Historical Events In October - 15

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

1923  Italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler) on October - 15.   

1924  On October - 15 lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate born   

1924  Pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument on this day in history.   

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

1925  On October - 15 pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series   

1925  On this day in history mickey Baker, rocker   

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

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

1928  German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ on October - 15.   

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

1933  On this day in history 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  On October - 15 robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC   

1939  On October - 15 laGuardia Airport opens in NYC   

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

1941  Jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death on this day in history.   

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 October - 15.   

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

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

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

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 October - 15 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 this day in history.   

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

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1471  On October - 15 birth of konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)   

1542  On October - 15 birth of djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605)   

1550  On this day in history 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  Robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together) was born on October - 15.   

1686  Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758) was born on this day in history.   

1701  Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771) was born on this day in history.   

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 October - 15 death of lambert, Holy Roman Emperor   

0912  On this day in history death of abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba   

1002  On this day in history 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 October - 15.   

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