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15 Oct 1582
Gregorian calendar introduced in Spain Portugal and pontifical states after skipping 10 days after Oct 4 to sync the calendar
15 Oct 1674
Torsker witch trials begin largest witch trials in Sweden 71 beheaded and burned
15 Oct 1786
Earliest 32F (0C) recorded temperature in NYC
15 Oct 1964
American Al Oerter wins his third of 4 consecutive Olympic mens discus titles at the Tokyo Olympics beats Czech Ludvk Dank by 0.08m
15 Oct 1983
Nelson Piquet of Brazil finishes 3rd in the season ending South African Grand Prix at Kyalami to clinch his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship wins by 2 points from Alain Prost
15 Oct 1895
Henry Perky patents a machine he developed with William Ford for the preparation of cereals for food otherwise known as shredded wheat
15 Oct 1968
American sprinter Wyomia Tyus wins her second consecutive Olympic 100m title with a world record 11.08s beats teammate Barbara Ferrell by 0.08s for the gold medal at the Mexico City Games
15 Oct 1969
Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in 60 years a World Series game
15 Oct 1846
American Dr William Thomas Green Mortons 1st public use of ether
15 Oct 1877
First session of the US 45th Congress (-79) convenes in Washington D.C.
15 Oct 1883
US Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
15 Oct 1913
Train crash at St. James Station Liverpool during Black Week kills six and injures 63
15 Oct 1914
US Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights)
15 Oct 1919
14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vermont to Massachusetts for 1000 prize money
15 Oct 1923
Baseball World Series NY Yankees beat NY Giants 6-4 in Game 6 at the Polo Grounds for a 4-2 series win Yankees first World Series victory
15 Oct 1925
Baseball World Series Pittsburgh Pirates beat Washington Senators 9-7 in Game 7 at Forbes Field for 4-3 series victory Pirates first team to recover from 31 deficit in a 7-game series
15 Oct 1925
Willem Landrs opera Beatrice premieres in The Hague
15 Oct 1926
Philip Barrys play White Wings premieres in NYC
15 Oct 1933
20th Amendment to the US Constitution goes into effect President term begins in January not March
15 Oct 1944
The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitlers NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary
15 Oct 1953
John Patricks play Teahouse of the August Moon premieres in New York
15 Oct 1959
TV series The Untouchables starring Robert Stack premieres in the US
15 Oct 1962
Byron R. White appointed to the US Supreme Court
15 Oct 1966
Black Panther Party created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland California
15 Oct 1971
Worlds first arcade video game Computer Space developed by Syzygy first demonstrated at the MOA Show in the US
15 Oct 1974
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J. Flory for work on macro molecules
15 Oct 1980
Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Lawrence Klein
15 Oct 1983
NHL Chicago Black Hawks & Toronto Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds) in a 10-8 Leaf win in Toronto
15 Oct 1886
Modest Mussorgskys musical fantasy Night on Bald Mountain premieres at Kononov Hall in St. Petersburg Russia
15 Oct 1917
Baseball World Series Chicago White Sox beat NY Giants 4-2 at Brush Stadium to clinch series 4-2 for their second WS triumph
15 Oct 1946
Baseball World Series St Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox 4-3 at Sportsmans Park to clinch series 4 games to 3 Cards 6th championship
15 Oct 1948
Chinas Red army occupies Chinchou in Guangdong
15 Oct 1960
Laughs & Other Events closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 performances
15 Oct 1964
Baseball World Series St Louis Cardinals win 7th title beat NY Yankees 7-5 at Busch Stadium to clinch series 4-3 MVP St Louis pitcher Bob Gibson
15 Oct 1987
Allan Knee and Brian Garis musical Late Nite Comic opens at Ritz Theater NYC runs for 4 performances
15 Oct 1988
Amnesty Internationals Human Rights Now Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires Argentina
15 Oct 1995
Carolina Panthers win 1st game ever beating NY Jets 26-15
15 Oct 1997
Britains Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (763.035 mph)
15 Oct 1997
Former US Representative Dan Rostenkowski released from custody for mail fraud
15 Oct 1884
Charles Old Hoss Radbourn pitches his 60th win of season for MLB Providence Grays in 8-0 win over Quakers at Philadelphia
15 Oct 1993
Late night talk show The Chevy Chase Show final episode airs on FOX tv cancelled after 6 weeks
15 Oct 1994
Philip Glass Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra premieres with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn NYC
15 Oct 1654
Prince William of Orange appointed viceroy of Overijssel
