Video: 'World Series Champions: Baseball's Golden Era' (1922 World Series at 0:22)
(Sunday, October 8, 1922) — The New York Giants won the 1922 World Series today, beating the New York Yankees 5-3 at at Polo Grounds (IV) in Manhattan, New York, in the fifth and deciding game (one game ended in a tie). It was the Giants’ third World Series win.
(Sunday, October 7, 1962, 8 p.m. EST) — Vaughn Meader did his JFK impersonation on tonight’s edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show.
Video: 'Cats - Memory - Original Broadway Cast'
(Thursday, October 7, 1982) — The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Cats opened on Broadway today at the Winter Garden Theatre. The show closed Sept. 10, 2000, after a record 7,485 performances.
Video: '1952 World Series Game 7: Yankees vs Dodgers'
(Tuesday, October 7, 1952) — The New York Yankees won the 1952 World Series today, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 4-2 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, in the seventh and deciding game. It was the Yankees’s fourth consecutive World Series title, 15th overall.
Video: Oct. 1862 (at 1:01:15)
(Monday, October 6, 1862, during the American Civil War) — A notice in the New York Times today announced that an exhibition of photographs of the Battle of Antietam taken by Mathew Brady (titled “The Dead Of Antietam”) were being displayed at the National Gallery, corner of Broadway and Tenth-street.
This was the first time that many Americans saw the realities of war in photographs as distinct from previous “artists’ impressions.”
Video: 'George Harrison & Ravi Shankar - Ride Rajbun'
(Monday, October 5, 1992) — The Bunbury Tails, a musical album based on a series of cartoon books about a team of rabbit cricket players called The Bunburys, was released in the UK today. The album included Ride Rajbun by George Harrison, his son Dhani and Ravi Shankar.
Video: 'Baseball World Series 1942'
(Monday, October 5, 1942) — The St. Louis Cardinals won the 1942 World Series today, beating the New York Yankees 4-2 at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York, in the fifth and deciding game. It was the Cardinals’ fourth World Series title and the first played since the U.S. had entered World War II.
Video: 'Wild West - The Dalton Gang's Last Raid, 1892'
(Wednesday, October 5, 1892) — The Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped out today while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.
(Wednesday, October 4, 1972, 11:30 p.m. EDT) — Comedian and actor Bob Hope appeared on tonight’s The Dick Cavett Show on ABC-TV.
Video: 'Lost And Found' (part 1)
(Wednesday, October 4, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — Malloy and Reed transport an unconscious 8-year-old boy to Rampart General Hospital and help him and his parents cope with the ordeal on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV police drama Adam-12. Continue reading ‘Lost and Found’ episode airs on ‘Adam-12’ 40 years ago this hour (1972)
