On this day ......

[Pickwick]

We could use an assassin though!!

nice thought should think about it !

 

[MassRuss]

October 8, 1918 - Alvin York earns Medal of Honor. In the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, York captured 32 machine guns, 132 German prisoners, killed 28 Germans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_C._York

 

[unloadonme]

8 October 1895 – Birth of King Zog of Albania

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

 

[Pickwick]

09 October 1757 birth of Charles X of France (last "King of France" as the next one will be called "King of the French")

 

[MassRuss]

October 9, 1958 - Death of Pope Pius XII, known as Hitler's Pope

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

 

[unloadonme]

9 October 1934 – Death of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia

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

 

[MassRuss]

October 10, 1895 - Birth of Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen - Luftwaffe Field Marshall

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

 

[Pickwick]

10 October 732 Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.

 

[unloadonme]

10 October 1678 – Birth of John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll

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

 

[Pickwick]

11 October 1797 Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. The outcome of the battle was a decisive British victory.

 

[unloadonme]

11 October 1884 – Birth of Eleanor Roosevelt

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

 

[MassRuss]

October 12, 1915 - Nurse Edith Cavell executed by the Germans for helping Allied soldiers escape Belgium

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

 

[unloadonme]

12 October 1872 – Birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM

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

 

[MassRuss]

October 13, 1966 - Death of actor Clifton Webb

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

 

[unloadonme]

13 October 1925 – Birth of Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS

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

 

[Pickwick]

12 October 1492 Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies

13 October 1943 World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.

14 October 1940 Balham subway station disaster in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain

 

[MassRuss]

October 14, 1939 - U-17 sinks HMS Royal Oak @ Scapa Flow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Royal_Oak_(08)

 

[unloadonme]

14 October 1633 – Birth of King James II of England

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

 

[MassRuss]

October 15, 1793 - Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried & convicted in a pre-determined trial in Paris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Antoinette

 

[Pickwick]

October 15, 1793 - Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried & convicted in a pre-determined trial in Paris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Antoinette

If only I could go back in time.......................


15 October 1815 Napoleon I "of France" ( What ? Is was Corsican !) begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. I wouldn't change that !