Page 5: Historical Events In October - 15

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

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

1924  On October - 15 lee Iacocca, Chrysler magnate born   

1924  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1925  On this day in history mickey Baker, rocker   

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

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

1933  Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0 on this day in history.   

1934  Raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 on October - 15.   

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

1937  On October - 15 ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published   

1937  James Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1938  On this day in history 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  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  On October - 15 german 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die   

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

1944  On October - 15 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  French statesman Pierre Laval is executed for betraying his country to Nazis in World War Two on October - 15.   

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

1945  On this day in history 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  Hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force, committed suicide by poison on October - 15.   

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

1946  Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison on October - 15.   

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  On October - 15 china's Red army occupies Chinchov   

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1471  On this day in history birth of konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)   

1542  Djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605) was born on October - 15.   

1550  Henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange was born on October - 15.   

1608  On October - 15 birth of evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647)   

1674  On this day in history birth of robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together)   

1686  On this day in history birth of allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758)   

1701  Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771) was born on October - 15.   

1711  On this day in history birth of elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741)   

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

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

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