Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
October 02, 1916 - Grover Cleveland Alexanders 16th shutout of the year
October 02, 1932 - Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series
October 02, 1935 - NY Hayden Planetarium the 4th in the US opens
October 02, 1936 - 1st alcohol power plant established Atchison Kansas
October 02, 1936 - Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series grand slam
October 02, 1939 - Birdbaths installed in Union Square
October 02, 1942 - 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated Chicago
October 02, 1946 - 1st network soap opera - Faraway Hill - Dumont
October 02, 1947 - Yogi Berra become the 1st player to pinch hit a world series homer
October 02, 1949 - Yanks & Red Sox tie for 1st place played the final game of the season Yanks won 5-3 & clinched pennant #16
October 02, 1950 - Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches
October 02, 1950 - The comic strip 'Peanuts' 1st appears in 9 newspapers
October 02, 1955 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiers
October 02, 1956 - 1st atomic power clock exhibited - NYC
October 02, 1958 - Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
October 02, 1959 - Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS
October 02, 1961 - Ben Casey premiers
October 02, 1965 - Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
October 02, 1967 - Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
October 02, 1968 - Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts
October 02, 1970 - Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers
October 02, 1971 - homing pigeon averages 133 kph (record) in 1100-km Australian race
October 02, 1978 - Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding
October 02, 1984 - 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
October 03, 1264 - The comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
October 03, 1789 - Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
October 03, 1863 - Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
October 03, 1913 - Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%)
October 03, 1920 - NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
October 03, 1932 - Iraq gains full independence from Britain
October 03, 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia
October 03, 1942 - Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles
October 03, 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 & he lost the game.
October 03, 1947 - 1st telescope lens 200 inches in diameter completed
October 03, 1948 - NFL becomes 1st sport of the week
October 03, 1950 - 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV - Beulah
October 03, 1951 - Bobby Thomson HR - The Giants win the pennant
October 03, 1952 - 1st video recording on magnetic tape LA Ca
October 03, 1954 - Father Knows Best premiers
October 03, 1955 - Mickey Mouse Club premiers
October 03, 1955 - Captain Kangaroo premieres Good Morning Captain!
October 03, 1960 - Yanks win 8-7 & end season on a 15 game win streak
October 03, 1960 - SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
October 03, 1961 - Dick Van Dyke Show premiers
October 03, 1962 - Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into earth orbit
October 03, 1965 - Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
October 03, 1967 - William Knight sets world speed record for fixed-wing craft of 4 534 MPH (Mach 6.72) in X-15
October 03, 1972 - Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
October 03, 1985 - Space shuttle Atlantis makes all-military maiden flight
October 04, 1636 - 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
October 04, 1648 - Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
October 04, 1824 - Mexico becomes a republic
October 04, 1916 - Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
October 04, 1926 - the dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
October 04, 1931 - The comic strip Dick Tracy debuts
October 04, 1940 - Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
October 04, 1948 - Indians beat Red Sox in 1st AL playoff game
October 04, 1955 - Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory beating Yankees
October 04, 1957 - USSR launches Sputnik I the 1st artificial earth satellite
October 04, 1957 - Leave It to Beaver debuts on CBS
October 04, 1958 - Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began
October 04, 1959 - USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
October 04, 1960 - Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
October 04, 1962 - Whitey Ford's world series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends
October 04, 1966 - Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
October 04, 1969 - UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
October 04, 1970 - Janis Joplin dies at 27
October 04, 1976 - Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after racial 'joke'
October 04, 1977 - pier 39 opens in SF
October 04, 1984 - Yanks clinch AL East
October 04, 1985 - 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 is launched
October 04, 1987 - James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals.)
