105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus. 68 BC - Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia. 891 - Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1111 - Boudouin VII becomes earl of Flanders 1499 - French king Louis XII occupies Milan 1567 - Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of Netherlands 1683 - 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Phila) 1689 - Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII 1762 - English troops occupy Manila Philippines 1781 - Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War 1783 - Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock 1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October 1799 - Battle at Castricum: French & Bataafs army beats English/Russian army 1811 - French emperor Napoleon visits Utrecht 1849 - The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence. 1854 - The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured. 1857 - American Chess Association organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC) 1861 - Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert 1861 - Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg 1863 - Battle at Baxter Springs Kansas 1863 - Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn 1866 - 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000) 1869 - John Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer, premieres 1871 - Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour 1876 - American Library Association organized in Philadelphia 1882 - 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0 1884 - Naval War College forms in Newport RI 1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure Resident Patient (BG) 1889 - Moulin Rogue opens in Paris Inventor Thomas EdisonInventor Thomas Edison 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture 1890 - Mormon Church outlaws polygamy 1893 - Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat 1898 - Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic 1898 - Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. 1900 - Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony) 1903 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time. 1906 - The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time. 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina 1908 - Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant 1908 - Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season 1910 - Braves beat Phillies 20-7 1911 - Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot 1911 - Cy Youngs farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game 1912 - Pirates Owen Chief Wilson hits record 36th triple of season 1918 - US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die 1919 - Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria 1919 - White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series 1920 - 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleves Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln 1921 - Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962) 1921 - Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yanks (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0 1921 - International PEN is founded in London. 1922 - Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslavakia 1922 - The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul 1923 - 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies) 1923 - 2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms 1923 - US lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record) 1923 - USSR adopts experimental calendar 1925 - Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen Pangulos arrested Baseball Great Babe RuthBaseball Great Babe Ruth 1926 - Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5 1927 - Jazz Singer, 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC) 1928 - 11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms CC Baltimore 1928 - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China 1928 - Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail 1929 - 12th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest CC Los Angeles 1931 - Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish Natl Solidarists) 1935 - Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia 1935 - Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches 1936 - NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series 1938 - Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss 1939 - Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain 1939 - Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem 1939 - Last Polish army is defeated in World War II. 1940 - Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1941 - German army occupies Briansk, USSR 1941 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series 1942 - Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram 1943 - Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island 1943 - Himmler wants acceleration of Final Solution 1944 - Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel 1944 - Canadians free Austria 1944 - HM Zwaardvis sinks U168 at Java 1944 - Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia 1945 - Gen Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitlers train) 1945 - Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge 1945 - Tavern owner Billy Goat Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series & is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs 1946 - 90°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct 1946 - Pres Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine 1947 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series 1948 - Polonaise opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances 1948 - KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting 1949 - Iva Toguri DAquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine 33rd US President Harry Truman33rd US President Harry Truman 1949 - Pres Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO) 1951 - Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb 1952 - Agatha Christies Mousetrap opens in London (still running) 1953 - WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1955 - LSD made illegal in US 1956 - Dmitri Shostakovitchs 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad 1956 - Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine 1957 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1957 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open 1958 - US nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole 1959 - Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA) 1959 - Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon 1961 - JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters 1961 - USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR 1962 - 16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto US President John F. KennedyUS President John F. Kennedy 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island 1963 - Barbra Streisand appears on Judy Garland Show 1963 - LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series 1964 - Cambridge Circus opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances 1965 - Supremes release I Hear a Symphony 1965 - William Goodharts Generation, premieres in NYC 1966 - Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout 1966 - Partial meltdown at Detroitss Fermi 1 nuclear reactor 1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States. 1967 - Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies 1967 - USSR performs nuclear test 1969 - WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting 1972 - 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico 1973 - Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel 1974 - Mack & Mabel, opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances Singer-songwriter & Actress Barbra StreisandSinger-songwriter & Actress Barbra Streisand 1974 - Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic 1976 - Gang of Four arrested in Beijing 1976 - Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack 1976 - John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent 1976 - Pres Ford says there is no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe 1976 - Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados. All 73 people on-board were killed. 1977 - DL Coburns Gin Game, premieres in NYC 1977 - Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game 1977 - In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed. 1978 - Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of US university (Chic) 1978 - Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person 1978 - Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in Some Girls 1978 - Royals George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5 1979 - Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 19 1979 - Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House 264th Pope John Paul II264th Pope John Paul II 1980 - Guyana adopts constitution 1980 - John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges 1982 - Auburns Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals 1982 - Fokkers Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die 1983 - Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs 1983 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 1983 - Islanders Mike Bossys 25th career hat trick 1983 - NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands 1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1984 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open 1985 - Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m womans record (47.6) in Australia 1985 - Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0 1985 - PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London. 1986 - Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean 1987 - Milt coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic 1988 - Oakland As sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant 1990 - Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun 1990 - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit 1990 - Ulysses launched (Solar Polar Orbiter) 1991 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship 1991 - NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies 1991 - Orioles last game at Baltimores Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers) 1993 - Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time 1994 - -9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria 1994 - Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa 1995 - BPAA US Womens Open won by Cheryl Daniels 1995 - Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit 1995 - 51 Pegasi was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it. 42nd US President Bill Clinton42nd US President Bill Clinton 1996 - Bob Dole & President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate 1996 - Caroline Pierce wins JAL Big Apple Golf Classic 1996 - Lois & Clark (fictional characters) wed 1996 - NY Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals 2000 - Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns. 2002 - The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen. 2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized. 2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. 2010 - Roy Halladay pitches the second no-hitter in MLB Postseason History during Game 1 of the NLDS versus the Cincinnati Reds 2012 - Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVIs butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment 2012 - The Leeds Rhinos defeat the Warrington Wolves 26-18 to win the 2012 Super League grand final
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