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| In 3 months (October
2010): |
250 years ago
(25
Oct 1760)
|
Death of King George II of Great Britain. Succeeded by
his grandson George III
|
200 years ago
(12 Oct 1810) |
The first Oktoberfest was held in Bavaria |
150 years ago
(12 Oct 1860) |
Birth of Elmer Sperry, American inventor,
industrialist and entrepreneur, best known for perfecting
gyroscopic compasses and stabilisers |
150 years ago
(17 Oct 1860) |
The first British Open golf championship
was held at Prestwick Golf Club, Scotland |
150 years ago
(18 Oct 1860) |
The Second Opium War ended when the Treaty
of Tientsin was ratified at the Convention of Peking |
150 years ago
(31 Oct 1860) |
Birth of Andrew Volstead, American Congressman
responsible for the National Prohibition Act (also called
the Volstead Act) which provided guidelines on the enforcement
of prohibition |
150 years ago
(31 Oct 1860) |
Birth of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of
the Girl Scouts of America |
100 years ago
(1 Oct 1910) |
The Los Angeles Times building in California,
USA, was destroyed by a bomb, killing 21 employees |
100 years ago
(1 Oct 1910) |
Birth of Bonnie Parker, American bank robber
and outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde) |
100 years ago
(5 Oct 1910) |
Portuguese Revolution. King Manuel II was
overthrown and expelled from the country in a coup d’état,
and Portugal was proclaimed a republic |
100 years ago
(17 Oct 1910) |
Death of Julia Ward Howe, American poet,
writer, and women's rights leader, best known for the 'Battle
Hymn of the Republic' |
100 years ago
(19 Oct 1910) |
Birth of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born
American astrophysicist, joint winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize
for Physics for his work on the evolution of massive stars |
100 years ago
(20 Oct 1910) |
The 'RMS Olympic', sister ship
of the ill-fated 'Titanic', was launched
in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
100 years ago
(22 Oct 1910) |
American physician Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen
was found guilty of murdering his wife and was sentenced
to death, at the Central Criminal Court in London. (Hanged
at Pentonville Prison on 23rd November) |
100 years ago
(23 Oct 1910) |
Death of Chulalongkorn (Rama V), King of
Siam (now Thailand) |
100 years ago
(30 Oct 1910) |
Death of Henri Dunant, Swiss humanitarian,
founder of the Red Cross and the international Young Men's
Christian Association (YMCA), his ideas formed the basis
of the Geneva Convention, joint winner of the first Nobel
Peace Prize in 1901 |
80 years ago
(5 Oct 1930) |
The British airship R101 crashed in France
on its maiden overseas voyage, killing 48 people |
80 years ago
(17 Oct 1930) |
Birth of Robert Atkins, American cardiologist
and nutritionist who devised the Atkins diet |
80 years ago
(24 Oct 1930) |
Military coup in Brazil. President Washington
Luís Pereira de Sousa was ousted in a coup d’état
and replaced by Getúlio Vargas (on 3rd November) |
75 years ago
(2 Oct 1935) |
Italy invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) |
75 years ago
(12 Oct 1935) |
Birth of Luciano Pavarotti, Italian operatic
tenor |
75 years ago
(20 Oct 1935) |
The Long March ended. Chinese Communist
leader Mao Zedong and 8,000 followers arrived in Yan'an
after a year-long march |
70 years ago
(4 Oct 1940) |
World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
held a war conference at Brenner Pass in the Alps |
70 years ago
(9 Oct 1940) |
World War II: The Blitz - a German
bomb destroyed the high altar of St. Paul's Cathedral
in London |
70 years ago
(9 Oct 1940) |
Birth of John Lennon, British rock musician,
singer, songwriter, and peace activist (The Beatles) |
70 years ago
(12/16 Oct 1940) |
World War II: Holocaust - The Nazis
established the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland |
70 years ago
(31 Oct 1940) |
World War II: The Battle of Britain ended |
60 years ago
(2 Oct 1950) |
The 'Peanuts' comic strip by
Charles M. Schulz was first published |
60 years ago
(19 Oct 1950) |
Korean War: United Nations troops captured
