October 24th: This Day in History

Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history 

On this day in 1648, the Thirty Year's War came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia. Also on this day in 1945, the United Nations was officially born, with the Human Rights Charter and other agreements came fully into effect. Also on this day in 1951 - more than six years after the official surrender of Germany, President Harry Truman declared the war against Germany was over. In 1992 on this day, the Toronto Blue Jays won the first World Series in franchise history, making history by becoming the first team outside of the United States to do so. 

Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:

• On this day in 1260, Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk, the Sultan of Egypt, was assassinated by Baibars, who seized power for himself. 

Royal France

• Also on this day in 1260, the spectacular Cathedral of Chartres was dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France. Nowadays, the cathedral is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

• The Treaty of Brétigny was ratified  on this day in 1360 at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.

• 1492 - 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany

1531 - Bavaria joins Schmalkaldische Union

1593 - Alleged teleportation of Gil Perez.

1596 - -26] Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary & Germany

• 1648 - Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Year's War in the Holy Roman Empire

• 1648 - Switzerland's independence recognized in the Treaty of Westphalia

1656 - Treaty of Vilnius: Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant

1681 - Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London

1795 - 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte

• 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.

• 1818 - Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his 1st public concert (Berlin)

1836 - A Phillips patents match

1851 - William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus

1856 - Constitution of South Australia adopted

1857 - World's 1st soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in England

1861 - 1st US transcontinental telegram is sent (from SF to Wash DC)

1861 - West Virginia seceded from Virginia

1871 - Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese

Pictures of the Statue of Liberty taken in 1983 (likely from my father)

• 1881 - Levi P Morton, US ambas to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty

Microbiologist Robert KochMicrobiologist Robert Koch 1882 - Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis

Johann Strauss Monument at Stadtpark, Vienna

• 1885 - Johann Strauss' opera "Zigeunerbaron," premieres in Vienna

• 1899 - Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army

• 1900 - General Redvers Buller returns to England

1901 - 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)

1903 - 1st trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1)

1903 - George Sutton becomes billard champ

1904 - 1st NY subway opens

1908 - Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game"

1911 - Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole

1911 - Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.

1913 - Joe Tinker fired as Cin Reds manager

1916 - Moroccan troops capture Ft Douaumont

1917 - Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army

Aviator Orville WrightAviator Orville Wright 1922 - German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925

1922 - Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State

1923 - Gen Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship

1924 - Christian Gen Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing

1924 - Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven

1926 - Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.

1929 - "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%

1929 - Ruby Vallee's Fleishmann Hour begins broadcasting on NBC radio

1929 - Belgium princess Marie-Jose & Italian crown prince Umberto gets engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails

The flag of Brazil.

• 1930 - A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as "provisional president."

Pictures of the George Washington Bridge (GWB) illuminated at night

• 1931 - George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ dedicated, opens the next day

1931 - Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion

• 1931 - George Washington Bridge connecting NY to NJ opens

1932 - British government signs trade treaty with USSR

1933 - Langston Hughes' "Mulatto," premieres in NYC

Gangster Al CaponeGangster Al Capone 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia [10/2]

1935 - Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs mgr Charlie Grimm & Chic players W English, B Jurges & B Herman for actions in World Series

1938 - US forbids child labor in factories

1939 - Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"

1939 - Joe DiMaggio wins AL MVP, Jimmie Foxx is runner-up

1939 - Nazi require wearing of star of David

1939 - Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)

• 1940 - 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)

• 1940 - Hitler meets Marshal Pétain

1940 - Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball

1940 - Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants

1942 - 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry

1943 - Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting

1944 - Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners

1944 - US air raid on Jap battleships/cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks

Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1944 - US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines

1944 - US capt David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Jap planes in Gulf of Leyte

Flag of the United Nations

• 1945 - Charter of United Nations of force became

1945 - France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%)

1945 - UN charter comes into effect

1946 - Netherlands & Indonesia sign cease fire

1946 - A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.

1947 - Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States)

1948 - Bernard M Baruch introduces term "Cold War"

1948 - Francis Poulenc's "Sinfonietta," premieres

1948 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis

1948 - WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting

1951 - Jan de Hartog's "4 Poster," premieres in NYC

1951 - United Nation publishes its 1st postage stamps

1952 - Arab Liberation Movement becomes only party of Syria

1953 - KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting

General Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States

• 1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam

1956 - Margaret Towner becomes first woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA)

1956 - AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year

• 1956 - Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary

1957 - Cin Redlegs decline to move to Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City

1957 - The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.

