10th October 1957: Eisenhower apologises to Ghanaian minister for racism in Delaware restaurant
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologised to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service in a Delaware ...
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9th October 1967: Execution of Marxist revolutionary icon Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara in Bolivia
Guevara was shot nine times in a way designed to make the injuries look like they had been caused during a battle with the Bolivian ...
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8th October 1829: Robert Stephenson’s steam locomotive Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials to produce locomotives for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
By the end of the competition Rocket was the only engine to complete the full course without suffering any damage, securing Stephenson the contract to manufacture locomotives for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway that opened the following ...
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7th October 1879: Germany and Austria Hungary form the Dual Alliance
Keen to consolidate the newly-united Germany, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck turned to diplomacy in an attempt to ensure the status quo in ...
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6th October 1683: Germantown founded in the Pennsylvania Colony
Germantown was founded in the Pennsylvania Colony by immigrant Quaker and Mennonite ...
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5th October 1936: The Jarrow March departs for London
The closure of Palmer's Shipyard was a devastating blow to the people of Jarrow, where unemployment had hit ...
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4th October 1582: Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar
By the 16th Century a sizable drift had developed between the Julian calendar, the lunar calendar, and the real moon which the new calendar sought to ...
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3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne
Boris III became Tsar of Bulgaria at the end of the First World War, just four days after his father, Ferdinand I, signed the Armistice of Thessalonica with the Allied ...
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