Li Huan-hung (Li Yuan Hung) proclaimed himself President of the Republic of China.
The Athletics took the World Series in Game 6.
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Monday, October 26, 2026
Friday, October 23, 2026
Saturday, October 23, 1926. Trotsky and Kamenev get the boot.
Trotsky and Lev Kamenev were booted out of the Politburo. They'd ultimately meet the same fate.
A motion for a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti was denied.
It was, of course, hunting season, and the New Yorker dedicated its cover to hunting with its characteristic weird art style
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Japan's Meiji Jingu (Shrine) Stadium opened to the public and a home run was hit on the same day in the stadium's inaugural game. The stadium is still in use.
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Saturday, October 16, 1926. Fighting in Eastern China.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, China, China (Zheijiang), Chinese Warlord Era, Crime, Food, Kuomintang, Northern Expedition, Railroads
Monday, October 19, 2026
Tuesday, October 19, 1976. Aishiyeh Massacre.
The Catholic village of Aishiyeh in Lebanon was attacked with Palestinian elements committing a massacre upon the population.
Cincinnati beat New York in Game 3 of the World Series.
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Saturday, October 16, 1976. Disco Duck.
Friday, October 16, 2026
Saturday, October 16, 1976. Disco Duck.
Organized crowd demonstrated against Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, and one of the Gang of Four, signalling that the gant was about to be turn upon by Chinese authorities.
A Saudi Arabian brokered ceasefire went into effect in Lebanon.
The Cincinnati Reds beat the New York Yankees in the opener of the 1976 World Series.
Disco Duck hit the number 1 position on the musical charts.
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Thursday, October 14, 1976. Blog Mirror: October 14, 1976: The Chris Chambliss Game
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Tuesday, October 15, 1946. Death of Hermann Göring
On the day of his scheduled execution, Hermann Göring committed suicide with a poison capsule. He asked for Lutheran last rights beforehand and was refused. Guards noticed his convulsions and summoned medical help., but he died too quickly.
Göring had asked to be shot, rather than hung, as he thought that more honorable. That request was refused. How he obtained the poison has been debated. A suicide note he left claimed that he had kept it concealed the entire time. Former U.S. Army guard Herbert Lee Stivers claimed in 2005 that he had brought the pill to him at the request of a woman named Mona, and that he did not know that it was poison. The suicide lead to suspicion regarding several people, including an Army officer who died eight years following this event, so that his name was never cleared.
A major figure in Nazi Germany, the World War One aviator was responsible for at least two major German defeats, one being the failure to be able to destroy the trapped British Army at Dunkirk, a failure that Hitler sharead as he had halted the German advance. The second defeat was his promise to be able to defeat the British by airpower which lead to the Battle of Britain. While the popular myth has the British on their back feet the entire time, in reality the Royal Air Force was more than capable of defeating the Luftwaffe over Britain. Here too, while it was a real defeat, the Germans were in fact completely incapable of invading Britain.
The Luftwaffe would, of course, prove to be incapable of defending German airspace as well.
Göring's suicide postponed the other executions planned for this day.
The May company was selling a brand of kids jeans I've never heard of.
Surplus was available at Cooks.
The Out Our Way cartoon featured something that must have been familiar to the readers, but I've never heard of, renting a garage.
The St. Louis Cardinals took the World Series.
October 15, 1946: Enos Slaughter's Mad Dash
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Monday, October 14, 1946. Price controls on meat removed.
Sunday, October 15, 1911. Battle at Tepoztlán.
The Mexican Federal Army fought Zapatistas at Tepoztlán, resulting in 500 rebel deaths.
Philadelphia took game two of the World Series, tying the series up.
A Filipina photographed on this day:
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Friday, October 13, 1911. Reactions to Revolution.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Thursday, October 14, 1976. Blog Mirror: October 14, 1976: The Chris Chambliss Game
Thursday, October 14, 1926. Winnie-the-Pooh.
Winnie-the-Pooh was first published, both in the UK and the US.
The Chicago American Giants won the Colored Word Series, beating out the Bacharach Giants.
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Wednesday, October 13, 1926. Supreme Court's tragic ruling on Daylight Savings Time.
Monday, October 12, 2026
Tuesday, October 12, 1926. Longest home run.
Babe Ruth asked Ernie Corkran to throw his best fastball at a barnstorming unofficial game at Artillery Park in Kingston, PA. The ball went 650 feet, the farthest MLB home run hit ever, and over 75 feet longer than the official long run ball hit by Ruth in 1921.
The Condé Diamond, was stolen from a museum in France.
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Monday, October 11, 1926. Gang warfare in Chicago.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, Crime, Criminal Organizations, Illinois (Chicago), Leon Trotsky, Personalities, USSR
Sunday, October 11, 2026
Friday, October 11, 1946. Cancelling conscription.