15 Oct 1923
American pianist Henry Cowell sparks a riot among audience members at Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig Germany - some tried to physically stop his avant-garde performance while others defended him
15 Oct 1933
20th Amendment to the US Constitution goes into effect changing the start of a Presidential term from March to January
15 Oct 1941
First mass deportation of German Austrian and Czech Jews to Eastern Europe for resettlement in labor camps
15 Oct 1941
WWII Nazi SS-Brigadier General Walter Stahlecker submits summary report documenting killing of more than 118000 unarmed Jewish men women and children by men under his command between June 22 and October 15 during invasion of the Soviet Union to the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin
15 Oct 1955
Country music radio show Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on television in a live hour-long show by ABC
15 Oct 1968
Al Oerter of the US wins the mens discus in an Olympic record 64.78m at the Mexico City Games Oerters unprecedented 4th consecutive Olympic discus title
15 Oct 1968
MLB American League expansion draft Kansas City Royals pick Baltimore Orioles pitcher Roger Nelson & Seattle Pilots pick California Angels infielder Don Mincher 1st as they choose 30 players each
15 Oct 1974
Massachusetts Governor Francis W. Sargent mobilizes National Guard troops to restore order in Boston after school busing desegregation program spurs racial violence
15 Oct 1974
NHL Washington Capitals earn 1st franchise tie playing LA Kings to 1-1 draw
15 Oct 1984
Dutch Centrum Party expels 2nd Member of parliament Hans Janmaat due to fraud
15 Oct 1991
Oh-My-God particle - most powerful cosmic ray ever detected by Flys Eye camera at Dugway Proving Ground Utah measuring 320 EeV - 40million x more powerful than any terrestrial particle accelerator [1]
15 Oct 1997
Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Jens Christain Skou Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker for their work on enzymes in the body
15 Oct 2000
ICC Mens Cricket KnockOut Trophy Gymkhana Club Nairobi New Zealand win their first international title with a 4 wicket win over India Man of the Match Chris Cairns NZ 102no (113)
15 Oct 2001
NASAs Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiters moon Io.
15 Oct 2001
The first tanker loading of the new 2.5-billion Kazakh-Russia Pipeline takes place
15 Oct 1598
Spanish General and strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies Fort Rhine
15 Oct 1641
Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montral
15 Oct 1660
Asser Levy is granted a butchers license for kosher meat in New Amsterdam
15 Oct 1674
Torsker witch trials the largest witch trials in Sweden begin 71 people are beheaded and burned
15 Oct 1705
The English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona
15 Oct 1724
Cornelis Steenoven becomes the first archbishop of the Old Catholic Church in Utrecht Netherlands
15 Oct 1777
Maj. James Graves Simcoe is appointed commandant of the Queens Rangers in Pennsylvania
15 Oct 1783
Jean-Franois Piltre de Rozier makes the first tethered balloon ascent
15 Oct 1786
Earliest 32F (0C) recorded temperature in New York City
15 Oct 1846
American Dr. William Thomas Green Mortons first public use of ether
15 Oct 1863
Cliff House opens in San Francisco first of many on the site
15 Oct 1877
First session of the US 45th Congress (-79) convenes in Washington D.C.
15 Oct 1881
American Angler the first American fishing magazine is published
15 Oct 1884
Charles Old Hoss Radbourn pitches his 60th win of the season for the MLB Providence Grays in an 8-0 victory over the Quakers in Philadelphia
15 Oct 1890
Alabama Penny Savings Bank is organized in Birmingham
15 Oct 1895
Henry Perky patents a machine he develops with William Ford for the preparation of cereals for food otherwise known as shredded wheat
15 Oct 1897
Aaron and Samuel Bloch carry the first mail pouch
15 Oct 1899
MLB Cleveland Spiders close out the season by losing both ends of a doubleheader 16-1 and 19-3 to the Cincinnati Reds on the road Spiders end the year with a record of 20-134 still holding the record for the fewest wins [1]
15 Oct 1904
The Russians are driven back by the Japanese in the Battle of Shaho both sides suffer heavy casualties Japanese (16000) and Russians (60000)
15 Oct 1913
Train crash at St. James Station Liverpool during Black Week kills six and injures 64
15 Oct 1914
US Clayton Antitrust Act passes (union and strike rights)
15 Oct 1919
Fourteen horses begin a 300-mile race from Vermont to Massachusetts for a 1000 prize
15 Oct 1923
American pianist Henry Cowell sparks a riot among audience members due to his avant-garde piano techniques at Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig Germany some try to physically stop his performance while others defend him
