Historical Events In October - 15

1923  NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2 on this day in history.  

1923  Italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler) on this day in history.  

1924  On this day in history lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate born  

1924  Pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument on this day in history.  

1924  Colin Romoff, NYC, orch leader (Andy Williams Show) on October - 15.  

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

1925  Mickey Baker, rocker on this day in history.  

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  German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ on this day in history.  

1932  Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight on October - 15.  

1933  On October - 15 philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0  

1934  Raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 on October - 15.  

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

1937  On October - 15 ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published  

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 October - 15.  

1940  On this day in history -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed  

1941  Jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death on October - 15.  

1941  On October - 15 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe  

1942  German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die on October - 15.  

1942  On this day in history dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed  

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

1944  On this day in history 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  Pierre Laval former premier of Vichy France, executed on this day in history.  

1945  Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest) on this day in history.  

1945  Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62 on October - 15.  

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

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

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 this day in history china's Red army occupies Chinchov  

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1471  Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526) was born on this day in history.  

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

1550  Henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange was born on this day in history.  

1608  On October - 15 birth of evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647)  

1674  On this day in history birth of robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together)  

1686  On this day in history birth of allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758)  

1701  Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771) was born on this day in history.  

1711  Elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741) was born on October - 15.  

0412  Death of Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria on October - 15.  

0892  Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies on this day in history.  

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

0912  On October - 15 death of abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba  

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

1080  Rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies on October - 15.  

1268  Dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies on this day in history.  

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