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 October - 15.   

1924  Pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument on this day in history.   

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

1925  On this day in history pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series   

1925  On this day in history mickey Baker, rocker   

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

1926  On October - 15 evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle)   

1928  On this day in history german dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ   

1932  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1934  Raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 on October - 15.   

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 October - 15 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 this day in history.   

1940  -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed on this day in history.   

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

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

1944  On this day in history 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 October - 15.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

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 October - 15.   

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

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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 this day in history.   

1550  Henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange was born on this day in history.   

1608  On this day in history birth of evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647)   

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

1686  On October - 15 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  On October - 15 birth of elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741)   

0412  Death of Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1271  On October - 15 hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies