Page 6: Historical Events In October - 26

1944  U.S. defeats the Japanese Navy near the Phillipines   

1947  Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir accedes to India   

1949  President Truman signs a measure raising the U.S. minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour   

1949  President Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents.   

1950  In London King George VI opens the restored House of Commons chamber, destroyed in a 1941 bombing raid   

1950  630 Dutch volunteers depart (on)to Korea   

1951  Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden   

1951  Emile Zatopek runs world record 30000m, 25000m and 15 miles.   

1952  Pakistan's 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts v India   

1953  Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia   

1954  Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine.   

1954  Floris HL Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp, dies.   

1955  Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres.   

1955  1st edition of "Village Voice" (NYC) published.   

1955  Arne Eggen, composer, dies at 74.   

1956  UN's International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved.   

1956  Vietnam promulgates its constitution.   

1956  Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer, dies at 60.   

1957  USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov   

1957  Vatican Radio begins broadcasting   

1957  N Kazantzakis, writer, dies.   

1958  Pan Am flies its inaugural Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris in eight hours, 41 minutes.   

1958  PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip-NY to Paris   

1960  AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins and announces franchises in LA and Wash DC for 1961.   

1961  1st Saturn launch vehicle made a flight test   

1961  Edgar Mayne, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia around WWI), dies.   

1962  Beatles tape "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why"   

1962  Hattie McDaniel actress (Gone With the Wind), dies at 67.   

1964  Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan Show.   

1964  Agnes Miegel, writer, dies.   

1965  Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace.   

1965  Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang   

1966  The inaugural Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2   

1967  Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne   

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1427  Archduke sigismund of austria: Archduke sigismund of austria (d. 1496)   

1466  Desiderius erasmus: Holland, scholar/author (in praise of folly)   

1473  Friedrich of saxony: Friedrich of saxony (d. 1510)   

1483  Hans buchner: Composer   

1491  Zhengde: Emperor of china   

1609  William sprague: English co-founder of charlestown, massachusetts   

1645  Aert de gelder: Dutch painter (king david)   

1673  Dimitrie cantemir: Romanians historian/monarch of moldova (1710-11)   

0899  Death of Alfred the great: Writer/king of wessex (871-99),   

1132  Floris the black: Brother of earl dirk vi of holland, murdered   

1235  Andres ii arpad: King of hungary (1205-35),   

1440  Death of Gilles de rais: French marshal, killer of 140 children, hanged   

1576  Frederick ii the vrome: Ruler of palts,   

1607  Philipp nicolai: German lutherian theologist/poet/composer,   

1608  Death of Juan pantoja de la cruz: Spanish royal painter,   

1633  Horio tadaharu: Japanese warlord (b. 1596)