Historical Events In October - 15

1923  On October - 15 nY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2   

1923  Italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler) on October - 15.   

1924  On October - 15 lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate born   

1924  On this day in history pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument   

1924  On this day in history colin Romoff, NYC, orch leader (Andy Williams Show)   

1925  On this day in history pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series   

1925  On October - 15 mickey Baker, rocker   

1926  Austria govt of Seipel, forms on this day in history.   

1926  Evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle) on this day in history.   

1928  On this day in history german dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ   

1932  Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight on this day in history.   

1933  Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0 on this day in history.   

1934  Raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1935  NHL's St Louis Eagles fold on October - 15.   

1937  Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published on October - 15.   

1937  James Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1938  On this day in history robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC   

1939  LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC on this day in history.   

1940  -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed on October - 15.   

1941  On this day in history jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death   

1941  1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe on this day in history.   

1942  On this day in history german 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die   

1942  Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed on October - 15.   

1944  The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary on October - 15.   

1944  On October - 15 philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau   

1945  On October - 15 french statesman Pierre Laval is executed for betraying his country to Nazis in World War Two.   

1945  On October - 15 pierre Laval former premier of Vichy France, executed   

1945  On this day in history baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)   

1945  On this day in history pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62   

1946  Hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force, committed suicide by poison on this day in history.   

1946  On October - 15 smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140)   

1946  On this day in history hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison   

1948  On this day in history first women officers on active duty sworn in as commissioned officers in regular Navy under Women's Service Integration Act of June 1948 by Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan CAPT Joy B. Hancock, USN; LCDR Winifred R. Quick, USN; LCDR Anne King, USN; LCDR Frances L. Willoughby, MC, USN; LT Ellen Ford, SC, USN; LT Doris Cranmore, MSC, USN; LTJG Doris A. Defenderfer, USN; and LTJG Betty Rae Tennant, USN.   

1948  On October - 15 china's Red army occupies Chinchov   

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1471  On this day in history birth of konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)   

1542  On this day in history birth of djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605)   

1550  On this day in history birth of henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange   

1608  On this day in history birth of evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647)   

1674  Robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together) was born on this day in history.   

1686  On October - 15 birth of allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758)   

1701  On October - 15 birth of marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771)   

1711  On this day in history birth of elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741)   

0412  Death of Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria on this day in history.   

0892  Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies on October - 15.   

0898  On October - 15 death of lambert, Holy Roman Emperor   

0912  On this day in history death of abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba   

1002  On October - 15 death of otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)   

1080  On October - 15 rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies   

1268  On this day in history dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies   

1271  On this day in history hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies