September 26, 1687 - Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks, damaging the Parthenon.
September 27, 1986 - Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera starts previews at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London. It’s still playing there.
9/27/20 - Eight Chicago White Sox players are charged with fixing the 1919 World Series.
**September 30, 1947: **The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
September 30, 1955: James Dean is killed in a car crash in California.
September 30, 1935: Johnny Mathis, singer, was born (and he’s still singing all over the U.S. of A. after more than 60 years of number one hits). Wonderful! Wonderful!
October 2, 1959: The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
October 2, 1963- Hurricane Flora crashed into Haiti, killing thousands of people.
10/2/1909 - Orville Wright sets an altitude record, flying at 1,600 feet. This exceeded Hubert Latham’s previous record of 508 feet.
You can now go higher than that in nine buildings!
October 3, 1849: Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death four days later.
October 4, 1992 - An El-Al Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed into an apartment building near an airport in Amsterdam, Holland. Four people aboard the plane and approximately 100 more in the apartment building lost their lives in the disaster.
October 4, 1957: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
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October 5, 1582: Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
Not as simple as me, I guess, with all that about being near midnight. Is the plan/rule that there will be only one event posted per day?
No, there can be multiple events posted on a given day, until someone posts on the next day (their time). Then, there can be no more posts on the previous day. I think.
So now I’m posting on Oct. 6 (my time). If it’s still the 5th, your time, I THINK it means you’re SOL until it’s the 6th, your time. Right?
October 6, 1927: Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent “talkie” movie.
10/6/86 - Nickelodeon launches Double Dare
Nah, we threw out the rule a long time ago. Just find interesting history and post it.
October 7, 1916: Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0, in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
October 7, 1985-Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria, Egypt, in order to hijack the luxury liner.