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 1856: Second Opium War begins after the arrest of the crew of the Arrow, a Chinese-owned but British-registered cargo boat
Chinese officials boarded the Arrow and arrested its crew on suspicion of piracy and smuggling, prompting British authorities to claim that the Chinese had violated the vessel’s British protection, an...
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7th October 1949: The creation of East Germany, formally known as the German Democratic Republic
The establishment of the GDR ensured that the division of Germany that had been implemented in 1945 was made ...
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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 1914: First recorded aerial combat victory takes place when a French Voisin shoots down a German Aviatik aircraft
Contemporary reports state that the French crew fired a long burst on a machine, hitting the German Aviatik and fatally wounding its crew before the plane crashed behind enemy ...
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