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Oct 18, 1912: The First Balkan War breaks out . . .

Oct 17, 1777: British Maj. Gen. John Burgoyne surrenders 5,000 men at Saratoga, N.Y.

Oct 17, 1781: Lt. General Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.

Oct 17, 1933: Albert Einstein arrives in America, after fleeing Germany.

Oct 15, 1917: Mata Hari, the archetype seductive female spy, is executed by a French firing squad.

Oct 16, 1940: Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr becomes the first African-American general in the US Army.

Oct 16, 1934: Mao Tse-tung sets out on the “Long March.”

Oct 16, 1793: Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution.

Oct 15, 1928: German dirigible LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin arrives in US on it’s maiden commercial flight.

Oct 15, 1817: Thaddeus Kosciusko, Polish-born US Revolutionary war hero, dies.

Oct 15, 1951: The first episode of "I Love Lucy" is televised.

Oct 14, 1964: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . . .

Oct 14, 1066: William the Conqueror defeats King Harold, in the Battle of Hastings.

Oct 14, 1806: Napoleon Bonaparte crushes the Prussian army at Jena, Germany.

Oct 13, 1775: The US Navy is established.

Oct 13, 1943: Italy declares war on Germany, one month after surrendering to the Allies.

Oct 13, 1792: The cornerstone is laid for the “President’s Palace,” now known as the White House.

Oct 12, 1966: The Jimi Hendrix Experience is formed.

Oct 12, 1492: Christopher Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas.

Oct 12, 1809: Meriwether Lewis, dies under mysterious circumstances, in Tennessee.

Oct 10, 1917: Jazz giant Thelonius Monk enters this world.

Oct 10, 1845: The U.S. Naval Academy is founded at Annapolis, MD.

Oct 10, 1789: Joseph Guillotin proposes a humane way of carrying out executions.

Oct 11, 1531: Protestant reformer Huldrych Zwingli of Zurich, is killed in battle against Catholics.

Oct 11, 1968: Apollo 7 is launched from Cape Kennedy.

Oct 11, 1727: George Augustus is crowned King George II of England.

Oct 9, 1934: King Alexander of Yugoslavia is assassinated by a Croatian terrorist.

Oct 9, 1967: Che Guevarra is captured and executed by the Bolivian Army.

Oct 9, 1888: The Washington Monument opens to the public.

Oct 8, 1918: Sgt. Alvin C. York is awarded the Medal of Honor.

Oct 8, 1862: Otto von Bismarck becomes Chancellor of the German Empire.

Oct 8, 1933: The Indian Air Force is established.

Oct 6, 1866: First US train robbery in America is committed.

Oct 6, 1847: "Jane Eyre," by Charlotte Bronte is published.

Oct 6, 1683: Germantown, Pennsylvania is founded.

Oct 7, 1954: Marian Anderson becomes the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera.

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