1001 Feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus--the Little Flower 1001 Fiscal year begins for Federal Government 1001 Independence Day, celebrated in Nigeria 1001 National Day in Cyprus & Tuvalu 1001 World Vegetarian Day 1001 Feast of St. Remigius, bishop of Rheims, confessor 10010331 BC Alexander of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela 10011837 Treaty with Winnebago Indians 10011847 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet 10011851 1st Hawaiian stamps issued 10011869 1st postcards are issued in Vienna 10011896 Yosemite becomes a National Park 10011898 Henry Huntington buys the LA Railway 10011903 1st Baseball World Series 10011908 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1 10011908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car 10011912 Yanks lose game #100 enroute to a 50-102 season 10011921 Yanks win their 1st pennant 10011932 Babe Ruth's famous homerun called off of Cubs Charlie Root 10011938 Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) 10011940 Penn Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opened 10011942 1st jet propelled airplane tested 10011946 Bob Feller 348th strikeout of the season 10011947 1st helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca 10011949 People's Rep of China proclaimed (National Day) 10011951 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador - Eugenie Anderson 10011952 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or 10011958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA 10011960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day) 10011961 Roger Maris sets record of 61 homers, last off of Tracy Sallard 10011962 The Lucy Show premiers 10011962 US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' radio telescope 10011962 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show 10011964 SF cable cars declared a national landmark 10011971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens 10011975 Reunion Island no longer prints stamps, France takes over production 10011977 Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title 10011978 Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians setting up a play off game with Red Sox 10011979 US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal) 10011982 EPCOT Center opens 1002 Independence Day, celebrated in Guinea 1002 Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes 1002 Feast of the Guardian Angels 1002 322 BC Aristotle dies of indigestion 10021608 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope 10021833 NY Anti-Slavery Society organized 10021836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle 10021870 Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital 10021889 1st Pan American conference 10021908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row 10021916 Grover Cleveland Alexanders 16th shutout of the year 10021932 Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series 10021935 NY Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the US, opens 10021936 1st alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas 10021936 Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series grand slam 10021939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square 10021942 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago 10021946 1st network soap opera - Faraway Hill - Dumont 10021947 Yogi Berra become the 1st player to pinch hit a world series homer 10021949 Yanks & Red Sox tie for 1st place played the final game of the 10021949 season Yanks won 5-3 & clinched pennant #16 10021950 Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches 10021950 The comic strip 'Peanuts' 1st appears, in 9 newspapers 10021955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiers 10021956 1st atomic power clock exhibited - NYC 10021958 Guinea gains independence from France (National Day) 10021959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS 10021961 Ben Casey premiers 10021965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20 10021967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice 10021968 Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts 10021970 Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers 10021971 homing pigeon averages 133 kph (record) in 1100-km Australian race 10021978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff 10021984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit 1003 Feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor 1003 Feast of St. Th‚rŠse of the Child Jesus 10031264 The comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen 10031789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26 10031863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day 10031913 Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%) 10031920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games 10031932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain 10031935 Italy invades Ethiopia 10031942 Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles 10031947 With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking 10031947 his world series no hit bid, it scored 2 runs & he lost the game 10031947 1st telescope lens 200 inches in diameter completed 10031948 NFL becomes 1st sport of the week 10031950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV - Beulah 10031951 Bobby Thomson HR - The Giants win the pennant 10031952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca 10031954 Father Knows Best premiers 10031955 Mickey Mouse Club premiers 10031955 Captain Kangaroo premieres Good Morning, Captain! 