Page 5: Historical Events In October - 15

1923  On October - 15 nY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2   

1923  On this day in history italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler)   

1924  On October - 15 lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate born   

1924  On October - 15 pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument   

1924  Colin Romoff, NYC, orch leader (Andy Williams Show) on this day in history.   

1925  Pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series on October - 15.   

1925  On this day in history mickey Baker, rocker   

1926  Austria govt of Seipel, forms on this day in history.   

1926  On October - 15 evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle)   

1928  On this day in history german dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ   

1932  On October - 15 tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.   

1933  Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0 on October - 15.   

1934  Raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 on October - 15.   

1935  NHL's St Louis Eagles fold on October - 15.   

1937  On this day in history ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published   

1937  James Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70 on October - 15.   

1938  Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC on October - 15.   

1939  LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC on October - 15.   

1940  -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed on this day in history.   

1941  On October - 15 jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death   

1941  On this day in history 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe   

1942  German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die on this day in history.   

1942  Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed on this day in history.   

1944  On October - 15 the Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary.   

1944  Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau on this day in history.   

1945  On this day in history french statesman Pierre Laval is executed for betraying his country to Nazis in World War Two.   

1945  Pierre Laval former premier of Vichy France, executed on this day in history.   

1945  Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest) on October - 15.   

1945  On this day in history pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62   

1946  On October - 15 hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force, committed suicide by poison   

1946  Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140) on October - 15.   

1946  On this day in history hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison   

1948  On October - 15 first women officers on active duty sworn in as commissioned officers in regular Navy under Women's Service Integration Act of June 1948 by Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan CAPT Joy B. Hancock, USN; LCDR Winifred R. Quick, USN; LCDR Anne King, USN; LCDR Frances L. Willoughby, MC, USN; LT Ellen Ford, SC, USN; LT Doris Cranmore, MSC, USN; LTJG Doris A. Defenderfer, USN; and LTJG Betty Rae Tennant, USN.   

1948  On October - 15 china's Red army occupies Chinchov   

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1471  Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526) was born on October - 15.   

1542  On this day in history birth of djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605)   

1550  Henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange was born on this day in history.   

1608  Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647) was born on this day in history.   

1674  Robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together) was born on October - 15.   

1686  On this day in history birth of allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758)   

1701  On this day in history birth of marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771)   

1711  Elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741) was born on October - 15.   

0412  On this day in history death of theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria   

0892  Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies on October - 15.   

0898  On this day in history death of lambert, Holy Roman Emperor   

0912  Death of Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba on this day in history.   

1002  On October - 15 death of otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)   

1080  Rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies on this day in history.   

1268  Dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies on this day in history.   

1271  Hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies on this day in history.