Page 5: Historical Events In October - 20
Thursday, 19 February 2026
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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