October 05, 1813 - Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
October 05, 1864 - Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone
October 05, 1875 - Palace Hotel on Market Street opens
October 05, 1877 - Chief Joseph surrenders ending Nez Perc‚ War
October 05, 1892 - Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville Kansas bank holdup
October 05, 1906 - Giant's Henry Matthewson walks 14
October 05, 1907 - Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
October 05, 1908 - Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey
October 05, 1910 - Portugal overthrows monarchy proclaims republic
October 05, 1912 - Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium
October 05, 1921 - 1st Yank & radio broadcast of the World Series beat Giants 3-0
October 05, 1922 - Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie world series game
October 05, 1923 - Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
October 05, 1931 - 1st nonstop transpacific flight Japan to Wenatchee Wash
October 05, 1941 - Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely
October 05, 1947 - 1st Presidential address televised from White House - HS Truman
October 05, 1953 - Billy Martin 12 hits sets record Yanks win record 5th straight WS
October 05, 1956 - Yogi Berra becomes the 4th Yank to hit a World Series Grand Slam
October 05, 1963 - Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
October 05, 1964 - SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated
October 05, 1970 - PBS becomes a network
October 05, 1980 - Yanks set AL attendence mark at 2 627 417
October 05, 1982 - Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9 851 kph at White Sands N. Mex
October 05, 1984 - 41-G Challenger carried 1st Canadian Marc Garneau into orbit
October 05, 1985 - 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 launched
October 06, 1863 - Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the 1st public bath in Brooklyn
October 06, 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
October 06, 1908 - Yanks lose 100th game of the year go 51-103 for season
October 06, 1926 - Babe Ruth hits 3 homers in a world series game
October 06, 1927 - The Jazz Singer 1st movie with a sound track premieres
October 06, 1935 - Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
October 06, 1936 - Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series
October 06, 1940 - Zoological Gardens opens (on Sloat & Skyline)
October 06, 1941 - Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in the world series
October 06, 1947 - Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in the world series
October 06, 1959 - Soviet Luna 3 1st successful photographic spacecraft impacts moon
October 06, 1973 - Egypt & Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur war
October 06, 1978 - Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs Yanks win championship game 3 6-5
October 06, 1981 - Anwar Sadat assassinated Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egytian president
October 06, 1983 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
October 07, 1571 - Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto
October 07, 1765 - The Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
October 07, 1777 - British defeated by Americans in Battle of Saratoga
October 07, 1826 - Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
October 07, 1849 - Edgar Allen Poe dies in Balt at 40
October 07, 1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
October 07, 1908 - Crete unites with Greece
October 07, 1915 - Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
October 07, 1927 - Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series
October 07, 1931 - 1st infra-red photograph Rochester NY
October 07, 1949 - Dem. Rep of Germany (East) formed
October 07, 1950 - Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping the Phillies
October 07, 1950 - US forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel
October 07, 1952 - Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in the world series
October 07, 1959 - Luna 3 photographs far side of moon
October 07, 1960 - Route 66 premiers
October 07, 1965 - Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills Omaha Nebr.
October 07, 1968 - Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
October 07, 1972 - 1st regular gat at Coliseum Flames - 3 Islanders - 2
October 07, 1981 - In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
October 07, 1985 - 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 returns to Earth
October 08, 1604 - The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted.
October 08, 1840 - 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
October 08, 1860 - Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
October 08, 1865 - Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains.
October 08, 1869 - Franklin Peirce 14th president of US died in Concord N.H.
October 08, 1871 - Nation's worst forest fire starts in Peshtigo WI. Great Fire destroys over 4ý miles of Chicago
October 08, 1896 - Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
October 08, 1918 - Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25 captures 132 Germans.
October 08, 1927 - Yanks sweep Pirates in the world series
October 08, 1933 - Coit Tower dedicated in SF a monument to firefighters.
October 08, 1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
October 08, 1935 - Ozzie & Harriet Nelson married
October 08, 1938 - Yanks sweep Reds in the world series
October 08, 1944 - Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet debut on CBS radio
October 08, 1945 - Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
October 08, 1956 - Don Larsen's Perfect world series game beats Dodgers 2-0
October 08, 1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers announced they would move to LA
October 08, 1960 - Bobby Richarson hits a world series grand slammer
October 08, 1962 - N Korea reports 100% election turnout 100% vote for Workers' Party.
October 08, 1970 - Soviet author Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit
October 08, 1978 - Kenneth Warby sets world speed record on water (514 kph).
October 08, 1978 - Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship against Kansas City
October 08, 1981 - Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter Gerald R. Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
October 08, 1983 - 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
October 09, 1000 - Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
October 09, 1635 - Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
October 09, 1701 - Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U) chartered in New Haven.
October 09, 1776 - Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay.
October 09, 1806 - Benjamin Banneker black American astronomer dies.
October 09, 1855 - Joshua Stoddard of Worcester Mass. receives patent for 1st calliope
October 09, 1876 - 1st 2-way telephone conversation
October 09, 1888 - Public admitted to Washington Monument.
October 09, 1921 - Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer Only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
October 09, 1928 - Yanks sweep Cards in the world series
October 09, 1930 - 1st transcontinental flight by woman lands Laura Ingalls
October 09, 1936 - Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
October 09, 1938 - Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series
October 09, 1949 - Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in the world series
October 09, 1951 - Gil McDougald's World Series Grand Slam Yanks beat Giants 13-1
October 09, 1958 - Pope Pius XII died 19 years after he was elevated to the papacy.
