Page 5: Historical Events In October - 15

1923  NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2 on this day in history.   

1923  Italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler) on this day in history.   

1924  On this day in history 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  On this day in history austria govt of Seipel, forms   

1926  Evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle) on October - 15.   

1928  German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ on this day in history.   

1932  On this day in history tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.   

1933  On October - 15 philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0   

1934  On October - 15 raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74   

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

1937  Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published on this day in history.   

1937  On this day in history james Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70   

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

1939  On this day in history laGuardia Airport opens in NYC   

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  1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe on this day in history.   

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 October - 15.   

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  French statesman Pierre Laval is executed for betraying his country to Nazis in World War Two on this day in history.   

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

1945  On October - 15 baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)   

1945  Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62 on October - 15.   

1946  On this day in history hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force, committed suicide by poison   

1946  On this day in history smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140)   

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

1948  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 on October - 15.   

1948  China's Red army occupies Chinchov on October - 15.   

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1471  Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526) was born on this day in history.   

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

1550  On October - 15 birth of henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange   

1608  On this day in history birth of evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647)   

1674  On October - 15 birth of robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together)   

1686  On October - 15 birth of allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758)   

1701  On October - 15 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 this day in history.   

0412  On October - 15 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  Death of Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946) on this day in history.   

1080  On this day in history rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies   

1268  Dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies on October - 15.   

1271  Hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies on October - 15.