Page 6: Historical Events In October - 02

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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1452  King richard iii: Of england (1483-85)   

1470  Isabella of naples: Duchess of milan   

1538  Saint charles borromeo: Italian cardinal   

1595  Jacob louys: Flemish engraver   

1616  A gryphius: Writer   

1644  François-timoléon de choisy: French writer   

1646  Guillaume poitevin: Composer   

1704  Frantisek ignac antonin tuma: Composer   

0472  Olybrius: Emperor of westromeinse republic (472),   

0939  Giselbert: Duke of lutheran, drowns at about 49   

1113  Mawdoed: Selchuk emir/governor of mosul,   

1264  Urbanus iv: [jacques pantaleon], french pope (1261-64),   

1517  John murmelius: Humanist/theory/school book writer,   

1559  Death of Jacquet of mantua: French composer (b. 1483)   

1564  Death of Andreas vesalius: [andries of wesel], flemish anatomist,   

1588  Bernardino telesio: Italian philosopher (rerum in child),