Historical Events In October - 15

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

1923  On October - 15 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 October - 15 pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series  

1925  On October - 15 mickey Baker, rocker  

1926  Austria govt of Seipel, forms on this day in history.  

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

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

1937  James Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70 on October - 15.  

1938  On October - 15 robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC  

1939  LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC on this day in history.  

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  1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe on this day in history.  

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

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 October - 15.  

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

1946  On October - 15 hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force, committed suicide by poison  

1946  On October - 15 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  On October - 15 china's Red army occupies Chinchov  

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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 October - 15 birth of henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange  

1608  Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647) was born on October - 15.  

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

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

1701  On October - 15 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  Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies on October - 15.  

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

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