Anniversaries

9th October 1967 (47 Years)

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary leader, dies.

10th October 1684 (330 Years)

Jean Antoine Watteau was a French painter whose usage of colour had an influential effect on other artists.

10th October 1813 (201 Years)

Guiseppe Verdi, italian romantic composer, was born.

10th October 1901 (113 Years)

Alberto Giacometti, Italian Swiss sculptor, painter and printmaker, was born.

10th October 1963 (51 Years)

Edith Piaf, singer and cultural icon, died.

11th October 1963 (51 Years)

Jean Cocteau, French artist, died.

11th October 1965 (49 Years)

Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer and photojournalist, dies.

12th October 1492 (522 Years)

Sailor aboard La Pinta, Rodrigo de Triana, first sights America at 2 AM.

12th October 1915 (99 Years)

British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.

12th October 1933 (81 Years)

Alcatraz Island is made a federal maximum security prison.

13th October 1713 (301 Years)

Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter, is born.

13th October 1918 (96 Years)

Robert Hudson Walker, American actor best known for his starring role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller Strangers on a Train, was born.

13th October 1921 (93 Years)

Yves Montand, Italian-born French actor and singer, was born.

14th October 1066 (948 Years)

Battle of Hastings: Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeated the English army and killed king Harold II of England.

14th October 1888 (126 Years)

Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand-born British short story writer, was born.

14th October 1894 (120 Years)

E.E Cummings, American poet and painter, died.

14th October 1926 (88 Years)

The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.

14th October 1962 (52 Years)

The Cuban Missile Crisis begins.

14th October 1964 (50 Years)

Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize.

15th October 1814 (200 Years)

Mikhail Lermontov, the Russian romantic poet and novelist, is born.

15th October 1836 (178 Years)

Jacques Joseph Tissot, Anglicized as James Tissot, was born.

15th October 1917 (97 Years)

Mata Hari, exotic dancer and courtesan found guilty of espionage, is executed in France.

15th October 1917 (97 Years)

Mata Hari, exotic dancer and courtesan found guilty of espionage, is executed in France.

15th October 1938 (76 Years)

Brice Marden, American painter, was born.

15th October 1946 (68 Years)

Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, committed suicide.

16th October 1793 (221 Years)

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was guillotined at 12:15 p.m in Place de la Révolution, (present-day Place de la Concorde).

16th October 1813 (201 Years)

Battle of Leipzig, Napoleon defeated and forced to abdicate.

16th October 1854 (160 Years)

Oscar Wilde, poet originally from Ireland before moving to London, was born.

16th October 1892 (122 Years)

Adolf Ziegler, major painter for the Nazi Party, is born.

16th October 1913 (101 Years)

HMS Queen Elizabeth launched at Portsmouth Dockyard as the Royal Navy's first oil-fired battleship.

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