October 09, 1958 - Yanks beat Braves 4 games to 3 in the world series
October 09, 1961 - Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning - world series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
October 09, 1962 - Uganda gains independence from Britain (National Day).
October 09, 1967 - Che Guevara executed in Bolivia.
October 09, 1975 - Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
October 09, 1975 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF
October 09, 1976 - Yanks 1st AL Championship game beat Royals 4-1
October 09, 1977 - Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 5 but returned after failing to dock
October 09, 1977 - Yanks beat Royals for pennant #31
October 09, 1984 - Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space
October 09, 1986 - Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E. Claiborne making him the 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
October 10, 1845 - US Naval academy opens at Annapolis Maryland
October 10, 1846 - Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
October 10, 1886 - 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park NY (the tuxedo)
October 10, 1904 - Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader. Also 41 game winner Chesbro loses the 1st game & chance at pennent
October 10, 1911 - China Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu dynasty
October 10, 1913 - Pacific & Atl mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam opening Panama Canal
October 10, 1920 - Bill Wambsganns unassisted world series triple play
October 10, 1933 - 1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed
October 10, 1935 - George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess opens in NY
October 10, 1937 - Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 1 in the world series
October 10, 1938 - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
October 10, 1943 - Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
October 10, 1951 - Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series
October 10, 1956 - On Skowron's grand slammer Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
October 10, 1957 - Braves Lew Burdette beats Yankees 3 times in 1 world series
October 10, 1957 - Pres Eisenhower apologized to finance minister of Ghana Komla Agbeli Gbdemah after he was refused service in a Dover Del. restaurant
October 10, 1960 - Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards.
October 10, 1963 - treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US UK USSR.
October 10, 1964 - 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
October 10, 1970 - Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day).
October 10, 1973 - VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns.
October 10, 1973 - Vice-Pres. Agnew resigns after conviction for income-tax evasion.
October 10, 1975 - Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
October 10, 1976 - NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
October 10, 1978 - Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75
October 10, 1978 - Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
October 10, 1980 - 4 500 people die when a pair of earthquakes struck NW Algeria
October 10, 1980 - Yanks lost 4-2 & are swept by Royals in the AL Championship series
October 10, 1980 - Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
October 10, 1982 - Pope John Paul II proclaimed Rev. M Kolbe who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp a saint
October 10, 1985 - US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy gunmen were placed in custody
October 11, 1797 - British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown the Netherlands.
October 11, 1811 - The Juliana the 1st steam-powered ferryboat begins operation.
October 11, 1864 - slavery abolished in Maryland.
October 11, 1890 - Daughters of the American Revolution founded
October 11, 1927 - Lou Gehrig elected MVP
October 11, 1943 - Yanks beat Cards 4 games to 1 in the world series
October 11, 1958 - Pioneer 1 launched; 1st spacecraft launched by NASA
October 11, 1962 - Pope John XXIII convenes Vatican II Council.
October 11, 1962 - 21st Roman Catholic ecumenical council Vatican II opens in Rome.
October 11, 1968 - Billy Martin named manager of Twins
October 11, 1968 - Apollo 7 launched 1st of manned Apollo mission
October 11, 1969 - Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next two days.
October 11, 1975 - Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick
October 11, 1975 - Saturday Night Live premiers
October 11, 1977 - Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
October 11, 1980 - Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
October 11, 1981 - Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series
October 11, 1984 - Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space.
October 11, 1987 - 200 000 gays march for civil rights in Washington.
October 12, 1492 - Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day.
October 12, 1860 - British & French troops capture Peking.
October 12, 1870 - General Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington VA at age 63.
October 12, 1891 - Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated.
October 12, 1923 - NY Giant's Casey Stengel Hr beats Yanks 1-0 in the World Series
October 12, 1929 - Cubs blow 8-0 world series lead A's score 10 in 1 inning
October 12, 1933 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
October 12, 1933 - John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County OH jail.
October 12, 1948 - Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager
October 12, 1949 - Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US
October 12, 1957 - 1st coml flight between Cal & Antartica
October 12, 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session.
October 12, 1962 - US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology
October 12, 1963 - At 4 AM traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck
October 12, 1963 - Archaeological digs begin at Masada Israel
October 12, 1964 - USSR launches 1st 3-man crew into space
October 12, 1967 - Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 world series
October 12, 1968 - Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
October 12, 1969 - Soyuz 7 is launched
October 12, 1972 - Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot
October 12, 1972 - Mariner 9 took pictures of Martian north pole
October 12, 1973 - Gerald Ford named as Spiro Agnew's successor to vice presidency
October 12, 1977 - Throwaway Game Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers
October 12, 1977 - 4th test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
October 12, 1985 - Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize.
