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Forthcoming
anniversaries of
historic events for you
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A sample of the entries
for October from The
Date-A-Base Book 2010
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* (200) First Oktoberfest
* (150) First British Open golf championship
* (150) Second Opium War ends
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(100) Los Angeles Times building destroyed by bomb
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(100) Portuguese Revolution
* (100) RMS Olympic launched
(sister ship of the Titanic)
* (100) Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen guilty of killing
wife, sentenced to death
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(80) British airship R101 crashes in France on maiden
voyage
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(80) Military coup in Brazi, President de Sousa ousted
* (75) Italy invades Abyssinia
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(75) Mao Zedong's Long March ends
* (70) WWII: Hitler and Mussolini
hold war conference in the Alps
* (70) WWII: German
bomb destroys St. Paul's Cathedral
altar, London
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(70) WWII: Warsaw Ghetto established in Poland
* (70) WWII: Battle of Britain ends
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(60) Peanuts comic strip debuts
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(60) Korean War: UN troops capture Pyongyang
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(50) Nigeria gains independence from UK
* (50) Britain launches first nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnought
* (50) Cassius Clay (Muhammad
Ali) wins first professional fight
* (50) UK's first successful kidney transplant
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(40) PBS launches in USA
* (40) Fiji gains independence from UK
* (40) Anwar Sadat becomes President of Egypt
* (40) Doonesbury comic strip
debuts
* (30) British council tenants gain right
to buy
homes
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(30) Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns due to ill health
* (30) Polish Solidarity trade union
recognised by government
* (25) Toxteth and Peckham riots in UK
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(25) Tottenham riots in UK
* (20) East and West Germany reunite
* (20) Britain joins Exchange Rate
Mechanism (ERM)
* (20) S. Africa’s Separate Amenities Act repealed
* (15) OJ Simpson
found not guilty
of double murder
* (15) Million Man March in Washington,
D.C.
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(10) Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resigns due to vote-rigging
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(10) Hatfield rail crash, UK
Birth
anniversaries
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(150) Elmer Sperry
(150) Andrew Volstead
(150) Juliette Gordon Low
(100) Bonnie Parker
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(100) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
(80) Robert Atkins
(75) Luciano Pavarotti
(70) John Lennon |
Death anniversaries
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(250) King George II
(100) Julia Ward Howe
(100) King Rama V of Siam
(100) Henri Dunant
(60) Al Jolson
(60) King Gustav V of Sweden
(40) Janis Joplin
(30) Hattie Jacques
(30) Hans Asperger
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(25) E.B. White
(25) Rock Hudson
(25) Nelson Riddle
(25) Yul Brynner
(25) Orson Welles
(10) Reginald Kray
(10) Donald Dewar
(10) Steve Allen
(10) Ring Lardner, Jr. |
Anniversaries
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The Date-A-Base
Book 2010
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Date-A-Base Book 2011
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