Conscription ended in the United States with those who had been ordered to report to their draft boards on October 16 informed they were not to show up.
October 11, 1946: The Reynolds-Gordon Trade
The Red Sox beat the Cardinals in Game 5 of the World Series.
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Wednesday, October 11, 1911. First MVPs.
Baseball gavec out its first MVP designations:
On This Day In Baseball History: October 11, 1911
The Italian expeditionary force arrived at Tripoli.
Mare Island, Vallejo, California, October 11, 1911:
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Tuesday, October 10, 1911. Uprisings in China.
Labels: 1910s, 1911, California, China, Chinese 1911 Revolution, Chinese Army, Democracy, Government, Qing Dynasty, suffrage, Taiwan, Women, Wuchang Uprising
Saturday, October 10, 2026
Sunday, October 10, 1926. Cardinals take the series.
The St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees in Game 7 by a score of 3 to 2 in extra innings
Oddly enough, given the 1911 entry, the Kuomintang captured Wuchang after a 40-day siege.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Monday, October 7, 1946. Japan renounces war.
The MacArthur influenced Constitution of Japan was approved by the House of Representatives of Japan.
The instrument renounced war as a Japanese political and diplomatic option.
The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox 3–0 at Sportsman's Park in Game Two of the 1946 World Series.
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Friday, October 4, 1946. Truman's announcement on the eve of Yom Kippur.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Christianity, Clement Attlee, Egypt, Gnosticism, Herasy, Nuremberg Trials, Palestine, Refugees, religion, Taft, Truman, War Crimes
Wednesday, October 7, 1936. Soviet Ultimatum over Spain.
The USSR issued an ultimatum to Portugal, Italy and Germany that unless they stopped aiding the Spanish Nationalist in the ongoing civil war, the USSR would take an active involvement.
On the same day, German armored troops arrived in Spain as trainers with their focus being on tanks and antitank guns.
José Antonio Aguirre became the 1st President of the Basque Country, an autonomous region in the Spanish Republic. He'd muster local forces to fight on the Republican side, and accordingly went into exile for the rest of life when the Nationalist won the civil war. He died in 1960 of a heart attack at age 56 and, as a Catholic, was given a funeral Mass.
Agrarian Party member, and Lutheran Pietist, Kyösti Kallio became Prime Minister of Finland.
The Dodgers fired Casey Stengel.
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Tuesday, October 6, 1936. Yankees take the series.
Labels: 1930s, 1936, 1936 Spanish Elections, 1936 World Series, Anarchy, Communism, Communists, Spain
Thursday, October 7, 1926. Choral Evensong.
The fusionist religion Caodaism was established in Saigon by Ngo Van Chieu with the signing of the "Declaration of the Founding of the Cao Đài Religion".
The still running Choral Evensong was broadcast for the first time, on the BBC, featuring a 15-minute airing of the Evensong, the Anglican church afternoon prayer, at 3:00 pm.
The Yankees beat the Cardinals 3 to 2 in Game 5 of the World Series, giving them a three to two edge.
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Wednesday, October 6, 1926. World Series Record.
Labels: 1790s, 1794, 1920s, 1926, 1926 World Series, 1970s, 1977, 2010s, 2011, American Puritanism, baseball, Blue Laws, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (Pittsburg), Protestant, Puritans, religion, Sports
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Wednesday, October 6, 1926. World Series Record.
Pennsylvania''s blue laws from 1794 were invoked in Pittsburgh, banning all Sunday sports in the city.
This is interesting in a variety of ways, particularly in that it takes a very Puritan view of the topic. In Catholic England sports on Sunday had been a huge deal, part of the Catholic view of life that Sunday, the Lord's Day, was a sort of feast. Puritans, however, held a dour view on everything, and during the Cromwellian period, banned sports.
All in all, for what it's worth, I think blue laws are a good idea. I wouldn't ban sports, however. I would, if I could, shut down Sunday commerce however, even electronic commerce.
Babe Ruth hit his third home run in the 1926 World Series. The Yankees beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10 to 5. This has only been repeated twice, once in 1977, by Reggie Jackson, and once in 2011, by Albert Pujols.
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Monday, October 4, 1926. Cristero War in Guanajuato, Phar Lap, Radio recipes.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, A Mystery, Cristero War, Food, Great Depression, Horse Racing, Islam, Mexico, Mexico (Guanajuato), New Zealand, Radio, Turkey
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Thursday, October 3, 1946. Game two of the 1946 National League Playoffs.
St. Louis Cardinals beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 8–4 to win the second game of a best-of-3 series in the first National League playoffs ever held. They advanced to the 1946 World Series to face the Boston Red Sox.
The worst civilian air disaster up to that time occurred with a DC-4 airliner crashed in Newfoundland. The plane was on its way to Berlin.
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Tuesday, October 1, 1946. Crime, Punishment, and World War Two.
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