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October 1 1955 |
"Honeymooners" premieres |
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October 2 1950
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"Peanuts," created by Charles M. Schulz, was
first published |
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October 3 1990 |
East Germany & West Germany merge to become
Germany |
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October 4 1970 |
Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead in her Hollywood
hotel room |
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October 5 1970 |
Members of the Front de liberation du Quebec
kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross |
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October 6 1886 |
Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The
Resident Patient" |
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October 7 1849 |
Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore at age 40
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October 8 1904 |
Edmonton was incorporated as a city
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October 9 1967 |
Che Guevara executed in Bolivia
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October 10 1846 |
Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William
Lassell |
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October 11 1862 |
Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission,
was launched |
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October 12 1935 |
Birth of Luciano Pavarotti |
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October 13 54 |
Death of Claudius I |
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October 14 1066 |
The Normans under William the Conqueror defeated
the English at the Battle of Hastings |
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October 15 1917 |
Mata Hari, a Dutch dancer who had spied for
the Germans, was executed by a French firing squad outside Paris
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October 16 1984 |
Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins the
Nobel Peace Prize |
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October 17 1888 |
John A. Macdonald was sworn in as prime minister
for the second time |
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October 18 1919 |
Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born in Montreal
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October 19 1957 |
Maurice (Rocket) Richard of the Montreal Canadiens
became the first National Hockey League player to score 500 career goals
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October 20 1632 |
Birth of Sir Christopher Wren |
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October 21 1520 |
Magellan entered the strait which bears his
name |
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October 22 1844 |
The birth of Louis Riel |
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October 23 1959 |
Birth of "Weird Al" Yankovic |
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October 24 1929 |
"Black Thursday," beginning of stock market
crash |
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October 25 1924 |
1st appearance of Little Orphan Annie comic
strip |
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October 26 1825 |
The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York,
connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River |
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October 27 1998 |
The National Post newspaper was launched in
Toronto |
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October 28 1922 |
Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government
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October 29 1889 |
Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
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October 30 1938 |
"The War of the Worlds," starring Orson Welles,
aired on CBS |
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October 31 1926 |
Death of magician Harry Houdini
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