Historical Events on October 2

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• 939 Battle at Andernach: King Otto & Hermann of Zwaben beat Eberhard of France & Giselbert of Lutherans
• 976 Hisham II appointed kalief of Cordoba

• 1134 Storm flood ravages Zeeland county

• 1263 The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots.
• 1492 King Henry VII of England invades France
• 1518 English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan

• 1540 Venice and Turkey signs peace

• 1572 Spanish army occupies, plunders and destroys Mechelen
• 1608 Hans Lippershey applies for patent for first known early telescope in the Netherlands
• 1614 French King Louis XIII declared an adult at 13

• 1656 English North American colony of Connecticut passes law against Quakers
• 1700 Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne


• 1760 Russian and Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13]
• 1787 Maagden House opens in Amsterdam

• 1792 Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
• 1795 Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao
• 1799 Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands
• 1804 Britain mobilizes to protect against French invasion
• 1833 NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
• 1835 Battle of Gonzales fought between Texan settlers and Mexican forces. First engagement of the Texas revolution

• 1851 The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass(a contraption built to test the pseudo-scientific hypothesis that snails create a permanent telepathic link when they mate) is demonstrated but proves to be a fake.
• 1853 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
• 1861 Former US VP John C Breckinridge flees Kentucky
• 1864 Battle of Saltville, Virginia
• 1866 J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener
• 1870 Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital

• 1872 Morgan State University founded

• 1876 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Bob Martin wins when fellow Scot Davie Strath refuses to take part in a playoff after pair finish on 176


• 1889 1st Pan American conference (Washington, D.C.)
• 1889 In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
• 1895 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
• 1899 Orange Free state mobilizes
• 1901 First Royal Navy submarine launched at Barrow-in-Furness

• 1904 German General Lothar von Trotha issues order to exterminate Herero people of Namidia, first genocide of the 20th Century, will kill 65,000 Herero and 100,000 of the Nama tribe
• 1904 White Sox left-hander Doc White's streak of 45 consecutive MLB scoreless innings is snapped by the New York Highlanders in Chicago; White Sox win, 7-1 at South Side Park III

• 1908 Cleveland Naps and future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Addie Joss hurls a classic perfect game, beating Ed Walsh and the White Sox, 1-0
• 1909 First Rugby Union match is played at the English RFU owned Twickenham ground; Harlequins beat Richmond, 14-10
• 1910 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
• 1910 Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record)

• 1916 Pitching in his 3rd start in 5 days, Philadelphia Phillies right hander Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 20th century MLB record 16th shutout of year, a 2-0 win v Boston Braves
• 1916 San Diego Zoo founded
• 1919 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Neth

• 1920 Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates play first and only MLB triple header in the 20th century; Reds win the first two games, 13-4 and 7-3; Pirates avoid the sweep in the finale, 6-0
• 1920 The Chinese sign an agreement with the Russo-Asiatic Bank, largely French and Russian controlled, which will oversee the Chinese Eastern Railway, but give local supervision to China

• 1921 Chicago White Sox backstop Ray Schalk becomes the first and only MLB catcher to make a putout at all bases; White Sox beat Indians 7-4
• 1923 British occuping army leaves Constantinople
• 1924 League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva

• 1926 Bert Gibb kicks 9 singles as Hamilton Tigers beat Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers 12-10 in Montreal in Canadian Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union opening round
• 1928 "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", known as Opus Dei, founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá
• 1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis
• 1932 New York Yankees win their 12th consecutive World Series game and sweep the Fall Classic for the third time; Bronx Bombers bang out 19 hits as they rout Chicago Cubs, 13-6 at Wrigley Field
• 1932 Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play franchise's debut NFL game; lose 14-0 to Brooklyn Dodgers at Braves Field
• 1933 Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness" premieres in NYC

• 1935 NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in US, opens
• 1936 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas
• 1936 Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject nazism
• 1936 French franc devalued, relatively late and after Britain (1931) and the US (1933)
• 1936 New York Yankees score Baseball World Series record 18 runs in an 18-4 rout of rival NY Giants in Game 2 at the Polo Grounds; Yankees win series 4-2