October 13, 1601 - Tycho Brahe greatest naked-eye observer dies in Prague.
October 13, 1775 - Continental Congress establishes a navy
October 13, 1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House)
October 13, 1812 - Battle of Queenstown Heights.
October 13, 1843 - B'nai B'rith founded in NY.
October 13, 1845 - Texas ratifies a state constitution.
October 13, 1943 - Italy declares war on former ally Germany.
October 13, 1947 - Kukla Fran & Ollie premiers
October 13, 1953 - Burglar alarm - ultrasonic or radio waves - patented - Samuel Bagno
October 13, 1960 - Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats Yanks 10-9 in game 7 of World Series
October 13, 1964 - Voshkod 1 crew returns
October 13, 1969 - Soyuz 8 is launched
October 13, 1971 - 1st World Series night game (Pitts 4 - Balt 3)
October 13, 1978 - Graig Nettles at 3rd makes spectactular play after spectacular play
October 13, 1978 - Guidry beats Dodgers after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4
October 13, 1982 - NJ Devils 1st short handed gaol - Don Lever
October 13, 1982 - Intl Olympic Comm restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe. Medals taken away because he played baseball for pay
October 13, 1984 - Blackhawk Bill Gardner scored on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
October 13, 1984 - John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million.
October 13, 1985 - 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched
October 13, 1987 - 1st military use of trained dolphins by US Navy in Persian Gulf.
October 14, 1066 - Battle of Hastings in which William the Conqueror wins England
October 14, 1586 - Mary Qn of Scots conspiracy trial against Qn Elizabeth I begins
October 14, 1774 - 1st declaration of colonial rights in America
October 14, 1843 - British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy.
October 14, 1884 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
October 14, 1905 - Giant's Christy Mathewson's 3rd straight world series shutout
October 14, 1912 - Theodore Roosevelt is shot in the chest in Milwaukee while campaigning for President with the Bull Moose Party.
October 14, 1922 - 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
October 14, 1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler.
October 14, 1945 - Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak beat Bears.
October 14, 1947 - Chuck Yeager 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015 at 12 800 m).
October 14, 1949 - 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition.
October 14, 1965 - Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km.
October 14, 1976 - Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homers gives Yanks pennant #30
October 14, 1976 - Soyuz 23 launched to Salyut 6 but return without docking
October 14, 1977 - Bing Crosby dies in Madrid Spain.
October 14, 1978 - 1st TV movie from a TV series - Rescue from Gilligan's Island
October 14, 1978 - Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 making Islander record when scoring a hat trick - 22-2-1
October 14, 1982 - Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total)
October 15, 1582 - Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar cut 10 prior days.
October 15, 1783 - Jean Pilƒtre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent.
October 15, 1860 - Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln tells him to grow a beard.
October 15, 1863 - Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on the site).
October 15, 1885 - Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of the season
October 15, 1914 - ASCAP founded (American Soc of Composers Authers & Publishers)
October 15, 1917 - Mata Hari executed by firing squad outside of Paris.
October 15, 1923 - Yanks win 1st world shampionship Beating the Giants
October 15, 1939 - LaGuardia Airport opened in NYC
October 15, 1946 - Nazi Hermann Goering poisons himself in prison.
October 15, 1946 - Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in the World Series
October 15, 1951 - I Love Lucy premiers
October 15, 1959 - Untouchables premier
October 15, 1964 - Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev
October 15, 1969 - Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
October 15, 1981 - Yanks defeat A's 4-0 & win 33 pennant
October 16, 1775 - Portland Maine burned by British.
October 16, 1781 - Washington takes Yorktown
October 16, 1793 - Marie Antoinette beheaded in France.
October 16, 1846 - Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
October 16, 1849 - British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras.
October 16, 1859 - John Brown leads group of 20 in a raid on Harper's Ferry Va.
October 16, 1861 - Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
October 16, 1869 - Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
October 16, 1916 - Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (Bkln)
October 16, 1921 - Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin -- only mid-game coaching change in NFL history.
October 16, 1923 - Disney Co founded
October 16, 1941 - Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers
October 16, 1943 - Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system.
October 16, 1946 - 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials.
October 16, 1952 - Woolworth's at Powell & Market (S.F.) opens.
October 16, 1957 - Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip arrive in Virginia
October 16, 1962 - Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
October 16, 1962 - Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 3 in the world series
October 16, 1964 - Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia
October 16, 1964 - China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
October 16, 1969 - Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
October 16, 1970 - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
October 16, 1971 - Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in S.F.
