1967 – Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility (event lasts until October 23; 683 people were arrested). Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.”
0335 – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great rules that Jews are not allowed to purchase and circumcise Christian slaves
1096 – Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats The People’s Crusade at the Battle of Civetot, only about 3,000 out of 20,000 Crusaders survive
1512 – Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg
1520 – Magellan entered the strait which bears his name
1553 – Volumes of the Talmud are burned
1639 – Sea battle at Dunes, Lt Admiral Maarten Tromp defeats Spanish armada under De Oquendo
1727 – Russian & Chinese accord to correct boundaries
1774 – First display of the word “Liberty” on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
1797 – “Old Ironsides,” the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston’s harbor.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at Ulm, reaping Napoleon over 30,000 prisoners and inflicting 10,000 casualties on the losers. Ulm was considered to be one of Napoleon’s finest hours.
1824 – Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire, England)
1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
1849 – The first tattooed man, James F. O’Connell, was put on exhibition at the Franklin Theatre in New York City, NY.
1858 – The Can-Can was performed for the first time in Paris.
1867 – Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty – Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.
1879 – Thomas Edison invented the electric incandescent lamp. It would last 13 1/2 hours before it would burn out.
1902 – In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
1913 – Transvaal women satyagrahis begin defiance activities, hawking without licenses in Vereeniging; they cross the Natal border and encourage the miners in Newcastle to strike
1917 – The first U.S. soldiers entered combat during World War I near Nancy, France.
1921 – Former Hungarian King Karl stages a second attempted coup and is arrested
1925 – The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it had fined 29,620 people for prohibition (of alcohol) violations.
1927 – In New York City, construction began on the George Washington Bridge.
1943 – Provisional Government of Free India Declared by Subhas Chandra Bose. Bose, an exiled Indian nationalist and a key figure in the Indian Independence Movement declared the creation of Azad Hind or Free India during a mass rally in Singapore.
1944 – During World War II, the German city of Aachen was captured by U.S. troops.
1945 – Women in France were allowed to vote for the first time.
1948 – Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated in Washington DC
1950 – Chinese forces invaded Tibet.
1959 – US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
1966 – 116 children and 28 adults die as a coal waste heap slides and engulfs a school in Aberfan, South Wales
1967 – Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility (event lasts until October 23; 683 people were arrested). Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.”
1969 – A coup d’tat in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power.
1971 – William H Rehnquist & Lewis F Powell nominated to US Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
1973 – John Paul Getty III’s ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn’t arrive until November 8.
1975 – Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
1978 – Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
1983 – The Pentagon reported that 2,000 Marines were headed to Grenada to protect and evacuate Americans living there.
1986 – The U.S. ordered 55 Soviet diplomats to leave. The action was in reaction to the Soviet Union expelling five American diplomats.
1989 – Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in San Francisco earthquake
1991 – Jesse Turner, an American hostage in Lebanon, was released after nearly five years of being imprisoned.
1994 – North Korea and the U.S. signed an agreement requiring North Korea to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections.
1995 – Dayton Agreement The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2003 – North Korea rejected U.S. President George W. Bush’s offer of a written pledge not to attack in exchange for the communist nation agreeing to end its nuclear weapons program.
2012 – Kateri Tekakwitha canonized as the 1st Native American saint by Pope Benedict XVI
2017 – Spanish government suspends Catalonia’s autonomy in the face of a deepening political crisis over the region’s push for independence
2019 – Australia’s biggest newspapers all blank out their front pages in protest against press restrictions
2020 – Parents of 545 children cannot be found that were separated at the US-Mexico border according to American Civil Liberties Union
2021 – Syria’s government says it has executed 24 people for starting devastating wildfires in 2020 that killed three
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