10031960 Yanks win 8-7 & end season on a 15 game win streak 10031960 SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard 10031961 Dick Van Dyke Show premiers 10031962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into earth orbit 10031965 Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher 10031967 William Knight sets world speed record for fixed-wing craft of 7,297 10031967 kph (Mach 6.72) in X-15 10031967 AF pilot Pete Knight flies x-15 at a record 4,534 MPH 10031972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown 10031985 Space shuttle Atlantis makes all-military maiden flight 1004 Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, confessor 10041636 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony 10041648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen 10041824 Mexico becomes a republic 10041916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time 10041926 the dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower 10041931 The comic strip Dick Tracy debuts 10041940 Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off 10041948 Indians beat Red Sox in 1st AL playoff game 10041955 Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees 10041957 USSR launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial earth satellite 10041957 Leave It to Beaver debuts on CBS 10041958 Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began 10041959 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side 10041960 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit 10041962 Whitey Ford's world series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends 10041966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) 10041969 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters 10041970 Janis Joplin dies at 27 10041976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after racial 'joke' 10041977 pier 39 opens in SF 10041984 Yanks clinch AL East 10041985 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 is launched 10041987 James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns 10041987 without making an interception. (He scored on laterals.) 1005 Feast of St. Placid & his companions, martyrs 1005 Feast of St. Flora of Beaulieu, Virgin, (A.D. 1347) 10051813 Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British 10051864 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone 10051875 Palace Hotel on Market Street opens 10051877 Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perc‚ War 10051892 Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup 10051906 Giant's Henry Matthewson walks 14 10051907 Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8) 10051908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey 10051910 Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic 10051912 Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium 10051921 1st Yank & radio broadcast of the World Series, beat Giants 3-0 10051922 Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie world series game 10051923 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star 10051931 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wenatchee, Wash 10051941 Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely 10051947 1st Presidential address televised from White House - HS Truman 10051953 Billy Martin 12 hits sets record Yanks win record 5th straight WS 10051956 Yogi Berra becomes the 4th Yank to hit a World Series Grand Slam 10051963 Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park 10051964 SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated 10051970 PBS becomes a network 10051980 Yanks set AL attendence mark at 2,627,417 10051982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, N. Mex 10051984 41-G Challenger carried 1st Canadian, Marc Garneau, into orbit 10051985 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 launched 1006 St. Faith's Day (Anglican) 1006 Feast of St. Bruno, Blsd. Marie-Rose Durocher 1006 Universal Children's Day 10061863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the 1st public bath, in Brooklyn 10061889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture 10061908 Yanks lose 100th game of the year go 51-103 for season 10061926 Babe Ruth hits 3 homers in a world series game 10061927 The Jazz Singer, 1st movie with a sound track, premieres 10061935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches 10061936 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series 10061940 Zoological Gardens opens (on Sloat & Skyline) 10061941 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in the world series 10061947 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in the world series 10061959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts moon 10061973 Egypt & Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur war 10061978 Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5 10061981 Anwar Sadat assassinated, Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egytian president 10061983 Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick 1007 Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary & of St. Osith, Saxon virgin 1007 Feast of the Holy Rosary 10071571 Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto 10071765 The Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY 10071777 British defeated by Americans in Battle of Saratoga 10071826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations 10071849 Edgar Allen Poe dies in Balt at 40 10071886 Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba 10071908 Crete unites with Greece 10071915 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record) 10071927 Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series 10071931 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY 10071949 Dem. Rep of Germany (East) formed 10071950 Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping the Phillies 10071950 US forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel 10071952 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in the world series 10071959 Luna 3 photographs far side of moon 10071960 Route 66 premiers 10071965 Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr. 10071968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system. 10071972 1st regular gat at Coliseum, Flames - 3, Islanders - 2 10071981 In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3 10071985 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 returns to Earth 1008 Feast of St. Bridget, widow & St. Keyne, virgin (6th Century) 10081604 The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted. 10081840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed 10081860 Telegraph line between LA & SF opens 10081865 Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains. 10081869 Franklin Peirce 14th president of US, died in Concord, N.H. 10081871 nation's worst forest fire starts in Peshtigo, WI. 10081871 Great Fire destroys over 4ý miles of Chicago 10081896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks 10081918 Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans. 10081927 Yanks sweep Pirates in the world series 10081933 Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters. 10081934 Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son 10081935 Ozzie & Harriet Nelson married 10081938 Yanks sweep Reds in the world series 10081944 `Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet' debut on CBS radio 10081945 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada 10081956 Don Larsen's Perfect world series game beats Dodgers 2-0 10081957 Brooklyn Dodgers announced they would move to LA 10081960 Bobby Richarson hits a world series grand slammer 10081962 N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party. 10081970 Soviet author Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn awarded Nobel Prize for Lit 10081978 Kenneth Warby sets world speed record on water (514 kph). 10081978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship against Kansas City 10081981 Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and 10081981CRichard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral 10081983 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7 1009 Feast of St. John Leonardi, confessor. 1009 Feast of St. Denis & Companions 1009 Giacobinid meteor shower, radiant in Draco. 1009 Leif Ericson Day 1009 St. Denys's Day (Anglican). 10091000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England) 10091635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony 10091701 Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven. 10091776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay. 10091806 Benjamin Banneker, black American astronomer, dies. 10091855 Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass. receives patent for 1st calliope 10091876 1st 2-way telephone conversation 10091888 Public admitted to Washington Monument. 10091921 Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer Only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays 10091928 Yanks sweep Cards in the world series 10091930 1st transcontinental flight by woman lands, Laura Ingalls 10091936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA 10091938 Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series 10091949 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in the world series 10091951 Gil McDougald's World Series Grand Slam Yanks beat Giants 13-1 10091958 Pope Pius XII died, 19 years after he was elevated to the papacy. 10091958 Yanks beat Braves 4 games to 3 in the world series 10091961 Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning 10091961 world series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1 10091962 Uganda gains independence from Britain (National Day). 10091967 Che Guevara executed in Bolivia. 10091975 Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize 10091975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF 10091976 Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1 10091977 Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 5, but returned after failing to dock 10091977 Yanks beat Royals for pennant #31 10091984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space 10091986 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E. Claiborne making him the 10091986 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment. 1010 National Day in Taiwan 1010 Feast of St. Francis Borgia, Confessor (A.D. 1572) 10101845 US Naval academy opens at Annapolis, Maryland 10101846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell 10101886 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY (the tuxedo) 10101904 Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 10101911 China Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu dynasty 10101913 Pacific & Atl mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam, opening Panama Canal 10101920 Bill Wambsganns unassisted world series triple play 10101933 1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed 10101935 George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess opens in NY 10101937 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 1 in the world series 10101938 Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. 10101943 Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China. 10101951 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series 10101956 On Skowron's grand slammer Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7 10101957 Braves Lew Burdette beats Yankees 3 times in 1 world series 10101957 Pres Eisenhower apologized to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli 10101960 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards. 10101963 treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US, UK, USSR. 10101964 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo. 10101970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day). 10101973 VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns. 10101973 Vice-Pres. Agnew resigns after conviction for income-tax evasion. 10101975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt 10101976 NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens 10101978 Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75 10101978 Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar. 10101980 4,500 people die when a pair of earthquakes struck NW Algeria 10101980 Yanks lost 4-2 & are swept by Royals in the AL Championship series 10101980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated 10101982 Pope John Paul II proclaimed Rev. M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in 10101985 US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian 10101985 ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen were placed in custody 1011 Feast of the Motherhood of Mary. 1011 Feast of St. Mary Soledad, Foundress of Handmaidens of Mary 1011 General Pulaski Memorial Day (anniversary of his death in 1779). 10111797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands. 10111811 The Juliana, the 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation. 10111864 slavery abolished in Maryland. 10111890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded 10111927 Lou Gehrig elected MVP 10111943 Yanks beat Cards 4 games to 1 in the world series 10111958 Pioneer 1 launched; 1st spacecraft launched by NASA 10111962 Pope John XXIII convenes Vatican II Council. 10111962 21st Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican II, opens in Rome. 10111968 Billy Martin named manager of Twins 10111968 Apollo 7 launched, 1st of manned Apollo mission 10111969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next two days. 10111975 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick 10111975 Saturday Night Live premiers 10111977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth 10111980 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days 10111981 Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series 10111984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space. 10111987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington. 1012 Man O'War's last race, 1920 1012 Feast of St. Wilfrid, Bishop of York (A.D. 709) 1012 Spanish National Day. 10121492 Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day. 10121860 British & French troops capture Peking. 10121870 General Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington, VA at age 63. 10121891 Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated. 10121923 NY Giant's Casey Stengel Hr beats Yanks 1-0 in the World Series 10121929 Cubs blow 8-0 world series lead A's score 10 in 1 inning 10121933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially) 10121933 John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County, OH, jail. 10121948 Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager 10121949 Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman ambassador nominated in US 10121957 1st coml flight between Cal & Antartica 10121960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session. 10121962 US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology 10121963 At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck 10121963 Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel 10121964 USSR launches 1st 3-man crew into space 10121967 Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 world series 10121968 Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain. 10121969 Soyuz 7 is launched 10121972 Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot 10121972 Mariner 9 took pictures of Martian north pole 10121973 Gerald Ford named as Spiro Agnew's successor to vice presidency 10121977 'Throwaway Game' Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers 10121977 4th test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise 10121985 Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize. 1013 Feast of St. Edward the Confessor, English king (1042-66). 10131601 Tycho Brahe, greatest naked-eye observer, dies in Prague. 10131775 Continental Congress establishes a navy 10131792 Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House) 10131812 Battle of Queenstown Heights. 10131843 B'nai B'rith founded in NY. 10131845 Texas ratifies a state constitution. 10131943 Italy declares war on former ally Germany. 10131947 Kukla, Fran & Ollie premiers 10131953 Burglar alarm - ultrasonic or radio waves - patented - Samuel Bagno 10131960 Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats Yanks 10-9 in 10131964 Voshkod 1 crew returns 10131969 Soyuz 8 is launched 10131971 1st World Series night game (Pitts 4 - Balt 3) 10131978 Graig Nettles at 3rd makes spectactular play after spectacular play 10131978 Guidry beats Dodgers after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4 10131982 NJ Devils 1st short handed gaol - Don Lever 10131982 Intl Olympic Comm restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to 10131982 Jim Thorpe. Medals taken away because he played baseball for pay 10131984 Blackhawk Bill Gardner scored on 10th penalty shot against Islanders 10131984 John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million. 10131985 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched 10131987 1st military use of trained dolphins, by US Navy in Persian Gulf. 1014 Battle of Hastings won by Normans & William the Conqueror (1066) 1014 Feast of St. Callistus I, pope (217-222), martyr. 1014 People's Dem Rep of Yemen (South Yemen) National Day. 10141066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England 10141586 Mary, Qn of Scots conspiracy trial against Qn Elizabeth I begins 10141774 1st declaration of colonial rights in America 10141843 British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy. 10141884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film 10141905 Giant's Christy Mathewson's 3rd straight world series shutout 10141912 Theodore Roosevelt is shot in the chest in Milwaukee while 10141912 campaigning for President with the Bull Moose Party. 10141922 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC 10141944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face 10141944 trial for his part in an attempt to overthrow Hitler. 10141945 Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears. 10141947 Chuck Yeager 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015 at 12,800 m). 10141949 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition. 10141965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km. 10141976 Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homers gives Yanks pennant #30 10141976 Soyuz 23 launched to Salyut 6, but return without docking 10141977 Bing Crosby dies in Madrid, Spain. 10141978 1st TV movie from a TV series - Rescue from Gilligan's Island 10141978 Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 10141978 making Islander record when scoring a hat trick - 22-2-1 10141982 Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total) 1015 Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, 1st woman doctor of the church. 1015 Mushroom Day 1015 National Grouch Day 1015 White Cane Safety Day. 1015 World Poetry Day. 10151582 Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar cut 10 prior days. 10151783 Jean Pilƒtre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent. 10151860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard. 10151863 Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on the site). 10151885 Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of the season 10151914 ASCAP founded (American Soc of Composers, Authers & Publishers) 10151917 Mata Hari executed by firing squad outside of Paris. 10151923 Yanks win 1st world shampionship Beating the Giants 10151939 LaGuardia Airport opened in NYC 10151946 Nazi Hermann Goering poisons himself in prison. 10151946 Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in the World Series 10151951 I Love Lucy premiers 10151959 Untouchables premier 10151964 Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev 10151969 Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated 10151981 Yanks defeat A's 4-0 & win 33 pennant 1016 World Food Day. 1016 Feast of St. Margaret, St. Hedwig, St. Mary Alacoque 10161775 Portland, Maine burned by British. 10161781 Washington takes Yorktown 10161793 Marie Antoinette beheaded in France. 10161846 Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether 10161849 British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras. 10161859 John Brown leads group of 20 in a raid on Harper's Ferry, Va. 10161861 Confederacy starts selling postage stamps 10161869 Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing 10161916 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (Bkln) 10161921 Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from 10161923 Disney Co founded 10161941 Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers 10161943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system. 10161946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials. 10161952 Woolworth's at Powell & Market (S.F.) opens. 10161957 Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip arrive in Virginia 10161962 Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba 10161962 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 3 in the world series 10161964 Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia 10161964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power 10161969 Soyuz 6 returns to Earth 10161970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser 10161971 Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in S.F. 10161973 Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize 10161976 Soyuz 23 returns to Earth 10161978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II. 10161981 Israel's General Moshe Dayan dies at 66 10161982 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return 10161982 Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins 10161982 Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel 10161984 Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner 10161985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip. 10161986 Armand Hammer arrives back in US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb 10161987 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England. 10161987 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after she fell 1017 Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin. 1017 St. Ethelred's Day (Anglican). 1017 Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch 10171492 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador 10171691 new royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth. 10171777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY 10171781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown 10171793 Marie Antoinette executed. 10171850 Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized 10171887 Gustav Kirchoff, discoverer of the laws of spectroscopy, dies. 10171894 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man. 10171899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F. Morrow for $215,000. 10171904 Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors. 10171919 RCA created. 10171931 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison 10171933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany. 10171941 1st American destroyer torpedoed in WW2, the Kearny off Iceland 10171945 Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina. 10171957 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits White House. 10171957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature. 10171962 Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship 10171964 Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra 10171967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km. 10171969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth 10171972 1st time Islanders shut-out - 5-0 vs Penguins 10171973 The Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March, 1974. 10171977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia 10171977 free all 86 hostages aboard & killing three of the four hijackers. 10171977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament. 10171978 Islanders start 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8) 10171978 Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year 10171979 Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 10171985 Lou Pinella named Yankee manager 10171986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal 10171986 aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982. 10171987 1st World Series game in a covered stadium (Minnesota Metrodome). 1018 Start of the Moslem New Year 1018 Feast of St. Luke Evangelist 1018 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion. 10181685 Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism. 10181767 Boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon. 10181847 English astronomer J.K Hind discovers Flor, his second asteroid 10181867 US took formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million) 10181873 Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football 10181892 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY). 10181898 American flag raised in Puerto Rico 10181917 Mata Hari was shot as a spy by French firing squad 10181922 British Broadcasting Corporation established 10181931 Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, N.J., at age 84. 10181944 Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II. 10181950 Connie Mack, announced retirement as manager of the Phila Athletics 10181953 Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times. 10181962 Dr. Watson of US & Drs. Crick & Wilkins of Britain win Nobel Prize 10181962 for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA 10181967 Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released 10181967 Soviet Venera 4 becomes the 1st probe to send data back from Venus 10181968 Robert Beaman of US broad jumps a record 8.90 m. 10181968 US Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith & John Carlos, for 10181968Cgiving `black power' salute as a protest during victory ceremony 10181969 Federal govt bans use of artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates 10181969 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth 10181977 Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record 10181977 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th 10181977 Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years 10181982 Former 1st lady Bess Truman, died in Independence, Mo. at age 97 1019 G Lalemand, C Garnier, N Chabanel, R Goupil & J Laliande, canonized 1019 Feast of N Am Martyrs SS. J de Brebeuf, I Jogues, A Daniel, 1019 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion. 1019 Feast of St. Peter of Alcantara, confessor. 