Notable Historical Events on October 15th
October 15th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
533 |
Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals. |
1520 |
King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall |
1522 |
Emperor Karel I names Hernan Cortes governor of Mexico |
1552 |
Khanate of Kazan is conquered by troops of Ivan Grozny. |
1581 |
Commissioned by Catherine De Medici, the 1st ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine", is staged in Paris |
1582 |
Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days |
1598 |
Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine |
1641 |
Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal |
1654 |
Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Overijssel |
1655 |
Jews of Lublin are massacred |
1660 |
Asser Levy granted butcher's license (kosher meat) in New Amsterdam |
1705 |
English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona |
1724 |
Cornelis Steenoven is 1st archbishop of Old-Catholic church |
1756 |
Saxon army surrenders to Prussia |
1764 |
Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
1777 |
Mjr James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queen's Rangers (Penn) |
1783 |
Jean Pilstre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent |
1786 |
Earliest 32°F (0°C) recorded temp in NYC |
1789 |
1st presidental tour-George Washington in New England |
1815 |
Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile |
1827 |
Charles Darwin admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge |
1842 |
Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung |
1846 |
Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether |
1860 |
11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard |
1863 |
Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on site) |
1864 |
Confederate troops occupy Glasgow, Missouri |
1866 |
Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses |
1874 |
Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force |
1877 |
45th Congress (1877-79) convenes |
1878 |
Edison Electric Light Company incorporated |
1880 |
Koln cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun |
1880 |
Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists. |
1881 |
1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published |
1883 |
Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional |
1885 |
Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of season |
1889 |
Amsterdam Central Station officially opens |
1890 |
Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham |
1894 |
Capt Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage in France |
1897 |
Aaron/Samuel Bloch carry 1st Mail Pouch |
1897 |
King Leopold II takes Belgian crown |
1899 |
Cincinnati closes season with 16-1 & 19-3 victories over Cleve Spiders |
1904 |
The Russians are driven back by the Japanese in the Battle of Shaho; both sides suffer high casualties: Japanese (16,000) and Russians (60,000) |
1905 |
Claude Debussy's "La Mer" premieres |
1905 |
Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands |
1912 |
Red Sox Tris Speaker's makes only world series unassisted double play, from the outfield |
1913 |
Train crash in Liverpool during "Black Week" |
1914 |
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded |
1914 |
Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends Oct 21) |
1914 |
Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights) |
1917 |
Chicago White Sox beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 14th World Series |
1917 |
World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany. |
1918 |
British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6 |
1919 |
14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money |
1923 |
NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2 |
1924 |
Pres Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument |
1925 |
Pittsburgh Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series |
1925 |
Willem Landre's opera "Beatrice" premiers in The Hague |
1926 |
Austria government of Seipel, forms |
1926 |
Philip Barry's "White Wings!" premieres in NYC |
1928 |
German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ |
1928 |
Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators |
1932 |
Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight. |
1933 |
20th Amendment to the US Constitution goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March |
1933 |
Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0 |
1935 |
NHL's St Louis Eagles fold |
1937 |
Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published |
1937 |
Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yanks release Tony Lazzeri |
1938 |
Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" premieres in NYC |
1939 |
LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC |
1939 |
Yeshiva of Mir closes after 124 years |
1940 |
-16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed |
1940 |
London's Waterloo Station bombed by Germans |
1940 |
"The Great Dictator", a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released. |
1941 |
1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe |
1941 |
Japan Tojo regime forms |
1941 |
Jews caught outside Nazi Ghetto walls in occupied Poland could be put to death |
1942 |
German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 Germans die |
1944 |
The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary. |
1945 |
Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest) |
1946 |
Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140) |
1946 |
St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series |
1946 |
Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series |
1948 |
China's Red army occupies Chinchov |
1949 |
Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian government |
1949 |
Billy Graham begins his ministry |
1949 |
Tripura accedes to Indian union |
1951 |
"I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV |
1951 |
Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty |
1951 |
Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesized the first oral contraceptive |
1951 |
"I Love Lucy", starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, debuts on CBS |
1952 |
Arthur Laurent's "Time of the Cuckoo" premieres in NYC |
1953 |
John Patrick's "Teahouse of the Red Moon" premieres in NYC |
1953 |
KOIN TV channel 6 in Portland, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WJNL (now WFAT) TV channel 19 in Johnstown, PA (IND) begins |
1954 |
Hurricane Hazel strikes US & Canada, 348 die |
1954 |
KLTV TV channel 7 in Tyler-Longview, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8) |
1956 |
William J Brennan Jr appointed to US Supreme Court |
1956 |
Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series |
1957 |
Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for SF Seals-franchises only, not the players |
1958 |
Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt |
1958 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1959 |
"Untouchables" premieres |
1959 |
KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
"Laughs & Other Events" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 perfs |
1962 |
Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court |
1962 |
WLOX TV channel 13 in Biloxi-Gulfport, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1963 |
Ludwig Erhard follows Conrad Adenauer as West German Chancellor |
1964 |
Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph |
1964 |
St Louis Cardinals beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series |
1964 |
