Historical Events in October, Month of October Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| October 21, 1096 | A Seljuk Turkish army successfully fights off the People's Crusade. |
| October 21, 1944 | World War II: The Nemmersdorf massacre against German civilians takes place. |
| October 16, 1919 | Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party. |
| October 18, 1954 | Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio. |
| October 11, 2013 | A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 34 people drowning. |
| October 23, 1982 | A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured. |
| October 28, 2009 | NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program. |
| October 30, 2015 | A fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital of Bucharest kills sixty-four people and leaves more than 147 injured. |
| October 28, 1956 | Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries. |
| October 27, 1795 | The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S. |
| October 27, 1922 | A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union. |
| October 21, 1994 | North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections. |
| October 1, 2015 | The American cargo vessel SS El Faro sinks with all of its 33 crew after steaming into the eyewall of Hurricane Joaquin. |
| October 23, 2002 | Second Chechen War: Chechen separatist terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage. |
| October 29, 1980 | Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in a crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida, leading to the cancellation of Operation Credible Sport. |
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