On this day

October 25th

1905 - UK: Lord Rosebery calls for a future Liberal government to challenge the power of the House of Lords.

1917 - Washington: President Woodrow Wilson delivers a speech in favour of woman's suffrage.

1919 - UK: Six Sinn Fein prisoners escape from Strangeways Prison.

1920 - London: Tomas MacSwiney, the jailed Lord Mayor of Cork dies after a 78 day hunger strike.

1927 - South Africa: A long a bitter dispute over South Africa's national flag is resolved after the National Party Prime Minister General J.B.M. Hertzog, agreed on a design that incorporated the Union Jack and the Vierkleur flags of the old Boer Republics.

1932 - UK: George Lansbury is elected leader of the Labour Party.

1938 - London: The Duke of Kent is appointed Governor-General of Australia.

1939 - UK: The Handley Page Halifax Bomber makes its maiden flight.

1940 - Germany: RAF bombers raid Berlin and heavily attack Hamburg.

1941 - UK: The Battleship Prince of Wales leaves for Singapore to be the flagship of Britain's new fleet in the far east.

1942 - Bermuda: A squadron of US aircraft carriers sail for North Africa to take part in the "Torch" landings.

1943 - Auschwitz-Birkenau: Over 2,000 young women from Salonika are murdered in the gas chambers.

1944 - Berlin: Heinrich Himmler orders the Reich Anatomical Institute's collection of Jewish death camp victims skeleton's to be destroyed.

1949 -UK: A gallon of petrol goes up twopence halfpenny to 2/3d.

1952 - New York: Communist China is refused UN entry for the third year running.

1954 - USA: The first public and televised Cabinet meeting is held. President Eisenhower and the Cabinet met in the White House to hear Secretary of State John Foster Dulles report on the Paris Conference, dealing with Allied military forces in Europe, and the admission of West Germany to NATO.

1956 - Singapore: 15 people are killed in anti-British riots.

1961 - Berlin: British and US tanks face Soviet tanks along the border in a row over Allied entry rights.

1962 - USA: Aerial photos of offensive missile bases in Cuba are displayed to the UN by Ambassador Adlai Stevenson.

1963 - Sweden: The Beatles play the first of a five date Swedish tour in a school hall in Karlstad.

1967 - London: The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill, renamed the Abortion Bill, is passed by parliament.

1969 - UK: "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies tops the UK Singles charts, staying there for eight weeks, selling 8 million copies worldwide.

1970 - UK: Racing driver Jack Brabham announces his retirement.

1972 - Iceland: A boycott of British goods is announced as part of the Cod War.

1974 - USA: Soul singer Al Green has boiling hot grit poured over him when ex-girlfriend Mary Woodson bursts into his Memphis home while he was taking a shower. She then shot herself, leaving Green with second degree burns.

1984 - Brussels: The EC grants £1.8 million in Famine Aid to Ethiopia.

1986 - Australia: Dire Strait's guitarist Mark Knopfler breaks his collarbone in a celebrity car race crash before the Australian Grand Prix.

1992 - Egypt: Ceremonies are held at El Alamein to mark the 50th anniversary of the decisive World War II battle.

1997 - USA: Johnny Cash announces he is suffering from Parkinson's Disease during a gig in Michigan, after falling over on stage when reaching for a guitar pick.

2006 - UK: Surgeons in the UK are given permission by the National Health Service Ethics Committee to prepare to perform the world's first face transplant at London's Royal Hospital.

2009 - Israel: Israeli police and Palestinians clash at Temple Mount, Jerusalem's holiest site, resulting in 12 arrests.

2010 - India: More than 700 species of ancient insects are discovered in amber, in an ancient rainforest in India.

October 26th

1749 - USA: Slavery in Georgia was officially sanctioned by the colony's proprietors. The Importation of rum was also permitted.

1903 - London: The Foundation stone is laid of the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Women and Children.

1912 - London: A new tunnel linking Woolwich and North Woolwich under the River Thames is opened.

1918 - London: 2,225 deaths from influenza are reported in the capital in a week.

