@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1917 Corporal Thomas Astley (17810) 20 Bn Manchester Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Thomas is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1916 Private Walter Samuel Ashmore (34760) 10 Bn Cheshire Regiment died of wounds and was buried Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension.
Walter is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1973
U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1964
The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1957
The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1938
Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1933
A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1918
RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the largest loss of life on the Irish Sea.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1911
The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1903
The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1845
In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1846
Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1580
Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1575
Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise, defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 1492
The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, attempt a mutiny
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@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 732
Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social10 October 19
The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to leave the province
@nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.socialThis is an Enameled cristallo stem glass, made around 1500 and kept in the Louvre in Paris. Catherine would have drunk out of something similar as queen.
#comingsoon #historicalfiction #Historymatters #historynerd #catherinehoward
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social9 October 1988
Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. 2 in North America, giving players a very different Mario adventure filled with turnips, vegetables and enemies that could be picked up and thrown.