1958 - USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam

1959 - US premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert

1960 - Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash

1961 - "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC for 55 perfs

• 1962 - In Cuban missile crisis, the US blockade of Cuba begins

1963 - "110 in the Shade" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 330 perfs

1963 - KRO shows 1st Bonanza

1963 - Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award

1964 - "Cambridge Circus" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 perfs

1964 - 18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan

1964 - Belgian para's liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville

• 1964 - Dr Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zambia

1964 - Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1964 - Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla scores 166 on Cricket debut v Australia

1964 - Test Cricket debut of Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan & Khalid Ibadulla v Aust

1965 - Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today," premieres

1965 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament

1968 - Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on £50 bail

1969 - Hanif, Mushtaq & Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together

1970 - Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show

Flag of Chile

• 1970 - Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile

1971 - Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)

1971 - Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21

1973 - Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ Turnpike

• 1973 - John Lennon sues US government to admit FBI is tapping his phone

• 1973 - Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus

• 1975 - Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris

1976 - 1st Jewish film & TV festival

1976 - 6th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11

1976 - 7th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10

1976 - Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader

1976 - Sadiq & Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings v NZ

1978 - Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto

1978 - NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs NY Islanders

1979 - Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy

Musician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartneyMusician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartney 1979 - Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc

1980 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1980 - Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar

 Ran into this image of John Lennon, and just thought it was cool, as well as appropriate for the day, given that Paul McCartney was in town (Syracuse, New York, June 2022). 

• 1980 - John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK

• 1980 - Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity

1982 - "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." opens at St James Theater NYC for 9 perfs

1982 - 12th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14

1982 - 13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29

1984 - 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested

1984 - Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed

1984 - Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match

1986 - Dodgers' Bill Russell, 38, announces his retirement

• 1986 - Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria

1987 - Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate

1987 - NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike

Tennis Player Steffi GrafTennis Player Steffi Graf 1988 - NY Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires

1988 - Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released

1988 - Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown

1989 - After a weeks delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played

1989 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1989 - Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud

1990 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1991 - "Dancing at Lughnasa" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 421 perfs

1991 - Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders

1992 - Toronto Blue Jays beat Atl Braves, 4 games to 2, in 88th World Series

1993 - "Wonderful Tennessee" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 9 performances

1994 - Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed

1995 - Total solar eclipse in SW/S Asia (2m09s)

1996 - Hasan Raza makes Test Cricket debut for Pakistan age 14 yrs 238 days

1996 - Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yanks win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses)

1997 - Marv Albert sentenced in assault case

• 1998 - Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission

2002 - Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.

• 2003 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight.

2004 - 10 people, including 4 family members of Rick Hendrick, are killed in a plane crash near Martinsville Speedway. The plane was owned by NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports.

• 2006 - Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause", an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act.

2008 - "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

• 2009 - First International Day of Climate Action, organized with 350.org, a global campaign to address a claimed global warming crisis.

• 2012 - Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths

2012 - 3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in Downey, California

• 2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over $50 million in damage

