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October 1st
1903 ~ The visiting Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Americans 7-3 in the first World Series game.
1905 ~ The Julliard School of Music was founded in New York City.
1939 ~ British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast described the Soviet Union as ''a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma''.
1943 ~ The International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremburg sentenced 12 Nazi leaders to death.
1949 ~ The People's Republic of China was formed with Mao Zedong as its head.
1961 ~ The New York Yankees' Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season.
1968 ~ The cult horror movie "Night of the Living Dead" had its world premiere in Pittsburgh.
1971 ~ Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida. Eventually it would become the largest, man-made, tourist attraction in the world.
1976 ~ Birthday of Dora Venter, Hungarian Porn Actress.
1979 ~ The United States returned sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
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October 3rd
1873 ~ Birthday of Emily Post, etiquette advisor.
1900 ~ Birthday of Thomas Wolfe, American novelist.
1916 ~ Birthday of James Herriot, veterinarian, author.
1922 ~ Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to be seated in the U.S. Senate. She was appointed to serve out the remaining term of Sen. Thomas E. Watson.
1925 ~ Birthday of Gore Vidal, author.
1967 ~ Death of Woody Guthrie, folk musician.
1973 ~ Frank Robinson was named major league baseball's first black manager as he was put in charge of the Cleveland Indians.
1990 ~ The re-unification of Germany. East Germany ceased to exist.
1995 ~ A jury found O.J. Simpson not guilty of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.
1997 ~ Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.
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October 4th
1903 ~ Birthday of John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor of the digital electronic computer.
1924 ~ Birthday of Charlton Heston, Actor.
1941 ~ Birthday of Anne Rice, Author.
1943 ~ Birthday of H. Rap Brown, civil rights activist & murderer.
1957 ~ Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1983 ~ The first Hooters restaurant opened in Clearwater, Florida.
1985 ~ Free Software Foundation founded.
1993 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the army to begin storming the Russian parliament building.
2002 ~ John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban”, received a 20-year sentence.
2004 ~ The SpaceShipOne rocket plane broke through Earth's atmosphere for the second time in five days to capture a $10 million prize.
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October 5th
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October 6th
1600 ~ Jacopo Peri's “Euridice”, the earliest surviving opera, premiered in Florence.
1846 ~ Birthday of George Westinghouse, Engineer & Inventor.
1892 ~ Death of Alfred Tennyson, British poet laureate.
1914 ~ Birthday of Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, leader of the “Kon-Tiki” expedition.
1927 ~ Opening of “The Jazz Singer”, the first talking movie.
1948 ~ Birthday of Gerry Adams, Irish politician.
1973 ~ Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, starting the Yom Kippur War.
1981 ~ Anwar al-Sadat was assassinated.
1887 ~ Death of Bette Davis, Actress.
1995 ~ The first extrasolar planet was discovered orbiting 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus.
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October 7th
1571 ~ The Ottoman Empire was defeated at the battle of Lepanto.
1796 ~ Death of Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher.
1849 ~ Death of Edgar Allan Poe, American writer.
1885 ~ Birthday of Niels Bohr, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1922.
1931 ~ Birthday of Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and anti-apartheid activist, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
1982 ~ "Cats" opened on Broadway.
1985 ~ The “Achille Lauro” was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
1986 ~ Birthday of Bree Olson, Porn Actress.
2001 ~ The U.S. began its air offensive against al-Qaeda and the Taleban in Afghanistan.
2003 ~ California governor Gray Davis was recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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October 8th
1871 ~ The Great Chicago Fire destroyed about 17,450 buildings, killed about 250 people and left another 90,000 homeless.
1920 ~ Birthday of Frank Herbert, Science Fiction writer.
1949 ~ Birthday of Sigourney Weaver, Actress.
1952 ~ The UK suffered its worst peacetime rail accident.
1961 ~ In London, the Post Office Tower opened.
1969 ~ Birthday of Julia Ann, Porn Actress.
1982 ~ Solidarity, and all other labor organizations in Poland, were banned.
1992 ~ Death of Willy Brandt, German politician.
2003 ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California.
2004 ~ Martha Stewart went to jail.
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October 11th
1844 ~ Birthday of Henry Heinz, food manufacturer.
1899 ~ In South Africa, a war between the UK and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State began.
1958 ~ Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far as planned, fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.
1961 ~ Death of Chico Marx, comedian.
1962 ~ Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council.
1968 ~ Launch of Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission.
1975 ~ The debut of Saturday Night Live.
1976 ~ China's "Gang of Four" was arrested.
1991 ~ Death of Redd Foxx, Comedian & actor.
2002 ~ The U.S. Senate joined the House in approving the use of America's military against Iraq.
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October 13th
54 ~ Death of Claudius, Roman Emperor.
1307 ~ All Knights Templar in France were simultaneously arrested by agents of the French king, to be later tortured into admitting heresy.
1773 ~ Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy.
1812 ~ Death of Sir Isaac Brock, British general (killed in the Battle of Queenston Heights).
1925 ~ Birthday of Margaret Thatcher, UK PM.
1943 ~ Italy changes alliances from the Axis to the Allies.
1982 ~ Birthday of Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer.
1988 ~ The UK government lost the Spycatcher battle
1990 ~ Death of Lê Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general & politician, awarded one half of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize.
1992 ~ The UK government announced plans to close one third of the coal mines.
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October 14th
1066 ~ Battle of Hastings: The Norman army of William the Conqueror defeated the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England.
1944 ~ Given the choice between a public treason trial followed by death by firing squad or suicide with honor, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chose the latter.
1947 ~ Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
1964 ~ Civil Rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1966 ~ Birthday of Savanna Samson, Porn Actress.
1977 ~ Death of Bing Crosby, Actor & Singer.
1983 ~ Birthday of Vanessa Lane, Porn Actress.
1990 ~ Death of Leonard Bernstein, Composer & Conductor.
1991 ~ Aung San Suu Kyi was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1994 ~ PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
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