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October 21st
1772 ~ Birthday of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet.
1805 ~ A British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain.
1805 ~ Death of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson.
1833 ~ Birthday of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and benefactor of the Nobel Prize.
1854 ~ Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
1879 ~ Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light.
1917 ~ Birthday of Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz Musician.
1929 ~ Birthday of Ursula K. Le Guin, Science Fiction Author.
1944 ~ The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg bomb.
1983 ~ The meter was defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
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October 22nd
1746 ~ Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
1836 ~ Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1844 ~ Birthday of Sarah Bernhardt, Actress.
1906 ~ Death of Paul Cezanne, Painter.
1920 ~ Birthday of Timothy Leary, writer, psychedelic drug advocate.
1943 ~ The RAF air raid on Kassel, a city of 236,000 people, killed 10,000, and left 150,000 homeless.
1962 ~ US President Kennedy announced that American spy planes had discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
1973 ~ Death of Pablo Casals, Cellist & Conductor.
1990 ~ The region around the Aral Sea assessed as the world’s worst ecological disaster.
2009 ~ Death of Don Lane, American-born Australian television personality.
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October 23rd
4004 BC ~ The start of the universe, according to the Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar.
1892 ~ Birthday of Gummo Marx, actor, comedian (Marx Brothers).
1940 ~ Birthday of Pelé, soccer player Extraordinaire.
1956 ~ Hungarians took to the streets in to demand an end to Soviet rule. Thousands died.
1974 ~ Birthday of Jasmin St. Claire, Porn Actress.
1983 ~ U.S. & French barracks in Beirut hit by truck bombs, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French.
1993 ~ Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Joe Carter became the second player to end a World Series with a home run - three-run shot that gave Toronto an 8-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6.
1998 ~ Death of Dr. Barnett Slepian, physician.
2001 ~ Apple introduced the iPod.
2004 ~ Death of Robert Merrill, Baritone.
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October 24th
1632 ~ Birthday of Anton van Leeuwenhoek, the “Father of Microbiology".
1799 ~ Death of Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Composer.
1929 ~ Death of George Cadbury, Chocolate Manufacturer & Philanthropist.
1929 ~ "Black Thursday" crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1945 ~ Founding of the United Nations Organisation.
1947 ~ The expression “Cold War” was first used by Bernard Baruch to the U.S. Senate War Investigation Committee.
1992 ~ In the first real "World" Series, the Toronto Blue Jays became the first non-US team to win the World Series.
2002 ~ John Muhammad and Lee Malvo were arrested in connection with the Washington D.C. area sniper attacks.
2003 ~ The Concorde completed its last commercial flight.
2006 ~ Death of William Watt, Islamic studies scholar & historian.
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October 27th
1466 ~ Birthday of Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher.
1728 ~ Birthday of James Cook, British Captain and explorer.
1787 ~ The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was published.
1811 ~ Birthday of Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine.
1904 ~ New York’s first rapid transit subway opened.
1914 ~ Birthday of Dylan Thomas, British poet and writer.
1932 ~ Birthday of Sylvia Plath, American poet.
1991 ~ Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
2002 ~ Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected President of Brazil.
2005 ~ Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
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October 30th
1831 ~ Nat Turner was arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in U.S. history.
1839 ~ Birthday of Alfred Sisley, one of the creators of French Impressionism.
1885 ~ Birthday of Ezra Pound, Poet.
1939 ~ Birthday of Grace Slick, singer with Jefferson Airplane.
1961 ~ The Soviet Union detonated the 58 megaton hydrogen bomb "Tsar Bomba".
1945 ~ Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1974 ~ Muhammad Ali beat George Foreman to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.
1975 ~ Death of Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
2003 ~ Wicked opened on Broadway.
2005 ~ The reconsecration of the Dresden Frauenkirche, which was destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II.
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October 31st
1517 ~ Protestant Reformation got under way: Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church. For a unique insight to this happening, click here.
1795 ~ Birthday of John Keats, Poet.
1892 ~ Arthur Conan Doyle published "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes".
1926 ~ Death of Harry Houdini, Magician.
1930 ~ Birthday of Michael Collins, the 3rd astronaut of Apollo 11.
1956 ~ Suez Crisis: The UK and France began bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
1984 ~ Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two Sikh security guards (riots soon broke out in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 innocent Sikhs were killed).
1986 ~ Birthday of Brent Corrigan, Porn actor
1987 ~ Death of Joseph Campbell, Author and expert on mythology.
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November 1st
1512 ~ The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, was exhibited to the public for the first time.
1604 ~ At Whitehall Palace in London, the William Shakespeare tragedy Othello was presented for the first time.
1755 ~ Lisbon, Portugal was destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty and ninety thousand people.
1923 ~ Birthday of Gordon R. Dickson, Science Fiction author.
1935 ~ Birthday of Gary Player, South African golfer.
1952 ~ The U.S. successfully detonated the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed Mike, at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll.
1963 ~ The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opened.
1993 ~ The Maastricht Treaty took effect, formally establishing the European Union.
1999 ~ Death of Theodore Alvin Hall, Soviet Spy.
2007 ~ Death of Paul Tibbets, US Air Force, ret.
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November 3rd
1801 ~ Birthday of Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer.
1838 ~ The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper was founded.
1903 ~ Panama proclaimed itself independent from Colombia.
1936 ~ Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over Republican Alfred M. ''Alf'' Landon.
1954 ~ Death of Henri Matisse, French artist.
1957 ~ Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter space - a dog named Laika.
1964 ~ Incumbent President Lyndon Johnson defeated challenger Barry Goldwater with over 60 percent of the popular vote.
1978 ~ Birthday of Julia Taylor, European Porn Star.
1986 ~ Iran-Contra Affair : The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reported that the United States had been selling weapons to Iran in secret in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
1992 ~ U.S. presidential election: Challenger Bill Clinton defeated incumbent Republican George H.W. Bush & independent candidate Ross Perot.
1993 ~ Death of Leon Theremin, Russian inventor.
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November 4th
1847 ~ Death of Felix Mendelssohn, German composer.
1869 ~ The first issue of scientific journal Nature was published.
1900 ~ Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams was published.
1922 ~ British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men found the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 ~ Death of Gabriel Fauré, French composer.
1948 ~ T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1956 ~ Soviet troops invaded Hungary to crush the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands were killed, more were wounded, and nearly a quarter million left the country.
1979 ~ Students storm the US embassy in Tehran and took 90 hostages.
1979 ~ Birthday of Audrey Hollander, Porn Actress
1995 ~ The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
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