Page 6: Historical Events In October - 04
Wednesday, 02 July 2025
1949 American Contract Bridge League votes 58½% to keep blacks out on October - 04.
1949 Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, dies at 75 on October - 04.
1950 French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam on this day in history.
1951 On October - 04 in opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn
1952 "Top Banana" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 perfs on this day in history.
1953 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:17:39.4) on October - 04.
1954 Comedienne Spring Byington began the successful network TV series, December Bride -- on CBS on October - 04.
1955 Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul on this day in history.
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7 on this day in history.
1955 On October - 04 alexander Papagos, Greek fieldmarshal, dies
1956 On October - 04 great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1957 "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS on October - 04.
1957 Leave It to Beaver premiered on ABC-TV."..And starring Jerry Mathers as the Beaver," Hugh Beaumont (Ward Cleaver), Tony Dow (Wally), and Barbara Billingsley as Mrs. June Cleaver on October - 04.
1957 Russia launches the first Earth orbiting satellite, 'Sputnik 1' on October - 04.
1957 USSR launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial Earth satellite on October - 04.
1958 5th French republic established on this day in history.
1958 Transatlantic comercial jet passenger service began (BOAC) on this day in history.
1958 12th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-3 at Montreal on October - 04.
1959 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side on October - 04.
1960 On October - 04 courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
1961 On this day in history max Weber, Polish/Russ/US painter, dies
1962 USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300 m on this day in history.
1962 On this day in history e H Hendren, cricketer (57,611 1st-class runs, 3rd-best ever), dies
1963 On October - 04 gambia achieves full internal self-government
1964 On October - 04 3 cars of a commuter train derail in South Africa killing 81
1965 Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN) on October - 04.
1965 On October - 04 uSSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
1966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) on this day in history.
1966 Sherman Billingsley, talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66 on October - 04.
1969 On October - 04 uN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
1969 Vibart Wight, cricketer (member of WI 1st Test touring 1928), dies on October - 04.
1970 Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma on this day in history.
1970 Jan Stenerud of Kansas City Chiefs kicks 55-yard field goal on this day in history.
1970 Janis Joplin died from a drug overdose. She was 27 on this day in history.
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