On this day ......

[unloadonme]

23 October 1642 – Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.

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

 

[MassRuss]

October 23, 1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf begins

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

 

[Pickwick]

October 23 1537 death of Jane Seymour, English wife of Henry VIII of England

 

[unloadonme]

24 October 1882 – Birth of Dame Sybil Thorndike, CH, DBE

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

 

[MassRuss]

October 24, 1929 - Black Tuesday - Wall Street Crash - Beginning of Great Depression

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

 

[unloadonme]

25 October 1154 – Death of King Stephen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen,_King_of_England

 

[MassRuss]

October 25, 1881 - Birth of Picasso

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

 

[unloadonme]

25 October 1886 – Birth of Leo G Carroll

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_G._Carroll

 

[unloadonme]

26 October 1686 – Death of John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Egerton,_2nd_Earl_of_Bridgewater

 

[MassRuss]

October 26, 1905 - Norway becomes independent of Sweden

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

 

[unloadonme]

27 October 939 – Death of Æthelstan, King of the English.

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

 

[MassRuss]

October 27, 1977 - Death of author James M Cain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Cain

 

[Pickwick]

October 25 1415 The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.


October 26 1775 King George III of Great Britain goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.


October 27 1401 Birth of Catherine de Valois daughter of Charles VI of France, wife of Henry V of England, mother of Henry VI of England.


October 28 1628 The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.

 

[unloadonme]

28 October 1708 – Death of Prince George of Denmark

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

 

[MassRuss]

October 28, 1972 - Birth of singer Brad Paisley

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

 

[Pickwick]

October 29 1422 Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France though he isn't officially crowned king until 1429 thanks to Joan of Arc.

 

[MassRuss]

October 29, 1901 - Leon Czolgosz, assassin of President William McKinley, is electrocuted

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

 

[Pickwick]

October 30 1485 King Henry VII of England is crowned.

 

[MassRuss]

October 30, 1922 - Mussolini is named Prime Minister of Italy

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

 

[unloadonme]

30 October 1809 – Death of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cavendish-Bentinck,_3rd_Duke_of_Portland