1. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 01/10/1908. The 1 st. Model T Ford went on sale. 01/10/1949. The people’s Republic of China was established. 01/10/1960. Nigeria became an independent country. 01/10/2013. Famous American Author Tom Clancy dies.

2. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 02/10/1869. Mohandas K. Gandhi. Indian political leader is born. 02/10/2014 Robert Flower. Australian Rules Football Legend dies. 03/10/1990. East & West Germany unite again as 1 Nation.

3. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 04/10/1957. The U.S.S.R. launches Sputnick 1. The 1 st artificial satellite. 05/10/1582. The Gregorian calendar is introduced. 05/07/1954. The B.B.C. broadcasts its 1 st. television program. 06/10/1973. The Yom Kippur War begins when the Egyptian & Syrian forces attack Israel.

4. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 06/10/1981. Anwar el Sadat. The President of Egypt is assassinated. 07/10/1885. Neils Bohr. Danish Physicist is born. 07/10/1990. Heinrich Himmler. Head of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany is born.

5. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 07/10/1935. Thomas Keneally. Australian writer is born. 09/10/1962. Uganda becomes independent. 09/10/2013. Mark “Chopper’ Read. Famous Australian criminal dies of Liver Cancer.

6. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 10/10/1659. Abel Tasman. The 1 st European to visit Tasmania & New Zealand dies.

7. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 10/10/1938. The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. 10/10/1985. Orson Welles. American film producer, actor & director dies. 10/10/2010. Dame Joan Sutherland. Famous Australian Opera singer dies.

8. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 11/10/1738. Arthur Phillip. Commander of the 1 st. Fleet & the 1 st Governor of N.S.W. is born in London. 11/10/1937. Sir Bobby Charlton. Famous English & Manchester United Footballer is born. 11/10/1962. Pope John 23 rd. opens the 2 nd. Vatican Council.

9. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 12/10/1870. Robert E Lee. Commander of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War dies. 12/10/1937. Luciano Pavarotti. Famous Italian Tenor is born. 13/10/2010. 33 miners are rescued alive in Chile after spending a record 69 days underground.

10. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 14/10/1890. Dwight David Eisenhower is born. He was the 34 th. President of the U.SA. 14/10/1944. German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel dies. 14/101958. Douglas Mawson. Australian Antarctic Explorer dies. 14/10/1959. Errol Flynn. Australian actor dies..

11. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 14/10/1962. Soviet nuclear missiles are discovered in Cuba beginning the Cuban Missile Crisis. 14/10/1977. Bing Crosby. Famous American singer & actor dies. 14/10/1990. Leonard Bernstein. American composer & conductor dies.

12. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 15/10/70BC. Virgil. The Roman poet is born. 16/10/1854. Oscar Wilde. Irish born dramatist is born. 16/10/1984. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 17/10/1959. George C. Marshall. U.S. General in W.W.2. & Secretary of State dies.

13. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 17/10/2010. Mary Mackillop is canonised in Rome & becomes Australia’s first Saint. 18/10/1867. The U.S.A. purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2Million. 18/10/1922. The B.B.C. is founded.

14. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 18/10/1931. Thomas Edison the inventor of the electric light globe dies. 18/10/1939. Lee Harvey Oswald is born. 18/10/1954. Texas Instruments announces the 1 st. ever Transistor Radio.

15. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 18/10/1960. The Belgium actor Jean Claude van Damme is born. 19/10/1879. Thomas Edison 1 st. demonstrates the Electric light. 19/10/1931. The English novelist John le Carre is born. 19/10/2003. Mother Teresa is Beatified by Pope John Paul 2 nd.

16. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 19/10/2005. Saddam Hussein goes on trial for crimes against humanity. 20/10/1632. Sir Christopher Wren. The English architect is born. 20/10/1944. U.S.. Forces land in the Philippines in W.W.2. led by General Douglas Macarthur. “I have returned”.

17. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 20/10/1964. Herbert Hoover. 31 st. President of the U.S.A. dies. 20/10/1973. The Sydney Opera House opens. 21/10/1520. Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Straits of Magellan.

18. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 21/10/1805. British Admiral Lord Nelson is killed at the Battle of Trafalgar. 21/10/1833. Alfred Noble. The founder of the Nobel Prize is born. 21/10/1945. Women are allowed to vote for the 1 st. time in France. 21/10/1962. David Campese. Famous Australian Rugby player is born.

19. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 21/10/2014 Gough Whitlam. Australia’s 21 st. Prime Minister dies.

20. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 22/10/1734. Daniel Boone. American pioneer is born. 22/10/1811. Franz Liszt. Hungarian pianist & composer is born. 22/10/1906. Paul Cezanne. French artist dies.

21. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 22/10/2009. Don Lane. Australian comedian & T.V. personality dies.

22. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 23/10/1940. Pele. Brazilian footballer & Politician is born. 23/10/1942. British forces attack El Alamein in Egypt in W.W.2. 24/10/1861. The 1 st. Transcontinental Telegram is sent. 24/10/1945. The United Nations is established.

23. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY. OCTOBER 24/10/1973. The Yom Kippur War ends between Israel & the Arab States. 24/10/2008. “Bloody Friday” saw many of the World’s Stock Exchanges experience the worst decline in their history.

24. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 25/10/1616. Dirk Hartog becomes the 2 nd. European to land on Australian soil. 25/10/1760. George 3 rd. is crowned King of England. 25/10/1881. The Spanish painter Pablo Picasso is born.

25. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 26/10/ International Red Cross Day. 26/10/1905. Norway becomes independent from Sweden. 27/10/1466. Erasmus. The Dutch humanist & theologian is born. 27/10/1728. Captain James Cook. Explorer. is born.

26. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 27/10/1858. Theodore Roosevelt. The 26 th. President of the U.S.A. & winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is born. 27/10/1938. John Cleese. British writer & actor is born.

27. THIS WEEK IN HISTORY. OCTOBER 28/10/1914. Jonas Salk. Developer of the Polio Vaccine is born. 28/10/1929. Black Monday. The Wall Street crash & the beginning of the Great Depression. 28/10/1952. Billy Hughes. Prime Minister of Australia in W.W.1. dies.

28. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 28/10/1955. Bill Gates. The co-founder of Microsoft is born. 28/10/1962. Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces the removal of Soviet Nuclear missiles in Cuba.

29. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 28/10/1967. American actress Julia Roberts is born. 29/10/1897. Joseph Goebbels. Nazi Propaganda Minister is born.

30. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 30/10/1920. The Communist Party of Australia is founded. 30/10/1922. Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy. 30/10/1960. Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona is born.

31. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 30/10/1979. Sir Barnes Wallace. British Scientist, Engineer & Inventor “Of Dambusters Fame” dies.

32. THIS MONTH IN HISTORY OCTOBER 31/10/ Halloween in many countries. 31/10/1795. John Keats. English poet is born. 31/10/1984. Indira Ghandi. Prime Minister of India is assassinated.

33. QUOTE OF THE MONTH: “ I have returned. By the Grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.” General Douglas Macarthur on landing in Leyte, the Philippines 20/10/1944.