1537 - Jane Seymour, the third wife of England's King Henry VIII, died after giving birth to Prince Edward. Prince Edward became King Edward VI.   1632 - Scientist Anthony van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, Holland. He created the first microscope lenses that were powerful enough to observe single-celled animals.   1648 - The Holy Roman Empire was effectively destroyed by the Peace of Westphalia that brought an end to the Thirty Years War.   1788 - Poet Sarah Joseph Hale was born. She wrote the poem "Mary Had A Little Lamb."   1795 - The country of Poland was divided up between Austria, Prussia, and Russia.   1830 - Belva Lockwood was born. She was the first woman formally nominated for the U.S. Presidency.   1836 - Alonzo D. Phillips received a patent for the phosphorous friction safety match.   1861 - The first transcontinental telegraph message was sent when Justice Stephen J. Field of California transmitted a telegram to U.S. President Lincoln.   1901 - Daredevil Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She was 63 years old.   1929 - In the U.S., investors dumped more than 13 million shares on the stock market. The day is known as "Black Thursday."   1931 - The upper level of the George Washington Bridge opened for traffic between New York and New Jersey.   1939 - Nylon stockings were sold to the public for the first time in Wilmington, DE.   1940 - In the U.S., the 40-hour workweek went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.   1945 - The United Nations (UN) was formally established less than a month after the end of World War II. The Charter was ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories.   1945 - Pierre Laval of France and Vidkum Abraham Quisling of Norway were executed. The two men were recognized as the two most prominent collaborators of the Nazis.   1948 - The term "cold war" was used for the first time. It was in a speech by Bernard Baruch before the Senate War Investigating Committee.   1949 - The cornerstone for the U.N. Headquarters was laid in New York City.   1960 - All remaining American-owned property in Cuba was nationalized. The process of nationalizing all U.S. and foreign-owned property in Cuban had begun on August 6, 1960.   1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. military forces went on the highest alert in the postwar era in preparation for a possible full-scale war with the Soviet Union. The U.S. blockade of Cuba officially began on this day.   1969 - Richard Burton bought his wife Elizabeth Taylor a 69-carat Cartier diamond ring for $1.5 million. Burton presented the ring to Taylor several days later.   1986 - Britain broke off relations with Syria after a Jordanian was convicted in an attempted bombing. The evidence in the trial led to the belief that Syria was involved in the attack on the Israeli jetliner.   1989 - Reverend Jim Bakker was sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $500,000 for his conviction on 24 counts of fraud. In 1991, his sentence was reduced to eighteen years and he was released on parole after a total five years in prison.   1992 - The Toronto Blue Jays became the first non-U.S. team to win the World Series.   1997 - In Arlington, VA, former NBC sportscaster Marv Albert was spared a jail sentence after a courtroom apology to the woman he'd bitten during a sexual encounter.   1999 - An Israeli court sentenced American teen-ager Samuel Sheinbein to 24 years in prison. The crime was killing an acquaintance in Maryland in 1997.   2001 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation that gave police the power to secretly search homes, tap all of a person's telephone conversation and track people's use of the Internet.   2001 - The U.S. stamp "United We Stand" was dedicated.   2001 - NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Mars.   2002 - Microsoft Corp. and Walt Disney Co. announced the release of an upgraded MSN Internet service with Disney content.  Disney movies, music and books   2003 - In London, the last commercial supersonic Concorde flight landed.

1648 The treaties for the Peace of Westphalia were signed, ending the Thirty Years War, ultimately destroying the Holy Roman Empire, and ushering in the modern European state system. 1901 Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. 1931 The George Washington Bridge, connecting New York and New Jersey, opened to traffic. 1939 Nylon stockings were sold publicly for the first time, in Wilmington, Del. 1940 The 40-hour work week went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. 1945 The United Nations officially came into being as its charter took effect. 1992 The Toronto Blue Jays became the first non-U.S. team to win the World Series. 2003 The last Concordes landed in London, ending supersonic air travel. 2005 Civil rights activist Rosa Parks, 92, died.

The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:

http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php

http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/oct24.htm

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory 

Trump Warns That 'Everyone Gets Healthcare' if Democrats Win the Election

 

This is a picture of a magnet that was being sold at Strand's Book Store in New York City a few years ago. No, I did not buy it, but I liked it and took a picture, which I am sharing here now. 

U.S. President Donald Trump had a warning for Americans. He said that if Democrats win big in these upcoming midterm elections in less than two weeks:

"You’re going to be thrown into a system where everyone gets healthcare."

Yikes. 

I guess we wouldn't want that, would we? Why, if we get decent healthcare, what will happen to those poor billionaire who pay next to no taxes? They might have to pay a little bit more, and the amount of money they keep might not be as outrageous as it currently is.

Clearly, Trump does not want that. Apparently, he believes that most Americans would think of that as a nightmare, as well.

Funny, because once upon a time - during the 2016 presidential campaign, to be precise - Trump promised to build a national healthcare system that would be affordable and would cover everyone. As if that rosy promise was not enough, he even suggested that it would be easy.

Then, he lifted not a finger to actually trying to create such a system, although he sure tried to destroy the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Now, he is opposed to pretty much any government program that actually helps people. After all, how will billionaires rake in still more profits at the expense of the American people if that is allowed to happen?

Let's put this damn Trump presidency behind us already, please. Enough is enough.

