Anniversaries

20th October 1973 (47 Years)

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

22nd October 1844 (176 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 (101 Years)

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

22nd October 1943 (77 Years)

Catherine Deneuve, French actress and singer, was born.

22nd October 1964 (56 Years)

Jean-Paul Sartre refused the Nobel Prize for literature.

23rd October 1940 (80 Years)

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

24th October 1917 (103 Years)

WWI - Second Battle of the Aisne ended.

24th October 1917 (103 Years)

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

24th October 1922 (98 Years)

George Cadbury, third son of John Cadbury, a Quaker who founded Cadbury's cocoa and chocolate company in Britain, died.

24th October 1938 (82 Years)

Ernst Barlach, German expressionist sculptor, died.

24th October 1945 (75 Years)

United Nations Organisation is born, allies of World War II ratify the UN Charter at a ceremony in Washington DC.

24th October 1957 (63 Years)

Christian Dior, French fashion designer and inventor of the "New Look", died.

24th October 1972 (48 Years)

Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson, the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era, died.

25th October 1415 (605 Years)

The army of Henry V of England defeats a French army at the Battle of Agincourt.

25th October 1881 (139 Years)

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright, was born.

25th October 1938 (82 Years)

The Archbishop of Dubuque denounced swing music as "a degenerated musical system that gnaw away the moral fibre of young people" and a "primrose path to hell".

26th October 1764 (256 Years)

William Hogarth, the English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist, dies.

26th October 1863 (157 Years)

Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva.

26th October 1863 (157 Years)

Football Association formed in England, standardizing football.

27th October 1914 (106 Years)

Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet, was born.

27th October 1923 (97 Years)

Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist, was born.

27th October 1936 (84 Years)

Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.

27th October 1939 (81 Years)

Nylon stockings are sold publicly for the first time in a department store in Wilmington, Delaware, USA.

28th October 1697 (323 Years)

Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, Italian painter of vedute of Venice, was born.

28th October 1909 (111 Years)

Francis Bacon was born.

28th October 1958 (62 Years)

Angelo Roncalli was elected Pope John XXIII.

28th October 1962 (58 Years)

The Cuban Missile Crisis ends.

29th October 1618 (402 Years)

Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

29th October 1929 (91 Years)

The stock market crashes, causing the deepest and longest economic downturn in the history of the Western world.

29th October 1956 (64 Years)

Beginning of the Suez Crisis which ran until 7th November.

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