1921 - Leipzig: The first German war criminal, Karl Heynen, is sentenced to nine months in jail for cruelty to POW's.

1926 - Brussels: A new currency, worth five francs named the "Belga" is launched, aimed at stabilising the country's economy.

1929 - London: An announcement states that all London buses will be red, as trials with Yellow-and-red buses have proved unpopular.

1937 - London: King George opens the first parliament of his reign.

1939 - UK: The Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps is formed.

1940 - Atlantic: The liner Empress of Britain the flagship of the Canadian Pacific fleet is crippled by German bombers off the coast of Ireland.

1942 - China: USAAF bombers raid Hong Kong and Canton.

1947 - Scotland: 21 people are killed in an express train crash near Berwick-upon-Tweed.

1955 - USA: "Rebel Without a Cause" the last film starring the late James Dean opens.

1957 - Moscow: Marshal Georgi Zhukov is dismissed as minister of defence.

1963 - New York: Bob Dylan plays a sell-out concert at the Carnegie Hall in New York.

1965 - London: The Queen presents MBEs to The Beatles at Buckingham Palace.

1966 - Paris: NATO decides to transfer its headquarters from Paris to Brussels.

1973 - UK: Troops provide emergency 999 service in Glasgow as firemen go on strike.

1975 - London: Young Liberal leader Peter Hain is charged with stealing £490 from a bank in Putney.

1979 - Seoul: President Park Chung Hee is "accidentally shot dead by his intelligence chief.

1980 - London: 60,000 protestors take part in Britain's biggest anti-nuclear demonstration for nearly 20 years.

1985 - USA: Whitney Houston hits No.1 on the US singles chart with "Saving All My Love For You."

1987 - London: City institutions plead with the government to halt the BP flotation as share prices continue to plunge.

1991 - USA: Ozzy Osbourne brakes his foot after an accident on stage at a concert in Chicago, which causes him to cancel the remaining dates of his US tour.

1993 - Puerto Rico: Catholic churches in San Juan urge residents to tie black ribbons on trees in protest against Madonna's first live appearance.

1998 - Central America: Hurricane Mitch devastates parts of El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.

2005 - Bosnia: Archaeologist's discover what is believed to be Europe's first pyramid in the central town of Visoko, north of Sarajevo.

2008 - Ireland: A light aircraft flying from Gloucester, England to Kilrush in Ireland, crashes in Ireland's Wicklow Mountains, killing four people.

2010 - Cameroon: A Cholera outbreak kills 559 people.

October 27th

1858 - USA: Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the US is born in New York City.

1876 - USA: 2,000 Indian men, women, and children, from a total of around 400 lodges, surrender to Captain Nelson Miles on the Big Dry River in Montana.

1904 - New York: Mayor McLellan opens the New York underground railway. Around 150,000 use the service on its first day.

1910 - Persia: 160 British troops land at Lingah in the Gulf to protect British interests amid local unrest.

1915 - USA: A new US seaplane flight record is established by Oscar A. Brindley, flying 544 miles along the Californian coast in ten hours.

1919 - London: Government figures show a national debt of £473, 645,000.

1927 - USA: New York: The first sound news film "Fox Movie-tone News" is released.

1928 - India: The world's largest dam, containing 14 square miles of water, near Poona, is inaugurated.

1930 - London: Russian-born pianist Vladimir Horowitz makes his debut in the capital.

1932 - UK: The book "Greek Memories" by Compton Mackenzie is withdrawn for revealing who headed the Secret Service in the Great War.

1936 - Ipswich: Mrs Wallis Simpson wins a divorce from her husband Ernest.

1937 - Tokyo: Japan rejects a proposed conference in Brussels to settle the Sino-Japanese War.

1940 - Czechoslovakia: In a night of widespread bombing, the RAF successfully targets the key Skoda arms plant at Pilsen.

1941 - Lithuania: 9,000 Jews, including 4,273 children, are massacred by German Einsatzkommandos, in Kovno.

1942 - Stalingrad: German forces push to within firing distance of Soviet landing jetties on the west bank of the Volga River.