October 16, 1973 - Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
October 16, 1976 - Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
October 16, 1978 - Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II.
October 16, 1981 - Israel's General Moshe Dayan dies at 66
October 16, 1982 - Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
October 16, 1982 - Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
October 16, 1982 - Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
October 16, 1984 - Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner
October 16, 1985 - Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
October 16, 1986 - Armand Hammer arrives back in US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
October 16, 1987 - 175-kph winds cause blackout in London much of southern England.
October 16, 1987 - 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after she fell 22 feet into a well shaft in Midland TX.
October 17, 1492 - Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador
October 17, 1691 - new royal charter for Massachusetts now including Maine Plymouth.
October 17, 1777 - British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY
October 17, 1781 - Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
October 17, 1793 - Marie Antoinette executed.
October 17, 1850 - Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized
October 17, 1887 - Gustav Kirchoff discoverer of the laws of spectroscopy dies.
October 17, 1894 - Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man.
October 17, 1899 - Sutro railroad sold to Robert F. Morrow for $215 000.
October 17, 1904 - Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors.
October 17, 1919 - RCA created.
October 17, 1931 - Al Capone convicted of tax evasion sentenced to 11 years in prison
October 17, 1933 - Albert Einstein arrives in the US a refugee from Nazi Germany.
October 17, 1941 - 1st American destroyer torpedoed in WW2 the Kearny off Iceland
October 17, 1945 - Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina.
October 17, 1957 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits White House.
October 17, 1957 - French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature.
October 17, 1962 - Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship
October 17, 1964 - Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra
October 17, 1967 - Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km.
October 17, 1969 - Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
October 17, 1972 - 1st time Islanders shut-out - 5-0 vs Penguins
October 17, 1973 - The Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March 1974.
October 17, 1977 - West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu Somalia free all 86 hostages aboard & killing three of the four hijackers.
October 17, 1977 - Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament.
October 17, 1978 - Islanders start 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
October 17, 1978 - Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year
October 17, 1979 - Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
October 17, 1985 - Lou Pinella named Yankee manager
October 17, 1986 - US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982.
October 17, 1987 - 1st World Series game in a covered stadium (Minnesota Metrodome).
October 18, 1685 - Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes outlaws Protestantism.
October 18, 1767 - Boundary between Md & Pa the Mason Dixon line agreed upon.
October 18, 1847 - English astronomer J.K Hind discovers Flor his second asteroid
October 18, 1867 - US took formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
October 18, 1873 - Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
October 18, 1892 - 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY).
October 18, 1898 - American flag raised in Puerto Rico
October 18, 1917 - Mata Hari was shot as a spy by French firing squad
October 18, 1922 - British Broadcasting Corporation established
October 18, 1931 - Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange N.J. at age 84.
October 18, 1944 - Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II.
October 18, 1950 - Connie Mack announced retirement as manager of the Phila Athletics
October 18, 1953 - Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times.
October 18, 1962 - Dr. Watson of US & Drs. Crick & Wilkins of Britain win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
October 18, 1967 - Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
October 18, 1967 - Soviet Venera 4 becomes the 1st probe to send data back from Venus
October 18, 1968 - Robert Beaman of US broad jumps a record 8.90 m.
October 18, 1968 - US Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving `black power' salute as a protest during victory ceremony
October 18, 1969 - Federal govt bans use of artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates
October 18, 1969 - Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
October 18, 1977 - Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record
October 18, 1977 - 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th
October 18, 1977 - Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship 1st in 15 years
October 18, 1982 - Former 1st lady Bess Truman died in Independence Mo. at age 97
October 19, 1781 - Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 p.m.; the fighting is over.
October 19, 1812 - Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow.
October 19, 1845 - Wagner's opera Tannh„user performed for 1st time.
October 19, 1853 - 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations
October 19, 1859 - Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope.
October 19, 1872 - world's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales.
October 19, 1879 - Thomas A. Edison successfully demenstrates the electric light
October 19, 1936 - H.R. Ekins of the "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights by 18 1/2 days.
October 19, 1949 - Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds
October 19, 1953 - 1st jet transcontinental non-stop scheduled service
October 19, 1953 - Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on television by Arthur Godfrey.
October 19, 1960 - The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba.
October 19, 1963 - Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
October 19, 1967 - Mariner 5 flew by Venus
October 19, 1968 - Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
October 19, 1987 - Billy Martin hired as manager of N.Y. Yankees for 5th time.
October 19, 1987 - Dow-Jones loses 508.32 points more than 4« times previous record.
