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October 15
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte, the deposed emperor of France, arrived on the British-ruled South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he spent the final 5 1/2 years of his life in exile.
1860 - Eleven-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, New York, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing a beard.
1914 - With the support of President Woodrow Wilson, the Clayton Antitrust Act, which made it illegal for companies to buy competitors' stock, was passed.
1917 - Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari, age 41, convicted by a French military court of spying for the Germans during World War I, was executed by firing squad outside of Paris. (Maintaining her innocence to the end, Mata Hari refused a blindfold and blew a kiss to her executioners.)
1945 - The former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed for treason.
1946 - Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering fatally poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.
1951 - "I Love Lucy," starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, had its television debut on CBS.
1954 - Hurricane Hazel made landfall on the Carolina coast as a Category 4 storm; Hazel was blamed for more than 1,000 deaths.
1964 - It was announced that Nikita Khrushchev was removed from his positions as premier and secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; he was succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party Secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1966 - The Black Panther Party was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California.
1966 - The Department of Transportation was created.
1969 - Peace demonstrators staged activities across the country, including a candlelight march around the White House, as part of a moratorium against the Vietnam War.
1976 - Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in the first-ever debate between vice presidential candidates.
1990 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990 - South Africa's Separate Amenities Act, which had barred blacks from public facilities for decades, was scrapped.
1991 - Clarence Thomas received a narrow 52-48 confirmation from the U.S. Senate on his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1993 - Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work to end apartheid in South Africa.
2003 - China became the third nation to launch a manned mission to space.
2005 - Iraqis voted to approve a constitution.
2009 - A false report that a 6-year-old boy was aboard a runaway balloon in Colorado and captivated a global TV audience. (The boy's parents later pleaded guilty to charges they made up the story.)
2010 - The Obama administration reported that the federal deficit had hit a near-record $1.3 trillion for the just-completed budget year.
2015 - President Barack Obama abandoned his pledge to end America’s longest war, announcing plans to keep at least 5,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan at the end of his term in 2017 and hand the conflict off to his successor.
2017 - Actress and activist Alyssa Milano tweeted that women who had been sexually harassed or assaulted should write “Me too” as a status; within hours, tens of thousands had taken up the #MeToo hashtag (using a phrase that had been introduced 10 years earlier by social activist Tarana Burke.)
2019 - Actress Felicity Huffman reported to a federal prison in California to start a two-week sentence for paying a college admissions consultant to have a proctor correct her daughter’s SAT answers. (She was released two days before the end of the sentence.)
2019 - Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Nails, T-Rex, Whitney Houston (posthumously) and The Notorious B.I.G. (posthumously) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Birthdays
21 - Bailee Madison (actress)
28 - Vincent Martella (actor)
30 - Kiko Mizuhara (model)
39 - Keyshia Cole (singer)
40 - Brandon Jay McLaren (actor)
41 - Chris Olivero (actor)
42 - Devon Gummersall (actor)
47 - Paul Logan (actor)
51 - Dominic West (actor)
51 - Kimberly Schlapman (country singer)
51 - Paige Davis (TV host/actress/singer)
52 - Vanessa Marcil (actress)
54 - Eric Benet (actor)
61 - Tanya Roberts (actress)
61 - Emeril Lagasse (chef)
61 - Sarah Ferguson (member of British royal family)
67 - Larry Miller (actor/comedian)
67 - Tito Jackson (singer)
74 - Richard Carpenter (singer)
75 - Jim Palmer (baseball player)
78 - Don Stevenson (musician)
83 - Linda Lavin (actress)
85 - Barry McGuire (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 15
1917 - The Chicago White Sox defeat the New York Giants in six games to win the World Series.
1923 - The New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants in six games to win their first World Series.
1925 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Washington Senators in seven games to win the World Series.
1933 - The Philadelphia Eagles make their NFL debut, losing to the New York Giants 56-0.
1935 - The NHL's St. Louis Eagles fold.
1946 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Boston Red Sox in seven games to win the World Series.
1964 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the New York Yankees in seven games to win the World Series.
1965 - The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Minnesota Twins in seven games to win the World Series.
1979 - The New York Knicks retire Walt Frazier's #10.
1988 - The Oklahoma Sooners set an NCAA record with 768 rushing yards in a 70-24 win over Kansas State.
1989 - Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings topped Gordie Howe's NHL scoring record of 1,850 career points.
1995 - The Carolina Panthers win their first game in franchise history, 26-15 over the New York Jets.
2001 - The Dallas Cowboys (0-4) and Washington Redskins (0-4) met in what was the first time in Monday Night Football history (31 years) that two 0-4 teams had met. The Cowboys won the game 9-7.