1943 - Italy: The Eighth Army captures Montefalcone.

1950 - Korea: North Korean resistance begins to crumble in the advance of the UN forces near the Manchurian Border.

1954 - Cairo: A mob burns the headquarters of the extreme Moslem Brotherhood.

1961 - New York: Mauritania and Mongolia join the UN.

1962 - Russia: Nikita Khrushchev offers to remove the Cuban missile bases under the supervision of the UN, demanding that the US take corresponding action in Turkey.

1962 - New York: Edward Albee's first full length play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens at the Billy Rose Theatre on Broadway.

1965 - London: 36 people are killed when an airliner crashes on landing at Heathrow Airport.

1966 - UK: The Four Tops have their only UK No.1 single with "Reach Out I'll Be There."

1967 - London: The Abortion Bill becomes law.

1969 - UK: All wildlife in a 3,000 acre area around Camberley in Surrey is announced it will be destroyed after a rabid dog bites two people.

1971 - Kinshasa: Congo changes its name to Zaire.

1973 - USA: Gladys Knight and the Pips begin a two week run at No.1 on the US Singles Charts, with "Midnight Train to Georgia."

1977 - London: MP Jeremy Thorpe denies ever having a homosexual relationship with Norman Scott.

1979 - West Indies: St. Vincent and Grenada become independent of Britain.

1984 - USA: While Performing a gig in Berkeley The Grateful Dead set aside a recording area for fans to bootleg the show.

1989 - Ireland: U2 bass player Adam Clayton is convicted of drink-driving by a Dublin court after being found to be driving twice over the legal limit. He is fined £500, and is banned for a year.

1990 - UK: Paul Simon begins a two week stint at No.1 on the UK Album chart with "The Rhythm of the Saints, his third UK No.1 solo album.

1992 - USA: Bo Diddley takes his ex-manager to court, claiming he had taken $75,000 through unauthorised personal expenses.

1997 - Italy: Charged with manslaughter, Formula 1 chief Frank Williams gives evidence on the crash that killed Ayrton Senna in 1984.

2000 - London: Lonnie Donegan receives his MBE at Buckingham Palace for his services to pop music.

2004 - Indonesia: Scientists announce the discovery of a skeleton of a previously unknown species of extinct human, named Homo Floresiensis, which as an adult only stood three feet tall.

2006 - California: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California declares a state of emergency, and offers a reward of $500,000 for the capture of the arsonist accountable for starting wildfires in the Twin Pines area of the state.

2008 - USA: Two Neo-Nazi white supremacists are arrested for plotting to assassinate US presidential candidate Barack Obama.

2011 - Thailand: Thousands of people attempt to flee the capital Bangkok as floodwaters rise.

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1932 - UK: The book "Greek Memories" by Compton Mackenzie is withdrawn for revealing who headed the Secret Service in the Great War.

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October 28th

1836 - USA: The Seminole Indians are ordered to evacuate Florida, and move west of the Mississippi River. The Government acted under a treaty signed on May 9 1832.

1892 - USA: A great fire in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, destroys $5,000, 000 worth of property over a range of 26 acres.

1914 - USA: George Eastman announces the invention of colour photographic processing, by the Eastman Kodak Co.

1915 - France: King George V is severely bruised in a fall from his horse, while doing a troop inspection.

1919 - USA: The Volstead Act, or National Prohibition Act was passed by Congress over President Woodrow Wilson's veto of the previous day. The Act defined as intoxicating liquor, any beverage containing at least one-half of 1% alcohol and provided for enforcement of the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment.

1927 - UK: 50 people are reported dead and 400 are left homeless after a severe storm hits Lancashire.

1929 - London: The Stock Exchange feels the first shock waves from Wall Street as shares fall sharply.

1937 - USA: Briton George Eyston sets a new land speed record of 309mph on the Great Salt Lake.

1939 - Berlin: Heinrich Himmler issues his Lebensborn decree, which urges single women to dispense with the "bourgeois custom" of marriage to bear racially pure children.

1940 - Atlantic: The German Submarine U32, torpedoes and sinks the damaged Canadian liner Empress of Britain.