October 19, 1987 - Black Monday - Dow Jones down 508.32 points worst day on Wall St
October 20, 1600 - Battle of Sekigahara establishes Tokugawa clan as rulers of Japan (shoguns) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel).
October 20, 1740 - Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria Hungary & Bohemia
October 20, 1803 - Senate ratifies La Purchase.
October 20, 1813 - Kingdom of Westphalia abolished.
October 20, 1818 - US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country.
October 20, 1820 - Spain sells (east) Florida to US for $5 million.
October 20, 1903 - US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada.
October 20, 1906 - Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube
October 20, 1929 - Bayshore Highway opens (SF).
October 20, 1944 - During WWII MacArthur goes to Phillipines saying `I have returned'
October 20, 1946 - Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd Chicago Cards vs. N.Y. Giants.
October 20, 1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in the Hollywood movie industry.
October 20, 1960 - 1st fully mechanized post office opened Providence RI
October 20, 1960 - Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
October 20, 1964 - 31st president of US Herbert Hoover died in NY at age 90.
October 20, 1968 - Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.
October 20, 1972 - Harlow Shapley discoverer of the sun's position in the galaxy dies.
October 20, 1973 - Sat Night Massacre Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed by Solicitor Gen Bork. AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
October 20, 1976 - 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
October 20, 1979 - John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston.
October 20, 1982 - Billy Martin fired as manager of the Oakland A's
October 20, 1984 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick - 4 goals
October 20, 1987 - Bernhard Goetz sentenced to six months in jail
October 21, 1797 - US Navy frigate Constitution Old Ironsides launched in Boston
October 21, 1805 - Battle of Trafalgar Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet
October 21, 1868 - Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m. centered in Hayward Calif.
October 21, 1869 - 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
October 21, 1879 - Thomas Edison perfects the light bulb.
October 21, 1897 - Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated.
October 21, 1918 - Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min.
October 21, 1923 - Deutsches Museum Munich 1st Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss Planetarium.
October 21, 1944 - During WWII US troops captured Aachen 1st large German city to fall
October 21, 1945 - Women in France allowed to vote for the 1st time
October 21, 1948 - Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated Washington DC
October 21, 1959 - Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opens in NY
October 21, 1960 - JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final pres debate
October 21, 1967 - Ejnar Hertzsprung Danish astrophysicist dies at 94.
October 21, 1967 - Thousands opposing Vietnam War tried to storm the Pentagon
October 21, 1971 - Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell & William H. Rehnquist to US Supreme Court following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
October 21, 1974 - 1st Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
October 21, 1975 - Venera 9 1st craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
October 21, 1976 - Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
October 21, 1977 - US recalls William Bowdler ambassador to South Africa
October 21, 1984 - Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2 h 8 m 5 s.
October 22, 1746 - Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
October 22, 1797 - Andr‚-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris)
October 22, 1836 - Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas
October 22, 1883 - Original Metropolitan Opera House in NY held its grand opening
October 22, 1928 - Pres Hoover spoke of `American system of rugged individualism.'
October 22, 1934 - Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot dead by FBI in Ohio.
October 22, 1936 - Apollo 7 crew returns
October 22, 1936 - 1st coml flight from mainland to Hawaii.
October 22, 1939 - 1st TV NFL game - Eagles vs Dodgers
October 22, 1953 - Laos gains full independence from France.
October 22, 1954 - West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
October 22, 1962 - JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba beginning missile crisis.
October 22, 1962 - Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center.
October 22, 1968 - Apollo 7 returns to Earth
October 22, 1973 - Security Council Resol 338 - a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War
October 22, 1974 - Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds
October 22, 1975 - Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 lands on Venus
October 22, 1975 - Cincinnati Reds win 1st World Series in 35 years
October 22, 1979 - WDW's 100-millionth guest
October 22, 1979 - Deposed Shah of Iran arrived in NY for medical treatment
October 22, 1981 - US national debt tops $1 trillion
October 22, 1981 - Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified
October 22, 4004 - B.C. Universe created at 8:00 PM according to the 1650 pronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher.
October 23, 1679 - Meal Tub Plot against James II of England.
October 23, 1790 - Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed).
October 23, 1864 - Union Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeats Conf Gen. Stirling Price
October 23, 1910 - Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
October 23, 1915 - 25 000 women marched in NYC demanding the right to vote
October 23, 1941 - Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released
October 23, 1942 - During WW II Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein Egypt
October 23, 1946 - UN Gen Assembly convenes in NY for 1st time in Flushing Meadow.