• 1938 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Detroit Tigers; his Cleveland Indians still lose 4-1 at Cleveland Stadium
• 1940 17 German aircraft shot down over England
• 1940 British Council receives Royal Charter
• 1940 British liner Empress, loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
• 1941 6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo
• 1941 Germans launch attack on Moscow
• 1942 RMS Queen Mary, carrying thousands of US troops, slices cruiser HMS Curacao in half, killing 239
• 1943 Japanese troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island
• 1943 New York Yankees sweep 14th MLB doubleheader of year, beating St. Louis Browns, 5-1 & 7-6 at Yankee Stadium
• 1944 Polish resistance fighters capitulate in the Warsaw Uprising, with some 250,000 people killed
• 1944 US B-17's drops pamphlets on Walcheren
• 1946 1st network soap opera "Faraway Hill" begins broadcasting on DuMont Television Network
• 1947 "Music in My Heart" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 124 performances
• 1947 Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted

• 1948 "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 725 performances
• 1949 USSR recognizes People's Republic of China


• 1949 For first time in 41 years pennant races in both MLB leagues are decided on the final day of the season; (AL) Yankees upend rival Boston Red Sox, 5-3; (NL) Dodgers beat the Phillies, 9-7 for 97-57 record; Cardinals 96-58

• 1950 Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions in 55-13 win against Baltimore Colts; Cardinals quarterback Jim Hardy tosses 6 touchdown passes
• 1951 1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel)
• 1952 Don Liddle beats Bob Lemon 7-4 as the New York Giants complete an unlikely Baseball World Series sweep of the powerful Cleveland Indians; Cleveland season record of 111-43 sets American League mark for regular season wins
• 1953 "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" opens at John Golden NYC for 849 performances
• 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine sets a Baseball World Series record with 14 strikeouts in a 3-2 Game 3 win against the New York Yankees.
• 1954 8th NHL All-Star Game, Detroit Olympia, Detroit, MI: All-Stars tie Detroit Red Wings, 2-2
• 1954 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal, India
• 1954 New York Giants beat Cleveland Indians, 7-4 in Game 4 to sweep the Baseball World Series, 4-0; Indians trail 7-0 and never recover
• 1955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres on CBS television in the US
• 1955 9th NHL All-Star Game, Detroit Olympia, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings beat All-Stars, 3-1
• 1955 Chiva Stoica becomes premier of Romania
• 1955 WHTN (now WOWK) TV ch 13 in Huntington-Charleston, WV (CBS) begins
• 1956 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
• 1957 New York Yankees appear in their 25th Baseball World Series; beat Milwaukee Braves, 3-1 in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium; lose series, 4-3
• 1957 New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores

• 1958 Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day)
• 1958 Musical show "Valmouth" 1st produced in London
• 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV

• 1961 "Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV
• 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961 WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, D.C. (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1961 WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1962 San Francisco Giants beat rival LA Dodgers, 8-7 in 4 hours 18 minutes in Game 2 NL tie-break series; longest 9-inning game in MLB history; Giants win series, 2-1
• 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
• 1963 LA Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 NY Yankees in Game 1 of the Baseball World Series at Yankee Stadium; Dodgers win, 5-2 and sweep series, 4-0

• 1964 Philadelphia's Alex Johnson-Bobby Wine-Tony Taylor-Vic Power combine for Phillies' 3rd triple play of the season (tying MLB record) in 4-3 win v Cincinnati Reds
• 1965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20

• 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax wins his 27th game of the season, 6-3 v Philadelphia Phillies; clinches Dodgers 3rd National League pennant in 4 years
• 1966 Australian Robert 'Nat' Young puts on a dominating performance to win the World Surfing Championship at Ocean Beach, San Diego; Joyce Hoffman of Capistrano Beach, California takes women's title
• 1967 Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
• 1967 Groundbreaking begins on Veteran's Stadium in Philadelphia

• 1968 1st London performance of "Promises, Promises" presented
• 1968 St. Louis pitcher Bob Gibson establishes a new Baseball World Series mark by striking out 17 batters as the Cardinals beat Detroit, 4-0 in Game 1 of the Fall Classic
• 1968 Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed
• 1968 Republic Guinea forms (day of republic)
• 1968 1st time, 2 soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other Cards Bob Gibson beat Tigers Denny McLain 4-0
• 1969 Seattle Pilots' last game in Seattle; crash to 98th season loss, 3-1 to Oakland in front of just 5,473; move to Milwaukee as the Brewers next season
• 1969 US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
• 1970 Detroit general manager Jim Campbell gives controversial Billy Martin a 2-year deal (1971-72) to manage the Tigers at a well above MLB average annual salary of $65,000
• 1970 14 members of the Wichita State University Football team as well as 17 administrators and supporters are killed in a plane crash in the Rocky Mountains
• 1971 Homing pigeon averages a record 133kph in an 1100km race in Australia
• 1972 "From Israel with Love" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 8 performances
• 1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
• 1972 Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitches his 2nd no-hitter, beating Mets, 7-0
• 1972 Danish population votes for membership of the European Common Market
• 1972 Montreal Expos' pitcher Bill Stoneman no-hits the New York Mets, 7 - 0 at Parc Jarry; first MLB no-hitter ever pitched in Canada
• 1972 Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Philadelphia)