1941 - Rome: Benito Mussolini declares that the "Coalition of Bolshevism and its European and American allies" will be destroyed.

1942 - Gibraltar: The British Carrier Furious sets sail with Spitfires for Malta.

1943 - New Zealand: Butter Rationing is introduced.

1944 - Moscow: Bulgaria and the USSR sign an armistice under which Bulgarian armed forces come under Soviet control.

1949 - Azores: Violinist Ginette Neveu is among the 48 people killed after an Air France airliner crashes en-route to New York.

1962 - Moscow: Withdrawal of Soviet missiles, under UN inspection, and a halt to construction of bases in Cuba, is agreed by Nikita Khrushchev. President J.F. Kennedy agrees to lift the trade and weapons ban after the UN has acted, and pledges that the US will not invade Cuba.

1965 - London: The Murder(Abolition of the Death Penalty) Bill passes its final stages.

1967 - Texas: El Chamizal, a 437-acre border area separated from Mexico in the 1850s when the Rio Grande changed its course, is officially returned to Mexico during ceremonies in El Paso, attended by US President Lyndon Johnson, and Mexico's President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz.

1969 - USA: Charges that an illegal war in Laos was being conducted without congressional knowledge or consent, is levelled against the administration and the Pentagon by Senator J. William Fullbright.

1971 - London: By a 356-244 vote MPs approve the cabinet's decision in principle to join the Common Market.

1976 - Geneva: A conference on Rhodesia opens.

1977 - UK: Police in Yorkshire appeal for help in finding a vicious murderer of women known as the "Yorkshire Ripper."

1983 - New York: The US vetoes a UN resolution deploring the invasion of Grenada.

1986 - UK: Jeremy Bamber is jailed for life for killing five members of his family in the hope of inheriting a fortune.

1988 - Prague: Riot police armed with tear gas face off with freedom demonstrators in Wenceslas Square.

1995 - UK: Coolio has his first No.1 UK single with his version of the Stevie Wonder song "Gangsta's Paradise.

1997 - USA: R.E.M drummer Bill Berry announces he is leaving the group after being with them 17 years.

2005 - Russia: The first Iranian Satellite built jointly with Russia the Swah-1 is launched from Plesetsk Cosodrome in Murmansk Oblest, northwest Russia.

2009 - Germany: Nazi Herman Boere is charged with the killing of three civilians in the Netherlands, in one of the last German war crime trials.

2011 - USA: The US commemorates the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York City.

October 29th

1852 - USA: Fort Chadbourne is established in Western Texas (near modern Bronte). It was designed to protect the local settlers and the Butterfield Stage from the local Commanche Indians.

1910 - Europe: French Aviator M. Tabuteau makes the first flight across the Pyrenees.

1914 - UK: Anti-German feeling forces the resignation of Prince Louis of Battenberg as First Sea Lord of the Admiralty.

1915 - London: Around 10,000 people attend a memorial service for nurse Edith Cavell at St. Paul's Cathedral.

1919 - Germany: Anti-Semitism begins to spread throughout the country.

1923 - Turkey: Mustafa Kamal proclaims Turkey a Republic, and himself as its first President.

1927 - China: Russian archaeologist Peter Kozlov discovers the tomb of Genghis Khan.

1935 - Berlin: Adolf Hitler declares an amnesty for Lutherans and rebukes Nazi Paganists.

1940 - Mediterranean: The Royal Navy attacks the Dodecanese island of Stampalia.

1942 - Pinsk, USSR: The Germans massacre 16,000 Jews.

1943 - Italy: Cantelupo falls to the Eighth Army.

1944 - Moscow: Stalin orders the seizure of Budapest, regardless of the cost to lives.

1948 - London: The Iron and Steel Bill is published, which would nationalise 107 iron and steel firms.

1954 - UK: Dockworkers Leaders end their month-old strike.

1956 - New York: Opera Singer Maria Callas makes her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, with a fiery performance in the title role of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma.

