Page 5: Historical Events In October - 15

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

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

1924  Lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate born on October - 15.   

1924  On October - 15 pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument   

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

1925  Pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series on October - 15.   

1925  On October - 15 mickey Baker, rocker   

1926  On this day in history austria govt of Seipel, forms   

1926  On this day in history evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle)   

1928  German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ on October - 15.   

1932  On October - 15 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  On this day in history raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74   

1935  NHL's St Louis Eagles fold on this day in history.   

1937  On October - 15 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  -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history german 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die   

1942  Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed on this day in history.   

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

1944  On this day in history philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau   

1945  French statesman Pierre Laval is executed for betraying his country to Nazis in World War Two on this day in history.   

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 October - 15.   

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

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

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

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

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1471  On this day in history birth of konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)   

1542  Djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605) was born on October - 15.   

1550  Henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange was born on October - 15.   

1608  Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647) was born on this day in history.   

1674  Robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together) was born on October - 15.   

1686  Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758) was born on October - 15.   

1701  On this day in history birth of marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771)   

1711  On this day in history birth of elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741)   

0412  On this day in history death of theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria   

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

0898  On this day in history death of lambert, Holy Roman Emperor   

0912  Death of Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba on October - 15.   

1002  On this day in history death of otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)   

1080  On October - 15 rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies   

1268  On this day in history dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies   

1271  Hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies on this day in history.