1019 Feast of St. Peter of Alcantra, Confessor 10191781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 p.m.; the fighting is over. 10191812 Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow. 10191845 Wagner's opera Tannh„user performed for 1st time. 10191853 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations 10191859 Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope. 10191872 world's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales. 10191879 Thomas A. Edison successfully demenstrates the electric light 10191936 H.R. Ekins of the "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters 10191936 in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 1/2 days. 10191949 Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds 10191953 1st jet transcontinental non-stop scheduled service 10191953 Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on television by Arthur Godfrey. 10191960 The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba. 10191963 Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand" 10191967 Mariner 5 flew by Venus 10191968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars 10191987 Billy Martin hired as manager of N.Y. Yankees for 5th time. 10191987 Dow-Jones loses 508.32 points, more than 4« times previous record. 10191987 "Black Monday" - Dow Jones down 508.32 points worst day on Wall St 1020 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion. 1020 Feast of St. John Cantius, Confessor & St. Bertilla Boscardin 10201600 Battle of Sekigahara establishes Tokugawa clan as rulers of Japan 10201600 (shoguns) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel). 10201740 Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia 10201803 Senate ratifies La Purchase. 10201813 Kingdom of Westphalia abolished. 10201818 US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country. 10201820 Spain sells (east) Florida to US for $5 million. 10201903 US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada. 10201906 Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube 10201929 Bayshore Highway opens (SF). 10201944 During WWII, MacArthur goes to Phillipines saying `I have returned' 10201946 Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs. N.Y. Giants. 10201947 The House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into 10201947 alleged Communist influence in the Hollywood movie industry. 10201960 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI 10201960 Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager 10201964 31st president of US, Herbert Hoover, died in NY at age 90. 10201968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis. 10201972 Harlow Shapley, discoverer of the sun's position in the galaxy, dies. 10201973 Sat Night Massacre, Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed by 10201976 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince 10201979 John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston. 10201982 Billy Martin fired as manager of the Oakland A's 10201984 Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick - 4 goals 10201987 Bernhard Goetz sentenced to six months in jail 1021 Somali National Day. 1021 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion. 1021 Feast of St. Hilarion, an ascetic & lover of solitude & penance 10211797 US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston 10211805 Battle of Trafalgar Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet 10211868 Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m., centered in Hayward, Calif. 10211869 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore 10211879 Thomas Edison perfects the light bulb. 10211897 Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated. 10211918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min. 10211923 Deutsches Museum, Munich, 1st Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss Planetarium. 10211944 During WWII, US troops captured Aachen, 1st large German city to fall 10211945 Women in France allowed to vote for the 1st time 10211948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated, Washington DC 10211959 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in NY 10211960 JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final pres debate 10211967 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astrophysicist dies at 94. 10211967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War tried to storm the Pentagon 10211971 Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell & William H. Rehnquist to US Supreme 10211971 Court, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan 10211974 1st Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps 10211975 Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit the planet Venus launched 10211976 Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature 10211977 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa 10211984 Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2 h 8 m 5 s. 1022 Vatican City National Day. 1022 Feast of SS. Philip, Bishop of Heraclea, & his companions, martyrs 1022 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion. 10221746 Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter. 10221797 Andr‚-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris) 10221836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas 10221883 Original Metropolitan Opera House in NY held its grand opening 10221928 Pres Hoover spoke of `American system of rugged individualism.' 10221934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot dead by FBI in Ohio. 10221936 Apollo 7 crew returns 10221936 1st coml flight from mainland to Hawaii. 10221939 1st TV NFL game - Eagles vs Dodgers 10221953 Laos gains full independence from France. 