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On October 12, 1810, Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria married Princess Therese, and Munich celebrated on a meadow outside the city gates. The festivities were repeated the next year and became Oktoberfest.
Oct 12, 2026
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Saturday Night Live went on the air on October 11, 1975, as a low-cost replacement for reruns of The Tonight Show. It became the longest-running sketch comedy program in American history.
Oct 11, 2026
The Wuchang Uprising began on October 10, 1911. Within four months the Qing dynasty had fallen and China had become a republic. The man who became its first president read about it in a newspaper in Denver.
Oct 10, 2026
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was executed in Bolivia on October 9, 1967, at the age of thirty-nine. In death he became the most reproduced image of the twentieth century and one of its most disputed figures.
Oct 9, 2026
The Great Chicago Fire broke out on the night of October 8, 1871. It destroyed the heart of the city, left a third of its people homeless, and cleared the ground for the birthplace of the skyscraper.
Oct 8, 2026
On October 7, 1571, the fleet of the Holy League defeated the Ottoman navy at Lepanto. It was the largest naval battle in the West in over a thousand years, and a future novelist lost the use of his left hand.
Oct 7, 2026
The Jazz Singer premiered in New York on October 6, 1927. It was the first feature film with synchronized speech, and it ended the silent era almost overnight.
Oct 6, 2026
On October 5, 1962, the Beatles released their first single, 'Love Me Do,' and the first James Bond film, Dr. No, had its premiere in London. Neither was expected to amount to much.
Oct 5, 2026
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957. The first artificial satellite stunned the United States, set off the space race, and led directly to the creation of NASA.
Oct 4, 2026
Germany was reunified on October 3, 1990, less than eleven months after the Berlin Wall opened. East Germany dissolved itself and joined the Federal Republic, ending forty-one years of division.
Oct 3, 2026
