October's History

October in history:
1st october:
1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
1843 – The News of the World tabloid began publication in London.
1887 – Balochistan conquered by the British Empire. 1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
2nd october:
1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1941 – World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
3rd october:
1845 – The US Naval Academy is first opened.
1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
1932 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
4th october:
1209 – Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III. 1227 – Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
1537 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1777 – Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
5th october:
610 – Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
1665 – The University of Kiel is founded. 1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
6th october:
1762 – Seven Years' War: conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war.
1854 – The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
7th october:
1828 – The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War – Siege of Paris: Leon Gambetta flees Paris in a balloon.
8th october:
1813 – The Treaty of Ried was signed between Bayern and Austria.
1956 – New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series; one of only 18 perfect games in MLB history.
9th october:
768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
1806 – Prussia declares war on France.
10th october:
680 – Battle of Karbala: Hussain bin Ali by forces under , the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitatedCaliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah.
1957 – The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.
11th october:
1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1910 – Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
12th october:
1792 – First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited in unison by students in US public schools.
13th october:
1777 – After his defeat on October 7, 1777, General John Burgoyne's Army at The Battles of Saratoga .
1884 – Greenwich is established as universal time meridian of longitude.
14th october:
1789 – George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day. 1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
15th october:
1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
1888 – The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by the investigators. 1932 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
16th october:
1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
17th october:
1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1941 – For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
18th october:
1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
1908 – Belgium annexes the Congo Free State.
1914 – The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
19th october:
1914 – The First Battle of Ypres begins.
1917 – Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
20th october:
1944 – The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia.
1910 – The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
21st october:
1096 – Turkish army annihilates the People's Army of the West, People's Crusade.
1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
22nd october:
1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
1924 – Toastmasters International is founded.
1956 – A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
23rd october:
1642 – Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
1929 – The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California.
1946 – The United Nations General Assembly convened for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
24th october:
1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1917 – The day of the October revolution, The Red Revolution.
25th october:
1760 – George III becomes King of Great Britain.
1147 – Seljuk Turks completely annihilate German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
26th october:
1825 – The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
1861 – The Pony Express officially ceased operations.
27th october:
939 – Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
1524 – Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
28th october:
1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
29th october:
1658 – Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle).
1863 – Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
30th october:
758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.
1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
31st october:
1864 – Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
1876 – A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths.
1926 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.