Page 6: Historical Events In October - 02
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1932 NY Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs in 29th World Series. 

1933 Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness," premieres in NYC. 

1934 Royal Indian Navy is formed 

1935 Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 

1935 Mussolini's Italian armys attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 

1936 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas. 

1936 G H Simpson-Hayward, cricketer (Eng 1910, great lob bowlers), dies. 

1937 FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State 

1938 Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times) 

1939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF 

1940 17 German aircrafts shot down above England 

1941 6 Parisian synagogues are bombed 

1941 6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo. 

1942 inaugural self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago 

1942 RMS"Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338 in the Atlantic 

1942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338 

1943 Orders are given for the expulsion of all Danish Jews. Thanks to Danish underground operations, only 415 Jews are captured by the Germans. 7000 are evacuated to Sweden 

1943 Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island 

1943 Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer, dies at 60 

1944 Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250000 people 

1944 Rudolf Schmundt, German gen/Hitlers army adjunct, dies from injuries 

1946 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont. 

1947 "Music in My Heart" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 124 performances. 

1948 "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 725 perfs. 

1949 St Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3. 

1950 The comic strip "Peanuts" inaugural appears, in 9 newspapers. 

1950 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks," later "Peanuts" in 9 papers. 

1951 1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel). 

1955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiers on Television. 

1955 O B Clarence, actor (Penn of Pensnsylvania), dies 

1956 inaugural atomic power clock exhibited-NYC. 

1956 George Bancroft, actor (Texas, Stagecoach, Little Men), dies at 74 

1958 Marie Stopes, birth control pioneer, dies 

1959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS. 

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