415 Jewish autonomy in Palestine ended by the Romans and Raban Gamliel forced from office 532 Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope Battle of Neville's Cross 1346 Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years King of England Edward III 1387 Swells convent Windesheim initiated 1404 Cosma de' Migliorati elected Pope Innocentius VII 1448 Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi were defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II. 1456 The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern continental Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia) 1483 Tomas de Torquemada appointed inquisitor-general of Spain 1556 Ex-emperor Karel departs Netherland for Spain Nine Regicides 1660 Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I , are hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged. King of England Charles I Sale of Dunkirk 1662 Charles II of Great Britain sells Dunkirk to France for 2.5 million livres (320,000 English pounds) King of England Charles II 1691 New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth 1720 Pierre de Marivaux's play "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour" premieres in Paris 1740 Ivan VI becomes Tsar of Russia Cook's Third Voyage 1776 Captain James Cook arrives in Cape Town with Resolution on his third trip to the Pacific Ocean Explorer James Cook 1777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War 1787 Boston African Americans petition legislature for equal school facilities 1797 Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions & France 1800 Dutch colony Curacao transfererd to Great Britain 1806 Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated 1808 Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw 1814 London Beer Flood: Bursting vat at Veux & Company Brewery floods city streets with over 300,000 gallons of porter ale, killing eight, plus a possible ninth later from alcohol poisoning [1] Don Sanche 1825 1st opera by Franz Liszt , "Don Sanche" premieres in Paris Composer and Pianist Franz Liszt 1829 1st supposed attack on abandoned German teenager Kaspar Hauser 1829 Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens Piano Concerto No. 1 1831 Felix Mendelssohn 's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres in Munich, Germany, with the composer as soloist Composer and Pianist Felix Mendelssohn 1850 Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized 1854 French and British forces bombard Sevastopol for the first time during the Crimean War 1855 Bessemer steelmaking process patented by Henry Bessemer - revolutionises manufacturing British Golf Open 1860 1st British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Sr. wins inaugural event by 2 strokes from fellow Scot Tom Morris Sr Golfer Willie Park Sr. 1862 Battle of Leetown & Thoroughfare Gap, VA 1868 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect 1871 Great Britain annexes Griqualand, South Africa Grant Takes on the Klan 1871 US President Ulysses S. Grant suspends habeas corpus in parts of South Carolina during prosecutions against Ku Klux Klan Union General and US President Ulysses S. Grant Historic Expedition 1876 Henry Morton Stanley 's reaches Lualaba River Journalist and Explorer Henry Morton Stanley 1877 Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa Macdonald Re-elected 1878 After serving as the opposition for five years, John A. Macdonald is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald 1885 Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season Optical Phonograph 1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie) Inventor Thomas Edison 1894 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man 1896 Anton Tsjechovs "Chayka" premieres in St Petersburg 1899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000 Bernhard von Bulow 1900 Bernhard von Bulow becomes German Chancellor Chancellor of Germany Bernhard von Bulow Bank of America Founded 1904 Bank of Italy ( Bank of America ), founded by Amadeo Giannini , opens its doors in Jackson Square, San Francisco Banker and Entrepreneur Amadeo Giannini Transatlantic Wireless 1907 Guglielmo Marconi 's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland Inventor and Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi 1912 Bulgaria, Greece & Serbia declares war on Turkey 1916 Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage 1917 1st British bombing of Germany 1918 De Kooy airport in Netherlands opens 1918 Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic 1919 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is created as a subsidiary of General Electric 1920 Decatur Staleys, later known as Chicago Bears, play 1st American Professional Football Association game against an affiliated APFA team; beat Rock Island Independents, 7-0 at Douglas Park, Rock Island, Illinois 1921 Belgium's public library law goes into force 1922 Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London 1923 Catholic University of Nijmegen opens in the Netherlands Ban Johnson Retires 1927 Ban Johnson , in failing health, retires as AL President Founder of Baseball's American League Ban Johnson Einstein Arrives in US 1933 Albert Einstein arrives in US as a refugee from Nazi Germany Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein 1934 "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio 1935 Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", directed by Frank Capra and starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, is released Film Director Frank Capra Actor James Stewart 1940 German occupiers issue identity cards 1941 USS Kearney becomes the 1st US destroyer torpedoed in World War II, while the country is still officially neutral Death Railway Completed 1943 Burma railway completed, built by Allied POWs and Asian laborers for use of the Japanese army 'Bridge over the River Kwai' drawn by Leo Rawlings in 1943 depicting construction by POWs of the Burma Railway 1943 Liberators sink U-540 & U-631 Event of Interest 1945 Loyalty Day in Argentina, mass demonstrations held to release Juan Peron General and President of Argentina Juan Peron 1951 Egyptian army fires on British troops 1954 Philadelphia Eagle Adrian Burk passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash (49-21) 1955 Lee Merriwether joins Today Show panel Around the World in 80 Days 1956 "Around the World in 80 Days", based on the book by Jules Verne , directed by Michael Anderson and starring David Nivon and Cantinflas , premieres in New York Novelist Jules Verne Actor Cantinflas Sports History 1956 Chess "Game of the Century": 13-year-old Bobby Fischer defeats 1953 U.S. Champion Donald Byrne in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City Chess Champion Bobby Fischer 1956 England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens 1956 Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt Event of Interest 1957 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit the White House Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip 1957 Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature Author Albert Camus 1957 II Tsjoendrigar becomes premier of Pakistan Jailhouse Rock Premieres 1957 Musical film "Jailhouse Rock" starring Elvis Presley premieres in Memphis, Tennessee A publicity shot from the film showing Elvis Presley during the dance sequence in Jailhouse Rock Event of Interest 1959 Queen Elizabeth II is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II 1959 Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated 1960 US & Britain sign an accord granting US access to the British nuclear submarine base in Holy Loch, Scotland 1961 22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow 1961 Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians Event of Interest 1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m Experimental Physicist, Astronaut and NASA Test Pilot Joseph A. Walker 1962 The Beatles make their live television debut, appearing on Manchester's local "People And Places" program, performing ‘Some Other Guy’ and their new single ‘Love Me Do’ 1963 The Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at EMI Studios in London Olympic Gold 1964 Australian athlete Betty Cuthbert takes her 4th career Olympic gold medal as she wins the women's 400m at the Tokyo Games in Olympic record 52.0 Athlete Betty Cuthbert 1964 In the first ever Olympic women's pentathlon Irina Press of the Soviet Union sets a world record 5,246 points to win the gold medal at the Tokyo Games 1964 US swimmers go 1-2-3 in the women's 400m individual medley at the Tokyo Olympics; Donna de Varona wins gold in Olympic record 5:18.7 ahead of teammates Sharon Finneran and Martha Randall 1965 WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting 1967 "Hair" premieres on Broadway Music History 1967 Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS Singer-Songwriter and Actress Barbra Streisand Event of Interest 1967 Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue Music Entrepreneur and Beatles Manager Brian Epstein 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan 1967 William "Pete" Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km Bullitt 1968 "Bullitt" directed by Peter Yates and starring Steve McQueen and Jacqueline Bisset is 1st released Actor Steve McQueen 1968 Bjorn Ferm of Sweden beats Hungary's Andras Balczo by just 11 points to take the gold medal in the modern pentathlon at the Mexico City Olympics 1968 Soviet athlete Viktor Saneev sets world record 17.39m to win the triple jump at the Mexico City Olympics; world record improved 5 times by 3 different athletes during competition World Record 1968 US men's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Zac Zorn, Stephen Rerych, Ken Walsh & Mark Spitz swim world record 3:31.7 to outclass the Soviet Union & Australia and win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics Swimmer Mark Spitz 1969 NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY 1969 Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK 1969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth Event of Interest 1970 Anwar Sadat sworn in as the 3rd President of Egypt President of Egypt and Nobel Laureate Anwar Sadat 1971 Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Nature Center opens 1971 It is estimated today that approximately 16,000 households were withholding rent and rates for council houses as part of the campaign of civil disobedience against internment organised by the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Northern Ireland 1972 Bob Randall's "6 Rooms Riv Vu," premieres in NYC #1 in the Charts 1972 Chuck Berry 's "My Ding-a-Lng," is #1 Rock Guitarist and Singer-Songwriter Chuck Berry 1972 The Ulster Defence Association open fire on the British Army in several areas of Belfast 1973 OPEC oil ministers use oil as an economic weapon in the Arab-Israeli War, mandating a cut in exports and recommending an embargo against unfriendly states [1] 1974 "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" closes at Playhouse NYC after 1065 per 1974 NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak 1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3 1975 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Miss 1975 UN passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism" 1976 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC 1977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament 1977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers 1978 NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8) Event of Interest 1978 President Jimmy Carter signs bill restoring US citizenship to Jefferson Davis 39th US President Jimmy Carter Music History 1978 US President Jimmy Carter presents Congressional Medal to singer Marian Anderson Singer Marian Anderson 39th US President Jimmy Carter 1978 USSR performs underground nuclear test 1978 Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year 1979 D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8 Nobel Peace Prize 1979 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded Nobel Peace Prize Catholic Missionary Mother Teresa 1979 US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education F1 World Champion 1981 Brazilian Nelson Piquet driving for Brabham finishes 5th in the season ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 1 point from Carlos Reutemann Auto Racer Nelson Piquet 1982 1st live orchestra on a US commercial network since 1954 (National Symphony) 1982 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Gerard Debreu 1983 STS-9 vehicle moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) due to SRB nozzle problem The Sally Jessy Raphael Show 1983 Talk show "The Sally Jessy Raphael Show" with Sally Jessy Raphael debuts on KSDK TV Talk Show Host Sally Jessy Raphael 1984 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield 1985 French author Claude Simon wins the Nobel Prize for Literature 1985 Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager 1986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982 Event of Interest 1986 Yitzhak Rabin forms Israeli government 5th Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin Event of Interest 1987 US First Lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy US First Lady Nancy Reagan 1988 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome 1988 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of NY Yankees 1988 Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment 1988 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft Volume 1 1988 Traveling Wilburys release debut album "Volume 1", featuring the single "Handle With Care"; pseudonymous band members include Roy Orbison , Bob Dylan , George Harrison , Jeff Lynne, and Tom Petty Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan Singer-Songwriter George Harrison Rock Singer-Songwriter Roy Orbison Storm Front 1989 Columbia Records releases "Storm Front", singer-songwriter Billy Joel 's eleventh studio album Pianist, Songwriter and Composer Billy Joel Music History 1990 Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong drops out of school to pursue a career in music Singer Billie Joe Armstrong Sports History 1991 Angel Cordero Jr. is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races Jockey Angel Cordero Jr. 1991 Blue Man Group's 1st performance in New York City 1991 News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discussing her having a disformed baby Sports History 1991 Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals & 744 assists) NHL Star Paul Coffey 1994 Billy Joel performs opening concert at Cleveland's Gund Arena Sports History 1994 Kapil Dev 's final one-day international (v West Indies) Cricketer Kapil Dev 1995 Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000 1996 "Taking Sides" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC 1998 At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline. 2000 Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack 2003 Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics. 2003 Pinnacle fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) to become World's tallest high-rise The Colbert Report 2005 "The Colbert Report" hosted by Stephen Colbert first airs on US TV Comedian and TV Host Stephen Colbert Sports History 2005 Thierry Henry becomes Arsenal's all-time leading scorer with two goals against Sparta Prague in the Champions League Footballer and Manager Thierry Henry 2006 The United States population reaches 300 million Event of Interest 2007 The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso 2008 Iran's attempt to create the world's largest sandwich (1,500 metres) fails when crowds eat it before it can be measured Cricket Record 2008 Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-scorer ever in test cricket beating Brian Lara 's record and passing 12,000 runs against Australia in Mohali Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar Cricketer Brian Lara Canonization 2010 Brother Andre is the first Canadian to be canonized post Federation by Pope Benedict XVI [1] 265th Pope Benedict XVI 2010 The Teshima Art Museum by architect Ryue Nishizawa and artist Rei Naito opens on the island of Teshima, Japan [1] 2012 Exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri announced (later thought to be a false finding) Sports History 2012 Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal Cyclist and Drug Cheat Lance Armstrong 2012 Tens of thousands protest against austerity measures in Greece 2013 59 people are killed in a wave of attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo 2015 Amy Schumer 's comedy special?"Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo"?premieres on?HBO Comedian Amy Schumer Sports History 2015 Star forward Cristiano Ronaldo becomes Real Madrid's all-time leading scorer across all competitions, overtaking club legend Raul with his 324th goal in a 3-0 win over Levante Football Star Cristiano Ronaldo 2016 Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-11 launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China 2017 American short-story writer George Saunders wins the Man Booker Prize for his first novel "Lincoln in the Bardo" Event of Interest 2017 George Soros announces he has donated $18 billion to his grantmaking network the Open Society Foundations Investor and Political Activist George Soros 2017 Islamic State headquarters Raqqa declared under full control of US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello after 4 months of fighting Event of Interest 2017 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares city of Marawi "liberated" from militants President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte 2018 Australian state of Queensland decriminalizes abortion 2018 Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch puppeteer Caroll Spinney leaves "Sesame Street" after 50 years 2018 Canada legalizes the sale of recreational cannabis, the second country after Uruguay 2018 India's junior foreign minister MJ Akbar is highest official to resign in #MeToo case after sexual harassment accusations by numerous women 2018 Student shoots and detonates a bomb killing 20 with 40 injured at Kerch polytechnic college, Crimea The Connors 2018 The revived "The Connors" debuts on ABC TV starring Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman , without fired former star Roseanne Barr Actor John Goodman Comedienne and Actress Roseanne Barr Music History 2019 Lana Del Rey 's ballad "Video Games" named song of the decade at Q Awards in London Singer-Songwriter and Model Lana Del Rey Event of Interest 2019 Mick Mulvaney, President Trump 's acting chief of staff says the White House withheld nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine to further Trump's own political interests 45th US President, Businessman and TV Personality Donald Trump 2019 The 'Blob', mysterious yellow slime organism (physarum polycephalum) with 720 sexes, moves and can solve problems to go on display at the Paris Zoological Park Agreement of Interest 2019 Turkey agrees to a ceasefire in Northern Syria for 5 days to allow withdrawal of Kurdish troops, after talks between US Vice President Mike Pence and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan 48th Vice President of the United States Mike Pence President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdo?an Event of Interest 2019 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces new Brexit deal with the EU, removes the Northern Ireland backstop clause British Prime Minister Boris Johnson 2019 US adults identifying as Christian falls 12% in a decade to 2/3 according to the Pew Research Center, born-again Protestants falls to 16% 2020 Chicago declared the 'rattiest city' in America for the sixth year in a row by pest control service Orkin Election of Interest 2020 Labour Party headed by Jacinda Ardern re-elected in a landslide in New Zealand's general election New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Ballon d'Or 2022 FIFA Ballon d'Or: Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema wins his first award; Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas claims women's award for a second-straight season Footballer Karim Benzema Music History 2022 K-pop band BTS announces that all seven members will be serving in the South Korean military for the required 18 month minimum K-Pop Star Jimin K-Pop Star Jungkook 2022 Shehan Karunatilka is the second Sri Lankan author to win the Booker Prize with his novel "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" [1] Belt and Road Initiative 2023 China's President Xi Jinping celebrates 10 years of its Belt and Rod project at summit in Beijing attended by Russian leader Vladimir Putin [1] Paramount Leader of China Xi Jinping Russian President Vladimir Putin 2023 India's Supreme Court rules against legalising same-sex marriage and adoption for queer couples [1] 16 Oct Historical Events Calendar Oct 18 October in History Hurricane on the Way? Don't Worry October 15, 1987 Lenient Lion Remembered for 375 Years October 16, 1643 Chopin: The Day the Music Died October 17, 1849 Women And Politics: The Passions of Palmerston October 18, 1865
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