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Events on the 15th of October in history

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15 Oct 1066 Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England, but is never crowned. Reigned until 10 December 1066.
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15 Oct 1211 Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Lascaris.
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15 Oct 1520 King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall
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15 Oct 1529 The Siege of Vienna ends as the Austrians rout the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
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15 Oct 1581 Commissioned by Catherine De Medici, the 1st ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine, " is staged in Paris
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15 Oct 1582 Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
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15 Oct 1582 Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days
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15 Oct 1598 Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine
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15 Oct 1641 Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal
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15 Oct 1654 Prince Willem III appointed Viceroy of Overijssel
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15 Oct 1655 Jews of Lublin are massacred
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15 Oct 1660 Asser Levy granted butchers license (kosher meat) in New Amsterdam
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15 Oct 1705 English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona
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15 Oct 1724 Cornelis Steenoven is 1st Archbishop of Old-Catholic church
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15 Oct 1756 Saxon army surrenders to Prussia
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15 Oct 1764 Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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15 Oct 1783 The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon (tethered) makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
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15 Oct 1783 Jean Pil
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15 Oct 1789 1st presidental tour-George Washington in New England
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15 Oct 1793 Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
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15 Oct 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte exiled on Island of St. Helena
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15 Oct 1815 Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
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15 Oct 1842 Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung
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15 Oct 1846 Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether
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15 Oct 1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
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15 Oct 1863 American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
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15 Oct 1863 Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on the site)
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15 Oct 1864 Confederate troops occupy Glasgow, Missouri
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15 Oct 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.
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15 Oct 1866 Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses
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15 Oct 1874 Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force
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15 Oct 1877 45th Congress (1877-79) convenes
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15 Oct 1878 The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
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15 Oct 1878 Edison Electric Light Company incorporated
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15 Oct 1880 Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
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15 Oct 1880 K
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15 Oct 1881 1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published
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15 Oct 1883 Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
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15 Oct 1885 Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of the season
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15 Oct 1888 The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
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15 Oct 1889 Amsterdam Central Station officially opens
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15 Oct 1890 Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham
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15 Oct 1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage
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15 Oct 1894 The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
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15 Oct 1897 Aaron / Samuel Bloch carry 1st Mail Pouch
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15 Oct 1897 King Leopold II takes Belgian crown
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15 Oct 1899 Cincinnati closes season with 16-1 and 19-3 victories over Cleveland Spiders
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15 Oct 1904 The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
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15 Oct 1905 Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands
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15 Oct 1910 Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
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15 Oct 1913 Train crash in Liverpool during "Black Week"
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15 Oct 1914 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded
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15 Oct 1914 Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends October 21)
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15 Oct 1914 Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights)
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15 Oct 1914 Clayton Antitrust Act passed
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15 Oct 1917 Chicago White Sox beat the New York Giants, 4 games to 2 in 14th World Series
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15 Oct 1917 World War I: At Vincennes outside Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
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15 Oct 1918 British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6
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15 Oct 1919 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money
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15 Oct 1923 New York Yankees 1st World Series win beating New York Giants, 4 games to 2
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15 Oct 1923 The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
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15 Oct 1923 NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2 (World Series #20)
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15 Oct 1924 President Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument
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15 Oct 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates beat Washingston Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series
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15 Oct 1926 Austria government of Seipel, forms
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15 Oct 1928 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, New Jersey
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15 Oct 1928 Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators
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15 Oct 1928 The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
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15 Oct 1928 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ
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15 Oct 1932 Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
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15 Oct 1933 Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to New York Giants 56-0
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15 Oct 1934 The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
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15 Oct 1935 NHL's St Louis Eagles fold
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15 Oct 1937 Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published
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15 Oct 1937 Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yanks release Tony Lazzeri
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15 Oct 1938 Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois, " premieres in New York City
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15 Oct 1939 LaGuardia Airport opens in New York City
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15 Oct 1939 Yeshiva of Mir closes after 124 years
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15 Oct 1939 The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
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15 Oct 1940 The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.
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15 Oct 1941 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe
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15 Oct 1941 Japan Tojo regime forms
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15 Oct 1941 Jews caught outside the Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death
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15 Oct 1944 The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary.
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15 Oct 1945 Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)
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15 Oct 1945 World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
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15 Oct 1946 Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140)
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15 Oct 1946 St. Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series
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15 Oct 1946 Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in the 43rd World Series
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15 Oct 1949 Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian government
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15 Oct 1949 Billy Graham begins his ministry
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15 Oct 1949 Tripura accedes to the Indian union
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15 Oct 1951 "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV
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15 Oct 1951 Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty
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15 Oct 1951 Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives.
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15 Oct 1951 The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
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15 Oct 1951 "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV
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15 Oct 1953 KOIN TV channel 6 in Portland, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Oct 1953 WJNL (now WFAT) TV channel 19 in Johnstown, PA (IND) begins
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15 Oct 1953 British nuclear test Totem 1 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
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15 Oct 1954 Hurricane Hazel strikes US and Canada, 348 die
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15 Oct 1954 KLTV TV channel 7 in Tyler-Longview, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Oct 1954 Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto. As a Category 4 upon landfall, it is the strongest storm on record to strike as far north as North Carolina.
