Page 6: Historical Events In October - 12

1933  John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County, OH, jail.   

1935  Cole Porters musical "Jubilee," premieres in NYC   

1936  B L T Bosanquet, cricketer (1st great googly bowler, England), dies.   

1938  Hugh Massie, cricketer (9 Tests for Australia 1881-85, capt), dies   

1939  inaugural deportation of Austrian / Moravian Jews to Poland   

1940  Tom Mix, US actor (Texan, Hidden Gold), dies at 60   

1941  Germans approach Moscow, partial evacuation of the city   

1941  Russian govt moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow.   

1942  US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance.   

1942  Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division.   

1943  US bombs Rabaul, New Britain.   

1944  700 Riot Police are called in to restore order at Frank Sinatra Columbus Day appearance in New York City's Paramount Theater.   

1944  German army retreats from Athens   

1945  Jesse James Payne, lynched in Madison County Florida   

1946  Joseph W Stilwell, US general (China), dies.   

1947  Nelson Betancourt, cricket wicketkeeper (WI Test 1930), dies at 42   

1948  Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager   

1948  Alfred Kerr, writer, dies at 80   

1950  "Call Me Madam" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 644 performances.   

1951  Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet, dies in captivity at 62   

1952  Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s v N Zone (Ind) his 1st fc cricket tons   

1953  US and Greece signs peace treaty (US bases)   

1955  -13] Hurricane Connie, results in the deaths of 43 in NC, SC, Virginia and Maryland   

1956  Marga Klompe is recorded as becoming 1st Dutch women elected minister   

1957  "Mask and Gown" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 39 performances   

1958  Ed Hinton, actor (Henderson-I Lived 3 Lives), dies at 30   

1959  Arnoldt Bronnen, writer, dies at 63   

1960  Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session   

1960  Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61   

1962  US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications and meteorology.   

1963  Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel   

1964  Launch of Voskhod 1, inaugural 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov)   

1964  J Howard Frazer, USTA pres, dies in office   

1966  Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer, dies at 74.   

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1008  Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036) was born on October - 12.   

1350  Dimitri "Donskoi" Ivanovitch, great monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal was born on this day in history.   

1350  On October - 12 birth of dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscovy (d. 1389)   

1490  On October - 12 birth of bernardo Pisano, composer   

1537  On this day in history birth of edward VI, Tudor, King of England (1547-53)   

1558  Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618) was born on October - 12.   

1558  On October - 12 birth of jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)   

1576  On this day in history birth of thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (d. 1653)   

0632  Death of Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda on this day in history.   

0638  On this day in history honorius I, [dux plebis], Italian Pope, dies   

0642  On October - 12 johannes IV, Dalmatisch Pope (640-42), dies   

1093  Robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62 on October - 12.   

1095  On October - 12 death of margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)   

1176  On this day in history death of william d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician   

1320  On this day in history michael IX Paleologi, emperor of Byzantine (1295-1320), dies   

1343  On this day in history reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies