Historical Events in October, Month of October Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| October 28, 1922 | Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government. |
| October 27, 1553 | Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva. |
| October 26, 1937 | Nazi Germany begins expulsions of 18,000 Polish Jews. |
| October 28, 1538 | The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic. |
| October 9, 1854 | Crimean War: The siege of Sevastopol begins. |
| October 6, 1944 | World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass. |
| October 4, 1960 | An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people. |
| October 27, 1991 | Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union. |
| October 18, 1944 | World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany. |
| October 2, 1971 | South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election. |
| October 3, 1993 | An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die. |
| October 18, 1977 | German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide. |
| October 24, 1918 | World War I: Italian victory in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. |
| October 4, 1209 | Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III. |
| October 5, 1869 | The Eastman tunnel, in Minnesota, United States, collapses during construction, causing a landslide that nearly destroys St. Anthony Falls. |
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