Page 5: Historical Events In October - 15

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

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

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 October - 15.   

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

1925  Mickey Baker, rocker on this day in history.   

1926  Austria govt of Seipel, forms on October - 15.   

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

1928  On October - 15 german dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ   

1932  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1935  On October - 15 nHL's St Louis Eagles fold   

1937  Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published on October - 15.   

1937  On October - 15 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  LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC on October - 15.   

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

1941  On this day in history 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 this day in history the Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary.   

1944  On October - 15 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 October - 15 pierre Laval former premier of Vichy France, executed   

1945  Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest) on this day in history.   

1945  On October - 15 pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62   

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 October - 15 smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140)   

1946  Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison on this day in history.   

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  China's Red army occupies Chinchov on this day in history.   

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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  Henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange was born on October - 15.   

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  Death of Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria on October - 15.   

0892  On October - 15 al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies   

0898  Death of Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor on this day in history.   

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 October - 15.   

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

1268  On this day in history dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies   

1271  On October - 15 hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies