**October 8, 1982: **Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
10/9/76 - A Fifth of Beethoven reaches #1 on Billboard Hot 100 chart
October 9, 1776: Spanish missionaries settle in present-day San Francisco, California.
October 9, 1604: Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
October 10, 1780 - A powerful storm slams the islands of the West Indies, killing more than 20,000 people, on this day in 1780. Known as the Great Hurricane of 1780, it was the deadliest storm ever recorded.
October 11, 1975: Saturday Night Live debuts on NBC.
October 11, 1910: Teddy Roosevelt becomes the first former US president to fly in an airplane, during a visit to Saint Louis, Missouri.
I feel I should point out that not only is today the 41st anniversary of the first Saturday Night Live broadcast, it is also the Clintons’ 41st wedding anniversary. It seems appropriate that they all got their start on the same day.
Happy Anniversary, Bill and Hillary.
October 12, 1998: Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie, Wyoming.
October 12, 1810: The German festival Oktoberfest is first held in Munich to celebrate the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
(It’s still October 12 in Hawaii.)
October 13, 2016: Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
October 13, 54: Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him.
October 13, 1775 - On this day, the Continental Congress authorizes construction and administration of the first American naval force—the precursor to the United States Navy.
FYI: Per Wikipedia: The schooner Hannah was the first armed American naval vessel of the American Revolution and is claimed to be the founding vessel of the United States Navy. She was a fishing schooner owned by John Glover of Marblehead, Massachusetts and was named for his daughter, Hannah Glover. The crew was drawn largely from the town of Marblehead, with much of the ships ammunition being stored in Glover’s warehouse now located at Glover’s Square in Marblehead before being relocated to Beverly, Massachusetts.
The schooner was hired into the service of the American Continental Army by General George Washington. Washington commissioned Nicholson Broughton to command the Hannah on 2 September 1775 and ordered the vessel to, “…cruize against such vessels as may be found . . . bound inward and outward to and from Boston, in the service of the [British] army, and to take and seize all such vessels, laden with soldiers, arms, ammunition, or provisions . . . which you shall have good reason to suspect are in such service.” Hannah set sail from the harbor of Beverly, Massachusetts on 5 September 1775, but fled to the protection of the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts two days later under the pursuit of HMS Lively and a second British vessel. Leaving Gloucester Harbor, Hannah captured the British sloop Unity.
October 14, 1582: Because of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
October 14, 1926: The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
Carefully re-reading the OP, I realize this is not an event. So…
October 14, 1066: The Battle of Hastings - William the Conqueror’s Norman forces defeat the English army and kill King Harold II, ending the 600 year Anglo-Saxon reign over England.
October 14, 1913: Senghenydd Colliers Mine Disaster kills 439. This is still the UK’s worst mining accident.
October 15, 2008: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst day in the Dow’s history based on a percentage drop.
October 15, 1917: Mata Hari is executed in France.
October 15, 1520: King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall.