Historical Events on October
1947
The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
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The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
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World War II: Battle of Britain: During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
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Pope John Paul II shakes hands with the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
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The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series; this would be their last until clinching the 2016 World Series.
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While campaigning in Milwaukee, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
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Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize.
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Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
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After 38 years, the world's first teletext service (BBC's Ceefax) ceases broadcast due to Northern Ireland completing the digital switchover.
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First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.
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In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
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Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
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Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
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Famous Birthdays on October
- 1924
Jimmy Carter
- 1869
Mahatma Gandhi
- 1981
Zlatan Ibrahimović
- 1952
Vladimir Putin
- 1925
Margaret Thatcher
- 1906
Hannah Arendt
- 1989
PewDiePie
- 1947
Hillary Clinton
Famous Deaths on October
- 2011
Steve Jobs
- 1806
Benjamin Banneker
- 1958
Pope Pius XII
- 1985
Orson Welles
- 1944
Erwin Rommel
- 2011
Muammar Gaddafi
- 2012
George McGovern
- 1984
Indira Gandhi