15 Oct 1926
Philip Barrys play White Wings premieres in New York City
15 Oct 1928
Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators
15 Oct 1933
Philadelphia Eagles play their first NFL game losing to the NY Giants 56-0
15 Oct 1937
The Yankees release Tony Lazzeri rather than accept any trade offers
15 Oct 1940
Heavy German air raid on London kills 400 people
15 Oct 1940
Londons Waterloo Station is bombed by the German Luftwaffe
15 Oct 1941
Jews caught outside Nazi ghetto walls in occupied Poland can be put to death
15 Oct 1941
WWII Nazi SS-Brigadier General Walter Stahlecker submits a summary report documenting the killing of more than 118000 unarmed Jewish men women and children by men under his command between June 22 and October 15 during the invasion of the Soviet Union to the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin
15 Oct 1942
German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek 3000 Germans die
15 Oct 1944
The Arrow Cross Party similar to Hitlers NSDAP (Nazi Party) takes power in Hungary
15 Oct 1945
Baseball attendance hits a record 10.28 million with the Tigers 1.28 million being the highest
15 Oct 1949
Administration of the territory of Manipur is taken over by the Indian government
15 Oct 1952
Arthur Laurents Time of the Cuckoo premieres in New York City
15 Oct 1953
WJNL (later WFAT) TV channel 19 in Johnstown PA (IND) begins broadcasting
15 Oct 1954
Hurricane Hazel makes landfall in the US in North Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane 195 people die in the US and Canada
15 Oct 1956
First plane lands safely on water Pan Am Flight 6 from San Francisco to Honolulu with all 24 passengers and 7 crew surviving
15 Oct 1956
Pyotr Bolotnikov runs a world record 10000 m (2842.8)
15 Oct 1956
William J. Brennan Jr. is appointed to the US Supreme Court
15 Oct 1957
Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for SF Seals franchises only not the players
15 Oct 1962
Byron R. White is appointed to the US Supreme Court
15 Oct 1964
American Al Oerter wins his third of four consecutive Olympic mens discus titles at the Tokyo Olympics beating Czech Ludvk Dank by 0.08 m
15 Oct 1964
American Don Schollander swims a world record 412.2 to win the 400 m freestyle gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics the second of Schollanders four gold medals at the Games
15 Oct 1964
American sprinter Bob Hayes equals the world record of 10.0 seconds to beat Cubas Enrique Figuerola by 0.2 seconds and win the mens 100 m gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
15 Oct 1964
Australian swimmer Ian OBrien sets a world record of 227.8 to beat Soviet Georgy Prokopenko by 0.4 seconds and win the mens 200 m breaststroke gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
15 Oct 1964
US womens 4 x 100 m freestyle relay team of Sharon Stouder Donna de Varona Lillian Watson and Kathy Ellis swim a world record of 403.8 to beat Australia by 3.1 seconds and win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
15 Oct 1968
American sprinter Wyomia Tyus wins her second consecutive Olympic 100 m title with a world record of 11.08 seconds beating teammate Barbara Ferrell by 0.08 seconds for the gold medal at the Mexico City Games
15 Oct 1968
British athlete David Hemery sets a world record of 48.12 seconds to beat Gerhard Hennige of West Germany and take the gold medal in the mens 400 m hurdles at the Mexico City Olympics
15 Oct 1968
MLB American League expansion draft Kansas City Royals pick Baltimore Orioles pitcher Roger Nelson and Seattle Pilots pick California Angels infielder Don Mincher first as they choose 30 players each
15 Oct 1968
The Nationalist Party of Northern Ireland (NPNI) withdraws from its role as the official opposition within the Northern Ireland Parliament at Stormont
15 Oct 1969
Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) is dedicated
15 Oct 1969
Madison Square Garden TV Network begins broadcasting (Rangers vs. North Stars)
15 Oct 1969
Millions nationwide protest against the Vietnam War on Moratorium Day in the US
15 Oct 1970
Bridge over the Yarra River in Melbourne Australia collapses killing 35
15 Oct 1971
The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran commemorating the founding of the Persian Empire
15 Oct 1971
Worlds first arcade video game Computer Space developed by Syzygy is first demonstrated at the MOA Show in the US
15 Oct 1972
Omni in Atlanta opens as the Hawks beat the NY Knicks 109-101
15 Oct 1973
Tanks attack demonstrating students in Thailand killing 300
15 Oct 1974
Massachusetts Governor Francis W. Sargent mobilizes National Guard troops to restore order in Boston after the school busing desegregation program spurs racial violence
15 Oct 1974
NHL Washington Capitals earn first franchise tie playing LA Kings to a 1-1 draw
