Page 5: Historical Events In October - 15

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

1923  Italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler) on October - 15.   

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

1924  On this day in history pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument   

1924  On October - 15 colin Romoff, NYC, orch leader (Andy Williams Show)   

1925  Pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series on this day in history.   

1925  On this day in history mickey Baker, rocker   

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

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

1928  German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ on this day in history.   

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

1933  Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0 on October - 15.   

1934  On this day in history raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74   

1935  On October - 15 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  Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC on October - 15.   

1939  LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC on October - 15.   

1940  On October - 15 -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed   

1941  Jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death on this day in history.   

1941  On this day in history 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe   

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

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

1944  On October - 15 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 this day in history.   

1945  French statesman Pierre Laval is executed for betraying his country to Nazis in World War Two on October - 15.   

1945  On this day in history pierre Laval former premier of Vichy France, executed   

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

1945  On October - 15 pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62   

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

1542  On October - 15 birth of djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605)   

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

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

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

1711  Elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

0898  Death of Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor on October - 15.   

0912  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1268  On October - 15 dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies   

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