And the next date in the calendar is....

[MassRuss]

October 17, 1912 - Birth of Pope John Paul I

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I

 

[unloadonme]

18 October 1541 – Birth of Margaret Tudor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Tudor

 

[MassRuss]

October 19, 1216 - Death of King John of England. Son succeeds him as Henry III

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_John_of_England

 

[MassRuss]

October 20, 1632 - Birth of English architect Sir Christopher Wren

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wren

 

[MassRuss]

October 21, 1833 - Birth of Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor of dynamite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

 

[MassRuss]

October 22, 1746 - College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives it's charter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University

 

[MassRuss]

October 23, 1715 - Birth of Tsar Peter II of Russia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_II_of_Russia

 

[MassRuss]

October 29, 1929 - Black Tuesday - Wall Street Stock Market Crash. Beginning of Great Depression

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_1929

 

[Pickwick]

December 30 1270 The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.

 

[MassRuss]

October 29, 1929 - Black Tuesday - Wall Street Stock Market Crash. Beginning of Great Depression

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[B]OOPS This should read October [COLOR="#FF0000"]24[/COLOR][/B]

 

[MassRuss]

October 25, 1154 - Henry II becomes King of England

RIP Peter O'Toole.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_England

 

[Pickwick]

OOPS This should read October 24

Ok so now you mean that I have to go back to October the 26... Where is my Time Machine ?!!! Ah here it is !

October 26 1776 Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.

 

[unloadonme]

^ Can you two be trusted with the thread?

27 October 939 – Death of King Æthelstan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Æthelstan

 

[MassRuss]

We can but try......Welcome back, Drac!!

October 28, 1708 - Death of George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne of the UK

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George_of_Denmark

 

[unloadonme]

29 October 1740 – Birth of James Boswell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boswell

 

[MassRuss]

October 30, 1485 - Henry VII is crowned. First of the Tudor Monarchs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England

 

[unloadonme]

31 October 1723 – Death of Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

 

[MassRuss]

November 1, 1549 - Birth of Anna of Austria, a Queen of Spain (she married her maternal uncle, Phillip II - and they say West Virginia is bad, LOL)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_of_Austria,_Queen_of_Spain

 

[unloadonme]

2 November 1767 – Birth of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward,_Duke_of_Kent_and_Strathearn

 

[MassRuss]

November 3, 1901 - Birth of Leopold III of Belgium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_III_of_Belgium