Today in History for October 1923

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 35 of 35

2nd - British occuping army leaves Constantinople
2nd - Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403
3rd - Germany's Stresemann resigns
4th - Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns decision
5th - Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
6th - 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
6th - 2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms
6th - US lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)
6th - USSR adopts experimental calendar
7th - Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
10th - Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government
10th - NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium
11th - Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a World Series game
11th - German mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $
12th - NY Giant's Casey Stengel HR beats Yanks 1-0 in World Series
13th - Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
15th - NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2
16th - Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded
16th - John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 17th - Catholic University of Nijmegen Neth opens
19th - Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks
19th - Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter
21st - 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
23rd - Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform
23rd - Giants defeat Balt Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day
24th - Gen Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship
25th - Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal
26th - Dutch 2nd Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
26th - Government-Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
29th - "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway
29th - Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon
29th - Gibbs/Grey/Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild," premieres in NYC
29th - Textile strike in Enschede Neth, against lower wages, begins
29th - Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)
31st - 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees at Marble Bar, Australia begins

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 40 of 40

2nd - Jack Dellal, English immovables-goedbezitter/multi-millionaire, (d. 2012)
3rd - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
4th - Charlton Heston, Ill, Manhattan, Kansas, actor (10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of Apes), (d. 2008)
5th - Glynis Johns, Pretoria South Africa, actress (Mary Poppins)
5th - Philip Berrigan, militant priest (Chicago 7)
5th - Stig H Dagerman, Swedish writer (Burned Child)
5th - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer (d. 1994)
5th - Bill Wirtz, longtime Chicago Blackhawks owner (d. 2007)
7th - Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps
7th - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
9th - Donald Sinden, England, actor (Doctor at Large, Mogambo, Simba)
9th - Ronald Tremain, composer
10th - Louis Gottlieb, musician
10th - Nicholas Parsons, English actor
12th - Jean Nidetch, Brooklyn, nutritionist founder (Weight Watchers)
12th - Goody Petronelli, American boxing trainer and manager
13th - Servaas "Faas" Wilkes, Dutch soccer star (Xerxes/Fortuna/Inter Milan)
13th - Cyril Shaps, English actor (d. 2003)
15th - Italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler)
Actor Charlton Heston (4th) 16th - Bert Kaempfert, rocker
17th - Barney Kessel, American musician (d. 2004)
18th - Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian/Dutch Antilian painter
20th - Herschel Bernardi, actor (Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, Front)
20th - Joe Minogue, journalist
20th - Robert Craft, Kingston, NY, conductor, Stravinsky-follower
22nd - Pete Pihos, NFL end (Phil Eagles)
22nd - Bert Trautmann, German former footballer
23rd - Frank Sutton, Clarksville Tenn, actor (Sgt Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC)
23rd - Ned Rorem, Richmond Indiana, composer/author (Sky Music)
24th - Denise Levertov, American poet/essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin)
24th - Reed van Delft, [Hendrika M Schwartz], actress (Golden draagkoets)
25th - Bobby Thomson, HR hitter (Giants win the pennant)
25th - Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (d. 1990)
27th - Roy Lichtenstein, NYC, Pop art painter (painted comic book panels)
27th - Ruby Dee, Cleve Ohio, actress (Raisin in the Sun, Cat People, Roots)
27th - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
27th - Ned Wertimer, Los Angeles, California, actor (The Jeffersons), (d. 2013)
29th - Dietrich Manicke, composer
29th - Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
31st - Hicks B Waldron, Amsterdam NY, CEO (Avon)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

14th - "All Quiet on the Western Front" author Erich Maria Remarque (25) weds Ilse Jutta Zambona

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 4 of 4

12th - A P "Bunny" Lucas, cricketer (five Tests for England 1879-82), dies
14th - George Elbridge Whiting, composer, dies at 83
14th - Marcellus Emants, writer/poet (Refrained from Confession), dies
30th - Andrew Bonar Law, English PM (C), dies at 64

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