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1 Oct. |
1207 |
Birth of
England's King Henry III |
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2 Oct. |
1452 |
England's
last Plantagenet King Richard III is born. |
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3 Oct. |
1957 |
The
children's cartoon hero Captain Pugwash makes his television debut |
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4 Oct. |
1911 |
Britain's
first escalator opens at London's Earls Court |
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5 Oct. |
1930 |
The British
airship R101 crashes near Beauvais, France killing 48 people. |
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6 Oct. |
1892 |
Death of the
English Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord
Tennyson, who immortalised
'The Six Hundred' in his poem, 'The Charge of the
Light Brigade' |
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7 Oct.
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1571
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Don
John of Austria defeats the Turkish fleet at Lepanto.
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8 Oct.
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1967
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Clement
(Richard) Atlee dies. British Labour politician. As Prime
Minister 1945-5 introduced radical reform of the social welfare
system and introduced the N.H.S.
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9 Oct. |
1967 |
Revolutionary
leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is captured and shot dead in Bolivia
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10 Oct. |
1913 |
Woodrow Wilson, US President opens the Panama Canal
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11 Oct. |
1899 |
Start of the Anglo-Boer War
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12
Oct.
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1984
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An
IRA terrorist bomb kills 4 people at the Grand Hotel, Brighton,
England
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13
Oct
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1852
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Birth
of Lillie
Langtry, actress and mistress of King
Edward VII
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| 14
Oct.
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1066
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Harold
II, England's last Anglo-Saxon King was killed at the Battle of Hastings
in Sussex - possibly by an arrow in the eye as shown in the Bayeux
Tapestry.
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| 15
Oct.
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1666
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Samuel
Pepys, diarist, records the wearing of the first waistcoat by King
Charles II.
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16
Oct.
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1902
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England's
first prison for Young Offenders is opened at Borstal in Kent
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17
Oct.
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1860
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The
first professional Golf Tournament is played at Prestwick,
Scotland. Mr. Willie Park heads the leader board.
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18
Oct. |
1865 |
British
Tory politician Lord (Pumice-stone) Palmerston dies in office.
His abrasive and arrogant style earned him his nickname
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19
Oct.
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1781
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British
general Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington at
Yorktown, Virginia, ending the American War of Independence
(Revolution)
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20
Oct.
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1632
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Birth
of English architect Christopher Wren. Responsible for the
rebuilding of St. Paul's Cathedral following the Great Fire of
London
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21
Oct.
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1805
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Admiral
Nelson is mortally wounded at the Battle of Trafalgar, near
Gibraltar.
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22
Oct.
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1962
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J.
F.
Kennedy, US President announces a blockade of Cuba in protest at
Soviet missiles being located there..
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23
Oct.
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1642
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The first major
battle of the English Civil War takes place at Edgehill in south
Warwickshire. Charles I and Prince Rupert lead the Royalists and the
Earl of Essex leads the Parliamentarians.
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24
Oct.
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1537
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Henry
VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour dies following the birth of the
future king Edward VI
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25
Oct. |
1854
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Lord
Lucan leads The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava during the
Crimean War - famously recorded in Tennyson's poem
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26
Oct.
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1863
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Formation
of the English Football Association who documents the first rules of
soccer
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27
Oct.
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1914
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Birth
of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas
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28
Oct. |
1831
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English
physicist Michael Faraday demonstrates the dynamo founding the
science of electro-magneticism
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29
Oct.
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1618
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English
courtier, writer and explorer
Sir
Walter Raleigh is beheaded on the orders of King James I.
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30
Oct.
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1925
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The
first television transmission of a moving image is made by Scottish
inventor John Logie Baird.
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31
Oct.
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1517
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Martin
Luther nails his '95 Theses' to the church door at Wittenberg,
Germany triggering the Protestant reformation.
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