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, VA
• 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 16th British Golf Open: Bob Martin shoots a 176 at St Andrews
• 1879 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG)
• 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

• 1907 Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader vs Giants
• 1908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
• 1909 1st rugby match (Twickenham)
• 1910 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
• 1910 Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record)

• 1913 Phillies beat NY Giants 2 games out of 3


• 1916 Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of year
• 1916 San Diego Zoo founded
• 1919 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Neth

• 1920 Only tripleheader of twentieth century (Reds win 13-4, 7-3 then Pirates win 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

• 1923 British occuping army leaves Constantinople
• 1923 Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403
• 1924 League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva
• 1926 Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
• 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 NY Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs in 29th World Series
• 1932 Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0
• 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 NY Yankees score World Series record 18 runs, beating Giants 18-4
• 1936 Tony Lazzeri becomes 1st Yank to hit a World Series grand slam

• 1938 Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times)
• 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 Yankees sweep 14th doubleheader of year, beating Browns, 5-1 & 7-6
• 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 St Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3
• 1949 USSR recognizes People's Republic of China
• 1949 Yanks & Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play final game of season. Yanks win 5-3 & clinch pennant #16

• 1950 Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases
• 1950 Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions
• 1950 Chic Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (55-13)
• 1951 1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel)
• 1951 Dodgers beat Giants 10-0, in 2nd game of play-offs
• 1953 "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" opens at John Golden NYC for 849 performances
• 1953 Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in World Series
• 1954 8th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Detroit 2-2 at Detroit
• 1954 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal, India
• 1954 NY Giants sweep Cleveland Indians, in 51st World Series
• 1955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres on CBS television in the US
• 1955 9th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 3-1 at Detroit
• 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 NY Yankees appear in their 25th World Series
• 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
• 1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
• 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 SF beats LA, 8-7 in 4h18m 9 inning playoff game
• 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
• 1963 Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 Yankees

• 1964 Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
• 1965 Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant
• 1965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
• 1965 Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 NY Mets
• 1965 Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans
• 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
• 1966 LA Dodgers Sandy Koufax clinches 3rd LA pennant in 4 years
• 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 Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts
• 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, lose 3-1 to As in front of 5,473
• 1969 US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
• 1970 Billy Martin named manager of the Detriot Tigers
• 1970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
• 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 Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats NY Mets, 7-0
• 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 Vivian Brownlee wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
• 1977 Dusty Baker 30th HR joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32), & Ron Cey (30) in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-HR hitters
• 1978 Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed
• 1978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding

• 1980 Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
• 1981 Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran
• 1982 Bomb attack in Tehran, kills 60, injures 700

• 1983 Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions
• 1983 Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat
• 1983 Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic
• 1984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
• 1984 In 1st LCS game played with replacement umps, Cubs beat 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
• 1986 Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306)
• 1986 NY Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons
• 1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
• 1988 Gelindo Bordin wins 21st Olympics marathon (2:10:32)
• 1988 Minnesota Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance
• 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 Future world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis, representing Canada, wins super-heavyweight gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; beats American Riddick Bowe by 2nd round TKO
• 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
• 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 clinches AL East title & becomes 1st team to draw 4 million fans
• 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
• 1995 "Moon Over Buffalo" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 308 performances

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