1962 - Cuba: The US blockade of Cuba was suspended for the duration of a trip by acting UN Secretary-General U. Thant for a conference with Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro. No agreement was reached after UN inspection.

1965 - USA: The US explodes an 80 kiloton H-bomb over the Aleutian Islands.

1969 - USA: The Supreme Court orders immediate desegregation of 33 Mississippi school districts for which the federal government had asked a delay. It was the first decision handed down by Chief Justice Warren Burger, who had been appointed by President Richard Nixon.

1973 - Bolivia: Nazi fugitive Klaus Barbie is released after eight months detention.

1974 - Morocco: Arab leaders pledge billions of dollars in aid to frontline states for the war against Israel.

1975 - Belfast: Provisional Sinn Fein leader Seamus McCusker is shot dead, apparently by the official IRA.

1977 - New York: The Act a musical by George Furth, John Kander, and Fred Ebb, starring Liza Minelli as a young woman struggling for success as an actress opens at the Majestic Theatre to rave reviews.

1982 - Melbourne: Lindy Chamberlain is jailed for life for murdering her daughter at the end of the "Dingo Baby" trial.

1983 - USA: Pink Floyd's album "Dark Side Of The Moon" becomes the longest listed album in the history of the US chart after it reaches 491 weeks.

1988 - UK: Enya begins a three-week stint at No.1 on the UK singles chart with "Orinoco Flow."

1991 - Hong Kong: Britain agrees to return 60,000 "boat-people" to Vietnam.

1992 - USA: An injectable contraceptive that prevented pregnancy for three months was approved by the FDA. The drug contained synthetic progesterone which inhibited ovulation.

1996 - Vienna: More than 8,000 paintings, drawings, and antiques are put up for auction, with all proceeds going to survivors of the Holocaust.

1998 - South Africa: The final report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission condemns both ANC and apartheid human rights violations.

2006 - Iraq: 17 police officers, 15 of which are police trainees are abducted and murdered, and there bodies scattered around the town of Shuaiba, near Basra.

2009 - UK: Premier League footballer Marlon King is convicted of sexual assault, imprisoned, and sacked by his club Wigan Athletic.

2012 - USA: Hurricane Sandy strikes New York City.

October 30th

1768 - USA: The first Methodist Church in America was dedicated. It was the Wesley Chapel on John Street, New York City. The church was rebuilt in 1817 and again in 1840.

1911 - China: In a desperate attempt to rally support against the victorious Republican rebel armies, Pu Yi, the five year-old boy Emperor of China agrees to grant a constitution.

1920 - USA: The Ku Klux Klan parade through Jacksonville, Florida, the Klan's sudden rapid growth rouses much attention in the press.

1930 - Ankara: Turkey and Greece sign a Treaty of Friendship.

1932 - Moscow: The government announces it will allow people to emigrate in return for a large fee in foreign currency.

1934 - Rome: Benito Mussolini orders all 6 to 8 year-old, to join a special corps for pre-military training.

1937 -USA: Dr Joachim Prinz of Princeton University states that German Jewry will be extinct within ten years.

1938 - USA: Orson Welles stages his radio play War of the Worlds based on the novel by H. G. Wells. The program caused widespread panic when listeners took as true the realistically performed news reports of an invasion from Mars. The experience demonstrated the power of the new medium to influence large numbers of people.

1941 - Washington: President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives the USSR a $I,000 million interest free loan to buy equipment under the Lend-Lease scheme.

1942 - Pacific: US cruisers and destroyers shell Japanese positions on Santa Cruz Island.

1943 - Italy: The Fifth Army penetrates the Barbara Line, capturing Mondragone.

1946 - Vienna: Austria's parliament calls for an end to the Allied occupation.

1950 - Tibet: Chinese Communist troops encounter little resistance on their advance on the Tibetan capital Lhasa.

1954 - Stockholm: The Swedish Parliament approves the introduction of a national health care system.

1961 - Congo: The Congolese Army begins an offensive to subdue the Katangan Rebels.

1967 - UK: T-Rex record a session for Radio 1's "Top Gear", being the first group to do so without a recording contract.

