Anniversaries

4th October 1669 (344 Years)

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, widely considered one of the most prolific visual artists of all time, died.

4th October 1814 (199 Years)

Jean-Francois Millet, the French artist known for his scenes of peasant farmers, is born.

4th October 1923 (90 Years)

Charlton Heston, American actor and political activist, was born.

4th October 1957 (56 Years)

Sputnik, world's first satellite, is launched by the Soviet Union.

4th October 1970 (43 Years)

Janis Lyn Joplin, influential American singer of the 1960s, died.

5th October 1713 (300 Years)

Denis Diderot, French philosopher, was born.

5th October 1763 (250 Years)

King August III of Poland, died.

5th October 1864 (149 Years)

The birth of Louis Lumiere, who, with brother Auguste, made 1st motion picture in 1895.

5th October 1917 (96 Years)

Jarrow March: 200 men marched from Jarrow to Westminster to draw attention to unemployment.

5th October 1918 (95 Years)

Roland Georges Garros, French soldier and pilot, died.

5th October 1930 (83 Years)

R101 Airship Crash in France.

5th October 1938 (75 Years)

Germany invalidates Jewish people's passports.

6th October 1847 (166 Years)

Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre is published in London.

6th October 1887 (126 Years)

Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and city planner, was born.

6th October 1888 (125 Years)

Roland Garros, French aviator and WW1 fighter pilot, was born.

6th October 1892 (121 Years)

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, one of the most popular British poets, died.

6th October 1908 (105 Years)

Carol Lombard, American comediennne and actress, was born.

6th October 1989 (24 Years)

Bette Davis, the American actress of film, television and theatre, died.

7th October 1849 (164 Years)

Edgar Allan Poe, writer famous for Gothic short stories such as 'The Raven' and 'The Pit and the Pendulum' died.

7th October 1917 (96 Years)

June Allyson, American stage, film, and television actress, dancer, and singer, was born.

7th October 1923 (90 Years)

Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor, was born.

7th October 1933 (80 Years)

Air Orient, Air Union, Compagnie Générale Aéropostale, CIDNA and Société Générale des Transports Aériens, merged into Air France.

7th October 2009 (4 Years)

Irving Penn, American fashion photographer who shot for Vogue magazine (among others), died.

8th October 1865 (148 Years)

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies.

8th October 1941 (72 Years)

Jesse Jackson, American civil rights activist and Baptist minister, is born.

8th October 1967 (46 Years)

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, former Prime Minister of the UK and Leader of the Labour Party, died.

9th October 1754 (259 Years)

Jean-Baptiste Regnault, a French Painter, died.

9th October 1874 (139 Years)

Nicholas Roerich was a Russian painter influenced by spiritual themes, also evident in his writing and philosophies.

9th October 1888 (125 Years)

Washington Monument opens for public admittance.

9th October 1940 (73 Years)

During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.

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