October 23, 1956 - Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary
October 23, 1956 - 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
October 23, 1958 - Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak wins Nobel Prize for Literature
October 23, 1973 - President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings
October 23, 1975 - Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent - Flyers 3-0
October 23, 1977 - By 2/3 majority Panamanians vote to approve the new Canal treaties
October 23, 1980 - Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns due to illness.
October 23, 1983 - 241 US Marines & sailors die in a terrorist suicide attack in Beriut
October 24, 1537 - Jane Seymour third wife of Henry VIII dies.
October 24, 1795 - 3rd partition of Poland between Austria Prussia & Russia.
October 24, 1836 - the match is patented.
October 24, 1846 - Ariel & Umbriel moons of Uranus discovered by Lassell
October 24, 1851 - William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel satellites of Unranus.
October 24, 1861 - 1st transcontinental telegram sent
October 24, 1871 - mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese.
October 24, 1901 - Anna Taylor 1st to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel & live
October 24, 1929 - Black Thursday the beginning of the stock market crash.
October 24, 1945 - United Nations Charter goes into effect
October 24, 1951 - UN publishes its 1st postage stamps
October 24, 1960 - Disaster on USSR launch pad killed missle expert Nedelin & team (unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in plane crash
October 24, 1964 - Zambia (N. Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day).
October 24, 1970 - Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile.
October 24, 1970 - Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
October 24, 1973 - Yom Kippur War ends - Israel 65 miles from Cairo 26 from Damascus
October 24, 1974 - Billy Martin named A.L. Manager of the Year (Texas Rangers)
October 24, 1976 - 1st Jewish film & TV festival
October 24, 1979 - Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman
October 24, 1984 - Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after failed
October 24, 1987 - Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
October 24, 1987 - NBC technicians accept pact end 118 day strike
October 25, 1400 - Author Geoffrey Chaucer dies in London.
October 25, 1415 - Battle of Agincourt Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
October 25, 1671 - Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus satellite of Saturn.
October 25, 1675 - Iapetus moon of Saturn Discovered by Giovanni Cassini
October 25, 1760 - George III ascends the British throne.
October 25, 1825 - Erie Canal opens for business in NY
October 25, 1854 - The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)
October 25, 1903 - Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin.
October 25, 1930 - 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
October 25, 1960 - 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale NYC
October 25, 1962 - Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missle bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over
October 25, 1971 - UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan.
October 25, 1971 - Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
October 25, 1975 - USSR Venera 10 made day Venus landing
October 25, 1983 - US invades Grenada a country 1/2000 its population.
October 25, 1984 - Rangers beat Devils 11-2
October 26, 1774 - 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
October 26, 1825 - Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
October 26, 1861 - Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express)
October 26, 1863 - Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game.
October 26, 1881 - Shootout at the OK corral in Tombstone Az
October 26, 1903 - Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay.
October 26, 1941 - US Savings Bonds go on sale
October 26, 1949 - Pres Truman increases minimum wage - from 40 cents to 75 cents.
October 26, 1956 - International Atomic Energy Agency established
October 26, 1957 - Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
October 26, 1958 - PanAm flies the 1st transAtlantic jet trip - NY to Paris.
October 26, 1968 - Soyuz 3 is launched
October 26, 1970 - Doonesbury comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
October 26, 1971 - UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
October 26, 1972 - Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
October 26, 1976 - according to South Africa Transkei gains independence. Not recognized as an independent country outside of South Africa.
October 26, 1977 - Fifth & Final test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
October 26, 1979 - S Korean Pres Park Chung-hee is assassinated.
October 26, 1979 - St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains independence from Britain.
October 26, 1984 - Baby Fae gets a baboon heart in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda CA. She will live for 21 days with the animal heart.
October 26, 1987 - head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm. assassinated by death squads.
October 27, 1553 - Michael Servetus burned at the stake for heresy in Geneva Switz.
October 27, 1787 - Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers.
October 27, 1795 - Treaty of San Lorenzo provides free navigation of Mississippi
October 27, 1810 - US annexes West Florida from Spain.
October 27, 1858 - RH Macy & Co opens 1st store NYC Gross receipts $1106
October 27, 1871 - Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed) Democratic leader of Tammany Hall arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption
October 27, 1880 - Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee on his 22nd birthday.
October 27, 1896 - 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
October 27, 1904 - NY opens 1st section of its subway system.
October 27, 1938 - DuPont announces that its new synthetic fiber will be called 'nylon'
October 27, 1947 - You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio.
October 27, 1954 - Walt Disney's 1st TV show Disneyland premiers on ABC.