2007 - Alex Rodriguez signed a record 10-year, $275 million contract with the New York Yankees, the richest contract in sports history to date.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte, the deposed emperor of France, arrived on the British-ruled South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he spent the final 5 1/2 years of his life in exile.
1860 - Eleven-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, New York, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing a beard.
1914 - With the support of President Woodrow Wilson, the Clayton Antitrust Act, which made it illegal for companies to buy competitors' stock, was passed.
1917 - Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari, age 41, convicted by a French military court of spying for the Germans during World War I, was executed by firing squad outside of Paris. (Maintaining her innocence to the end, Mata Hari refused a blindfold and blew a kiss to her executioners.)
1945 - The former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed for treason.
1946 - Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering fatally poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.
1951 - "I Love Lucy," starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, had its television debut on CBS.
1954 - Hurricane Hazel made landfall on the Carolina coast as a Category 4 storm; Hazel was blamed for more than 1,000 deaths.
1964 - It was announced that Nikita Khrushchev was removed from his positions as premier and secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; he was succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party Secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1966 - The Black Panther Party was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California.
1966 - The Department of Transportation was created.
1969 - Peace demonstrators staged activities across the country, including a candlelight march around the White House, as part of a moratorium against the Vietnam War.
1976 - Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in the first-ever debate between vice presidential candidates.
1990 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990 - South Africa's Separate Amenities Act, which had barred blacks from public facilities for decades, was scrapped.
1991 - Clarence Thomas received a narrow 52-48 confirmation from the U.S. Senate on his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1993 - Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work to end apartheid in South Africa.
2003 - China became the third nation to launch a manned mission to space.
2005 - Iraqis voted to approve a constitution.
2009 - A false report that a 6-year-old boy was aboard a runaway balloon in Colorado and captivated a global TV audience. (The boy's parents later pleaded guilty to charges they made up the story.)
2010 - The Obama administration reported that the federal deficit had hit a near-record $1.3 trillion for the just-completed budget year.
2015 - President Barack Obama abandoned his pledge to end America’s longest war, announcing plans to keep at least 5,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan at the end of his term in 2017 and hand the conflict off to his successor.
2017 - Actress and activist Alyssa Milano tweeted that women who had been sexually harassed or assaulted should write “Me too” as a status; within hours, tens of thousands had taken up the #MeToo hashtag (using a phrase that had been introduced 10 years earlier by social activist Tarana Burke.)
2019 - Actress Felicity Huffman reported to a federal prison in California to start a two-week sentence for paying a college admissions consultant to have a proctor correct her daughter’s SAT answers. (She was released two days before the end of the sentence.)
2019 - Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Nails, T-Rex, Whitney Houston (posthumously) and The Notorious B.I.G. (posthumously) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Birthdays
21 - Bailee Madison (actress)
28 - Vincent Martella (actor)
30 - Kiko Mizuhara (model)
39 - Keyshia Cole (singer)
40 - Brandon Jay McLaren (actor)
41 - Chris Olivero (actor)
42 - Devon Gummersall (actor)
47 - Paul Logan (actor)
51 - Dominic West (actor)
51 - Kimberly Schlapman (country singer)
51 - Paige Davis (TV host/actress/singer)
52 - Vanessa Marcil (actress)
54 - Eric Benet (actor)
61 - Tanya Roberts (actress)
61 - Emeril Lagasse (chef)
61 - Sarah Ferguson (member of British royal family)
67 - Larry Miller (actor/comedian)
67 - Tito Jackson (singer)
74 - Richard Carpenter (singer)
75 - Jim Palmer (baseball player)
78 - Don Stevenson (musician)
83 - Linda Lavin (actress)
85 - Barry McGuire (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 15
1917 - The Chicago White Sox defeat the New York Giants in six games to win the World Series.
1923 - The New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants in six games to win their first World Series.
1925 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Washington Senators in seven games to win the World Series.
1933 - The Philadelphia Eagles make their NFL debut, losing to the New York Giants 56-0.
1935 - The NHL's St. Louis Eagles fold.
1946 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Boston Red Sox in seven games to win the World Series.
1964 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the New York Yankees in seven games to win the World Series.
1965 - The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Minnesota Twins in seven games to win the World Series.
1979 - The New York Knicks retire Walt Frazier's #10.
1988 - The Oklahoma Sooners set an NCAA record with 768 rushing yards in a 70-24 win over Kansas State.
1989 - Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings topped Gordie Howe's NHL scoring record of 1,850 career points.
1995 - The Carolina Panthers win their first game in franchise history, 26-15 over the New York Jets.
2001 - The Dallas Cowboys (0-4) and Washington Redskins (0-4) met in what was the first time in Monday Night Football history (31 years) that two 0-4 teams had met. The Cowboys won the game 9-7.
2007 - Alex Rodriguez signed a record 10-year, $275 million contract with the New York Yankees, the richest contract in sports history to date.