Historical Events in October, Month of October Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| October 25, 2010 | Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people. |
| October 11, 2002 | A bomb attack in a Myyrmanni shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven. |
| October 12, 2018 | Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. |
| October 1, 2017 | Fifty-eight people are killed and 869 others injured in a mass shooting at a country music festival at the Las Vegas Strip in the United States; the gunman, Stephen Paddock, later commits suicide.[17] |
| October 25, 1932 | George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party. |
| October 5, 1921 | The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio. |
| October 7, 1477 | Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year. |
| October 10, 1998 | A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people. |
| October 25, 1917 | Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia. |
| October 28, 1893 | Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death. |
| October 8, 1939 | World War II: Germany annexes western Poland. |
| October 13, 2019 | Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for a woman runner with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon. |
| October 18, 1929 | The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law. |
| October 2, 2019 | A privately-owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven. |
| October 30, 2013 | Forty-five people are killed and seven injured after a bus catches fire in Mahabubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh (present-day Telangana), India. |
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