Today in History for October 1920
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 27 of 27
1st - Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day
1st - Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
2nd - Only tripleheader of century (Reds win 13-4, 7-3 then Pirates win 6-0)
3rd - Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season
3rd - NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
6th - 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleve's Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln
9th - 1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1
10th - 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) & 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
10th - Indians' Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st post-season grand slam
10th - Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)
10th - Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie
10th - Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play
10th - Indian's Elmer Smith hits 1st World Series grand slam
12th - Cleve Indians beat Bkln Dodgers, 5 games to 2 in 17th World Series
12th - Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting NJ & NYC
12th - Man O'War's last race & win
12th - Soccer team Quick '20 forms
13th - World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50,000+ Clevelanders
14th - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
17th - Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game, win 7-0
20th - "1st Year" with Frank Craven premieres in NYC
23rd - Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, & Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal
27th - League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
27th - Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
29th - Ed Barrow appointed GM of NY Yankees
30th - The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
31st - Romania annexes Bessarabia
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 43 of 43
1st - Lonny Chapman, Tulsa Okla, actor (Investigator, For the People)
1st - Walter Matthau, NYC, actor (Odd Couple, Bad News Bears)
2nd - William Cramond, psychiatrist/vice-chancellor (Stirling University)
4th - George Tribe, cricketer (Australian chinaman bowler, Northants)
5th - Robert Feenstra, Dutch law historian
6th - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
6th - Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)
7th - Georg Leber, German politician (SPD)
8th - Frank [Patrick] Herbert, US, sci-fi author (Dune)
8th - Maxie Herber, Germany, figure skater pairs (Olympic-gold-1936)
9th - Jens Bjorneboe, Norway, poet/writer (Dikt, Jonas)
9th - Vivienne Della Chiesa, US, actress (?)
9th - Yusef Lateef, composer
9th - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
12th - Alice Childress, US playwright/actress (Wedding Band)
12th - Christy Ring, Irish hurler (d. 1979)
13th - Albert Hague, Berlin Germany, actor (Mr Shorofsky-Fame)
13th - Nipsey Russell, Atlanta Ga, comedian (Car 54, Barefoot in the Park)
13th - Laraine Day, American actress (d. 2007)
15th - Henri Verneuil, French film director (d. 2002)
17th - Montgomery Clift, Omaha NE, actor (From Here to Eternity)
17th - Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels)
17th - Miguel Delibes, Spanish writer
18th - Anita O'Day, vocalist/actress (Outfit, Zigzag, Jazz on a Summer Day)
18th - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and political activist (d. 1994)
19th - LaWanda Page, Cleve Ohio, actress (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons)
19th - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher (d. 2003)
22nd - Harry Potts, soccer star/manager
22nd - Mitzi Green, Bronx NY, actress (Little Orphan Annie)
22nd - Timothy Leary, Harvard prof (LSD taker)
23rd - Ted Fujita, Japanese meteorologist (d. 1998)
24th - Louise H "Lous" Hensen, actress (Medea, Uncle Wanja)
24th - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996)
26th - T C Jones, PA, female impersonator
27th - Nanette Fabray, San Diego Calif, actress (Katherine-One Day at a Time)
27th - K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India
29th - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate
29th - Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I, Indian Catholic
31st - Dick Francis, Wales, jockey/detective writer (Whip Hand, High Stakes)
31st - Joseph Gelineau French composer (d. 2008)
31st - Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (d. 1957)
31st - Helmut Newton, German photographer (d. 2004)
31st - Fritz Walter, German footballer (d. 2002)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 8 of 8
2nd - Max Bruch, composer, dies at 82
6th - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer/conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
13th - Isaac Capadose, lawyer/evangelist, dies at 86
16th - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer/conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
20th - Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82
25th - Alexander, king of Greece (1917-20), dies after ape bite at 27
29th - Johann Ernst Perabo, composer, dies at 74
31st - Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (b. 1854)
