Today in History for October 1959

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 45 of 45

1st - 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a NY team (LA vs Chic)
2nd - Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV
3rd - 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal
4th - 1st World Series game played west of St Louis (in LA)
4th - Cleveland Browns' Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts
4th - Dmitri Sjostakovitch 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad
4th - LA Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394
4th - Netherlands beats Belgium 9-1
4th - USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
6th - Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
6th - Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
7th - "Happy Town" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances
7th - Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3
8th - "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 perfs
8th - Conservatives win British election
8th - LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
9th - Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton
10th - "Happy Town" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 5 performances
10th - Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
JFK Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald 10th - Pan Am begins regular flights around World
11th - KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
12th - At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
14th - WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
15th - "Untouchables" premieres
15th - KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
17th - "Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 perfs
17th - Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
17th - Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated
19th - Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel
19th - William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in NYC
20th - Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise
20th - WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast
21st - Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
21st - Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
21st - Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in KC & NY
22nd - "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances
22nd - Bob Merrill's musical "Take me Along," premieres in NYC
23rd - Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
24th - US premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert
27th - Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
28th - Buffalo Bills enter AFL
28th - Jean Genet's "Les Negres," premieres in Paris
29th - 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
31st - Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
31st - USSR & Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 67 of 67

1st - Youssou N'dour, Senegalese singer (Shaking the tree)
2nd - Joe Deegan, jockey
3rd - Carmen Russo, Genoa Italy, Miss Teenage Italy (1972)
3rd - Frederick Stephen Couples, Seattle WA, PGA golfer (1983 Kemper Open)
3rd - Jack Wagner, rocker/actor (General Hospital, Melrose Place)
3rd - Greg Proops, American actor and comedian
4th - Tony Meo, English billiards champion (snookers)
5th - Troy Luccketta, rock drummer (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
6th - John Mackin, programmer
6th - Robyn Maher, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-bronze-96)
6th - Walter Ray Williams Jr, bowler (twice Player of the Year)
6th - [Dennis Ray] "Oil Can" Boyd, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
6th - Brian Higgins, American politician, Member of US House of Representatives
7th - Penny Graeber, Sydney Australia, golfer (1990 6th Vic Open)
7th - Dylan Baker, American character actor
7th - Simon Cowell, Lambeth, London, recording executive and television producer (X-Factor, American Idol)
7th - Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
7th - Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician
8th - Carlos I Noriega, Lima Peru, astronaut (STS 84, sk 97)
Recording Executive Simon Cowell (7th) 8th - Gavin Friday, [Fionan Hanvey], Irish singer (Virgin Prunes)
8th - Mike Morgan, Tulare CA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
8th - Tony Eason, football quarterback (New England Patriots)
8th - Nick Bakay, American actor
9th - Mike Singletary, NFL middle linebacker (Chicago Bears)
10th - Chris Lowe, English rock keyboardist (Pet Shop Boys-It's a Sin)
10th - Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
10th - Bradley Whitford, American actor
11th - Bob Inglis, (Rep-R-South Carolina)
11th - Michiel Schapers, Netherlands, tennis star
12th - Abigail Kingsley Alling, NYC, executive (Biosphere 2)
12th - Anna Escobedo Cabral, 42nd Treasurer of the United States
13th - Marie Osmond, Ogden Ut, singer/actress (Paper Roses, Goin' Coconuts)
14th - A J Pero, Staten Is, drummer (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It)
15th - Sarah Magaret Fergusson, [Fergie], London England, Duchess of York
15th - Emeril Lagasse, American chef
15th - Todd Solondz, American film director
16th - Gary Kemp, London, rock guitarist (Spandau Ballet-True)
16th - Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
17th - Dolph Lundgren, actor (Rocky 4, Masters of Universe) [or Nov 3]
17th - Ron Drummond, American writer
17th - Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
17th - Richard Roeper, American film critic
17th - Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian
18th - Kirby Chambliss, Aerobatic pilot and Red Bull Air Racer
18th - Milčo Mančevski, Macedonian film director and screenwriter
18th - John Nord, former American pro wrestler
18th - Steve Swayne, Dartmouth Professor
20th - Janice McCaffrey, Etobicoke Ontario, 10k walker (Olympics-25-92, 96)
20th - Razor Ramon, [Scott Hall], wrestler (WWF/WCW/NWA/Florida/AWA/KC)
21st - George Bell, Dom Rep, outfielder (Blue Jays, 1987 AL MVP)
21st - Tony Ganios, American Actor
21st - Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
22nd - Todd Graff, NYC, actor (Five Corners, Dominic & Eugene)
22nd - Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (d. 2005)
22nd - Marc Shaiman, American composer
Parody Singer and Comedian Weird Al Yankovic (23rd) 23rd - Weird Al Yankovic [Alfred Matthew], California, parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)
23rd - Sam Raimi, actor (Indian Summer, Thou Shalt Not Kill Except)
26th - Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
26th - François Chau, Cambodian actor
26th - Brian Bovell, British actor
28th - Neville Henry, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
29th - Finola Hughes, London, actress (Anna-General Hospital, Staying Alive)
29th - Jesse Barfield, Ill, outfielder (Blue Jays, Yankees, 1986 HR leader)
29th - Mike Gartner, Ottawa, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
29th - Tamar Baruch, actress (Small Truth, Q & Q)
31st - Ann Henricksson, St Paul MN, tennis star
31st - Neal Stephenson, American author

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 22 of 22

3rd - William Bishop, actor (Steve-It's a Great Life), dies at 42
6th - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
7th - Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack
7th - PM Kassem of Iraq, assassinated
10th - Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, dies
11th - Bert Bell, NFL hall of famer, dies at 64
12th - Arnoldt Bronnen, writer, dies at 63
13th - K Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer (Concert Amsterdam), dies at 67
14th - Errol Flynn, US actor (Captain Blood), dies of heart attack at 50
15th - Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1880)
16th - George Marshall, US army general, dies at 78
18th - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
19th - Boughera El Quafi, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1928), shot to death at 60
19th - Stanley Bate, composer, dies at 45
20th - Werner Krauss, actor (Joyless Street), dies at 75
23rd - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
25th - Bob Murphy, TV host (RFD America), dies at 42
28th - Abe Waddington, cricketer (Yorks left-arm quick, Test avg 119), dies
28th - Egon Kornauth, composer, dies at 68
Military Leader George Marshall (16th) 28th - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
30th - Blonde Dolly, [Sybille A J Niemans], society prostitute, dies at 33
31st - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)