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October 23, 1932 (Sunday) Benito Mussolini made a speech in Turin before 500,000 Italians in which he promoted the idea of a four-power pact between Britain, France, Germany and Italy as a possible solution to Europe's problems.
1 er octobre : Gyula Gömbös devient Premier ministre de la Hongrie. Il proclame sa préférence corporatiste et invite à forger « l’unité nationale du travail, du capital et du talent intellectuel ».
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Oct 1 Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists. British Politician Oswald Mosley. Oct 2 New York Yankees win their 12th consecutive World Series game and sweep the Fall Classic for the third time; Bronx Bombers bang out 19 hits as they rout Chicago Cubs, 13-6 at Wrigley Field.
The image was first published in the New York Herald-Tribune on October 2nd, 1932. But what many people have assumed over the years is that the photograph was taken at the Empire State Building, when it was actually taken at 30 Rockefeller Center in Midtown New York.
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1. 4004 BC – James Ussher'sproposed creation date of the world according to the Bible. 2. 42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat an army under Brutus in the second part of the Battle of Philippi, with Brutus committing suicide and ending the civil war. 3. 425 – Valentinian IIIis elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six. 4. 502 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theoderic, absolves Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipop...
1601–1900
1. 1641 – Irish Catholic gentry from Ulster attempt to seize control of Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland, so as to force concessions. 2. 1642 – The Battle of Edgehill is the first major battle of the English Civil War. 3. 1666 – The most intense tornado on record in English history, an F4 storm on the Fujita scale or T8 on the TORRO scale, strikes the county of Lincolnshire, with winds of more than 213 miles per hour (343 km/h). 4. 1707 – The First Parliament of the Kingdom...
1901–present
1. 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flightin Europe. 2. 1911 – The Italo-Turkish Warsees the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot makes a reconnaissance flight. 3. 1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovobetween the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins. 4. 1923 – German October: Due to a miscommunication with the party leadership, a militant section of the Communist Party of Germany launches an insurrection in Hamburg. 5. 192...
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1. 1006 – Wen Yanbo, Chinese grand chancellor (d. 1097) 2. 1255 – Ferdinand de la Cerda, Spanish noble (d. 1275) 3. 1491 (estimated) – Ignatius of Loyola, Catholic priest (d. 1556) 4. 1516 – Charlotte of Valois, French princess (d. 1524)
1601–1900
1. 1634 – Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish queen (d. 1715) 2. 1654 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, Austrian composer (d. 1712) 3. 1698 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect, designed the École Militaire(d. 1782) 4. 1705 – Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757) 5. 1713 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist, poet, and educator (d. 1778) 6. 1762 – Samuel Morey, American engineer (d. 1843) 7. 1766 – Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French general (d....
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1. 1902 – Robert Eberan von Eberhorst, Austrian engineer (d. 1982) 2. 1902 – Luther Evans, American political scientist and politician (d. 1981) 3. 1904 – Harvey Penick, American golfer and coach (d. 1995) 4. 1905 – Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prizelaureate (d. 1983) 5. 1905 – Yen Chia-kan, Chinese lawyer and politician, President of the Republic of China(d. 1993) 6. 1905 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003) 7. 1908 – František Douda, Czech shot putter (d. 1990)...
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1. 42 BC – Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Roman general and politician (b. 85 BC) 2. 877 – Ignatios of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch (b. 797) 3. 891 – Yazaman al-Khadim, Abbasid general and politician 4. 902 – Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir (b. 850) 5. 930 – Daigo, Japanese emperor (b. 885) 6. 945 – Hyejong of Goryeo, Korean king (b. 912) 7. 949 – Yōzei, Japanese emperor (b. 869) 8. 1134 – Abu al-Salt, Andalusian polymath 9. 1157 – Sweyn III, Danish king (b. c. 1125) 10. 1456...
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1. 1616 – Leonhard Hutter, German theologian and academic (b. 1563) 2. 1688 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (b. 1610) 3. 1730 – Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683) 4. 1764 – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1683) 5. 1774 – Michel Benoist, French missionary and astronomer (b. 1715) 6. 1852 – Georg August Wallin, Finnish explorer, orientalist, and professor (b. 1811) 7. 1867 – Franz Bopp, German linguist and ac...
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1. 1910 – Chulalongkorn, Thai king (b. 1853) 2. 1915 – W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (b. 1848) 3. 1916 – Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889) 4. 1917 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss illustrator (b. 1845) 5. 1921 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber(b. 1840) 6. 1935 – Charles Demuth, American painter and educator (b. 1883) 7. 1939 – Zane Grey, American dentist and author (b. 1872) 8. 1942 – Ralph Rainger, American pianist and composer (b...
Christian feast day:Aviator's Day (Brazil)Chulalongkorn Day (Thailand)Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle (Republic of North Macedonia)The New York Times: On This Day1942 – The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany 's persecution of Jews. 1944 – The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division. 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
Oct 1 Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists. British Politician Oswald Mosley. Oct 2 New York Yankees win their 12th consecutive World Series game and sweep the Fall Classic for the third time; Bronx Bombers bang out 19 hits as they rout Chicago Cubs, 13-6 at Wrigley Field.
