Page 5: Historical Events In October - 20

1924  1st Negro League World Series: KC Monarchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0.   

1924  Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist.   

1925  Art Buchwald, Mt Vernon NY, columnist/author (Have I Ever Lied to You).   

1926  Hurricane in Cuba, results in the deaths of 600.   

1926  Ursula Happe, Germany, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956).   

1927  Oskar Pastior, writer   

1927  Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer, dies at 78.   

1929  Bayshore Highway opens in San Francisco.   

1929  Bayshore Highway opens (SF).   

1929  Rudolf Kittel, German theologist, dies at 76   

1930  British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land   

1930  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio   

1931  Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP   

1931  Emanuel Moor, composer, dies at 68.   

1932  Journalist, Robert Trout, joins CBS   

1934  All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails to Hawaii and Japan   

1935  400000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid.   

1936  Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL.   

1939  "All the Things You Are" recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orch   

1940  Cheese rationed in Netherlands   

1941  Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia.   

1941  Ken Farnes (WWII) 15 Tests for England, cricketer (60 wickets), dies   

1942  "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations   

1942  May Robson, actress (Star is Born, Reckless), dies at 84.   

1944  30 blocks of Cleveland Ohio burn after a liquid gas factory explodes.   

1944  General Douglas MacArthur keeps his famous promise and returns to the Philippines.   

1944  Revolution by workers and students in Guatemala   

1944  Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland, Ohio explode, 135 die, 3600 homeless.   

1944  Gabriel Groulez, composer, dies at 65   

1945  Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg.   

1946  Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs NY Giants.   

1947  HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood   

1949  Eugenie Anderson is recorded as becoming 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark).   

1950  Henry Lewsis Stimson, US minister of War/gov-gen, dies.   

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1435  Andrea della robbia: Florence, sculptor, nephew of luca   

1475  Giovanni rucellai: Italian poet (le api)   

1496  Claude de lutherans: Duke of guise   

1616  Thomas bartholin: Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian   

1620  Aelbert cuyp: Dutch painter   

1632  Christopher wren: England, astronomer/great architect   

1637  Nicolaas van der veken: Flemish sculptor (confessional chairs)   

1656  Nicolas de largillière: French painter   

0460  Death of Eudocia aelia athenais: Empress oostromeinse rich/poetess,   

1139  Henry x the trotse: Duke of bayern (1126-38),   

1187  Urbanus iii: [umberto crivelli], italian pope (1185-87),   

1268  Conrad hohenstaufen: [conrad van zwaben], son of conrad iv,   

1274  Engelbert ii of falkenburg: Archbishop of cologne,   

1438  Jacopo di piero della quercia: Italian sculptor,   

1525  Joannes custos: S neth humanist,   

1570  João de barros: Portuguese historian (b. 1496)