Page 5: Historical Events In October - 15
Sunday, 08 February 2026
1923 NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2. 

1923 Italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler). 

1924 Lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate born. 

1924 Pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument. 

1924 Colin Romoff, NYC, orch leader (Andy Williams Show) 

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

1925 Mickey Baker, rocker 

1926 Austria govt of Seipel, forms. 

1926 Evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle) 

1928 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ 

1932 Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its inaugural flight. 

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

1934 Raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74. 

1935 NHL's St Louis Eagles fold 

1937 Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not" published 

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

1938 Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC. 

1939 LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC 

1940 -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed. 

1941 Jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death 

1941 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe 

1942 German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3000 German's die 

1942 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. 

1944 Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau 

1945 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. 

1945 Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest). 

1945 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. 

1946 Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3748, Red Sox $2140). 

1946 Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison. 

1948 inaugural 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 

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