• 1975 The Ulster Volunteer Force kill 7 civilians in a series of attacks across Northern Ireland; 6 were Catholic civilians and 1 was a Protestant civilian
• 1975 Four Ulster Volunteer Force members killed after a bomb they are carrying prematurely explodes in Farrenlester, near Coleraine
• 1976 "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 106 performances
• 1977 Pakistani general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition


• 1977 Dusty Baker hits his 30th homer of the season against Astros' J.R. Richard; Dodgers become the first team in MLB history to have 4 players hit 30 or more HRs; joins Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32) and Ron Cey (30)
• 1977 Austrian Ferrari driver Niki Lauda finishes 4th in the US Grand Prix East at Watkins Glen to clinch his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; Englishman James Hunt wins the race
• 1978 Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed
• 1978 NY Yankees win 3rd straight AL East title beating Boston Red Sox, 5-4 in a dramatic single playoff game; Ron Guidry wins #25 aided by Bucky Dent's 3-run homer

• 1980 Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
• 1981 Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran
• 1981 17 year old gelding Behavin Jerry, the oldest winning racehorse in modern times, sets record for most career starts by a thoroughbred, 307
• 1982 Bomb attack in Tehran, kills 60, injures 700

• 1983 Wide receiver Art Monk begins NFL streak of 183 consecutive games with a reception in the Washington Redskins' 37-35 win over the LA Raiders
• 1983 Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat
• 1983 Green Bay Packers erupt for NFL record 49 points in the first half (35 in the second quarter) to clobber the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 55-14 at Tampa Stadium
• 1984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
• 1984 Due to a strike by MLB umpires, first 4 NLCS games played with replacement umpires; Game 1: Chicago Cubs beat SD Padres, 13-0
• 1984 Richard Miller becomes 1st (former) FBI agent to be charged with espionage
• 1985 Russian party leader Gorbachev visits Paris (his first trip abroad)
• 1985 Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 HR seasons in both leagues
• 1985 A Mayor Richard Caliguiri led coalition of public and private groups committed to keeping the struggling Pittsburgh Pirates in town for at least 5 years reach agreement to buy the baseball team for $22 million
• 1986 Astros starter Mike Scott finishes MLB regular season with 306 strikeouts with 8 in a 2-1 win in San Francisco; 3rd NL pitcher to reach 300 in a season
• 1986 New York Mets' Dwight Gooden becomes first pitcher to collect 200 strikeouts in each of his first 3 seasons when he records 7 in 8-2 win v Pittsburgh Pirates

• 1988 Minnesota Twins total 3,030,672 in attendance at Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome; first AL club ever to break 3 million in a MLB season
• 1988 Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections

• 1988 New Zealand horseman Mark Todd wins individual eventing gold medal aboard Charisma at the Seoul Olympics; his 2nd consecutive gold after winning in 1984

• 1988 South Korean light middleweight boxer Park Si-hun is controversially awarded the Seoul Olympic gold medal after appearing well beaten by future 4 weight class world champion Roy Jones Jr
• 1988 Gelindo Bordin of Italy wins the men's marathon in 2:10:32 at the Seoul Olympics; beats world champion Douglas Wakiihuri of Kenya by 15 seconds


• 1988 In a season ending 7-5 win in St. Louis, NY Mets' outfielder Kevin McReynolds establishes a MLB record swiping 21 bases without being caught stealing during the season
• 1989 TV true life drama "A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story" premieres on NBC in the US
• 1990 "Michael Feinstein in Concert" opens at Golden NYC for 30 performances
• 1990 WW2 Allied nations cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany
• 1990 Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die
• 1990 US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter's appointment to Supreme Court
• 1990 Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors

• 1991 Toronto Blue Jays clinch AL East title with a 6-5 win v California Angels; become first sport franchise in history to draw 4 million fans in one season
• 1992 VP Itamar Franco becomes President of Brazil
• 1992 The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil
• 1994 "Show Boat" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC
• 1994 Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test

• 1994 Pakistan cricket batsmen Inzamam-ul-Haq & Mushtaq Ahmed put on 57 runs in 8 overs for highest last-wicket partnership ever to win a Test, as the home team beats Australia by 1 wicket in the 1st Test in Karachi
• 1995 "Moon Over Buffalo" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 308 performances

• 1996 30th Country Music Association Award: Brooks & Dunn win

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