Anniversaries

16th October 1946 (68 Years)

Nuremberg trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.

16th October 1964 (50 Years)

Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

16th October 1978 (36 Years)

Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.

16th October 1998 (16 Years)

Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.

17th October 1915 (99 Years)

Arthur Miller, American playwright and essayist, is born.

17th October 1918 (96 Years)

Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer, dancer, and producer, was born.

17th October 1928 (86 Years)

Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator, died.

17th October 1932 (82 Years)

Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer, was born.

18th October 1913 (101 Years)

Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed at the Armory Show in New York, causing a huge stir.

18th October 1922 (92 Years)

The British Broadcasting Company, as the BBC was originally called, was formed by a group of leading wireless manufacturers including Marconi.

18th October 1926 (88 Years)

Klaus Kinski, famous German actor, is born.

19th October 1216 (798 Years)

John King of England, also known as John Lackland, died.

19th October 1862 (152 Years)

Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière, together with his brother, first film-maker in history, was born.

19th October 1882 (132 Years)

Umberto Boccioni, Italian Futurist artist and sculptor, was born.

19th October 1882 (132 Years)

Umberto Boccioni, Italian Futurist artist and sculptor, was born.

19th October 1936 (78 Years)

Lu Xun, Chinese writer, commonly considered the greatest in 20th-century Chinese literature, dies.

20th October 1714 (300 Years)

The Coronation of King George I.

20th October 1818 (196 Years)

The Convention of 1818 was signed between US and UK, which settled the Canada–US border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.

20th October 1882 (132 Years)

Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, better known as Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor, famous for portraying Count Dracula in the original 1931 film, was born.

20th October 1893 (121 Years)

Charley Chase, American actor, director, and screenwriter, was born.

20. Oktober 1964 (50 Years)

Herbert Hoover, the American President, died.

20th October 1968 (46 Years)

Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.

20th October 1973 (41 Years)

Sydney Opera House in Australia was opened by Queen Elizabeth II.

22nd October 1844 (170 Years)

Sarah Bernhardt, French stage and early film actress; referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known", was born.

22nd October 1919 (95 Years)

Doris Lessing, the British novelist and receiver of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born.

22nd October 1943 (71 Years)

Catherine Deneuve, French actress and singer, was born.

22nd October 1964 (50 Years)

Jean-Paul Sartre refused the Nobel Prize for literature.

23rd October 1940 (74 Years)

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, was born.

24th October 1917 (97 Years)

WWI - Second Battle of the Aisne ended.

24th October 1917 (97 Years)

The October Revolution (November in Gregorian calendar): Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government building.

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