1972 - Syria: 50 people are feared dead after an Israeli bombing raid.

1975 - USA: Bob Dylan plays the first night of his 31 date Rolling Thunder Revue Tour at the War Memorial Auditorium, in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

1978 - Uganda: Fighting breaks out in the west of the country between Tanzanian and Ugandan troops.

1979 - London: Martin Webster of the National Front is found guilty of inciting racial hatred.

1982 - USA - The Australian band "Men At Work" hit No.1 on the US singles with "Who Can It Be Now?", it reached No. 45 in the UK.

1989 - Spain: The Socialists led by Felipe Gonzalez, secure their third election victory.

1993 - Londonderry: Ulster Freedom Fighters spray a pub in Greysteel with bullets, killing seven people.

1996 - South Africa: Former police colonel Eugene de Kock, is sentenced to life imprisonment on 89 charges of murder, fraud, and gun-running carried out during the apartheid regime.

1998 - UK: Large areas of Britain are submerged under water after severe floods.

2006 - Iraq: A bomb at a Baghdad market kills 31 people and leaves more than 50 injured.

2008 - UK: A freak hailstorm in East Devon, causes flooding in and around Ottery St. Mary and Honiton.

2009 - Amazon: Native tribesmen in the Amazon Rainforest discover a downed Brazilian military transport plane, with 9 survivors.

2011 - Pakistan: A US drone attack kills six militants in north Waziristan.

October 31st

1753 - USA: George Washington is sent by Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia to demand French withdrawal from the Ohio territory. Dinwiddie had been impressed by Washington's achievement as a surveyor and fieldsman, and picked him for the commission although he was only 21.

1861 - USA: General Winfield Scott, the greatest military figure since the War of 1812, retires as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, aged 75.

1905 - Finland: A general strike begins across the whole country.

1912 - Balkans: Turkey seeks a peace agreement, as Allied forces threaten Constantinople.

1915 - Russia: A report declares that 1.5 million Jews are starving.

1916 - UK: British casualties for the last three months of the war are more than 350,000, around 40% of the total war casualties.

1917 - Palestine: British troops capture Beersheba, taking around 1,800 Turkish prisoners.

1922 - Washington: The US announces it will join the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

1925 - Persia: Reza Khan Pahlevi deposes Shah Ahmed Mirza, ending the Kajar dynasty.

1926 - Rome: A 15 year-old boy is lynched after firing a shot at Benito Mussolini, which tore the dictator's coat.

1931 - Geneva: 21 nations agree to a year's moratorium on arms production.

1935 - London: The government announces it will raise the school leaving age from 14 to 15.

1939 - Italy: Benito Mussolini reshuffles his cabinet, replacing pro-Nazi members with neutral members.

1940 -Mediterranean: British troop reinforcements land on Crete.

1941 - Moscow: The German Luftwaffe make 45 bombing attacks on the city.

1942 - Poland: Statistics show that the Nazi's have murdered 64,000 Jews and gypsies at Belzec, and 82,000 at Treblinka.

1943 - USSR: Soviet troops capture Chaplinka, cutting off the Crimea from German supply lines.

1944 - Auschwitz-Birkenau: The notorious gas chambers are closed down, after the last transport of 1,700 Jews from Theresienstadt, were put to death the previous day.

1946 - USA: The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Percy Williams Bridgman of Harvard University for his contributions to high-pressure physics.

1950 - London: 28 people are killed when a BEA Viking plane crashes in thick fog at Heathrow Airport.

1958 - Stockholm: Dr Ake Senning announces he has implanted the first internal heart pacemaker.

1961 - Algeria: 86 people are killed in violent riots, marking the 7th anniversary of the 1954 Moslem rebellion.

1963 - USA: A gas explosion at the Indiana State Fair Grounds during an ice show, results in the deaths of 68 people, with around 340 injured.

1966 - UK: Strikes in protest at planned redundancies, close all BMC factories in England and Wales.

1968 - Washington: President Lyndon Johnson orders the cancellation of bombing of North Vietnam.

1970 - Belfast: Troops come under machine-gun fire in the second night of consecutive Belfast rioting.

