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Events: C/P.
1529 The Siege of Vienna ends as the Austrians rout the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
1582 Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
1764 Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1783 The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-Franηois Pilβtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
1793 Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
1815 Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
1863 American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.
1878 The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
1880 Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
1888 The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
1894 The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
1904 The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 Airship America launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
1917 World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
1928 The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
1932 Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
1934 The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
1939 The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
1940 The President of Catalonia, Lluνs Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.
1944 The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary.
1945 World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
1951 Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first two oral contraceptives.
1953 British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
1956 Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
1965 Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
1966 Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
1969 Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US. Over 2 million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in the nation's capitol.
1970 Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
1970 The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
1971 The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia.
1979 Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.
1987 The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
1989 Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
1990 Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
1997 The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere.
1997 The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
2001 NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
2003 China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
2003 The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
2005 A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
2007 Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst day in the Dow's history based on a percentage drop.
End of C/P.
Events: C/P.
1529 The Siege of Vienna ends as the Austrians rout the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
1582 Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
1764 Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1783 The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-Franηois Pilβtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
1793 Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
1815 Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
1863 American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.
1878 The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
1880 Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
1888 The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
1894 The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
1904 The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 Airship America launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
1917 World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
1928 The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
1932 Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
1934 The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
1939 The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
1940 The President of Catalonia, Lluνs Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.
1944 The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary.
1945 World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
1951 Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first two oral contraceptives.
1953 British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
1956 Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
1965 Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
1966 Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
1969 Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US. Over 2 million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in the nation's capitol.
1970 Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
1970 The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
1971 The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia.
1979 Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.
1987 The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
1989 Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
1990 Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
1997 The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere.
1997 The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
2001 NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
2003 China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
2003 The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
2005 A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
2007 Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst day in the Dow's history based on a percentage drop.
End of C/P.