Did Trump say 'everyone gets healthcare' if Democrats win? While the quote is authentic, Trump said it well before the 2026 midterm elections. Jordan Liles Published Oct. 20, 2026

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-healthcare-democrats-win-quote/

Did Trump say 'everyone gets healthcare' if Democrats win? | Snopes.com

2026 NFL Season Week 7 Thursday Night Football Review: Bears Bests the Patriots at Soldier Field

   

Chicago Beats 30, New England Patriots 24

The Bears won this game, although the Patriots played well and hung tough, to their credit. 

For much of the first half, it looked like the Bears were heading towards a dominant, lopsided win. Yet the Pats managed to keep in the game, even making it somewhat suspenseful by kicking a field goal to get within a touchdown in the final minute of the game.

Still, the Bears won for a reason. Their defense largely contained New England's running game. They also capitalized on a New England turnover, while the Bears committed none of their own.

Statistically, however, the game was mostly even. Neither team had a huge advantage in time of possession, or yards and first downs produced. 

New England falls to 4-3 on the season after this game.

Meanwhile, Chicago improves to 5-2, and look like they are once again playoff bound, at the very least.

Also, I learned that former Bears head coach Mike Ditka was honored during this game. I was unaware, admittedly, that he had died just a couple of weeks ago. He was quite the memorable personality, and is best known for having led the Chicago Bears to their first (and so far, only) Super Bowl title. That team, the '85 Bears, is generally regarded as the most dominant team in NFL history. 

My pick: Accurate

Climate Update For October 23, 2026: Global Warming Will Exceed 1.5°C

 

This year saw some truly stunning episodes which sure seemed to illustrate the detrimental impact of climate change, much as scientists have consistently predicted for decades now. There were record heatwaves across much of North America and numerous record heat waves in Europe. Record hot temperatures were established in many, if not most, European nations, as well as Far Eastern nations such as South Korea, Japan, and China. Along with all of that, there were record wildfires, which includes a massive wildfire in eastern Canada for the second time in recent years, for a region that generally does not see major wildfires. Add to that the glacier collapse in Nepal that blocked a river and caused a massive flood, and which was caught in some dramatic video, and you really would have to be willfully blind or stubborn to not acknowledge that something very strange is going on, and seemingly around the world. 

Of course, some parts of the world are more susceptible to the effects of climate change than others. Europe and the Mediterranean in particular seemed to see a lot of the impact in recent years, and especially this year. 

Meanwhile, where I live in New Jersey, it seemed like an unusually moderate and rainy summer. Don't get me wrong: we certainly had some very hot days. It is just that we did not have the kind of heatwaves which the rest of the continent had, let alone the European continent. 

Recently, the United Nations released a report (this past Wednesday), which warned that we already reached the tipping point of climate change. In fact, we are currently on track globally to see up to 2.8°C of global warming. That kind of altering of the climate will surely bring with it all sorts of disasters which, again, were projected already by scientists for many decades now.

However, there are actions which we can take to at least attempt to slow it down a bit. We likely will see 1.5°C  temperature change by the end of this century. However, we also might have a chance at making sure that it does not exceed this, because any hotter will surely make the impact of climate change more severe. Perhaps, in the future, we may even see a reversal.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet.

Right now, we really are only at the beginning point of actually seeing the effects of climate change. There still are plenty of people who either do not believe in climate change, or do not believe that it is caused by humans (and thus, by that logic, no actions that humans take has any bearing on it), or simply are not really concerned about it. 

Yet, it sure feels real, and not just on a hot summer day. When the weather remains unseasonably warm consistently, when traditionally it was much cooler decades ago, it feels like a source of concern. And it is difficult, if not impossible, to ignore the very concerning headlines from around the world which all seem to have a common theme: the climate does indeed seem to be changing.

Let us hope that we collectively will possess the wisdom to address this obviously crucial issue, before it is indeed too late (assuming it's not already).

