Anniversaries

15th October 1917 (103 Years)

Mata Hari, exotic dancer and courtesan found guilty of espionage, is executed in France.

15th October 1938 (82 Years)

Brice Marden, American painter, was born.

15th October 1946 (74 Years)

Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, committed suicide.

16th October 1793 (227 Years)

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was guillotined at 12:15 p.m in Place de la Révolution, (present-day Place de la Concorde).

16th October 1813 (207 Years)

Battle of Leipzig, Napoleon defeated and forced to abdicate.

16th October 1854 (166 Years)

Oscar Wilde, poet originally from Ireland before moving to London, was born.

16th October 1892 (128 Years)

Adolf Ziegler, major painter for the Nazi Party, is born.

16th October 1913 (107 Years)

HMS Queen Elizabeth launched at Portsmouth Dockyard as the Royal Navy's first oil-fired battleship.

16th October 1946 (74 Years)

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

16th October 1964 (56 Years)

Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

16th October 1978 (42 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 (22 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 (105 Years)

Arthur Miller, American playwright and essayist, is born.

17th October 1918 (102 Years)

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

17th October 1928 (92 Years)

Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator, died.

17th October 1932 (88 Years)

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

18th October 1913 (107 Years)

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

18th October 1922 (98 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 (94 Years)

Klaus Kinski, famous German actor, is born.

19th October 1216 (804 Years)

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

19th October 1862 (158 Years)

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

19th October 1882 (138 Years)

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

19th October 1882 (138 Years)

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

19th October 1936 (84 Years)

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

20th October 1714 (306 Years)

The Coronation of King George I.

20th October 1818 (202 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 (138 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 (127 Years)

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

20. Oktober 1964 (56 Years)

Herbert Hoover, the American President, died.

20th October 1968 (52 Years)

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

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