Page 5: Historical Events In October - 15

1923  NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2.   

1923  Italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler).   

1924  Lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate born   

1924  Pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument   

1924  Colin Romoff, NYC, orch leader (Andy Williams Show).   

1925  Pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series   

1925  Mickey Baker, rocker   

1926  Austria govt of Seipel, forms   

1926  Evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle).   

1928  German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ.   

1932  Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its inaugural flight.   

1933  Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0.   

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

1935  NHL's St Louis Eagles fold   

1937  Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not" published.   

1937  James Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70.   

1938  Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC.   

1939  LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC.   

1940  -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed   

1941  Jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death   

1941  1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe.   

1942  German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3000 German's die.   

1942  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.   

1944  Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau.   

1945  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.   

1945  Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)   

1945  Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62   

1946  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 $3748, Red Sox $2140).   

1946  Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison.   

1948  inaugural 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  China's Red army occupies Chinchov.   

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1471  Konrad mutian: German humanist   

1542  Djalalud-din mohammed akbar: Emperor of india (1556-1605)   

1550  Henry: Earl of nassau-dillenburg/brother of william of orange   

1608  Evangelista torricelli: Italian physicist   

1674  Robert herrick: Mass, british poet (together)   

1686  Allan ramsay: Scottish poet   

1701  Marie-marguerite d'youville: First native canadian canonized   

1711  Elisabeth teresa of lorraine: Queen of sardinia   

0412  Theophilus: Patriarch of alexandria   

0892  Death of Al-mutamid: Kalief of abbasiden,   

0898  Death of Lambert: Holy roman emperor   

0912  Death of Abdullah ibn muhammad: Emir of córdoba   

1002  Death of Otto-henry: Duke of burgundy (b. 946)   

1080  Death of Rudolf von schwaben: German anti-king,   

1268  Dirk ii: Mister of valkenburg,   

1271  Hostiensis: [henricus the segusia], cardinal/bishop of ostia,