Today is Wednesday, October 5, the 279th day of 2016. There are 87 days left in the year.
869 ― 4th Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) opens
1450 ― Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
1582 ― Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries
1762 ― The opera “Orfeo Ed Euridice” is produced (Vienna)
1813 ― Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
1864 ― Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing the 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
1892 ― Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeyville, Kansas bank holdup
1906 ― Henry Mathewson (NY Giants) 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
1910 ― Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
1912 ― Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1912 ― Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium
1921 ― 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0 (World Series #18)
1921 ― Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
1922 ― Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie world series game (World Series #19)
1923 ― Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
1925 ― WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions
1931 ― 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon & Pangborn)
1941 ― Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely, would have been the last out, instead Yanks score 4 and win 7-4
1942 ― St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series
1945 ― “Meet the Press” premieres on radio
1947 ― 1st Presidential address televised from White House-HS Truman
1947 ― Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in world series (World Series #44)
1953 ― 50th World Series sees NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as NY
1953 ― Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of the US
1953 ― Yankees break own record with 5th consecutive World Series win - Billy Martin’s 12 hits set record (World Series #50)
1954 ― Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US
1956 ― Yogi Berra becomes the 4th Yank to hit a World Series Grand Slam (World Series #53)
1960 ― Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
1962 ― Beatles release their 1st record “Love Me Do”
1963 ― Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
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
1969 ― Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal
1970 ― PBS becomes a network
1970 ― Quebec seperatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
1972 ― Herbert Mullin first kills, to prevent earthquakes
1978 ― Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature
1980 ― Yanks set AL attendance mark at 2,627,417
1981 ― Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American
1982 ― NJ Devils 1st game, ties Pitts Penguins 3-3 at the Meadowlands
1982 ― Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM
1983 ― Lech Walesa wins the 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
1988 ― Israel bans Meir Kahane’s Kach Party on grounds of racism
1990 ― Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obscenity (Mapplethorpe photos)
1991 ― Actor Ted Shackelford (Knots Landing) weds Annett Wolf