Historical Events in October, Month of October Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| October 26, 1912 | First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje. |
| October 30, 1995 | Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty. |
| October 9, 1918 | The Finnish Parliament offers to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse the throne of a short-lived Kingdom of Finland. |
| October 4, 2004 | SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. |
| October 30, 1944 | Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII. |
| October 12, 1960 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion. |
| October 27, 1775 | King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament. |
| October 20, 1827 | Greek War of Independence: In the Battle of Navarino, a combined Turkish and Egyptian fleet is defeated by British, French and Russian naval forces in the last significant battle fought with wooden sailing ships. |
| October 23, 1965 | Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, launches an operation seeking to destroy Communist forces during the siege of Plei Me. |
| October 7, 1985 | Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt. |
| October 28, 1664 | The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established. |
| October 1, 2014 | A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people. |
| October 9, 1740 | Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000. |
| October 26, 1905 | King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden. |
| October 5, 1970 | The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering the October Crisis in Canada. |
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