Below are the two articles used in writing this particular blog entry, and from which the specific information regarding projected temperature shifts globally by the end of the century were taken. Please take a look, this is a crucial issue:  

UN says 1.5°C is over and world is on track for 2.8°C of global warming by Madeleine Cuff 21 October 2026:

The best-case scenario now is that the planet will only temporarily breach 1.5°C of warming, but current climate pledges fall way short of that hope 

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2594831-un-says-1-5c-is-over-and-world-is-on-track-for-2-8c-of-global-warming/?utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e0_tv1_a1demo0ecg7rma&fbclid=IwY2xjawVH8BZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5Y4g3ndiKOvufN9-5R6Q1iwWiHxoumR6tFBL1h2uFoy-0hLNdBcjsw-BWd0A_aem_9Ix7a6J5f5VwU3PMOqymxw

UN says 1.5°C is over and world is on track for 2.8°C of global warming | New Scientist

Global warming will breach 1.5°C – but deep, fast cuts can still bring it back published by the United Nations, 21 October 2026:

Two industrial chimneys release a dense plume into an orange, hazy sky over Chisinau. © Unsplash/Alexei Scutari After decades of not cutting emissions enough, the world will very soon pass the 1.5°C warming limit and it can no longer be avoided, according to the UN Environment Programme.     

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/10/1168634

Global warming will breach 1.5°C – but deep, fast cuts can still bring it back | UN News

October 23rd: This Day in History

 

Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history 

On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress approved a measure barring blacks from joining the  army. There was an unsuccessful coup attempt against Napoleon on this day in 1812. On this day in 1956, months of protests against the Soviet presence in Hungary turned violent when combined Soviet and Hungarian forces cracked down violently on the protesters in the Hungarian capital of Budapest and other cities in the country. It was on this day in 1983 that a barracks in Beirut, Lebanon blew up after a suicide terrorist attack.   

Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:

• On this day in 4004 BCE, the creation of the world began, according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher. 

• In 42 BCE on this day during the Roman Republican civil wars, the Second Battle of Philippi, when Brutus's army was decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus committed suicide. 

• On this day in 425, Valentinian III was elevated to Roman Emperor, at the age of 6. 

• In 502 on this day, the Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharged Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius. 

• Burgundy king Guntram opened the synod of Mâcon (Mastico) on this day in 585. 

• On this day in 787, Byzantine Empress Irene recovered Iconclastic cult at Nicaea. 

• In 1086 on this day, the Battle of az-Zallaqahn was fought, when the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeated the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI. 

• On this day in 1091, a tornado (possible T8/F4) struck the heart of London, killing two and demolishing the then wooden London Bridge. 

• In 1157 on this day, the Battle of Grathe Heath ended the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III was killed and Valdemar I restored the country. 

• Otto II became the Earl of Gelre on this day in 1229. 

• In 1520 on this day, King Carlos I was crowned, German emperor Charles V. 

• On this day in 1588, Medina Sidonia's Spanish Armada returned to Santander. 

• On this day in 1641, Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, a Catholic uprising in Ulster. 

• In 1642, the Battle at Edgeville (Warwick) was fought, pitting King Charles I vs English parliament. 

• In 1644 on this day, there was a sea battle at Fehmarn Sont, with Admiral Thijssen defeating Denen. 

• Jews of Barbados were forbidden to engage in retail trade on this day in 1668. 

• Meal Tub Plot against James II of England occurred on this day in 1679. 

Louis XIV, the "Sun King" of France

Bust of Louis XIV at the Basilique cathédrale Saint-Denis, near Paris

• In 1681 on this day, French troops under King Louis XIV occupied Staatsburg. 

• On this day in 1684, Colony Massachusetts under the authority of the English crown mounted. 

• In 1690 on this day, there was a revolt in Haarlem after a public ban on smoking. 

• On this day in 1694, American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, failed to seize Quebec.

• 1702 - -24] Battle in Bay of Vigo: Neth/Engl fleet destroy Span/French fleet

1739 - War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.

1760 - 1st Jewish prayer books printed in US

1775 - Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army

1790 - Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)

1805 - Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340

1812 - Failed coup against emperor Napoleon

1813 - The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).

1814 - 1st plastic surgery is performed (England)

1824 - 1st steam locomotive is introduced

1853 - Maastricht-Aken railway in Neth opens

1854 - The Times give precise British positions in Krim

1864 - Battle of Westport, Missouri: Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price

1867 - 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.