NY Yankees appears in 14 & win 9 of last 16 World Series |
1965 |
Dodgers & Sandy Koufax win 7th game of 62nd World Series vs Twins |
1965 |
WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor, ME (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
Australia bans Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself" as "terribly obscene" |
1966 |
LBJ signs a bill creating US Dept of Transportation |
1966 |
Black Panther Party was created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. |
1968 |
AL expansion draft, KC pick Roger Nelson & Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st |
1968 |
The Nationalist Party of Northern Ireland (NPNI) withdraws from its role as 'official' opposition within the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont |
1969 |
Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated |
1969 |
Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs North Stars) |
1969 |
NY Met Ron Swoboda's spectacular diving catch of sinking liner with runners at 1st & 3rd in 9th, Mets win in 10th in World Series game |
1969 |
Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a World Series |
1969 |
Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war |
1969 |
3rd Country Music Association Award: Johnny Cash & Tammy Wynette wins |
1970 |
Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt |
1970 |
Baltimore Orioles beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series |
1970 |
Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35 |
1970 |
Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey |
1971 |
The start of the 2,500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia. |
1972 |
61st Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Bucharest (3-2) |
1972 |
Omni in Atlanta opens - Hawks beat NY Knicks 109-101 |
1973 |
7th Country Music Association Award: Roy Clark wins |
1973 |
Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed |
1974 |
National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing |
1974 |
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules) |
1974 |
Washington Capitals 1st NHL tie, playing LA Kings to 1-1 tie |
1975 |
Iceland moves intl boundary from 50 to 200 miles |
1976 |
1st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R) |
1976 |
Ringo Starr releases "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll" |
1977 |
Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal |
1977 |
Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks |
1977 |
Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (11:30:51) |
1978 |
Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open |
1978 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979 |
1st Monday night game from NYC, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stad) |
1979 |
Chinese premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris |
1979 |
Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees |
1979 |
NY Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier |
1980 |
George Brett is forced out of World Series with hemorrhoids |
1980 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein |
1981 |
NY Yankees capture 33rd AL pennant, sweeping 3 games from Oakland A's |
1981 |
Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is thought to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California. |
1983 |
Black Hawks & Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds) |
1983 |
Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games |
1983 |
US Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut International Airport |
1984 |
Central Intelligence Agency Information Act passes |
1984 |
Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud |
1985 |
Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani |
1985 |
Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit |
1985 |
Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds |
1986 |
Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 & win NL pennant |
1987 |
"Late Nite Comic" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 4 performances |
1987 |
6th Belgium government of Martens falls |
1987 |
Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies |
1987 |
Lanford Wilson's "Burn This" premieres in NYC |
1987 |
NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike |
1987 |
The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England. |
1988 |
Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires |
1988 |
NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards-Oklahoma) |
1988 |
With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run HR to gives Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of World Series |
1989 |
Billy Graham is given 1,900th star on Hollywood Blvd |
1989 |
South Africa President FW de Klerk frees ANC Founder Walter Sisulu & 4 other political prisoners |
1989 |
Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howes as NHL's all time top scorer |
1990 |
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize |
1991 |
Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (52-48) |
1992 |
Charles Taylor launches an offensive against Monrovia Liberia |
1992 |
Howard Stern radio show begins broadcasting on WLUP-AM, Chicago |
1992 |
NYC Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train |
1993 |
Amstel brewery on Curacao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle |
1993 |
Nelson Mandela & South Africa president F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
1994 |
Botswana Pres Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election |
1994 |
Pres Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti |
1995 |
Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf |
1995 |
Carolina Panthers win 1st game ever beating NY Jets 26-15 |
1997 |
Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (763.035 mph) |
1997 |
Cleve Indians beat Balt Orioles 4 games to 2 in ALCS |
1997 |
Former rep Dan Rostenkowski released from custody for mail fraud |
1997 |
NY jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988 |
1997 |
US launches nuclear powered Cassini to Saturn |
2000 |
Larry David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" debuts on HBO |
2001 |
NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io. |
2001 |
The first tanker loading of the new $2.5-billion Kazakh-Russia Pipeline takes place |
2003 |
China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission. |
2003 |
The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi collides with a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43. |
2005 |
Iraqi constitution ratification vote |
2005 |
Riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested. |
2007 |
17 Activists in Aotearoa New Zealand arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids across the country. |
2011 |
Global protests break out in 951 cities in 82 countries. |
2011 |
Legoland Florida (the world's largest Legoland theme park) opens in Winter Haven, Florida. |
2012 |
Hilary Mantel wins the 2012 Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring Up the Bodies |
2014 |
Kansas City Royals win the MLB 2014 American League Championship Series |
2016 |
Nearly 200 nations agree binding deal to cut greenhouse gases |
2016 |
US broadens Syria talks after failure of truce deal with Russia |
2016 |
North Carolina Democrats win extension of voter registration deadline |
2016 |
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 banned on all US flights due to fire hazard |
2017 |
Harvey Weinstein expelled from Academy of Motion Pictures |
2017 |
Puerto Rico raises Hurricane Maria death toll to 48 |
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