October in History
Day-by-day historical events for every published October date: 22 days so far, each retold as a classic newspaper front page.
- October 10 — Nobel Economics Prize to 3 US Scholars
- October 11 — Sullivan Is First U.S. Woman to Spacewalk
- October 12 — Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier in Vienna
- October 13 — 69 Days Underground End in Joy
- October 14 — Yeager Breaks Sound Barrier in Rocket Plane Over Mojave
- October 15 — China Launches First Astronaut Into Orbit Aboard Shenzhou 5
- October 16 — Kennedy Sees Cuba Missile Photos; 13-Day Crisis Opens
- October 17 — Burgoyne Yields Sword; 6,200 British Troops Surrender at Saratoga
- October 18 — Phillis Wheatley, African Poetess, Granted Her Freedom
- October 19 — Scipio Crushes Hannibal at Zama, Ending 17-Year Punic War
- October 20 — Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crashes in Mississippi; Six Killed
- October 21 — Nelson Falls at Trafalgar as British Fleet Crushes Combined Enemy
- October 22 — Sartre Refuses Nobel Prize in Literature
- October 23 — Mutsuhito Proclaims Meiji Era After Seizing Shogunate's Seat at Edo
- October 24 — Concorde Makes Final Commercial Flight, Ending Era of Supersonic Passenger Travel
- October 25 — Henry V Smashes French Host at Agincourt; King Fights Hand-to-Hand
- October 26 — Eleven Clubs Found Football Association in London to Codify the Game
- October 27 — Soviet Officer Blocks Nuclear Torpedo Launch, Averting War
- October 28 — Cleveland Dedicates Liberty's Colossus; Harbor Throngs Witness
- October 29 — Market Panic Ends Bull Run of 1920s
- October 30 — Romania Mourns 64 Killed in Bucharest Nightclub Blaze
- October 31 — Luther Posts Ninety-five Theses; Reformation Begins
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