Dr. Harvey Hawley Crippen (An American Physician) is found guilty of murdering his wife (1910) - Oct. 22
Metropolitan Opera House opens in NYC with a performance of Faust (1883) - Oct. 22
Paul Cezanne (French artist and post-impressionist painter) died (1906) - Oct. 22
Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd (American gangster) is shot and killed by the FBI (1934) - Oct. 22
Andre-Jacques Garnerin carries out the first jump with a Silk parachute at Parc Monceau, Paris (1797) - Oct. 22
Princeton University is founded as "College of New Jersey" (1746) - Oct. 22
Used Car Day - Oct. 22
Mother-in-Law's Day 4th Sunday in October (2017) - 10/22
October 23, 2017
Apple releases the first "iPod" (2001) - Oct. 23
Adolph Green (American lyracist and playwright) died (2002) - Oct. 23
Al Jolson (Russian born-American singer, comedian and actor as well as 1st openly Jewish man to become an entertainment star in USA) died (1950) - 10/23
Chuetsu earthquake strikes the Niigata Prefecture of Japan registering 6.9 on the Richter scale killing 35 and injuring many more (2004) - Oct. 23
Mole Day (an unofficial holiday celebrated among chemists in North American between 6:02AM and 6:02PM in honor of the Avogadro constant (1811) - 10/23
Montparnasse Train Wreck occurs when a train overruns a buffer stop before plummeting through a window (1895) - Oct. 23
Chulalongkorn (King of Siam) dies of kidney disease in Dusit Palace at age 57 (1909) - 10/23
Yemen floods (due to Remnants of tropical cyclone ARB 02) left 58 and 20,000 without shelter (2008) - 10/23
Zane Grey (American author best known for his popular adventure novels of the old west) died of heart failure at his home in CA (1939) - Oct. 23
International School Library Day - 4th Mon in Oct (2016) - Oct. 24
Labour Day (New Zealand) held the 4th Monday in October (2017) - Oct. 23
October 24, 2017
Annie Taylor becomes the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel (1901) - Oct. 24
Black Cat and Pumpking Day - Oct. 24
Black Thursday - stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange (1929) - 10/24
Deep Space 1 (NASA unmanned spacecraft launched to test new technologies and make flybys of an asteroid and comet (1998) - 10/24
George Washington Bridge opens to the public (1931) - Oct. 24
Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the UK and becomes the Republic of Zambia (1964) - 10/24
Jane Seymour (third wife of Henry VIII) died from postnatal complications following the birth of her only child, Edward VI (1537) - Oct. 24
Muharram - Islamic New Year (2014) - 10/24
Nedelin Disaster occurred when a Soviet ICBM's 2nd stage motors ignited prematurely exploding it on the launch pad killing over 120 peop0le (1960) - 10/24
United Nations is founded (1945) - Oct. 24
V-2 #13 Rocket took the first photograph of Earth from space (1946) - Oct. 24
Walt Disney testifies before the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) naming Disney employees he believes to be communists (1947) - Oct. 24
October 25, 2017
Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt on Saint Crispin's Day (1415) - Oct. 25
Fox River Grove, IL train collision occurred when a school bus, stopped for a red light, was struck by a Metra commuter train (1995) - 10/25
George II of England (Grandfather of George III) dies of an aortic aneurysm (1760) - 10/25
George III becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland (1760) - Oct. 25
Saint Crispin's Day - when Saints Crispin and Crispinian were martyred (286 AD) - Oct. 25
National Theatre of London is opened by Queen Elizabeth II (1976) - Oct. 25
Pablo Picasso (Andalusian-Spanish painter) is born (1881) - Oct. 25
St Katherine Docks are officially opened (1828) - 10/25
Baghdad Suicide Bombings occur when two suicide car bombs targeting the Ministry of Justice explode killing 155 and injuring over 721 (2009) - Oct. 25
Say Hey Day - Oct. 25
Windows XP is released (2001) - Oct. 25
Eruption of Mount Merapi and an earthquake in Indonesia occurs in the Sumatran fault triggering a tsunami that has killed hundreds and injured many more (2010) - Oct. 25
October 26, 2017
Baby Fae (a premature baby suffering from hypoplastic left-heart syndrome) is given a heart transplant from a baboon and lives for 3 weeks (1984) - Oct. 26
Cedar Fire (a human-caused wildfire which burned out of control in CA due to Santa Ana winds) burned over 280 thousand acres and killed 15 (2003) - Oct. 26
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (American social activist and leading figure of the early women's movement) died in her home (1902) - Oct. 26
London Ambulance Service suffers a severe CAD system failure that resulted in 11 hour waits for ambulances and was responsible for 30 deaths (1992) - 10/26
The Pony Express announces its closure (1861) - Oct. 26
Princess Beatrice of the UK (youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert) died peacefully in her sleep (1944) - Oct. 26
Chicago Theatre opens (1921) - Oct. 26
Mule Day commemorates the delivery of Spanish jacks to the New World (1785) - Oct. 26
First commercial Boeing 707 flight is a transcontinental New York to Paris journey made by PanAm with a fuel stop in Gander, Newfoundland (1958) - Oct. 26
The Erie Canal opens (1825) - Oct. 26
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Doc Holiday, Earp brothers against the Clanton and McLaury brothers) occurred (1881) - Oct. 26
October 27, 2017
Allen Schindler is kicked and beaten to death in a Japanese public bathroom by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay (1992) - Oct. 27
Turkmenistan declares its independence from the Soviet Union (1991) - Oct. 27
Sylvia Plath (American author and poet best known for her novel "The Bell Jar") is born in Boston, MA (1932) - Oct. 27
Deciderus Erasmus (Dutch Renaissance humanist and Catholic Christian theologian) is born in Rotterdam (1466) - Oct. 27
Independence Day - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from Britain (1979) - Oct. 27
Make a Difference Day - 10/27
Michael Servetus (Spanish theologian, physician and humanist) is burned at the stake just outside of Geneva for heresy (1553) - Oct. 27
Maj. Rudolf Anderson becomes the sole casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his plane is shot down over Cuba (1962) - Oct. 27
SA-1 (first rocket in the Saturn family, part of the Apollo Program) is launched (1961) - 10/27
Frankenstein Friday - last Friday in October (2017) - Oct. 27
October 28, 2017
Abigail Adams (2nd First Lady of the United States) died from typhoid fever at age 73 (1818) - Oct. 28
Alaskan Highway is completed through Canada to Fairbanks Alaska (1942) - Oct. 28
Bill Gates (CEO of Microsoft and one of the top five richest people in the world) is born in Seattle, Washington (1955) - 10/28
Black Monday - Wall Street Crash of 1929 became the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the USA (1929) - Oct. 28
Netherlands is constituted as a Federal Monarchy (1954) - 10/28
Propero X-3 (the only satellite to be launched on a British rocket) is launched from South Australia (1971) - Oct. 28
"Scooter Libby" (Vice President Cheney's former Chief of Staff) is indicted on 5 counts of perjury and obstruction of justice (2005) - 10/28
Statue of Liberty celebrates the centennial of its dedication (1986) - 10/28
Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowski's 6th Symphony Pathetique premieres only nine days before his death (1893) - Oct. 28
Chung Yeung Festival - Chinese Ninth Day of Ninth Month (2017) - Oct. 28
October 29, 2017
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is elected as the first female president of Argentina (2007) - Oct. 29
Delhi bombings (three explosions that came only two days before Diwali) an act of terrorism that killed 62 and injured at least 210 others (2005) - Oct. 29
Francisco Duran fires 29 rounds from a rifle at the White House (1994) - Oct. 29
Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno (one of the deadliest peacetime disasters in Vietnam) was a fire in the ITC building that claimed 60 lives (2002) - 10/29
Hurricane Mitch (2nd deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history) made3 landfall in Honduras (1998) - 10/29
The Internet begins life as two nodes connected between UCLA and SRI International in Menlo Park (1969) - Oct. 29
M25 (orbital motorway encircling Greater London, one of the longest city bypasses in the world) is officially opened by Margaret Thatcher (1989) - Oct. 29
Orissa Cyclone (deadliest Indian Ocean tropical Cyclone since 1991 and deadliest Indian storm since 1971) hits Orissa, India (1999) - Oct. 29
Republic Day (Turkey) celebrates the formally declared dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1923) - Oct. 29
Hermit Day - Oct. 29
Maria Anna Mozart (elder sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) dies in Salzburg (1829) - Oct. 29
Sir Walter Raleigh (English courtier and explorer) imprisoned at the tower is beheaded at Whitehall (London), but not for the crime he was sentenced to death for (1618) - Oct. 29
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