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Events from History on October 05

1349 : Paris' theologist Jean de Fayt warns for flagellanten at Avignon
1430 : Duke Philip the Good of Bourgondy visits Brussels
1450 : Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
1465 : French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout
1511 : Eedgenootschap signs anti-French Saint League
1511 : Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Arag¢n/Venice/Swiss
1568 : Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Stuart
1568 : Willem of Oranges army occupies Brabant
1572 : Spanish army under Alva's son Don Frederik plunders Mechelen
1582 : Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries
1632 : Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Groningen
1693 : Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages
1750 : Carlo Goldoni's "Il teatro comica," premieres in Venice
1762 : Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" is produced (Vienna)
1777 : Washington begins assault on Germantown, Penn
1796 : Spain declares war on England
1813 : Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
1823 : Weber visits Beethoven
1830 : King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army
1833 : Charles Darwin moves with Parana to Santa Fe Bajada Argentina
1855 : H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #36 Atalante
1855 : R Luther discovers asteroid #37 Fides
1862 : Battle of Big Hatchie River, MS
1862 : Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas
1863 : Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides
1864 : Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South
1864 : Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)
1867 : Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska
1875 : Palace Hotel on Market Street, SF opens
1877 : Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perc‚ War
1892 : Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup
1896 : William Gillette's "Secret Service," premieres in NYC
1897 : Solomon Andrees baloon/polar expedition reaches White Island
1900 : 6th US Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 313 at Chicago GC Ill
1900 : Harry Vardon wins US Open golf tournament
1905 : Orville/Wilbur Wright's "Flyer III" flight 38.5 km in 38.3"
1906 : Henry Mathewson (NY Giants, Christy's brother) walks 14 men
1907 : Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
1907 : Phila A's Rube Vickers no-hits Wash Senators, 4-0 in 5 inning game
1908 : Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar
1908 : White Sox Ed Walsh tops Detroit 6-1 for his 40th victory
1909 : P H Cowell discovers asteroid #4358 Lynn
1910 : Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
1911 : Italian troops occupy Tripoli
1912 : Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1912 : Red Sox defeat A's 3-0 for then AL record 105th win
1912 : Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium
1916 : Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured
1919 : Norwegian population agrees to prohibition
1921 : 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0
1921 : Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
1922 : Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series game
1923 : Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
1923 : V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1007 Pawlowia
1924 : 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News
1925 : WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions
1926 : K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1076 Viola
1929 : #3824 Brendalee
1929 : C W Tombaugh discovers asteroid #2839 Annette, #3583 Burdett &
1930 : British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die
1931 : K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1227 Geranium, #1228 Scabiosa,
1931 : #1706 Dieckvoss, #2359 Debehogne & #3644
1931 : 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon & Pangborn)
1931 : Max Wolf discovers asteroid #1203 Nanna
1931 : Paul Green's "House of Connelly," premieres in NYC
1934 : G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1351 Uzbekistania
1937 : Minister Romme says unemployment is 25% "quarter of Romme"
1941 : Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely
1941 : would have been last out, instead Yanks score 4 & win 7-4
1942 : 5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred
1942 : St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series
1943 : US air raid on Wake
1944 : Harold Arlen/ET Harburgs musical premieres in NYC
1944 : Kerkrade (Neth) liberated
1945 : "Meet the Press" premieres on radio
1945 : Indonesian army forms
1945 : Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam
1946 : "Yours Is My Heart" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 36 perfs
1947 : 1st Presidential address televised from White House-HS Truman
1947 : Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in World Series
1949 : WBNS TV channel 10 in Columbus, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 : WOR (now WWOR) TV channel 9 in NY-Secaucus, NY (IND) begins
1950 : "Pardon Our French" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 100 perfs
1950 : K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #4650 Mori
1950 : S Arend discovers asteroids #1887 Virton & #2455 Somville
1952 : 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow
1952 : 6th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 1-1 at Detroit
1953 : 50th World Series sees NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as NY
1953 : Billy Martin's 12 hits set record; Yanks win record 5th consec WS
1953 : Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of US
1954 : Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US
1956 : Yogi Berra becomes 4th Yank to hit a World Series grand slam
1957 : 11th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 at Montreal
1957 : 12th Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7«-4« at Lindrick GC, England
1957 : Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years
1958 : KRTV TV channel 3 in Great Falls, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1960 : British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
1960 : Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
1960 : KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 : China & Nepal sign treaty
1962 : Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do"
1963 : 17th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-3 at Toronto
1963 : Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
1963 : Little Richard joins Everly Brothers Tour
1964 : KIXE TV channel 9 in Redding, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 : SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated
1965 : Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1965 : Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite
1968 : Battles between Catholic demonstrators & police in Londonderry
1968 : KPLM (now KESQ) TV channel 42 in Palm Springs, CA (ABC) begins
1969 : Carol Mann wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1969 : Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC
1969 : Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal
1970 : John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane
1970 : PBS becomes a network
1970 : Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
1972 : Herbert Mullin 1st kills, to prevent earthquakes
1972 : T M Smirnova discovers asteroid #4268 Grebenikov
1975 : Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #5793
1975 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 : Ruppert Jones (Seattle) & Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st
1976 : Seattle & Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters
1977 : "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 43 performances
1978 : Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
1978 : Sweden's F„lldin govt falls
1979 : Luke rapes Laura on General Hospital
1980 : Formal opening of meditation hall of Zenshin Temple in Riverdale Bronx
1980 : Kathy Whitworth/Donna Caponi Young win Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
1980 : Yanks set AL attendance mark at 2,627,417
1981 : Dutch guilder/Deutsche mark revalued up 5.5%
1981 : N G Thomas discovers asteroid #2927 Alamosa & #3584
1981 : Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American
1982 : 1st NJ Devils game, tie the Pitts Penguins 3-3 at the Meadowlands
1982 : China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1982 : Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia
1982 : Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM
1983 : A Mrkos discovers asteroid #4054 Turnov
1983 : Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize
1984 : 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched
1985 : Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
1986 : London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
1986 : M Antal discovers asteroid #4573 Piestany, #5025, #6545 & #7641
1988 : Brazil adopts its Constitution
1988 : Chilean population agrees at referendum against Pinochet regime
1988 : Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism
1990 : Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos)
1991 : Carlos Huerta's NCAA record streak of successful points after a
1991 : touchdown ends at 157
1991 : Actor Ted Shackelford (Knots Landing) weds Annett Wolf
1991 : C S Shoemaker & E M Shoemaker discover asteroid #7086 Bopp
1991 : Fresno State ties NCAA record with 49 points in a quarter, as they
1991 : Military transport plane crashes at Djakarta, 133 dies
1991 : NJ Devils begin their 10th Anniversary with a 7-2 win over the Blues
1991 : USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal
1991 : route New Mexico 94-17
1992 : 1st overturn of a George Bush veto (cable bill)
1992 : El Al cargo jet crashes into apartment complex in Amsterdam (250 die)
1992 : NY senator Alphonse D'Mato fillerbusters for 15 hours 20 mins
1992 : US Air goes on strike
1993 : China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1993 : Last honor guard at Lenin's mausoleum
1993 : Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor
1994 : 28th Country Music Assn Award
1994 : 52 members of Zonnetempel, murdered
1994 : G C L Aikman discovers asteroid #7840 Hendrika
1995 : "Company" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances
1996 : Caroline Pierce wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1996 : Cleve Indians strike out 23 Balt Orioles in 12 inn playoff game
1996 : NY Yankee Bernie Williams switch hits HRs in a post season game
1996 : Y Shimizu & T Urata discover asteroid #8226
1997 : 35th Tennis Fed Cup: France beats Netherlands in Den Bosch Neth (4-1)
1997 : Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA CoreStates Betsy King Classic
1997 : Davis Love III wins golf's Buick challenge, shooting a 267
1997 : STS 86 (Atlantis 20) lands
1997 : Vantage Senior Golf Championship
2001 : About 10,000 US troops of the 10th Mountain Range began their way to Uzbekistan
2001 : US Senate votes to waive all sanctions against Pakistan
2001 : About 2000 supporters were arrested after Bundh in Bihar turns violent
2001 : 4 Militants dies in clashes between Indian Troops and Militants in Kashmir.
2001 : Investigation and recovery of the Flight that crashed in Black Sea begins.
2001 : Mr. L K Advani feels to set up Federal Investigation Agency in similar lines to FBI.

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