10221954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 10221962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis. 10221962 Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center. 10221968 Apollo 7 returns to Earth 10221973 Security Council Resol 338 - a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War 10221974 Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds 10221975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 lands on Venus 10221975 Cincinnati Reds win 1st World Series in 35 years 10221979 WDW's 100-millionth guest 10221979 Deposed Shah of Iran arrived in NY for medical treatment 10221981 US national debt tops $1 trillion 10221981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified 10224004 B.C. Universe created at 8:00 PM, according to the 1650 1023 United States Day 1023 Swallows leave San Juan Capistrano. 1023 St. James of Jerusalem Day (Orthodox, Anglican). 1023 Feast of St. John of Capistrano (A.D. 1456) 1023 Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion. 10231679 Meal Tub Plot against James II of England. 10231790 Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed). 10231864 Union Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeats Conf Gen. Stirling Price 10231910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight 10231915 25,000 women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote 10231941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released 10231942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt 10231946 UN Gen Assembly convenes in NY for 1st time in Flushing Meadow. 10231956 Revolt against Stalinist policies began in Hungary 10231956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast 10231958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature 10231973 President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings 10231975 Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent - Flyers 3-0 10231977 By 2/3 majority, Panamanians vote to approve the new Canal treaties 10231980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness. 10231983 241 US Marines & sailors die in a terrorist suicide attack in Beriut 1024 Feast of St. Raphael the Archangel & Feast of St. Anthony Claret 1024 UN Day. 10241537 Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, dies. 10241795 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia. 10241836 the match is patented. 10241846 Ariel & Umbriel, moons of Uranus, discovered by Lassell 10241851 William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Unranus. 10241861 1st transcontinental telegram sent 10241871 mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese. 10241901 Anna Taylor, 1st to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel & live 10241929 "Black Thursday," the beginning of the stock market crash. 10241945 United Nations Charter goes into effect 10241951 UN publishes its 1st postage stamps 10241960 Disaster on USSR launch pad killed missle expert Nedelin & team 10241964 Zambia (N. Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day). 10241970 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile. 10241970 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show 10241973 Yom Kippur War ends - Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus 10241974 Billy Martin named A.L. Manager of the Year (Texas Rangers) 10241976 1st Jewish film & TV festival 10241979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman 10241984 Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after failed 10241987 Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate 10241987 NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike 1025 Feast of SS. Chrysanthus & Daria, martyrs. 1025 St. Crispin's Day (Anglican). 1025 Feast of Christ the King & Feast of St. Gaudentius bishop of Brescia 10251400 Author Geoffrey Chaucer dies in London. 10251415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight 10251671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn. 10251675 Iapetus, moon of Saturn, Discovered by Giovanni Cassini 10251760 George III ascends the British throne. 10251825 Erie Canal opens for business in NY 10251854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War) 10251903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin. 10251930 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began 10251960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC 10251962 Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missle bases 10251962 saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over." 10251971 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan. 10251971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World 10251975 USSR Venera 10 made day Venus landing 10251983 US invades Grenada, a country 1/2000 its population. 10251984 Rangers beat Devils 11-2 1026 Feast of St. Evaristus, 5th pope (c. 97-c. 107), martyr. 1026 Austrian National Day. 1026 Feast of St. Demetrios the Martyr (Orthodox). 10261774 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia. 10261825 Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened 10261861 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express) 10261863 Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game. 10261881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az 10261903 Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay. 10261941 US Savings Bonds go on sale 10261949 Pres Truman increases minimum wage - from 40 cents to 75 cents. 10261956 International Atomic Energy Agency established 10261957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting 10261958 PanAm flies the 1st transAtlantic jet trip - NY to Paris. 10261968 Soyuz 3 is launched 10261970 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers. 10261971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China 10261972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin 10261976 according to South Africa, Transkei gains independence. Not 10261977 Fifth & Final test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise 10261979 S Korean Pres Park Chung-hee is assassinated. 10261979 St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains independence from Britain. 10261984 "Baby Fae" gets a baboon heart in an experimental transplant in 10261987 head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm. assassinated by death squads. 1027 Feast of St. Frumentius, bishop & founder of Ethiopian church 10271553 Michael Servetus burned at the stake for heresy in Geneva, Switz. 10271787 Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers. 10271795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi 10271810 US annexes West Florida from Spain. 10271858 RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, NYC Gross receipts $1106 10271871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, 10271871 arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption 10271880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday. 10271896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!) 10271904 NY opens 1st section of its subway system. 10271938 DuPont announces that its new synthetic fiber will be called 'nylon' 10271947 "You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio. 10271954 Walt Disney's 1st TV show, Disneyland, premiers on ABC. 10271961 1st Saturn Made a unmanned flight test 10271969 St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain 10271971 Rep of Congo becomes Zaire. 10271972 Golden Gate Natl Recreation Area created 10271973 1st time Islanders beat the Rangers - 3-2 10271978 Begin & Sadat with the Nobel Peace prize 10271979 Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds 10271980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph. 1028 Feast of SS. Simon & Jude Apostles 1028 Eli Whitney gets a patent for the Cotton Gin 10281492 Columbus discovers Cuba 10281636 Harvard College, 1st US college founded. 10281776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ 10281790 NY gives up claims to Vermont in exchange for $30,000. 10281793 Eli Whitney applies for patent for the cotton gin. 10281886 Pres Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. 10281904 St Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints 10281918 Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria. 10281919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition 10281922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government. 10281922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game. 10281929 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl 10281946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR 10281948 Flag of Israel is adopted 10281953 Bud Grant of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record). 10281962 Krushchev orders withdrawal of Cuban missiles 10281965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion. 10281965 Gateway Arch (190 meters high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri. 10281965 The Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed in St Louis, Missouri 10281970 US/USSR signed an agreement to discuss joint space efforts 10281971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit. 10281973 Elmore Smith of the Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record). 10281974 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game - MacMillian & Westfall 10281976 Billy Martin named A.L. Manager of the Year (NY Yankees) 10281977 TV's Rhoda gets married 10281979 Dick Howser (Best Yank mngr win-lost pct 636) replaces Billy Martin 1029 Republic Day, celebrated in Turkey 1029 Feast of St. Theuderius, or Chef, Abbot (c. A.D. 575) 10290539 BC Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia. 10291618 Sir Walter Raleigh is executed in London. 10291682 Pennsylvania granted to William Penn by King Charles II. 10291727 Severe earthquake in New England. 10291811 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans. 10291833 1st College Fraternity founded 10291863 Intl Comm. of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963). 10291894 1st election of the Hawaiian Republic 10291901 Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is executed. 10291920 Edward Barrow named Yankee general manager 10291923 Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day). 10291929 "Black Tuesday," the Stock Market crash. 10291939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure) 10291956 Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up 10291956 Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran 10291964 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY. 10291979 Billy Martin fired as Yankee Manager (2nd time) 10291982 John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, will be acquitted. 1030 Feast of St. Alphonsus 10301270 8th & last crusade is launched. 10301775 US Navy founded 10301864 Helena, Montana's capital, founded. 10301905 Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia a constitution. 10301922 Mussolini forms cabinet in Italy 10301938 Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of War of the Worlds. 10301941 US Navy destroyer Reuben James torpedoed by Germany 10301945 US govt announces end of shoe rationing. 10301953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer received Nobel Peace Prize for 1952. 10301953 Gen. George C. Marshall awarded Nobel Peace Prize. 10301961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution 10301961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb 10301967 USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch 10301972 Worst US rail accident in 14 years occurred 10301974 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire 10301975 NY Daily News ran headline `Ford to City: Drop Dead' 10301978 Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701 - 1. 10301985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 9 is launched 10301985 space shuttle Challenger carries 8 crewmen (2 Germans, 1 Dutch). 1031 Reformation Day 1031 All Hallows Eve (you know, Halloween) 1031 Vigil of All Saints, Feast of St. Wolfgang, Benedictine bishop 1031 National UNICEF Day. 10311517 Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, begins Protestant Reformation 10311793 Execution of the Girondins at Paris, during the Reign of Terror. 10311864 Nevada admitted as 36th state. 10311865 William Parson, 3rd Earl of Rosse & maker of large telescopes dies 10311922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy. 10311926 Erich Weiss, better known as Magician Harry Houdini, dies. 10311952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands 10311956 Bkln, NY ends streetcar service 10311956 1st American to land by air at South Pole - GJ Dufek 10311959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US 10311968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam. 10311980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m).