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September 29th
1714 ~ George, Elector of Hanover, arrived in Greenwich to assume the British throne as King George I. (Thanks dm383!)
1901 ~ Birthday of Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist. Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1957 ~ The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds.
1960 ~ Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a meeting of the UN General Assembly.
1962 ~ Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite was launched.
1973 ~ Death of W. H. Auden, English poet.
1975 ~ Birthday of Ava Vincent, Porn Actress.
1978 ~ Death of Pope John Paul, who reigned just 33 days.
2004 ~ The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passed within 964,000 miles of Earth.
2008 ~ The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
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October 1st
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''.
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 U.S. returned sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama. The Canal is a truly remarkable engineering achievement.
1982 ~ Birthday of Reese Rideout, Porn Actor.
2009 ~ The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, assumed the last judicial functions of the House of Lords.
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October 2nd
1187 ~ Saladin captured Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1836 ~ Charles Darwin returned to England after a 5-year journey aboard the HMS Beagle collecting data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
1869 ~ Birthday of Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian political leader.
1890 ~ Birthday of Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor.
1935 ~ Italy invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
1951 ~ Birthday of Sting, English musician & actor.
1967 ~ Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
1985 ~ Death of Rock Hudson, Actor.
1987 ~ Death of Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1993 ~ Hardline Communists riot in Moscow.
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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 when 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.
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.
1982 ~ Death of Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist.
1983 ~ The first Hooters restaurant opened in Clearwater, Florida.
1989 ~ Death of Secretariat, Triple Crown Winner.
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 7th
1571 ~ The Ottoman Empire was defeated at the battle of Lepanto.
1849 ~ Death of Edgar Allan Poe, American writer.
1885 ~ Birthday of Niels Bohr, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1922.
1908 ~ Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece.
1931 ~ Birthday of Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and anti-apartheid activist, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
1955 ~ Birthday of Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist.
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.
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.
2004 ~ Death of Jacques Derrida, French philosopher.
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October 11th
1844 ~ Birthday of Henry Heinz, food manufacturer.
1896 ~ Death of Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer.
1899 ~ In South Africa, a war between the UK and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State began.
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.
1971 ~ Death of Chesty Puller, the most decorated U.S. Marine.
1975 ~ Saturday Night Live debuted with George Carlin as the host.
1976 ~ China's "Gang of Four" was arrested.
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 arrested by agents of the French king, to be later tortured into admitting heresy.
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.
1954 ~ Birthday of Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician.
1982 ~ Birthday of Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer.
1988 ~ The UK government lost the Spycatcher battle
1990 ~ Death of Lê Ðức 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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