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- 0069 Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
- 1260 Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
- 1260 The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- 1360 The Treaty of Brtigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
- 1593 Alleged teleportation of Gil Perez.
- 1648 Peace of Westphalia ends 30 year war and Holy Roman Empire
- 1648 The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
- 1795 Poland Ceases to Exist. Country is divided between Prussia, Austria, and Russia,
- 1812 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
- 1836 The match is patented (took me a minute think striking a match)
- 1851 William Lassell discovers Ariel andUmbriel, satellites of Uranus
- 1856 Constitution of South Australia adopted
- 1857 Sheffield F.C., the world's first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.
- 1857 World's first soccer club, Sheffield F.C., founded in England
- 1871 Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese
- 1889 Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
- 1901 Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
- 1901 First woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
- 1903 George Sutton becomes billiard champ
- 1911 Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years. [1]
- 1911 Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
- 1917 Battle of Caporetto starts on the Austro-Italian front of World War I
- 1917 The day of the October revolution, The Red Revolution.
- 1926 Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1929 "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
- 1929 "Black Thursday," beginning of stock market crash
- 1930 A bloodless coup d'tat in Brazil ousts Washington Lus Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as "provisional president."
- 1939 Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"
- 1940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
- 1940 Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
- 1942 Start of second El Alamein battle, Egypt
- 1943 Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
- 1944 In air-sea battle in the Sibuyan Sea, carrier aircraft attack Japanese Center Force.
- 1945 Founding of the United Nations
- 1945 United Nations Charter becomes effective
- 1947 Series of forest fires burn $30 million of timber (New England States)
- 1947 Walt Disney testifies to the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
- 1951 United Nations publishes its first postage stamps
- 1952 Arab Liberation Movement becomes the only party of Syria
- 1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
- 1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary
- 1957 The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
- 1958 USS Kleinsmith (APD-134) evacuates U.S. nationals from Nicaro, Cuba.
- 1960 Disaster on USSR launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin and team (unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in plane crash
- 1960 Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshall Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash
- 1962 U.S. Military Forces put on High Alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis,
- 1963 Number one hit on UK music charts - Brian Poole & The Tremeloes - Do You Love Me
- 1964 Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony)
- 1964 Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- 1968 Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on œ50 bail
- 1968 Visitor posting - Henry Mckinnon, the greatest man in the word was born - USA
- 1969 Elizabeth Taylor receives from Richard Burton a diamond ring weighing more than 69 carats and worth more than $1,000,000
- 1970 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
- 1970 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
- 1971 Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)
- 1973 Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ Turnpike
- 1973 John Lennon sues US govt to admit the FBI is tapping his phone
- 1973 Visitor posting - October 24 1973 Nick Van kerckhoven BORN!
- 1973 Yom Kippur War ends
- 1973 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
- 1976 First Jewish film and TV festival
- 1977 Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
- 1978 Visitor posting - a pumkin named Nichole A. Matheson is born.
- 1979 Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc
- 1979 Visitor posting - A PRECIOUS BABY GIRL NAMED SHANNON WAS BORN!!!!! - USA
- 1980 Government of Poland legalises Solidarity trade union
- 1980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
- 1984 11 members of the Colombo crime family arrested
- 1984 Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed
- 1984 Steffi Graf plays her first pro tennis match
- 1986 Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi was helped by Syrian officials.
- 1986 Visitor posting - Entertainer Aubrey Drake Graham known as Drake was born - USA
- 1987 Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
- 1988 Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released
- 1988 Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown
- 1989 After a week's delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played (World Series #86)
- 1989 Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud
- 1990 Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind" clandestine paramilitary NATO army.
- 1994 Visitor posting - The BEST person evahh was born...Baillie Bryanne Nichols(: - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - The beautiful baby Alys was born!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xxxxxxx - United Kingdom
- 1996 Visitor posting - Andrea Flores was born!!! (the best thing that happend in this world!) - USA
- 1998 Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
- 2002 Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
- 2005 Club Penguin is created.
- 2005 Visitor posting - Rosa Parks dies - USA
- 2006 Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause", an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act.
- 2008 Disney's High School Musical 3: Senior Year is the third installment in Disney's High School Musical film franchise. Its theatrical release in the United States began on October 24, 2008. In its first 3 days, High School Musical 3: Senior Year grossed $42 million in North America and an additional $40 million overseas, breaking the record for the largest opening weekend for a musical film.
- 2009 A magnitude 7.0 undersea earthquake strikes off the coast of eastern Indonesia
- 2009 An assassination attempt on President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov is averted.
- 2009 At least 15 people are killed after two trains collide in Al-Ayyat, near Cairo, Egypt.
- 2009 Burma's Prime Minister Thein Sein tells the 15th ASEAN summit his government is prepared to relax the house arrest on National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- 2009 Less than a week after the release of GOAL aid workers Sharon Commins and Hilda Kawuki, the International Committee of the Red Cross confirms one of its French employees has been abducted in Darfur.
- 2009 Morrissey, ex-frontman of The Smiths, is hospitalized after collapsing on stage while performing "This Charming Man" during his world tour.
- 2009 Pakistan reports re-gaining control of Kotkai, South Waziristan, birthplace of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud and also the hometown of the Taliban's master trainer of suicide bombers, Qari Hussain, after a week of fierce fighting with the Taliban.
- 2009 Rosanna Al-Yami, a female journalist in Saudi Arabia, is sentenced to sixty lashes and a two-year travel ban for her involvement in a controversial sex programme.
- 2009 Senior envoys from North Korea and the United States hold rare talks on North Korea's nuclear programme in New York City.
- 2009 Ten corpses with gunshot wounds thought to belong to a kidnapped Colombian football team are located in Venezuela
- 2009 The International Day of Climate Action occurred worldwide in prelude to the United Nations Climate Change Conference of 2009, with over 5,400 actions to raise awareness of the assertion that 350 ppm is the maximum safe level of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, and call for mitigation of global warming before Earth reaches a climatological tipping point. (New York Times) (
- 2009 The ruling National Movement for the Development of Society wins a controversial parliamentary election in Niger.
- 2009 Thousands of people protest in London, England, demanding the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan.
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