On this day ......

[unloadonme]

1 October 1890 – Birth of Stanley Holloway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Holloway

 

[BillyT]

October 1, 1936 – Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.

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[unloadonme]

3 October 1916 – Birth of James Herriot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herriot

 

[BillyT]

October 3, 1918 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.

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[unloadonme]

4 October 1743 – Death of John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell,_2nd_Duke_of_Argyll

 

[BillyT]

October 4, 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

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[unloadonme]

6 October 1892 – Death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson

 

[BillyT]

October 6, 1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.

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[unloadonme]

8 October 1895 – Birth of King Zog I of Albania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zog_I_of_Albania

 

[BillyT]

October 8, 1895 – Eulmi incident: Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by Japanese infiltrators inside Gyeongbok Palace.

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[unloadonme]

10 October 1765 – Death of Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Sackville,_1st_Duke_of_Dorset

 

[BillyT]

October 10, 1954 – David Lee Roth, American singer-songwriter and producer was born.

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[unloadonme]

13 October 54 – Emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances; his 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius

 

[BillyT]

October 13, 1925 – Margaret Thatcher, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was born.

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[unloadonme]

15 October 1881 – Birth of Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (P G Wodehouse)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse

 

[BillyT]

October 15, 1943 – Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer is born.

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[unloadonme]

20 October 1818 – The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_1818

 

[BillyT]

October 20, 1968 – Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.

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[unloadonme]

24 October 2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde

 

[dynk]

24 October 2016

My car gets a new Windshield.