Page 6: Historical Events In October - 20

1951  The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma   

1952  Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya   

1952  Basil Radford, actor (Whisky Galore, Dead of Night), dies at 55   

1953  WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting.   

1954  "Peter Pan" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 149 performances   

1954  Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40), dies at 51   

1955  Day-O is released by Harry Belafonte. It was later renamed to The Banana Boat Song.   

1955  "No Time for Sergeants" opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith.   

1955  Eino Roiha, composer, dies at 51.   

1956  Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17 foot craft   

1956  58°F (15°C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)   

1957  Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w/o losing a wkt   

1959  Werner Krauss, actor (Joyless Street), dies at 75   

1960  inaugural fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI   

1963  South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and 8 others on conspiracy   

1964  Herbert Hoover, former U.S. president, dies   

1964  Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested).   

1964  Herbert Hoover, 31st president of US (1929-33), dies in NY at 90   

1967  All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers   

1968  Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.   

1968  Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84   

1970  Patrick Wymark, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies at 44   

1972  Harlow Shapley, astronomer (Sun's position in galaxy), dies at 86.   

1973  OPEC oil embargo begins.   

1976  70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince.   

1977  3 members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash   

1977  Cassie Gaines, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 28   

1979  John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston   

1981  3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery   

1983  IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released.   

1983  Merle Travis, country singer, dies at 75   

1986  Samora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53.   

1987  10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis.   

1987  Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail.   

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

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

1268  Death of 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  Death of Joannes custos: S neth humanist,   

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