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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 2 October.
- BC Aristotle dies of indigestion
- Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope
- NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
- Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle
- Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
- 1st Pan American conference
- Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
- Grover Cleveland Alexanders 16th shutout of the year
- Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series
- NY Hayden Planetarium the 4th in the US opens
- 1st alcohol power plant established Atchison Kansas
- Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series grand slam
- Birdbaths installed in Union Square
- 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated Chicago
- 1st network soap opera - Faraway Hill - Dumont
- Yogi Berra become the 1st player to pinch hit a world series homer
- Yanks & Red Sox tie for 1st place played the final game of the season Yanks won 5-3 & clinched pennant #16
- Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches
- The comic strip 'Peanuts' 1st appears in 9 newspapers
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiers
- 1st atomic power clock exhibited - NYC
- Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
- Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS
- Ben Casey premiers
- Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
- Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
- Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts
- Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers
- homing pigeon averages 133 kph (record) in 1100-km Australian race
- Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding
- 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit