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October 1: National Day in China (1949); Unification Day in Cameroon (1961); Independence Day in Nigeria (1960), Palau (1994), and Tuvalu (1978); Filipino American History Month begins in the United States
- 1800 – With the signing of the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain returned the colonial territory of Louisiana to France in return for the Tuscany area of Italy.
- 1890 – At the urging of preservationist John Muir and writer Robert Underwood Johnson, the United States Congress established Yosemite National Park (Yosemite Valley pictured) in California.
- 1940 – The first section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the United States' first inter-city expressway comparable to the German Autobahn, opened to traffic.
- 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Yugoslav National Army forces invaded the area surrounding Dubrovnik, Croatia, beginning a seven-month siege of the city.
- 2005 – Terrorist suicide bombs exploded at two sites in Bali, Indonesia, killing twenty people and injuring over 120 others.
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October 2: International Day of Non-Violence; Eid al-Ghadeer (Islam, 2015); Gandhi Jayanti in India
- 1470 – With King Edward IV of England forced to flee to the Burgundian Netherlands after a rebellion organised by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, Henry VI was restored to the throne of England.
- 1835 – Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales, Texas, encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia in the Battle of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.
- 1937 – Under the orders of President Rafael Trujillo (pictured), Dominican troops began mass killings of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic.
- 1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City was violently suppressed when army and police forces fired into the crowd.
- 1990 – A hijacked airliner collided with two other planes while attempting to land at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China, resulting in a total 128 fatalities.
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October 3: Hoshana Rabbah begins at sunset (Judaism, 2015); German Unity Day; National Day in Iraq (1932); National Foundation Day in South Korea
- 2333 BC – According to Korean legend, Dangun, the "grandson of heaven", established Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom.
- 1918 – World War I: Following his armed forces' defeat by the Allied Powers, Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I abdicated in favor of his son Boris III.
- 1935 – Italian forces under General Emilio De Bono invaded Abyssinia during the opening stages of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
- 1957 – A California Superior Court judge ruled that "Howl", a poem by Allen Ginsberg (pictured), was of "redeeming social importance" and thus not obscene.
- 1981 – The hunger strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ended after seven months and ten deaths.
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October 4: Feast day of St. Francis of Assisi (Catholicism); Shemini Atzeret begins at sunset (Judaism, 2015)
- 1779 – American Revolution: James Wilson (pictured) and his colleagues were forced to defend themselves after a mob, angered by his successful legal defense of 23 people from exile, converged on his house, resulting in six deaths.
- 1876 – Texas A&M University opened as the first public institution of higher education in the U.S. state of Texas.
- 1917 – First World War: The British devastated the German defence in the Battle of Broodseinde, which prompted a crisis among the German commanders and caused a severe loss of morale in the German Fourth Army.
- 1957 – Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched by an R-7 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR.
- 2010 – The dam holding a waste reservoir in western Hungary collapsed, freeing 1 million cubic metres (1,300,000 cu yd) of red mud, which flooded nearby communities and killed at least nine people.
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October 5: International Day of No Prostitution
- 1789 – French Revolution: Upset about the high price and scarcity of bread, thousands of Parisian women and their various allies marched (pictured) on the royal palace at Versailles.
- 1910 – The Portuguese Republican Party organised a coup d'etat, deposed the constitutional monarchy and implanted a republican regime in Portugal.
- 1930 – The British airship R101 crashed in France en route to India on its maiden voyage, killing 48 passengers and crew.
- 1975 – Dirty War: The guerrilla group Montoneros carried out Operation Primicia, a terrorist attack in which they hijacked an Aerolíneas Argentinas flight, captured the Formosa International Airport, and attacked a military regiment.
- 2000 – Serbian engineering vehicle operator Ljubisav Đokić rammed the Radio Television of Serbia building with a wheel loader in a protest known as the Bulldozer Revolution, causing Slobodan Milošević to resign two days later.
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October 6: German-American Day in the United States
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces under the command of General Sir Henry Clinton captured Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery, and then dismantled the Hudson River Chain.
- 1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos was elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of his seven non-consecutive terms.
- 1927 – The first successful feature sound film The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was released.
- 1985 – Police constable Keith Blakelock was killed during rioting in the Broadwater Farm housing estate in Tottenham, London.
- 2000 – Denouncing corruption in the administration of Argentine President Fernando de la Rúa and in the Senate, Vice President Carlos Álvarez (pictured) resigned from his office.
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October 7: Feast day of St. Osyth
- 1542 – Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo became the first European to set foot on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California.
- 1763 – Following Great Britain's acquisition of New France after the end of the Seven Years' War, King George III issued a Royal Proclamation closing most of this land to the residents of the Thirteen Colonies and reserving it for indigenous peoples.
- 1919 – KLM, the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name, was founded.
- 1976 – Hua Guofeng (pictured) succeeded Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
- 2001 – War on Terrorism: The War in Afghanistan began with an aerial bombing campaign targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces.
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October 8: Independence Day in Croatia (1991)
- 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême was crowned queen consort of England at the age of twelve, after having married King John two weeks earlier.
- 1871 – Four large fires broke out in the United States, including the Great Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, the latter being the deadliest in U.S. history.
- 1897 – Composer Gustav Mahler (pictured) was appointed the director of the Vienna Court Opera.
- 1932 – The Indian Air Force was founded as an auxiliary air force of the Indian Empire.
- 1962 – Newsmagazine Der Spiegel revealed the unpreparedness of the West German armed forces against the communist threat from the east, and was accused of treason shortly afterwards.
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October 9: Hangul Day in South Korea (1446); Leif Erikson Day in the United States
- 1594 – Sinhalese–Portuguese War: Portugal had almost conquered the island of Sri Lanka when its army was completely annihilated, ending the Campaign of Danture.
- 1845 – Anglican priest John Henry Newman, who wished to return the Church of England to many Catholic beliefs, was formally received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1914 – World War I: Belgian troops in Antwerp surrendered, allowing the German army to capture the city.
- 1970 – The Khmer Republic, headed by General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, was proclaimed in Cambodia.
- 2012 – Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (pictured) was gravely injured by a Taliban gunman in a failed assassination attempt.
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October 10: National Day in Fiji (1970) and Taiwan (1911)
- 1780 – One of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record struck the Caribbean Sea, killing at least 22,000 people over the next several days.
- 1897 – German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovered an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) (pills pictured).
- 1933 – In the first proven act of air sabotage in the history of commercial aviation, a United Airlines Boeing 247 exploded in mid-air near Chesterton, Indiana, US, killing all seven people aboard.
- 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, a treaty that forms the basis of international space law, entered into force.
- 1982 – Maximilian Kolbe, who had volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland, was canonized by the Catholic Church.
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October 11: National Coming Out Day (international)
- 1492 – Members of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus reported the sighting of unknown light on their way to Guanahani.
- 1531 – Swiss Reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli (pictured) was killed in battle when Catholic cantons attacked in response to a food blockade being applied by his alliance.
- 1767 – Unable to go any further, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon made their final observations for what would become known as the Mason–Dixon line.
- 1942 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Esperance on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, American ships intercepted and defeated a Japanese fleet on their way to destroy Henderson Field.
- 1975 – Saturday Night Live, an American weekly sketch comedy–variety show, was broadcast for the first time.
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October 12: Our Lady Aparecida's Day and Children's Day in Brazil; Thanksgiving in Canada (2015); Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea (1968); Health and Sports Day in Japan (2015); National Day in Spain (1492); Columbus Day and Indigenous People's Day in the United States (2015)
- 1398 – The Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Konrad von Jungingen signed the Treaty of Salynas, the third attempt to cede Samogitia to the Knights.
- 1847 – Werner von Siemens, a German inventor, founded Siemens & Halske, which later became Siemens AG, the largest engineering company in Europe.
- 1915 – A German firing squad executed British nurse Edith Cavell (pictured) for helping Allied soldiers to escape occupied Belgium.
- 1960 – Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated on live television by a man using a samurai sword.
- 2000 – Two suicide bombers attacked the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole while it was at anchor in Aden, Yemen, killing 17 of its crew members and injuring 39 others.
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- 54 – Claudius, the first Roman emperor to be born outside Italy, died mysteriously, most likely by poison administered by his wife Agrippina.
- 1307 – Agents of King Philip IV of France launched a dawn raid, simultaneously arresting many members of the Knights Templar, and subsequently torturing them into "admitting" heresy.
- 1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology was established in Atlanta as part of Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in the post-Civil War Southern United States.
- 1911 – Prince Arthur, a son of Queen Victoria, became the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent, as well as the first Prince of Great Britain and Ireland to hold that position.
- 1958 – The first book featuring the English children's literature character Paddington Bear (statue pictured), created by Michael Bond and Peggy Fortnum, was published.
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October 14: Islamic New Year (2015, 1437 AH); Defender of Ukraine Day
- 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French forces under Marshal Michel Ney defeated Austrian forces in Elchingen, present-day Germany.
- 1888 – French inventor Louis Le Prince (pictured) filmed Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving motion picture, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
- 1912 – Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was shot in an assassination attempt, but delivered a speech before receiving treatment from preeminent surgeon John Benjamin Murphy.
- 1940 – Second World War: During the Blitz, a 1,400 kg (3,100 lb) semi-armour piercing fragmentation bomb fell on the road above Balham station, which was being used as an air-raid shelter, killing at least 64 people.
- 1981 – Hosni Mubarak was elected President of Egypt, one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
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October 15: Global Handwashing Day
- 1529 – The Siege of Vienna ended as the Austrians repelled the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1764 – English historian Edward Gibbon observed friars singing Vespers at Capitoline Hill in Rome, inspiring him to write The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
- 1945 – Pierre Laval (pictured), twice head of government of Vichy France, was executed for high treason.
- 1965 – Vietnam War protests: The Catholic Worker Movement staged an anti-war rally in Manhattan, including the burning of draft cards, the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
- 2005 – A march by members of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, in Toledo, Ohio, US, sparked a riot among protestors.
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- 1590 – Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo caught his wife having an extramarital affair with Duke Fabrizio Carafa of Andria and killed them both on the spot.
- 1793 – War of the First Coalition: Despite leading French forces to victory in the Battle of Wattignies, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan was later forcibly discharged from the army due to interference from Lazare Carnot.
- 1945 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was founded in Quebec City, Canada, to lead international efforts to defeat hunger.
- 1975 – Five journalists for Australian television networks based in the town of Balibo were killed by Indonesian special force soldiers prior to their invasion of East Timor.
- 1995 – Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam convened the Million Man March (pictured) in Washington, D.C., in an effort to unite in self-help and self-defense against economic and social ills plaguing the African American community.
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October 17: Dessalines Day in Haiti (1806)
- 1558 – Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, was founded by order of King Sigismund II Augustus.
- 1604 – German astronomer Johannes Kepler observed an exceptionally bright star, now known as Kepler's Supernova (remnant nebula pictured), which had suddenly appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus.
- 1931 – American gangster Al Capone was convicted on five counts of income tax evasion.
- 1940 – The body of Willi Münzenberg, a communist who was the leading propagandist for the Communist Party of Germany, was found near Saint-Marcellin.
- 2010 – Mary MacKillop was canonised to become the only Australian to be recognised by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.
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October 18: Feast day of Saint Luke; Independence Day in Azerbaijan (1991); Alaska Day (1867)
- 1081 – Byzantine–Norman wars: The Normans under Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria, defeated the Byzantines outside the city of Dyrrhachium, the Byzantine capital of Illyria.
- 1356 – The most significant earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history destroyed Basel, Switzerland, and caused much destruction in a vast region extending into France and Germany.
- 1748 – The War of the Austrian Succession ended with the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
- 1945 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón married popular actress Eva Duarte, better known as Evita (pictured).
- 2007 – A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto in Karachi caused at least 139 deaths and 450 injuries.
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October 19: Mother Teresa Day in Albania
- 202 BC – Publius Cornelius Scipio, a consul of the Roman Republic, decisively defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians at Zama, ending the Second Punic War.
- 1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon married Isabella I of Castile (both pictured), a marriage that paved the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces led by Lord Cornwallis officially surrendered to Franco-American forces under George Washington, ending the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1943 – Allied aircraft sank the cargo ship Sinfra, killing over 2,000 people, mostly Italian POWs.
- 2005 – Hurricane Wilma became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar.
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October 20: Birth of the Báb, a holy day in the Bahá'í Faith
- 1740 – Under the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, Maria Theresa (pictured) assumed the throne of the Habsburg Monarchy in Austria.
- 1818 – The United Kingdom and the United States signed the Treaty of 1818, which settled the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel between the Rocky Mountains and Lake of the Woods.
- 1944 – World War II: Fulfilling a promise he made two years previously, General Douglas MacArthur landed on Leyte to begin the recapture of the entire Philippine Archipelago.
- 1961 – The Soviet Union performed the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf class submarine.
- 1982 – During a UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, a large number of attendees tried to leave the Grand Sports Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium at the same time, resulting in a stampede that caused 66 deaths.
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October 21: Trafalgar Day in various Commonwealth countries; Back to the Future Day
- 1600 – Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated the leaders of rival Japanese clans at the Battle of Sekigahara in what is now Sekigahara, Gifu, clearing the path for him to form the Tokugawa shogunate.
- 1854 – Florence Nightingale (pictured) and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to Turkey to help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War.
- 1867 – The first of the Medicine Lodge Treaties was signed between the United States and several Native American tribes in the Great Plains, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma.
- 1959 – The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City.
- 1981 – Andreas Papandreou began the first of his two terms as Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces.
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October 22: International Stuttering Awareness Day
- 1740 – A two-week massacre of ethnic Chinese in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, came to an end with at least 10,000 people killed.
- 1884 – The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, was adopted as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
- 1895 – At Gare Montparnasse station in Paris, an express train derailed after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing the concourse before crashing through a wall and falling to the plaza below (pictured).
- 1962 – Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that Soviet nuclear weapons had been discovered in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
- 2013 – The Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 made the Australian Capital Territory the nation's first jurisdiction to legalise same-sex marriage, although the High Court struck the act down two months later.
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October 23: Day of Tasu'a (Islam, 2015); Mole Day
- 1641 – Irish Catholic gentry in Ulster tried to seize control of Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland, to force concessions to Catholics.
- 1812 – General Claude François de Malet (pictured) began a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he was now the commandant of Paris.
- 1953 – Alto Broadcasting System in the Philippines made the first television broadcast in Southeast Asia on DZAQ-TV.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ended after five months.
- 2002 – Chechen separatists seized a crowded theater in Moscow, taking approximately 700 patrons and performers hostage.
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October 24: Day of Ashura (Islam, 2015); United Nations Day (1945); Independence Day in Zambia (1964)
- 1789 – The Brabant Revolution, sometimes considered as the first expression of Belgian nationalism, began with the invasion of the Austrian Netherlands by an émigré army from the Dutch Republic.
- 1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, was founded.
- 1931 – The George Washington Bridge (pictured), today the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge, connecting New York City to Fort Lee, New Jersey, was dedicated.
- 1945 – The UN Charter, the constitution of the United Nations, entered into force after being ratified by the Republic of China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and a majority of the other signatories.
- 1964 – The military court of South Vietnamese junta chief Nguyen Khanh acquitted Generals Dương Văn Đức and Lâm Văn Phát of leading a coup attempt against Khanh, despite the pair's proclamation of his overthrow during their military action.
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October 25: Retrocession Day in Taiwan (1945)
- 1616 – The Dutch sailing ship Eendracht reached Shark Bay on the western coastline of Australia, as documented on the Hartog Plate etched by explorer Dirk Hartog.
- 1854 – Crimean War: Lord Cardigan led his cavalry to disaster (pictured) in the Battle of Balaclava.
- 1924 – The Zinoviev letter, later found to be a forgery, was published in the Daily Mail, helping to ensure the British Labour Party's defeat in the UK general election four days later.
- 1944 – Heinrich Himmler ordered a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a nonconformist youth group that assisted army deserters and others hiding from the Nazis.
- 2001 – Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released.
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October 26: National Day in Austria (1955); Feast day of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki
- 1708 – The final stone of St Paul's Cathedral (pictured), rebuilt after the original burned down in the 1666 Great Fire of London, was laid by the son of its architect, Christopher Wren.
- 1921 – The Chicago Theatre, which is the oldest surviving Neo-Baroque French-revival grand movie palace, opened.
- 1944 – World War II: In one of the largest naval battles in modern history, Allied forces defeated the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the seas surrounding the Philippine island of Leyte.
- 1977 – Somalian hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms in the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
- 1994 – Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty settling relations between the two countries and pledging that neither would allow its territory to become a staging ground for military strikes by a third country.
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- 1275 – The earliest recorded usage of the name "Amsterdam" was made on a certificate by Count Floris V of Holland that granted the inhabitants, who had built a bridge with a dam across the Amstel (pictured), an exemption from paying the bridge's tolls.
- 1644 – English Civil War: The combined armies of Parliament inflicted a tactical defeat on the Royalists, but failed to gain any strategic advantage in the Second Battle of Newbury.
- 1916 – Supporters of deposed Ethiopian Emperor-designate Iyasu V were defeated at the Battle of Segale, ending their attempt to restore him to the throne.
- 1944 – World War II: German forces captured Banská Bystrica, the center of anti-Nazi opposition in Slovakia, bringing the Slovak National Uprising to an end.
- 2004 – The Boston Red Sox completed a sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series, the club's first championship in 86 years.
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October 28: Feast days of Simon the Zealot and Jude the Apostle (Western Christianity)
- 1420 – Beijing was officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty in the same year that the Forbidden City (pictured), the seat of government, was completed.
- 1835 – Māori chiefs signed the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand and established the United Tribes of New Zealand.
- 1891 – The Nōbi Earthquake, Japan's strongest known inland earthquake, struck the former provinces of Mino and Owari.
- 1919 – The U.S. Congress passed the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, reinforcing Prohibition in the United States.
- 1995 – A fire in Baku Metro, Azerbaijan, killed at least 286 passengers and injured 270 more in the world's deadliest subway disaster.
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October 29: Republic Day in Turkey (1923)
- 539 BC – Cyrus the Great captured Babylon, incorporating the Neo-Babylonian Empire and making the Achaemenid Empire the largest in the history of the world.
- 1792 – Lt. William Broughton, a member of Captain George Vancouver's discovery expedition, observed a peak in what is now Oregon, US, and named it Mount Hood (pictured) after British admiral Samuel Hood.
- 1929 – About 16 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange on "Black Tuesday", a record that stood for almost 40 years, making a total of $30 billion that had been lost over two days.
- 1998 – The Truth and Reconciliation Commission presented its report on Apartheid in South Africa, condemning both the Apartheid Government and the African National Congress for committing atrocities.
- 2004 – Representatives of the member states of the European Union signed the European Constitution in Rome, although it failed to be ratified.
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October 30: Mischief Night in some areas of the United States
- 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Believing they were massively outnumbered, the 5,300-man German garrison at Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland), surrendered to a much smaller French force without a fight.
- 1863 – Seventeen-year-old Danish Prince Vilhelm arrived in Athens to become George I (pictured), King of Greece.
- 1888 – King Lobengula of Matabeleland granted the Rudd Concession to agents of Cecil Rhodes, setting in motion the creation of the British South Africa Company.
- 1961 – The Soviet hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, was set off over Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Ocean as a test.
- 1991 – The Madrid Conference, an attempt by the international community to start a peace process through negotiations involving Israel and the Arab countries, convened in Madrid.
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October 31: Halloween; Samhain begins (Northern Hemisphere); Beltane begins (Southern Hemisphere); Reformation Day (Protestantism)
- 475 – Romulus Augustulus took the throne as the last ruling emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1517 – According to traditional accounts, Martin Luther (pictured) first posted his Ninety-Five Theses onto the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, present-day Germany, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
- 1822 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of the First Mexican Empire dissolved the Mexican Congress and replaced it with a military junta answerable only to him.
- 1984 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her own Sikh bodyguards, sparking anti-Sikh riots throughout the country.
- 1999 – All 217 people on board EgyptAir Flight 990 were killed when the aircraft suddenly plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States.
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