15th oct history... 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals. 1520 - King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall 1522 - Emperor Karel I names Hernan Cortes governor of Mexico 1552 - Khanate of Kazan is conquered by troops of Ivan Grozny. 1581 - Commissioned by Catherine De Medici, the 1st ballet Ballet Comique de la Reine, is staged in Paris 1582 - Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days 1598 - Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine 1641 - Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal 1654 - Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Overijssel 1655 - Jews of Lublin are massacred 1660 - Asser Levy granted butchers license (kosher meat) in New Amsterdam 1705 - English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona 1724 - Cornelis Steenoven is 1st archbishop of Old-Catholic church 1756 - Saxon army surrenders to Prussia 1764 - Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1777 - Mjr James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queens Rangers (Penn) 1783 - Jean Pilstre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent 1786 - Earliest 32°F (0°C) recorded temp in NYC 1789 - 1st presidental tour-George Washington in New England French Emperor Napoleon BonaparteFrench Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte exiled on Island of St Helena at 51 1827 - Charles Darwin admitted to Christs College, Cambridge 1842 - Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung 1846 - Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether 1860 - 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard 1863 - Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on site) 1864 - Confederate troops occupy Glasgow, Missouri 1866 - Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses 1874 - Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force 1877 - 45th Congress (1877-79) convenes 1878 - Edison Electric Light Company incorporated 1880 - Koln cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun 1880 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists. 1881 - 1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published 1883 - Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional Communist Philosopher Karl MarxCommunist Philosopher Karl Marx 1885 - Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of season 1889 - Amsterdam Central Station officially opens 1890 - Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham 1894 - Capt Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage in France 1897 - Aaron/Samuel Bloch carry 1st Mail Pouch 1897 - King Leopold II takes Belgian crown 1899 - Cincinnati closes season with 16-1 & 19-3 victories over Cleve Spiders 1905 - Claude Debussys La Mer, premieres 1905 - Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands 1912 - Red Sox Tris Speakers makes only world series unassisted double play, from the outfield 1913 - Train crash in Liverpool during Black Week 1914 - ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded 1914 - Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends Oct 21) 1914 - Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights) 1917 - Chicago White Sox beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 14th World Series Exotic dancer, courtesan and convicted German spy Mata HariExotic dancer, courtesan and convicted German spy Mata Hari 1917 - World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany. 1918 - British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6 1919 - 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money 1923 - NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2 1924 - Pres Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument 1925 - Pittsburgh Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series 1925 - Willem Landres opera Beatrice premiers in The Hague 1926 - Austria government of Seipel, forms 1926 - Philip Barrys White Wings!, premieres in NYC 1928 - German dirigible Graf Zeppelin lands in Lakehurst, NJ 1928 - Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators 1932 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight. 1933 - Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0 1935 - NHLs St Louis Eagles fold 1937 - Ernest Hemingway novel To Have & Have Not published Nobel Laureate Author Ernest HemingwayNobel Laureate Author Ernest Hemingway 1937 - Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yanks release Tony Lazzeri 1938 - Robert Sherwoods Abe Lincoln in Illinois, premieres in NYC 1939 - LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC 1939 - Yeshiva of Mir closes after 124 years 1940 - -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed 1940 - Londons Waterloo Station bombed by Germans 1940 - The Great Dictator, a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released. 1941 - 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe 1941 - Japan Tojo regime forms 1941 - Jews caught outside Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death 1942 - German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 Germans die 1944 - The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitlers NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary. 1945 - Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest) 1946 - Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140) 1946 - St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1946 - Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series 1948 - Chinas Red army occupies Chinchov 1949 - Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian government 1949 - Billy Graham begins his ministry 1949 - Tripura accedes to Indian union 1951 - I Love Lucy debuts on CBS TV 1951 - Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty 1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesized the first oral contraceptive 1952 - Arthur Laurents Time of the Cuckoo, premieres in NYC 1953 - John Patricks Teahouse of the Red Moon, premieres in NYC 1953 - KOIN TV channel 6 in Portland, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting 1953 - WJNL (now WFAT) TV channel 19 in Johnstown, PA (IND) begins 1954 - Hurricane Hazel strikes US & Canada, 348 die 1954 - KLTV TV channel 7 in Tyler-Longview, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting 1956 - Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8) 1956 - William J Brennan Jr appointed to Supreme Court 1956 - Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series 1957 - Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for SF Seals-franchises only, not the players 1958 - Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt 1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1959 - Untouchables premieres
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