1871 - Columbia & Sappho (US) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup

1876 - New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office

1884 - 1st World Series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats NY Mets (AA) 6-0

1886 - St Louis Browns win World Championship by beating Chicago 4-3 in 10

1888 - Pelham Bay Park in Bronx, vested

1890 - Opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St Petersburg)

1893 - C Dazey's "In Old Kentucky" premieres in NYC (27 seasons)

1905 - Edward Milton Royle's "Squaw Man," premieres in NYC

1910 - Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight

1910 - Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series

1910 - Ritz Hotel in Madrid opens: 200 chambers/100 bathtubs

1915 - 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)

1915 - 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote

1917 - 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I

Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir LeninMarxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin 

• 1917 - Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin & Trotsky

1919 - Romberg & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC

1920 - Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, & Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal

1921 - Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis

1921 - Leos Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova," premieres in Brno

1922 - Channing Pollock's "Fool," premieres in NYC

• 1922 - Conservative A Bonar forms new government in England

1923 - Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform

1923 - Giants defeat Balt Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day

1927 - Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan Strauss

1932 - "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio

1932 - Pieter G Marais, S Afr minister of Education/Development aid

1934 - Jean Piccard & Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341 m (rec)

1935 - Gabby Hartnett selected NL MVP

1935 - Johnny Revolta wins PGA golf tournament

Baseball Great Babe RuthBaseball Great Babe Ruth 1935 - Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.

1941 - Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released

1942 - 1st ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk

• 1942 - During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt

• 1942 - German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad

1942 - All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").

1943 - 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau

1943 - Burma railway opens

1944 - 1st Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam

1944 - Gulf of Leyte battle begin

The flag of the USSR (Soviet Union)

• 1944 - Soviet army invades Hungary

1944 - Vice-adm Kurita's sailboat Atago sinks

1945 - Jackie Robinson signs Montreal Royal contract

1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time. 

Flag of the United Nations

• On this day in 1946, the United Nations General Assembly convened in New York City for the first time for the second session overall.

1947 - NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN

Baseball Player Jackie RobinsonBaseball Player Jackie Robinson 1947 - Husband & wife Dr Carl Cori & Dr Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes

1953 - France grants Laos' sovereignty

1953 - German FR applies to NATO

1953 - WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville, WV (CBS) 1st broadcast

1954 - Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany

1954 - German FR joins NATO

1954 - Pakistan governor-general Ghoelan Mohammed disbands parliament

1954 - WSAU TV channel 7 in Wausau, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting

1955 - Dominican League moves to winter baseball for 1st time

1956 - 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast

1956 - Revolt against Stalinist policies begins in Hungary

1956 - Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).

1957 - 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3

1958 - De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave"

1958 - Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Novelist & Poet Boris PasternakNovelist & Poet Boris Pasternak 1958 - USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam

1958 - The Springhill Mine Bump - An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.

1959 - Chinese troops move into India, 17 die

1961 - "Kwamina" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 32 performances

1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• 1962 - Adlai Stevenson speaks at UN about Cuba crisis

• 1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. naval "quarantine" of Cuba was approved by the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS). 

1962 - USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800m

1962 - WCIV TV channel 4 in Charleston, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting

1963 - Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," premieres in NYC

Flag of the Olympics

• 1964 - Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball

1964 - Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time

1966 - Sandra Spuzich/Jack Rule wins Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome Golf

1967 - "Henry, Sweet Henry" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 80 performances

1967 - NJ Americans (later NY/NJ Nets) play 1st ABA game

1968 - "Maggie Flynn" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 82 performances

1968 - Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec)

1969 - "Jimmy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 84 performances

1970 - Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph)

1971 - WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton, FL (ABC) begins

1972 - "Pippin" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1944 performances

1972 - Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain

1972 - WNJS TV channel 23 in Camden, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting

1973 - Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica

1973 - UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted

1973 - Yankee GM & pres Lee MacPhail named AL president

1974 - Cubs trade Billy Williams to A's for Manny Trillo, Knowles & Locker

1974 - Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation dedicated

Flag of South Africa during the apartheid era

• 1975 - Battle between Cuba & South Africa troops in Angola

1975 - Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0

1977 - 7th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:43:10

1977 - 8th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38

1977 - Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties

1977 - Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 34-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered

1978 - CBS raises LP prices to $8.98

• 1978 - China & Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension

Musician Sid ViciousMusician Sid Vicious 

• 1978 - Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in NYC

1979 - Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minn marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches

1980 - "Tintypes" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 93 performances

1980 - McCosker (168) & Dyson (152) make 319 opening stand cricket, NSW v WA

• 1980 - Soviet PM Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness

1981 - US national debt hits $1 trillion

1983 - 13th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:00

1983 - 14th NYC Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59

1983 - 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile

• 1983 - Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut

1984 - Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young

1984 - NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine

1984 - STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad

• 1987 - Dutch government gives Fokker's Aircraft Ÿ212 million credit

1987 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1988 - Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid

1988 - Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by US Senate

1989 - Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass

• 1989 - George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album

1989 - Hungary proclaims itself a republic & declares communist rule ended

1989 - US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space

1989 - William Nicholson's "Shadowlands," premieres in London

• 1990 - Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages

1991 - "Les Miserables," opens at Mogador Theatre, Paris

1991 - Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1991 - Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women

• 1992 - Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil.

1993 - 7 killed by IRA-bomb attack in Belfast

1993 - Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara Kashmir

1993 - Tor Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2, in 89th World Series

1994 - 3rd Solheim Cup: US beats Europe, 13-7 at Greenbrier WV

1996 - NY Yankees set record by coming back from 6-0 in World Series game to beat Atlanta Braves 8-6, also set record of 7th straight road win

1997 - "Triumph of Love," opens at Royale Theater NYC

1997 - At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a black out

1997 - Dow Jones drops 186.88 pts

1997 - Les Alexander, owner of Houston Rockets buys NHL's Edmonton Oilers

Palestinian Leader Yasser ArafatPalestinian Leader Yasser Arafat 1998 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.

2001 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks.

2001 - Apple releases the iPod.

2002 - Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.

2004 - A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.

2009 - The United Nations "Rotterdam Rules" convention regulating international maritime carriage of goods is ratified with its twentieth signature.

2011 - A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.

2012 - 12 people are killed and 40 are injured in a hospital fire in Tainan, Taiwan

1864 - During the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeated the Confederate forces in Missouri that were under Gen. Stirling Price.   1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight in the United States.   1915 - The first U.S. championship horseshoe tourney was held in Kellerton, IA.   1915 - Approximately 25,000 women demanded the right to vote with a march in New York City, NY.   1929 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression.   1930 - J.K. Scott won the first miniature golf tournament. The event was held in Chattanooga, TN.   1942 - During World War II, the British began a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein, Egypt.   1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.    1956 - Hungarian citizens began an uprising against Soviet occupation. On November 4, 1956 Soviet forces enter Hungary and eventually suppress the uprising.   1956 - NBC broadcasted the first videotape recording. The tape of Jonathan Winters was seen coast to coast in the U.S.   1958 - Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He was forced to refuse the honor due to negative Soviet reaction. Pasternak won the award for writing "Dr. Zhivago".   1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. naval "quarantine" of Cuba was approved by the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).   1962 - The U.S. Navy reconnaissance squadron VFP-62 began overflights of Cuba under the code name "Blue Moon."   1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and seat Communist China.   1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair.   1978 - China and Japan formally ended four decades of hostility when they exchanged treaty ratifications.   1980 - The resignation of Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin was announced.   1984 - "NBC Nightly News" aired footage of the severe drought in Ethiopia.   1985 - U.S. President Reagan arrived in New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.   1989 - Hungary became an independent republic, after 33 years of Soviet rule.   1992 - Japanese Emperor Akihito became the first Japanese emperor to stand on Chinese soil.   1993 - Joe Carter (Toronto Blue Jays) became only the second player to end the World Series with a homerun.   1995 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin and U.S. President Bill Clinton agree to a joint peacekeeping effort in the war-torn Bosnia.   1998 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a breakthrough in a land-for-peace West Bank accord.   1998 - Japan nationalized its first bank since World War II.   2000 - Universal Studios Consumer Products Group (USCPG) and Amblin Entertainment announced an unprecedented and exclusive three-year worldwide merchandising program with Toys "R" Us, Inc. The deal was for the rights to exclusive "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" merchandise starting in fall 2001. The film was scheduled for re-release in the spring of 2002.

1915 25,000 women marched in New York City, demanding the right to vote. 1946 The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time. 1973 President Richard Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica. 1983 A suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International airport in Lebanon killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors. 2002 Chechen rebels seized a crowded Moscow theater, taking hundreds hostage. Russian forces stormed the building the next day. 2003 Madame Chiang Kai-shek died at age 105.

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