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October 7th
1571 ~ The Ottoman Empire was defeated at the battle of Lepanto.
1849 ~ Death of Edgar Allan Poe, American writer.
1885 ~ Birthday of Niels Bohr, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1922.
1908 ~ Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece.
1931 ~ Birthday of Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and anti-apartheid activist, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
1955 ~ Birthday of Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist.
1985 ~ The “Achille Lauro” was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
1986 ~ Birthday of Bree Olson, Porn Actress.
2001 ~ The U.S. began its air offensive against al-Qaeda and the Taleban in Afghanistan.
2003 ~ California governor Gray Davis was recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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October 8th
1871 ~ The Great Chicago Fire destroyed about 17,450 buildings, killed about 250 people and left another 90,000 homeless.
1949 ~ Birthday of Sigourney Weaver, Actress.
1952 ~ The UK suffered its worst peacetime rail accident.
1961 ~ In London, the Post Office Tower opened.
1969 ~ Birthday of Julia Ann, Porn Actress.
1982 ~ Solidarity, and all other labor organizations in Poland, were banned.
1992 ~ Death of Willy Brandt, German politician.
2003 ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California.
2004 ~ Martha Stewart went to jail.
2004 ~ Death of Jacques Derrida, French philosopher.
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October 11th
1844 ~ Birthday of Henry Heinz, food manufacturer.
1896 ~ Death of Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer.
1899 ~ In South Africa, a war between the UK and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State began.
1961 ~ Death of Chico Marx, comedian.
1962 ~ Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council.
1968 ~ Launch of Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission.
1971 ~ Death of Chesty Puller, the most decorated U.S. Marine.
1975 ~ Saturday Night Live debuted with George Carlin as the host.
1976 ~ China's "Gang of Four" was arrested.
2002 ~ The U.S. Senate joined the House in approving the use of America's military against Iraq.
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October 13th
54 ~ Death of Claudius, Roman Emperor.
1307 ~ All Knights Templar in France were arrested by agents of the French king, to be later tortured into admitting heresy.
1812 ~ Death of Sir Isaac Brock, British general (killed in the Battle of Queenston Heights).
1925 ~ Birthday of Margaret Thatcher, UK PM.
1943 ~ Italy changes alliances from the Axis to the Allies.
1954 ~ Birthday of Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician.
1982 ~ Birthday of Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer.
1988 ~ The UK government lost the Spycatcher battle
1990 ~ Death of Lę Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general & politician, awarded one half of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize.
1992 ~ The UK government announced plans to close one third of the coal mines.
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October 14th
1066 ~ Battle of Hastings: The Norman army of William the Conqueror defeated the Saxon army and killed King Harold II of England.
1894 ~ Birthday of E. E. Cummings, American poet.
1944 ~ Given the choice between a public treason trial and a certain death by firing squad or suicide with honor, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chose the latter.
1947 ~ Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
1964 ~ Civil Rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1977 ~ Death of Bing Crosby, Actor & Singer.
1983 ~ Birthday of Vanessa Lane, Porn Actress.
1990 ~ Death of Leonard Bernstein, Composer & Conductor.
1991 ~ Aung San Suu Kyi was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1994 ~ PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
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October 16th
1793 ~ Death of Marie Antoinette – guillotined.
1854 ~ Birthday of Oscar Wilde, Irish writer.
1859 ~ In one of the developments towards the American Civil War, John Brown led a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1916 ~ Planned Parenthood founded by Margaret Sanger.
1925 ~ Birthday of Angela Lansbury, actress.
1964 ~ China detonated its first nuclear weapon.
1970 ~ Anwar Sadat was elected President of Egypt.
1978 ~ Karol Józef Wojtyła became Pope John Paul II. He was the first non Italian to be elevated to the position since 1522.
1981 ~ Death of Moshe Dayan, Israeli general.
1984 ~ Birthday of Melissa Lauren, French Porn Actress.
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October 19th
1745 ~ Death of Jonathan Swift, Author.
1781 ~ Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, effectively ending the American War of Independence.
1931 ~ Birthday of John Le Carré, Author.
1937 ~ Death of Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist, father of nuclear physics.
1950 ~ Death of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poet.
1954 ~ Metal fatigue was identified as the cause of Comet crashes.
1969 ~ U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters “an effete corps of impudent snobs.”
1983 ~ Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, was overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard. He had become Prime Minister of Grenada by staging a revolution and deposing Prime Minister Eric Gairy, who was out of the country addressing the United Nations at the time.
1987 ~ The DJI fell by 22% (Black Monday).
2005 ~ The trial of Saddam Hussein began.
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October 20th
1740 ~ Maria Theresa took the throne of Austria.
1803 ~ The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1891 ~ Birthday of Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya.
1983 ~ Grenada's Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop, was assassinated.
1973 ~ In the “Saturday Night Massacre”, President Nixon abolished the office of special Watergate prosecutor, accepted the resignation of the Attorney General, and fired Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus.
1973 ~ The Sydney Opera House opened.
1984 ~ Death of Paul Dirac, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1933.
1989 ~ Death of Anthony Quayle, English Actor.
1992 ~ The Toronto Blue Jays win the first World Series game outside the U.S.
1994 ~ Death of Burt Lancaster, American actor.
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