History for October 15

History for October 15 - On-This-Day.com
Virgil 70 B.C., Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 - German philosopher, John Kenneth Galbraith 1908


Mario Puzo 1920, Lee Iacocca 1924 - Chrysler Chairman, Barry McGuire 1935 - Singer
   

1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.


1939 - New York Municipal Airport was dedicated. The name was later changed to La Guardia Airport.


1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason.


1946 - Hermann Goering, a Nazi war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution.


1951 - "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS-TV.


1964 - It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been removed from power. He was replaced with Alexei N. Kosygin.


1984 - The Freedom of Information Act was passed.


1993 - South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress President Nelson Mandela were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the apartheid system in South Africa.