Historical Events in October, Month of October Events
Here is a list of some historical events in October. You can learn What major event happened in October?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| October 30, 1905 | Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, nominally granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar) |
| October 29, 1948 | Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; afterwards, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF. |
| October 9, 1992 | The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York |
| October 18, 1648 | Boston shoemakers form the first American labor organization. |
| October 31, 1822 | Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Congress of the Mexican Empire. |
| October 10, 2022 | Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. |
| October 12, 1960 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion. |
| October 1, 1814 | The Congress of Vienna opens with the intention of redrawing Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon in the previous spring. |
| October 6, 1849 | The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence. |
| October 11, 1852 | The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney. |
| October 25, 1920 | After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies. |
| October 12, 1996 | New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First. |
| October 10, 1954 | The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat. |
| October 1, 1960 | Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom. |
| October 5, 1905 | The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes. |
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