📅 #OnThisDay, October 21 in 1910:
HMS Niobe arrived in Halifax Harbour to become the first large ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 21 in 1858:
French composer Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, featuring the music most associated with the can-can audio featured), was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris.
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 21 in 1345:
Hundred Years' War: The English victory at the Battle of Auberoche marked a change in the military balance of power in Aquitaine, with the subsequent collapse of the French position.
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📅 #Anniversary - #OnThisDay, October 20:
✝ Michael Newman (died 1 years ago (2024)
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📅 #Anniversary - #OnThisDay, October 20:
🚼 Jerry Orbach was born 90 years ago (1935)
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📅 #Anniversary - #OnThisDay, October 20:
🚼 Janet Jagan was born 105 years ago (1920)
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📅 #Anniversary - #OnThisDay, October 20:
✝ Ralph d'Escures died 903 years ago (1122)
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 20 in 2024:
Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka were sworn in as president and vice president of Indonesia, becoming the oldest and the youngest person to assume respective offices.
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 20 in 1973:
Watergate scandal: Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned after refusing to obey President Richard Nixon's order to have Archibald Cox fired.
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 20 in 1944:
World War II: Fulfilling a promise he made two years previously, General Douglas MacArthur landed on Leyte to begin the recapture of the Philippines.
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 20 in 1936:
British woman Mabel Freer was refused entry to Australia after failing a dictation test given in Italian, leading to a debate over Australia's immigration policy.
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Mahamat Déby
📅 #PicOfTheDay - #OnThisDay, October 20 in 2022:
Protests broke out across Chad after President Mahamat Déby declared his intentions to extend his rule by another two years.
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📅 #Anniversary - #OnThisDay, October 19:
🚼 Annie Smith Peck was born 175 years ago (1850)
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 19 in 1965:
Vietnam War: The Siege of Plei Me began with the first major confrontation between soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army and the U.S. Army.
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 19 in 1955:
At a meeting of its general assembly, the European Broadcasting Union approved the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 19 in 1943:
World War II: Allied aircraft sank the German cargo ship Sinfra, killing mostly Italian POWs.
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 19 in 1864:
American Civil War: Despite incurring nearly twice as many casualties as the Confederates, the Union army emerged victorious at the Battle of Cedar Creek.
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Hurricane Wilma northeast of Honduras
📅 #PicOfTheDay - #OnThisDay, October 19 in 2005:
Hurricane Wilma became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar (26.05 inHg).
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📅 #Anniversary - #OnThisDay, October 18:
🚼 Marshall McDonald was born 190 years ago (1835)
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📅 #Anniversary - #OnThisDay, October 18:
✝ Isaac Jogues died 379 years ago (1646)
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 18 in 2019:
Protests in Santiago that started 11 days prior escalated into open battle against the Chilean national police, forcing President Sebastián Piñera to declare a state of emergency.
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 18 in 1963:
The first cat in space, later known as Félicette, launched aboard a French Véronique rocket.
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 18 in 1775:
American Revolutionary War: In an act of retaliation against ports that supported Patriot activities in the early stages of the war, the Royal Navy destroyed what is now Portland, Maine.
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 18 in 1356:
The most significant earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history destroyed Basel, Switzerland.
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Brahms in 1889
📅 #PicOfTheDay - #OnThisDay, October 18 in 1887:
Johannes Brahms conducted the premiere of his Double Concerto, composed for violinist Joseph Joachim and cellist Robert Hausmann.
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📅 #OnThisDay, October 18, the following holiday is observed:
Alaska Day (1867)
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📅 #Anniversary - #OnThisDay, October 17 :
✝ Elijah Cummings died 6 years ago (2019)
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📅 #Anniversary - #OnThisDay, October 17 :
✝ Micheline Ostermeyer died 24 years ago (2001)
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📅 #Anniversary - #OnThisDay, October 17 :
🚼 Raffaele Bendandi was born 132 years ago (1893)
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📅 #Anniversary - #OnThisDay, October 17 :
🚼 George Nicol (was born 155 years ago (1870)
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