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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER. 01/10/1908. The 1 st . Model T Ford went on sale. 01/10/1949. The people’s Republic of China was established. 01/10/1960. Nigeria became an independent country. 01/10/2013. Famous American Author Tom

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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER

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  1. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 01/10/1908. The 1st. Model T Ford went on sale. 01/10/1949. The people’s Republic of China was established. 01/10/1960. Nigeria became an independent country. 01/10/2013. Famous American Author Tom Clancy dies. 02/10/1869. Mohandas K. Gandhi. Indian political leader is born.

  2. THIS MONTH IN HISTYORYOCTOBER 04/10/1957. The U.S.S.R. launches Sputnick 1. The 1st artificial satellite. 05/10/1582. The Gregorian calendar is introduced. 05/07/1954. The B.B.C. broadcasts its 1st. television program.

  3. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 06/10/1981. Anwar el Sadat. The President of Egypt is assassinated. 07/10/1935. Thomas Keneally. Australian writer is born. 09/10/1962. Uganda becomes independent. 09/10/2013. Mark “Chopper’ Read. Famous Australian criminal dies of Liver Cancer.

  4. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 10/10/1659. Abel Tasman. The 1st European to visit Tasmania & New Zealand dies.

  5. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 10/10/1938. The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. 10/10/1985. Orson Welles. American film producer, actor & director dies. 10/10/2010. Dame Joan Sutherland. Famous Australian Opera singer dies.

  6. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 11/10/1738. Arthur Phillip. Commander of the 1st. Fleet & the 1st Governor of N.S.W. is born in London. 11/10/1937. Sir Bobby Charlton. Famous English & Manchester United Footballer is born. 11/10/1962. Pope John 23rd. opens the 2nd. Vatican Council.

  7. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 12/10/1937. Luciano Pavarotti. Famous Italian Tenor is born. 13/10/2010. 33 miners are rescued alive in Chile after spending a record 69 days underground. 14/10/1937. Roger Moore. English actor. (James Bond) is born. .

  8. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 14/10/1944. German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel dies. 14/101958. Douglas Mawson. Australian Antarctic Explorer dies. 14/10/1959. Errol Flynn. Australian actor dies. .

  9. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 14/10/1962. Soviet nuclear missiles are discovered in Cuba beginning the Cuban Missile Crisis. 14/10/1977. Bing Crosby. Famous American singer & actor dies. 14/10/1990. Leonard Bernstein. American composer & conductor dies.

  10. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 15/10/70BC. Virgil. The Roman poet is born. 16/10/1854. Oscar Wilde. Irish born dramatist is born. 16/10/1984. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 17/10/1959. George C. Marshall. U.S. General in W.W.2. & Secretary of State dies.

  11. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 17/10/2010. Mary Mackillop is canonised in Rome & becomes Australia’s first Saint. 18/10/1867. The U.S.A. purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2Million. 18/10/1922. The B.B.C. is founded. 18/10/1954. Texas Instruments announces the 1st. ever Transistor Radio.

  12. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 18/10/1960. The Belgium actor Jean Claude van Damme is born. 19/10/1879. Thomas Edison 1st. demonstrates the Electric light. 19/10/1931. The English novelist John le Carre is born. 19/10/2003. Mother Teresa is Beautified by Pope John Paul 2nd.

  13. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 19/10/2005. Saddam Hussein goes on trial for crimes against humanity. 20/10/1632. Sir Christopher Wren. The English architect is born. 20/10/1944. U.S.. Forces land in the Philippines in W.W.2. led by General Douglas Macarthur. “I have returned”.

  14. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 20/10/1964. Herbert Hoover. 31st. President of the U.S.A. dies. 20/10/1973. The Sydney Opera House opens. 20/10/1994. Burt Lancaster. American actor dies. 21/10/1520. Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Straits of Magellan.

  15. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 21/10/1805. British Admiral Lord Nelson is killed at the Battle of Trafalgar. 21/10/1833. Alfred Noble. The founder of the Nobel Prize is born. 21/10/1945. Women are allowed to vote for the 1st. time in France. 21/10/1962. David Campese. Famous Australian Rugby player is born.

  16. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 22/10/1734. Daniel Boone. American pioneer is born. 22/10/1811. Franz Liszt . Hungarian pianist & composer is born. 22/10/1906. Paul Cezanne. French artist dies.

  17. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 22/10/1923. Bert Trautmann. German Goalkeeper who broke his neck & continued playing in the 1956 F.A. Cup Final is born. 22/10/2009. Don Lane. Australian comedian & T.V. personality dies.

  18. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 23/10/1940. Pele. Brazilian footballer & Politician is born. 23/10/1942. British forces attack El Alamein in Egypt in W.W.2. 24/10/1861. The 1st. Transcontinental Telegram is sent. 24/10/1945. The United Nations is established.

  19. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY.OCTOBER 24/10/1973. The Yom Kippur War ends between Israel & the Arab States. 24/10/2008. “Bloody Friday” saw many of the World’s Stock Exchanges experience the worst decline in their history.

  20. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 25/10/1616. Dirk Hartog becomes the 2nd. European to land on Australian soil. 25/10/1760. George 3rd. is crowned King of England. 25/10/1881. The Spanish painter Pablo Picasso is born.

  21. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 26/10/ International Red Cross Day. 26/10/1905. Norway becomes independent from Sweden. 27/10/1466. Erasmus. The Dutch humanist & theologian is born. 27/10/1728. Captain James Cook. Explorer. is born.

  22. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 27/10/1858. Theodore Roosevelt. The 26th. President of the U.S.A. & winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is born. 27/10/1938. John Cleese. British writer & actor is born.

  23. THIS WEEK IN HISTORY.OCTOBER 28/10/1914. Jonas Salk. Developer of the Polio Vaccine is born. 28/10/1929. Black Monday. The Wall Street crash & the beginning of the Great Depression. 28/10/1952. Billy Hughes. Prime Minister of Australia in W.W.1. dies.

  24. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 28/10/1962. Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces the removal of Soviet Nuclear missiles in Cuba. 28/10/1967. American actress Julia Roberts is born. 29/10/1987. Joseph Goebbels. Nazi Propaganda Minister is born.

  25. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 30/10/1920. The Communist Party of Australia is founded. 30/10/1922. Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy. 30/10/1979. Sir Barnes Wallace. British Scientist, Engineer & Inventor “Of Dambusters Fame” dies.

  26. THIS MONTH IN HISTORYOCTOBER 31/10/ Halloween in many countries. 31/10/1795. John Keats. English poet is born. 31/10/1984. Indira Ghandi. Prime Minister of India is assassinated.

  27. QUOTE OF THE MONTH: “ I have returned. By the Grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.” General Douglas Macarthur on landing in Leyte, the Philippines 20/10/1944.

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