15 Oct 1974
Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Paul J. Flory for work on macromolecules
15 Oct 1975
Iceland moves international boundary from 50 to 200 miles
15 Oct 1976
Ringo Starr releases the single A Dose of Rock n Roll which peaks at 26 in the US but fails to chart in the UK
15 Oct 1977
Arkansas Steve Little kicks a record-tying 67-yard field goal
15 Oct 1977
Debby Boones single You Light Up My Life goes 1 and stays 1 for ten weeks
15 Oct 1977
Don Ritchie runs a world record 100 miles in 113051
15 Oct 1979
In the first Monday night game at Shea Stadium in New York City Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stadium)
15 Oct 1981
Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is believed to be the first audience wave in Oakland California
15 Oct 1983
Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football then loses the next 44 games
15 Oct 1983
NHL Chicago Blackhawks and Toronto Maple Leafs combine for the fastest five goals in 84 seconds in a 10-8 Leafs win in Toronto
15 Oct 1983
US Marine sharpshooters kill five snipers at Beirut International Airport
15 Oct 1984
Dutch Centrum Party expels second Member of Parliament Hans Janmaat due to fraud
15 Oct 1985
Nobel prize in economics is awarded to Franco Modigliani
15 Oct 1985
Shelley Taylor of Australia makes the fastest swim around Manhattan Island completing it in 6 hours 12 minutes and 29 seconds
15 Oct 1986
In the longest postseason game Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 innings and win NL pennant
15 Oct 1987
Lanford Wilsons play Burn This premieres in New York City
15 Oct 1987
NFL Players Association orders an end to a 24-day strike the union fails to achieve demands in the short term with no collective bargaining agreement in place
15 Oct 1988
NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards - Oklahoma)
15 Oct 1991
Oh-My-God particle the most powerful cosmic ray ever detected by the Flys Eye camera at Dugway Proving Ground Utah measures 320 EeV 40 million times more powerful than any terrestrial particle accelerator [1]
15 Oct 1992
Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting on WLUP-AM in Chicago Illinois
15 Oct 1992
NYC Subway motorman Robert Ray is convicted of manslaughter in the deaths of five riders after he falls asleep drunk while in control of the train
15 Oct 1993
Amstel Brewery on Curaao produces its 1000000000th bottle
15 Oct 1993
Late-night talk show The Chevy Chase Show airs its final episode on FOX TV after being canceled after five weeks
15 Oct 1994
Botswana President Ketumile Masires BDP wins the parliamentary election
15 Oct 1994
Philip Glasss Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra premieres with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City
15 Oct 1995
Carolina Panthers win their first game defeating the NY Jets 26-15
15 Oct 1997
A New York jury awards boxer Mitch Green 45000 in a civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson for a street brawl in 1988
15 Oct 1997
Britains Andy Green sets jet-powered car record of 763.035 mph (1227.985 kmh)
15 Oct 1997
Former US Representative Dan Rostenkowski is released from custody for mail fraud
15 Oct 1997
Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Jens Christian Skou Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker for their work on enzymes in the body
15 Oct 1997
The US launches the nuclear-powered Cassini spacecraft to Saturn
15 Oct 2000
ICC Mens Cricket KnockOut Trophy Gymkhana Club Nairobi New Zealand wins its first international title with a 4-wicket victory over India Man of the Match Chris Cairns New Zealand 102 not out (113)
15 Oct 2001
The first tanker loading of the new 2.5 billion Kazakhstan-Russia Pipeline takes place
15 Oct 2003
China launches Shenzhou 5 its first crewed space mission
15 Oct 1905
Claude Debussys symphonic sketch La Mer premieres in Paris
15 Oct 1933
Dmitri Shostakovichs Piano Concerto No. 1 premieres in Leningrad with Shostakovich at the piano
15 Oct 1948
Operation Ten Plagues an Israeli offensive against the Egyptian army in the Negev Desert is carried out from 15 to 22 October
15 Oct 1971
Rock n Roll Spectacular Volume VII concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City includes performers Chuck Berry Bo Diddley Bobby Rydell and Rick Nelson the latters set with the Stone Canyon Band receives a mixed reaction and inspires his later hit song Garden Party [1]
15 Oct 1974
Asylum Records releases The Heart of Saturday Night the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits
15 Oct 1989
American radio and television evangelist Billy Graham receives the 1900th star on Hollywood Boulevard becoming the first clergyman to be granted a star
15 Oct 1993
Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize