Page 5: Historical Events In October - 15

1923  NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2 on October - 15.   

1923  On this day in history italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler)   

1924  Lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate born on this day in history.   

1924  Pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument on October - 15.   

1924  Colin Romoff, NYC, orch leader (Andy Williams Show) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history austria govt of Seipel, forms   

1926  Evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle) on October - 15.   

1928  On October - 15 german dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ   

1932  On this day in history tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.   

1933  On this day in history 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  On this day in history nHL's St Louis Eagles fold   

1937  On this day in history ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published   

1937  On this day in history james Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70   

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 October - 15 -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed   

1941  On October - 15 jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death   

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 this day in history.   

1942  Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed on October - 15.   

1944  On this day in history 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 on October - 15.   

1945  On this day in history 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 October - 15.   

1945  On October - 15 baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)   

1945  On this day in history 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 on October - 15.   

1946  Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140) on this day in history.   

1946  On October - 15 hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison   

1948  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 on this day in history.   

1948  China's Red army occupies Chinchov on October - 15.   

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1471  Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526) was born on October - 15.   

1542  Djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605) was born on this day in history.   

1550  On this day in history birth of henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange   

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

1674  Robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together) was born on this day in history.   

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

1701  On October - 15 birth of marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771)   

1711  On October - 15 birth of elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741)   

0412  Death of Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria on this day in history.   

0892  On October - 15 al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies   

0898  Death of Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor on this day in history.   

0912  On this day in history death of abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba   

1002  Death of Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946) on October - 15.   

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