
0833363
1 October 1943
Borries Siegfried at piano with Herbert De Karajan
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2 October 1503
Horoscope cast for the day with grand conjunction of planets in Cancer.
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3 October 1964
Peter Bonetti of Chelsea vs Blackburn Rovers at Stamford Bridge.
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4 October 1919
The rush for the trams during The Great Railway Strike.
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5 October 1965
The Supremes at London Airport.
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6 October 1927
The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, opens in New York
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7 October 1870
Léon Gambetta's departure ' Armand - Barbès ' (detail) by Jules Didier and Jacques Guiaud, Museum Carnavalet, Paris.
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0019699
8 October 1952
Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel at Waterloo Station.
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9 October 1954
Alf Ramsey, captain of Tottenham Hotspur, leads out his team at White Hart Lane.
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RV7202-8
10 October 1846
Double marriage of Isabelle II of Spain and of her sister Marie-Louise Ferdinande of Bourbon, in Madrid.
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0748288
11 October 1968
Apollo 7 launch.
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12 October 1938
Mistinguett at Croydon airport.
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0038899
13 October 1962
The new twin tub Servis Supertwin auto-wash.
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0030769
14 October 1958
Miss World. Penelope Anne Coelan, Miss South Africa, at the Lyceum, London.
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15 October 1969
Paul Newman and his wife Joanna Woodward protesting against the Vietnam War outside the American Embassy in London.
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16 October 1968
Tommie Smith and John Carlos (left), give the 'black power' salute after the 200m ceremony at the Olympic Games in Mexico City.
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17 October 1781
Capture of Yorktown (Rochambeau gives orders, George Washigton on his left, and Fayette behind) by Auguste Couder in Museum of Versailles
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18 October 1930
Albert Einstein congratulates Thomas Edison for the 50th anniversary of the electric lamp by telephone to America from Berlin.
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0109195
19 October 1968
John Lennon protects Yoko Ono after crowds tried to mob them as they leave a London Court Hearing on Charges of Possession of Marijuana and Obstructing Police.
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20 October 1917
Miss Christabel Pankhurst at the East Islington election.
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0113291
21 October 1966
A policeman carries a child away from the Aberfan disaster, near Merthyr Tydvil, Wales.
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RV1038-9
22 October 1895
The train crash at Montparnasse station, Paris.
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23 October 1904
General Dragomiroff kisses the flag before going to war, Manchuria, Russo-Japanese War.
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0846377
24 October 1918
Der Tag - The Kaiser Surrenders
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0152161
25 October 1962
President Kennedy signing the proclamation which imposed a quarantine on Non Defensive Arms shipment to Cuba.
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0008389
26 October 1951
Joe Louis is knocked out by Rocky Marciano during the eighth round of their heavyweight fight in Madison Square Garden, New York.
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27 October 1968
Anti Vietnam protest in Grosvenor Square, London.
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28 October 1963
Christine Keeler during the Profumo affair.
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0145891
29 October 1964
Watched by his Tottenham team-mates, England forward Jimmy Greaves has his anti-influenza inoculation.
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0020766
30 October 1955
Ava Gardner wearing a Spanish senorita look with her hair swept back in a bun at a reception for the 1955 International Royal Film Performance.
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31 October 1841
The awful conflagration at the Tower of London.
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