1974 - Hong Kong: Communist newspapers confirm the death of China's former head of state Liu Shao-chi.

1978 - Iran: Oil production is virtually at a standstill due to a wave of anti-Shah strikes.

1988 - UK: Neil Kinnock calls Margaret Thatcher a "Cheat", following her decision to freeze child benefit for the second year.

1989 - USA: The very first MTV Unplugged show is recorded in New York featuring "Squeeze." It Was aired on November 26th 1989.

1996 - USA: Guitarist Slash announces he is no longer in Guns N' Roses, being quoted as saying that himself and Axl Rose had only spoken to each other on two occasions since 1994.

1997 - Dublin: Mary McAleese is elected President of Ireland with 59% of the vote.

2006 - China: China announces the resumption of the stalled six-party talks to find a peaceful resolution to concerns about North Korean nuclear weapons program.

2008 - Tibet: Seven people are killed in the worst snowstorm in Tibet's recorded history.

2011 - Greece: The Greek prime minister George Papendreau calls a referendum on the new European Union Debt Deal.

November 1st

1861 - USA: President Abraham Lincoln names General George B. McClellan Army commander-in chief.

1890 - USA: Mississippi becomes the first state to restrict black suffrage, adopting a new constitution that effectively disenfranchised most of the black population by requiring the ability to read and understand the US Constitution.

1902 - London: Around 15,000 Liberals demonstrate against the Education Bill at Alexandra Palace.

1909 - Spain: An anti government revolt in Catalonia leaves around a 1,000 people dead.

1914 - Europe: Russia, France and the UK break off diplomatic relations with Turkey.

1919 - USA: Indian reservations in Arizona are opened to Mineral prospectors.

1926 - Berlin: Dr Josef Goebbels is chosen to head the Berlin district Nazi Party.

1932 - Geneva: The League of Nations slams Japan for violating treaties in its war with China.

1934 - USSR: 12,000 people are exiled to Siberia as enemies of the State.

1936 - Rome: Mussolini announces the anti-Communist Axis with Germany, urging Britain and France to join.

1937 - London: The government announces the BBC is to begin broadcasting in Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic.

1939 - Poland: Germany, formally annexes Western Poland, and Danzig.

1940 - France: Prehistoric cave paintings are discovered at Lascaux in the Dordogne region.

1942 - Guadalcanal: US Marines attack westwards towards the Poha River.

1944 - Greece: British troops capture Salonika.

1948 - London: The government announces Jam rationing will end on December 5th.

1954 - Algeria: An orchestrated wave of partisan violence, centred on the Aures district leaves seven people dead, 14 wounded, farmsteads destroyed, and police targets hit.

1956 - UK: The first Premium Bonds go on sale.

1960 - London: Harold Macmillan announces a bill to allow US nuclear submarines to use Holy Loch in Scotland.

1964 - South Vietnam: The Vietcong launch a major attack on the US base at Bien Hoa, destroying six planes.

1968 - London: The Family Law Reform Bill is published; aiming to lower the age of adulthood from 21 to 18.

1970 - France: 146 people are killed in a fire at a dance hall at Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, near Grenoble.

1973 - Washington: President Richard Nixon names Leon Jaworski as Watergate special prosecutor.

1975 - North Sea: Three die and six are injured in a fire aboard the Ekofisk A oil-rig.

1977 - USSR: The supersonic airliner TU-144 makes its first scheduled flight.

1978 - Kampala: Idi Amin announces he is annexing 710 square miles of Tanzania.

1981 - UK: British Leyland's 58,000 workforce begin a strike over pay.

1984 - New Delhi: Rajiv Ghandi is sworn in as prime minister by President Zail Singh, amid anti-Sikh riots.

1985 - UK: The new technique of "genetic fingerprinting" is used for the first time to prove paternity.

1990 - Westminster: Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Deputy Prime Minister resigns.

1995 - Ohio: Bosnian peace talks begin in Dayton with the aim of ending the four-year war.

2007 - Vietnam: Flash floods in central Vietnam kill at least 13 people and injure 31 leaving 14,000 homes submerged.