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15 Oct 1956 Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
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15 Oct 1956 Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
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15 Oct 1956 William J Brennan Jr appointed to the Supreme Court
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15 Oct 1957 Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for SF Seals-franchises only, not the players
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15 Oct 1958 Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
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15 Oct 1959 "Untouchables" premieres
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15 Oct 1959 KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Oct 1959 "Untouchables" premieres
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15 Oct 1960 "Laughs & Other Events" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 performances
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15 Oct 1962 WLOX TV channel 13 in Biloxi-Gulfport, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Oct 1962 Byron R White appointed to the Supreme Court
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15 Oct 1963 Ludwig Erhard follows Conrad Adenauer as West German Chancellor
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15 Oct 1964 Dr Martin Luther King Jr awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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15 Oct 1964 Kosygin and Brezhnev replace Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
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15 Oct 1964 New York Yankees appears in 14 and win 9 of last 16 World Series
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15 Oct 1964 St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series
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15 Oct 1964 Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph
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15 Oct 1964 St Louis Cardinals beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series (NY Yankees appears in 14 & win 9 of last 16 World Series)
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15 Oct 1965 Dodgers and Sandy Koufax win 7th game of 62nd World Series vs. Twins
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15 Oct 1965 WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor, ME (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Oct 1965 Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
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15 Oct 1966 LBJ signs a bill creating Department of Transportation (DOT)
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15 Oct 1966 The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
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15 Oct 1968 AL expansion draft, Kansas City pick Roger Nelson and Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st
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15 Oct 1969 Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington D.C. and across the US. Over two million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in Washington D.C..
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15 Oct 1969 Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
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15 Oct 1969 Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs North Stars)
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15 Oct 1969 Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a world series (World Series #66)
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15 Oct 1969 Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war
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15 Oct 1970 Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35
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15 Oct 1970 Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
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15 Oct 1970 Anwar Sadat elected President of Egypt
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15 Oct 1970 Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
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15 Oct 1970 The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
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15 Oct 1970 Baltimore Orioles beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series
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15 Oct 1971 The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia.
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15 Oct 1972 61st Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Bucharest (3-2)
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15 Oct 1972 Omni in Atlanta opens - Hawks beat the New York Knicks 109-101
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15 Oct 1973 7th Country Music Association Award: Roy Clark wins
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15 Oct 1973 Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed
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15 Oct 1974 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules)
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15 Oct 1974 National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
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15 Oct 1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL tie, playing LA Kings to 1-1 tie
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15 Oct 1976 1st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R)
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15 Oct 1976 Ringo releases "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"
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15 Oct 1977 Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (11:30:51)
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15 Oct 1977 Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal
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15 Oct 1977 Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life," goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
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15 Oct 1978 Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
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15 Oct 1979 1st Monday night game from NYC, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stadium)
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15 Oct 1979 Chinese Premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris
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15 Oct 1979 Military coup in El Salvador: President / General Carlos Romero flees
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15 Oct 1979 New York Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier
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15 Oct 1979 Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.
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15 Oct 1980 George Brett is forced out of World Series with hemorrhoids
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15 Oct 1980 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein
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15 Oct 1981 New York Yankees capture 33rd AL pennant, sweeping 3 games from Oakland Athletics
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15 Oct 1981 Yanks defeat A's 4-0 & win 33rd pennant
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15 Oct 1983 US Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut International Airport
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15 Oct 1983 Black Hawks & Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds)
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15 Oct 1983 Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games
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15 Oct 1984 Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud
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15 Oct 1985 Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani
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15 Oct 1985 Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit
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15 Oct 1985 Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
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15 Oct 1986 Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 & win NL pennant
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15 Oct 1987 "Late Nite Comic" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 4 performances
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15 Oct 1987 6th Belgium government of Martens falls
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15 Oct 1987 Coup in Burkina Faso, President Sankara dies
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15 Oct 1987 NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike
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15 Oct 1987 The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
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15 Oct 1988 Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires
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15 Oct 1988 NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards-Oklahoma)
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15 Oct 1988 With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run HR to gives Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of 85th World Series
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15 Oct 1989 South African ANC-founder / leader Walter Sisulu freed
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15 Oct 1989 South African President FW de Klerk frees Sisulu and 4 other political prisoners
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15 Oct 1989 Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
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15 Oct 1989 Billy Graham is given the 1,900th star on Hollywood Blvd
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15 Oct 1989 Wayne Gretsky passes Gordie Howes as NHL's all time top scorer
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15 Oct 1990 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
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15 Oct 1990 Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
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15 Oct 1991 Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (52-48)
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15 Oct 1992 Charles Taylor launches an offensive against Monrovia Liberia
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15 Oct 1992 Howard Stern radio show begins broadcasting on WLUP-AM, Chicago
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15 Oct 1992 New York City Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train
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15 Oct 1993 Amstel brewery on Curacao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle
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15 Oct 1993 Guardian Angel Lisa Evers Sliwa files for divorce from Curtis Sliwa
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15 Oct 1993 Nelson Mandela and South African President F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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15 Oct 1994 Botswana President Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election
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15 Oct 1994 President Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti
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15 Oct 1995 Carolina Panthers win 1st game ever beating New York Jets 26-15
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15 Oct 1995 Marco Campos is killed in an accident in a International Formula 3000 race at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours circuit, making him the only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series.
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15 Oct 1997 Cleveland Indians beat Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 2 in ALCS
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15 Oct 1997 Former rep Dan Rostenkowski released from custody for mail fraud
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15 Oct 1997 New York jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988
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15 Oct 1997 US launches nuclear powered Cassini to Saturn
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15 Oct 1997 The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and one day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere.
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15 Oct 1997 The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
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15 Oct 2001 NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
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15 Oct 2003 China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
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15 Oct 2003 The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
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15 Oct 2005 A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
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15 Oct 2007 Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
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15 Oct 2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst day in the Dow's history based on a percentage drop.
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15 Oct 2011 Global protests break out in 120 cities in 48 countries.
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15 Oct 2013 A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes the Philippines, resulting in more than 215 deaths.
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