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  On October - 15 lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate born  

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 this day in history.  

1925  On October - 15 mickey Baker, rocker  

1926  On October - 15 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  Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight on October - 15.  

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

1934  On October - 15 raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74  

1935  On October - 15 nHL's St Louis Eagles fold  

1937  On October - 15 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  On this day in history laGuardia Airport opens in NYC  

1940  On this day in history -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 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  On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1945  On this day in history baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)  

1945  On October - 15 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  On this day in history smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140)  

1946  Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison on this day in history.  

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 October - 15.  

1948  China's Red army occupies Chinchov on this day in history.  

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

1542  On this day in history birth of djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605)  

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 October - 15.  

1674  On October - 15 birth of robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together)  

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

1701  On this day in history 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 October - 15.  

0412  On October - 15 death of theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria  

0892  Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies on this day in history.  

0898  On October - 15 death of lambert, Holy Roman Emperor  

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

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

1080  Rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies on this day in history.  

1268  Dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies on this day in history.  

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