October 27, 1961 - 1st Saturn Made a unmanned flight test
October 27, 1969 - St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
October 27, 1971 - Rep of Congo becomes Zaire.
October 27, 1972 - Golden Gate Natl Recreation Area created
October 27, 1973 - 1st time Islanders beat the Rangers - 3-2
October 27, 1978 - Begin & Sadat with the Nobel Peace prize
October 27, 1979 - Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
October 27, 1980 - Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph.
October 28, 1492 - Columbus discovers Cuba
October 28, 1636 - Harvard College 1st US college founded.
October 28, 1776 - Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
October 28, 1790 - NY gives up claims to Vermont in exchange for $30 000.
October 28, 1793 - Eli Whitney applies for patent for the cotton gin.
October 28, 1886 - Pres Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
October 28, 1904 - St Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints
October 28, 1918 - Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria.
October 28, 1919 - Volstead Act passed by Congress starting Prohibition
October 28, 1922 - Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government.
October 28, 1922 - 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game.
October 28, 1929 - 1st child born in aircraft Miami Fl
October 28, 1946 - German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
October 28, 1948 - Flag of Israel is adopted
October 28, 1953 - Bud Grant of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record).
October 28, 1962 - Krushchev orders withdrawal of Cuban missiles
October 28, 1965 - Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion.
October 28, 1965 - Gateway Arch (190 meters high) completed in St. Louis Missouri.
October 28, 1965 - The Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St Louis Missouri
October 28, 1970 - US/USSR signed an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
October 28, 1971 - England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit.
October 28, 1973 - Elmore Smith of the Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record).
October 28, 1974 - 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game - MacMillian & Westfall
October 28, 1976 - Billy Martin named A.L. Manager of the Year (NY Yankees)
October 28, 1977 - TV's Rhoda gets married
October 28, 1979 - Dick Howser (Best Yank mngr win-lost pct 636) replaces Billy Martin
October 29, 0539 - BC Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia.
October 29, 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh is executed in London.
October 29, 1682 - Pennsylvania granted to William Penn by King Charles II.
October 29, 1727 - Severe earthquake in New England.
October 29, 1811 - 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans.
October 29, 1833 - 1st College Fraternity founded
October 29, 1863 - Intl Comm. of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917 1944 1963).
October 29, 1894 - 1st election of the Hawaiian Republic
October 29, 1901 - Leon Czolcosz assassin of President McKinley is executed.
October 29, 1920 - Edward Barrow named Yankee general manager
October 29, 1923 - Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day).
October 29, 1929 - Black Tuesday the Stock Market crash.
October 29, 1939 - Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
October 29, 1956 - Chet Huntley & David Brinkley NBC News team up
October 29, 1956 - Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
October 29, 1964 - Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY.
October 29, 1979 - Billy Martin fired as Yankee Manager (2nd time)
October 29, 1982 - John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking will be acquitted.
October 30, 1270 - 8th & last crusade is launched.
October 30, 1775 - US Navy founded
October 30, 1864 - Helena Montana's capital founded.
October 30, 1905 - Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia a constitution.
October 30, 1922 - Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy
October 30, 1938 - Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of War of the Worlds.
October 30, 1941 - US Navy destroyer Reuben James torpedoed by Germany
October 30, 1945 - US govt announces end of shoe rationing.
October 30, 1953 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer received Nobel Peace Prize for 1952.
October 30, 1953 - Gen. George C. Marshall awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
October 30, 1961 - Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square.
October 30, 1961 - Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
October 30, 1967 - USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch
October 30, 1972 - Worst US rail accident in 14 years occurred
October 30, 1974 - Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire
October 30, 1975 - NY Daily News ran headline `Ford to City: Drop Dead'
October 30, 1978 - Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime 2 ^ 21701 - 1.
October 30, 1985 - 22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 is launched
October 30, 1985 - space shuttle Challenger carries 8 crewmen (2 Germans 1 Dutch).
October 31, 1517 - Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses begins Protestant Reformation
October 31, 1793 - Execution of the Girondins at Paris during the Reign of Terror.
October 31, 1864 - Nevada admitted as 36th state.
October 31, 1865 - William Parson 3rd Earl of Rosse & maker of large telescopes dies
October 31, 1922 - Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy.
October 31, 1926 - Erich Weiss better known as Magician Harry Houdini dies.
October 31, 1952 - 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands
October 31, 1956 - Bkln NY ends streetcar service
October 31, 1956 - 1st American to land by air at South Pole - GJ Dufek
October 31, 1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
October 31, 1968 - President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam.
October 31, 1980 - Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16 806 m).