- 1931] "Happy Trails": Inventor Thomas Alva Edison dies of natural causes in West Orange (NJ) at 84 (10/18)...1982] Former first lady Bess Truman dies of congestive heart failure. At 97, Bess was the longest living first lady (10/18)...1991] Tennessee Ernie Ford loses his battle with liver disease at 72 (10/17)...2007] Comedian Joey Bishop dies of natural causes at 89 (10/17)...2007] 50s singing sensation Teresa Brewer passes away from neuromuscular disease at 76 (10/17)...
- 1933] Brainiac sighting: Physicist Albert Einstein arrives in the U.S. as a refugee from Nazi Germany (10/17)...
- 1954] Bad call-letter move: WNNNNNNNNNBC Radio changes calls to WRCA but not for long. The call letters will soon revert back to WNBC (10/18)...
- 1964] Pinstripe parade: The Yankees fire manager Yogi Berra, hiring Johnny Keane whom they faced in the World Series against the Cardinals (10/17)...1978] The Yankees beat the Dodgers in 6 games to repeat as World Champs. They do not make a managerial change (10/17)...1984] Lou Piniella is named Yankee manager (10/17)...1988] Dallas Green replaces Piniella as Yankee manager (10/17)...
- 1965] That's fair: The 1964-1965 World's Fair closes after 2 years. More than 51 million attended, including this WMID jock who did a show live back to Atlantic City for those 2 days with music and all from the New York State Pavilion. The remote was set up on a phone line (10/17)...
- 1969] Effete feat: VP Spiro T. Agnew calls anti-Vietnam protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs" which is better than a "nattering nabobs of negativism" I think (10/19)...
- 1977] Reggie-Reggie-Reggie: Reggie Jackson makes World Series history with back-to-back-to-back home runs, each on the first pitch. No one did it before or since (10/18)...
- 1977] Psst, it's the SST: The supersonic Concorde makes its first landing in New York City, shattering windows at Archie Bunker's house (10/19)...
- 1989] A whole lotta shaking going on: A funny thing happened on the way to game 3 of the Oakland-San Francisco World Series - an earthquake. The Giants sweep the A's in 4 games when the WS resumes a few days later (10/17)...
- 2004] The bloody sock: Curt Schilling, bloody sock and all, pitches the Red Sox to a 4-2 win over the Yankees, setting up a winner-take-all game 7 for the ALCS showdown (10/19). The Sox win the World Series that year...
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