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  Lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate born on this day in history.   

1924  Pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument on October - 15.   

1924  Colin Romoff, NYC, orch leader (Andy Williams Show) on October - 15.   

1925  Pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series on this day in history.   

1925  On this day in history mickey Baker, rocker   

1926  On October - 15 austria govt of Seipel, forms   

1926  Evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle) on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1934  On this day in history raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74   

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  On October - 15 james Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70   

1938  Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

1939  On October - 15 laGuardia Airport opens in NYC   

1940  -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed on October - 15.   

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 October - 15.   

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

1942  On October - 15 dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed   

1944  The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary on this day in history.   

1944  On this day in history philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau   

1945  On October - 15 french statesman Pierre Laval is executed for betraying his country to Nazis in World War Two.   

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 October - 15 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 this day in history.   

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

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 October - 15 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 October - 15 death of theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria   

0892  On this day in history al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies   

0898  On October - 15 death of lambert, Holy Roman Emperor   

0912  Death of Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba on October - 15.   

1002  Death of Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946) on October - 15.   

1080  Rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies on October - 15.   

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

1271  On this day in history hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies