1410 : Prague astronomical developments were first mentioned.
1806 : Persia declared war on France.
1876 : For the first time, a two-way conversation was conducted through an out wire on the telephone.
1949 : The Territorial Army of India was established.
1962 : Uganda gained independence from the United Kingdom.
1981 : The death penalty was abolished in France.
1967 : Earnest “Che” Guevara, the Argentine-born revolutionary who helped Fidel Castro win power in Cuba, was shot dead after being captured by Bolivian Army troops.
1976 : International Dialling telephone Services started between Mumbai, India and London, UK.
2005 : Launch of European satellite ‘Cryoset’ failed.
2006 : Google announced the acquisition of YouTube.
2012 : Malala Yousafzai, who played an important role in promoting the education of girls, was shot by the Taliban while she was going to school.
Famous Birthdays – October 9
1238: Muhammad Nizamuddin Auliya, was a Sunni Muslim scholar, Sufi saint, and one of the most famous Sufis on the Indian Subcontinent.
1757: King Charles X of France.
1852: Emil Fischer, a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1902 for the formation of sugar molecules by chemical processes.
1876: Pandit Dharmananda Kosambi, an Indian scholar of Buddhism.
1877: Pandit Gopbandhudas (Utkalmani), social reformers, social activists, freedom fighters, poets and writers in Orissa, India.
1897: M. Bhaktavatsalam, 6th Chief Minister of Madras State, India.
1924: Immanuvel Devendrar, an Indian soldier.
1940: John Lennon, English pop singer, musician, and songwriter.
1945: Amjad Ali Khan, an Indian classical sarod player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans.
1966: David Cameron, Prime Minister of England.
1968: Anbumani Ramadoss, Indian politician.
Death Anniversaries – October 9
1892: Gopal Hari Deshmukh, an Indian activist, thinker, social reformer, and writer.
1955: Govindrao Tembe, Harmonium player, Indian actor, and composer. He was the first music director of the first Indian talkie movie.
1967: Joseph Hubertus Pilates, German physical trainer, and notable for having invented and promoted the Pilates method of physical fitness.
1967: Earnest “Che” Guevara, the Argentine-born revolutionary
1987: Guru Gopinath, Indian Kathakali dancer.
2000: Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish Colonel, recipient of the Victoria Cross.
2006: Kanshi Ram, Indian lawyer and politician, and founder of Bahujan Samaj Party.
2015: Ravindra Jain, Indian musician, and director.
1932 : The Indian Air Force was established by the Indian Air Force Act.
1939 : In World War II, Germany annexed western Poland.
1962 : Algeria entered the United Nations.
1978 : Ken Warby, Australian motorboat racer, who currently holds the water speed record of 317.58 miles per hour.
1982 : Poland banned Solidarity and all other trade unions.
2001 : US President George W. Bush established the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
2005 : A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Kashmir killed at least 86,000-87,500 people, injured 69,000-72,500, and left 2.8 million homeless.
Famous Birthdays – October 8
1850: Henry Louis Le Chatelier, French chemist.
1889: Collett E. Woolman, co-founder of Delta Airlines.
1891: Shankarrao Vasudev Kirloskar, an Indian entrepreneur, writer, and illustrator.
1911: Ram Dass Katari, the 3rd Chief of the Naval Staff. He was the first Indian to hold the office and succeeded the last British officer to the post.
1922: Dr. G. N. Ramachandran, Indian Researcher, an internationally renowned biophysicist.
1924: Thirunalloor Karunakaran, an Indian poet, and scholar.
1926: Raaj Kumar (Kulabhushan Pandit), Indian actor.
1930: Alasdair Milne, an Indian-English director, and producer.
1960: Reed Hastings, an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Netflix.
1985: Bruno Mars, American singer, and songwriter.
Death Anniversaries – October 8
1317: Emperor Fushimi of Japan.
1793: John Hancock, an American merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American revolutionary.
1869: Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States.
3761BC : First day of the world according to the Hebrew calendar.
1905 : Burning of foreign clothes celebrated in Pune. This was the first such attempt to boycott foreign goods by Indians.
1912 : Helsinki Stock Exchange opened.
1919 : Mahatma Gandhi launched Navjivan’s new paper.
1919 : K. L. M. was established in Holland.
1933 : Five small companies were merged to form Air France.
1949 : Establishment of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
1950 : Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata.
1971 : Oman joined the United Nations.
1996 : Fox News Channel began broadcasting.
2000 : Human cloning declared a punishable offense in Japan.
2001 : The US invaded Afghanistan in response to the 9/11 attacks.
2002 : Salman Khan was arrested by Bandra police, Mumbai.
2003 : Hollywood film star Arnold Schwarzenegger was first elected as a Governor of California.
2008 : Asteroid 2008 TC 3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected before it enters into the earth’s atmosphere.
Famous birthdays – October 7
1866: Krishnaji Keshav Damle (Keshavsut), Indian poet, the promoters of Marathi poetry.
1885: Niels Henrik David Bohr, a Danish physicist. He made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
1900: Heinrich Himmler, German head of the Gestapo, and Hitler’s second in command.
1907: Pragji Dosa, Indian-Gujarati playwright, and writer.
1914: Begum Akhtar, India singer. She is best known for her Gazals, Thumri, and Dadra.
1923: Reverend Desmond Tutu, South African Archbishop of Cape Town and general secretary of the South African Council of Churches. He was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1984.
1929: Graeme Ferguson, a Canadian filmmaker, and co-inventor of IMAX.
1952: Vladimir Putin, a Russian politician, former president of Russia, and prime minister of Russia.
1959: Simon Cowell, an English television personality, entrepreneur, entertainment manager, and record executive.
1977: Yukta Mookhey, an Indian actress, model, and Miss World 1999.
1978: Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer.
Death Anniversaries – October 7
1708: Guru Govind Singh, the 10th Guru of the Sikhs.
1849: Edgar Allan Poe, author of the American Mystery and Horror Story.
1986: Paul Tournier was, a Swiss physician.
1894: Oliver Wendell Holmes, American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston.
1951: Anton Philips, co-founder of the Philips Company.
1975: Devanhalli Venkataramanya Gundappa, DVG, Indian-Kannada poet and thinker.
1992: Allan David Bloom, American philosopher, classicist, and academician.
1807 : Sir Humphrey Davy discovered a new metal, and named it Potassium.
1908 : Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1927 : Warner Bros. ‘Jazz Singer’, the world’s first talkie film, was released in the United States.
1927 : The first independent film processing film laboratory in India, Atmananda Laboratory, was set up by Narayanrao, also known as Dhanjibhai K. Desai.
1949 : The cornerstone of the National Defense Academy (NDA) building at Khadakwasla was laid by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
1973 : Egypt and Syria invaded Israel.
1981 : Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
1987 : Fiji became a republic.
2007 : Jason Lewis completed a circumnavigation of the earth in a whaleboat.
2010 : Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, was founded.
Famous Birthdays – October 6
1773: Louis Philippe I, King of France.
1779: Mount Stuart Elphinstone, Scottish diplomat and governor of the Indian state of Mumbai.
1808: Ardaseer Wadia, Indian shipbuilder and engineer belonging to the Wadia shipbuilding family.
1866: Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor, founder of radiotelephony.
1887: Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.
1893: Meghnad Saha, an Indian astronomer and Member of Parliament.
1912: Dr. Hari Jeevan (H. J. Arnikar), Indian Atomic chemist, Professor.
1914: Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian navigator, and researcher.
1930: Richie Benoit, an Australian cricketer, and commentator.
1946: Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, filmmaker, and politician.
1946: Tony Gregg, English cricketer, and critic.
Death Anniversaries – October 6
1661: Guru Har Rai, the seventh of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion.
1880: Benjamin Peirce, American mathematician.
1892: Lord Tennyson, English poet.
1951: W.K. Kellogg, an American industrialist, the founder of the Kellogg Company.
1951: Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German physician, and biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology.
1974: V K Krishna Menon, Indian politician, non-career diplomat, and a nationalist.
1981: Anwar el-Sadat, Egyptian politician, the third President of Egypt.
2007: L. M. Singhvi, Indian politician, Lawyer, Scholar, Diplomat, and Ambassador of India to England.
1864 : A cyclone destroyed the city of Kolkata, killing at least 60,000 people.
1910 : Portugal was proclaimed a republic – King Manuel II fled to Britain.
1921 : The World Series was the first to be broadcast on radio.
1948 : An earthquake in Ashgabat kills at least 110,000 people.
1955 : The Hindustan Machine Tools factory was inaugurated by Pandit Nehru. The place of this factory is considered important in the industrial development of India.
1962 : Dr. No, the first James Bond film released.
1989 : Mirasaheb Fatima Bibi became the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India.
1998 : Indira Gandhi National Integration Award announced to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
Famous Birthdays – October 5
1524: Rani Durgavati, Queen of Gondwana, India.
1890: Kishorilal Ghanshyamlal Mashruwala, Indian philosopher, and editor of Harijan.
1902: Raymond Albert Kroc, an American fast-food tycoon.
1905: P. Kunhiraman Nair, an Indian writer of Malayalam literature.
1922: Yadunath Thatte, Indian-Marathi writer, and editor.
1926: Baji Rout, the youngest Indian freedom fighter and martyr.
1922: Shankar Singh Raghuvanshi, an Indian musician from the Shankar-Jaikishan duo.
1923: Kailashpati Mishra, Governor of Gujarat, India.
1936: Vaclav Havel, the first president of the Czech Republic.
1939: Walter Wolf, founder of Walter Wolf Racing.
1952: Imran Khan, former Pakistani cricketer, and politician. He is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Pakistan and the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
1958: Neil deGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator.
1975: Kate Winslet, an English actress.
Death Anniversaries – October 5
1805: Charles Cornwallis, former Governor-General of India.
1813: Tecumseh, a Native American Shawnee warrior, and chief.
1927: Sam Warner, an American film producer, co-founder of Warner Bros.
1968: Jogendranath Mandal, one of the central and leading founding fathers of the modern state of Pakistan.
1981: Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian Writer.
1983: Earl Silas Tupper, an American businessman, and inventor, best known as the inventor of Tupperware.
1990: Ramkumar Verma, Indian Hindi poet.
1991: Ramnath Goenka, an Indian newspaper publisher. He launched The Indian Express newspaper and Groups.
1992: Appasaheb Pant, an Indian diplomat, prince, Gandhian, writer and freedom fighter.
2011: Steven Paul Jobs was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor.