the North Korean capital, Pyongyang |
60 years ago
(23 Oct 1950) |
Death of Al Jolson, Russian-born American
singer, actor and comedian ('The Jazz Singer') |
60 years ago
(29 Oct 1950) |
Death of Gustav V, King of Sweden |
50 years ago
(1 Oct 1960) |
Nigeria gained its independence from the
United Kingdom |
50 years ago
(21 Oct 1960) |
Britain launched its first nuclear submarine,
'HMS Dreadnought' |
50 years ago
(29 Oct 1960) |
American boxer Cassius Clay (now Muhammad
Ali) won his first professional fight, in Louisville, Kentucky |
50 years ago
(30 Oct 1960) |
The first successful kidney transplant operation
in the UK was performed by Sir Michael Woodruff at the Edinburgh
Royal Infirmary |
40 years ago
(4 Oct 1970) |
Death of Janis Joplin, American rock singer |
40 years ago
(5 Oct 1970) |
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) began
broadcasting in the USA |
40 years ago
(10 Oct 1970) |
Fiji became independent from the United
Kingdom |
40 years ago
(15 Oct 1970) |
Anwar Sadat became President of Egypt |
40 years ago
(26 Oct 1970) |
The 'Doonesbury' comic strip
by Garry Trudeau was first published |
30 years ago
(3 Oct 1980) |
The Housing Act came into effect in Britain,
giving more than 5 million council tenants the right to buy
their homes |
30 years ago
(6 Oct 1980) |
Death of Hattie Jacques, British comedy
actress |
30 years ago
(21 Oct 1980) |
Death of Hans Asperger, Austrian child psychologist
who discovered Asperger syndrome, a form of autism |
30 years ago
(23 Oct 1980) |
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigned after
falling ill. (Died 18th Dec) |
30 years ago
(24 Oct 1980) |
The Communist Government of Poland granted
legal recognition to the Solidarity trade union |
25 years ago
(1 Oct 1985) |
Riots broke out in Toxteth in Liverpool
and Peckham in London |
25 years ago
(1 Oct 1985) |
Death of E.B. White, American writer and
journalist ('Charlotte's Web', 'Stuart
Little', 'Strunk and White's The Elements
of Style') |
25 years ago
(2 Oct 1985) |
Death of Rock Hudson, American actor, the
first celebrity to die of AIDS |
25 years ago
(6 Oct 1985) |
Tottenham riots. A police officer was hacked
to death by a mob during riots at the Broadwater Farm housing
estate in Tottenham, north London |
25 years ago
(6 Oct 1985) |
Death of Nelson Riddle, American pop music
arranger and composer |
25 years ago
(10 Oct 1985) |
Death of Yul Brynner, award-winning Russian-born
American actor ('The King and I', 'The
Magnificent Seven', 'Westworld', and many
more) |
25 years ago
(10 Oct 1985) |
Death of Orson Welles, American actor, director
and producer ('Citizen Kane', 'War of the
Worlds', etc) |
20 years ago
(3 Oct 1990) |
East and West Germany reunited as the Federal
Republic of Germany |
20 years ago
(8 Oct 1990) |
Britain joined the European Exchange Rate
Mechanism (ERM) |
20 years ago
(15 Oct 1990) |
Apartheid: South Africa’s Separate
Amenities Act was repealed |
15 years ago
(3 Oct 1995) |
American football star and actor OJ Simpson
was found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown
Simpson and Ronald Goldman |
15 years ago
(16 Oct 1995) |
The Million Man March took place in Washington,
D.C., USA |
10 years ago
(1 Oct 2000) |
Death of Reginald Kray, British gangster
(the Kray twins) |
10 years ago
(6 Oct 2000) |
Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia,
was forced to resign after protestors stormed parliament
over allegations of vote-rigging |
10 years ago
(11 Oct 2000) |
Death of Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland |
10 years ago
(17 Oct 2000) |
Hatfield rail crash. 4 people were killed
when a high-speed passenger train derailed due to a cracked
rail, in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK. (The spiralling cost
of the subsequent national rail replacement programme forced
Railtrack into administration) |
10 years ago
(30 Oct 2000) |
Death of Steve Allen, American entertainer,
actor, writer, songwriter and comedian |
10 years ago
(31 Oct 2000) |
Death of Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter |
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