2009 - China: A ship carrying 100 tons of Hydrochloric acid sinks in a section of the Yangtze River in China's central Hubei province after colliding with another vessel.

2011 - USA: President Barack Obama, makes Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia a national monument.

November 2nd

1852 - USA: Franklin Pierce is elected president of the United States.

1898 - USA: North and South Dakota are admitted to the Union, becoming the 39th and 40th states.

1906 - Russia: Leon Trotsky is exiled for life to Siberia.

1911 - London: Around 6,000 London cabbies go on strike.

1916 - Greece: King Constantine orders the army to intercept the rebel pro-Allied troops of Eleutherios Venizelos.

1919 - USA: 500,000 coal miners go on strike, requesting a 60% pay rise, a six hour day, and a five day week.

1923 - Berlin: The Social Democrats resign from the government.

1925 - Wales: 20 people are feared dead, after a dam bursts and floods the Dolgarrog power station in North Wales.

1932 - Hamburg: 12 people are shot in clashes between Communists and Nazi's.

1935 - London: Neville Chamberlain announces plans to spend £100 million on improving Britain's roads in the following five years.

1938 - Czechoslovakia: Following "arbitration" by Adolf Hitler, Hungary annexes the southern part of Slovakia and Ruthenia.

1940 - Atlantic: The destroyer HMS Antelope sinks the U-Boat U31 in the north-western approaches.

1941 - Europe: The RAF flies the last in a long series of sweeps against German shipping.

1942 - Poland: Around 100,000 Jews from around the Bialystok region are deported to the death camp at Treblinka.

1943 - Burma: Japan repels a series of Chinese attacks on the River Tarung.

1944 - Palau Islands: US forces renew their efforts to crush Japanese positions on Mount Umurbrogol, but meet strong resistance.

1951 - Egypt: More British troops are flown into the Suez Canal Zone in the biggest troop airlift since the war.

1953 - Karachi: Pakistan's parliament decides that Pakistan will become an Islamic republic within the Commonwealth.

1962 - Washington: President J.F. Kennedy announces that missile bases in Cuba are being dismantled, adding that "progress is now being made toward restoration of peace in the Caribbean."

1964 - Saudi Arabia: King Saud deposed as ruler, is replaced by his brother, Prince Feisal.

1967 - Scotland: Winifred Ewing wins the Hamilton by-election to become the first Scottish Nationalist MP since 1945.

1972 - Washington: 500 Indians concluded the Trail of Broken Treaties March to Washington D.C. They seize part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in protest at the governments neglect of them.

1976 - Paris: A bomb explodes at the home of National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.

1977 - San Francisco: Three judges uphold Patty Hearst's conviction for bank robbery.

1979 - Ireland: Security Forces seize £500,000 worth of weapons for the IRA from US sympathisers.

1982 - UK: The Miners reject a call for industrial action by 6:4 in a national ballot.

1983 - Washington: President Ronald Reagan signs the bill to make Martin Luther King's birthday an national holiday.

1986 - Beirut: US hostage David Jacobsen is freed after 18 months following the intervention of former hostage Terry Waite.

1990 - South Africa: The government announces that all political prisoners are to be freed.

1992 - Tehran: Iran increases its reward for the killing of British author Salman Rushdie, over his book "The Satanic Verses."

1993 - Australia: Vintage Crop ridden by Michael Kinane becomes the first European trained horse to win the Melbourne Cup.

1994 - Cambodia: Three western hostages are murdered by the Khmer Rouge; Mark Slater from Northampton, David Wilson from Australia, and Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet after being abducted from a train three months earlier.

2005 - UK: David Blunkett, the British Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, resigns for a second time over allegations of ministerial misconduct over his directorship and purchase of shares in a bioscience company. John Hutton is named as his successor.

2009 - UK: The Royal Bank of Scotland announces staff cuts of 3,700 across the UK.

2011 - Outer Space: China's unmanned "Shenzhou 8 spacecraft, docks successfully with the orbiting "Tiangong 1" space-station module, marking China's first orbital docking.