Monday, October 31, 2011

1 November 1951

6,500 American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training in Nevada (Operation Buster-Jangle). Participation was

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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Saturday, October 29, 2011

30 October 1938

H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds is broadcast by Orson Welles, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United

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Friday, October 28, 2011

29 October 1998

The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden results in the death of 63 people and injures to

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

28 October 1776

British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans. This was knowns as the Battle of White

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

27 October 312

Constantine the Great is said to have had his Vision of the

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Pain from a Tarsal Coalition

The tarsal coalition is actually an rare dysfunction that takes place in the hindfoot of kids. When we all are born, the majority of the bones in the hindfoot will still be cartilage material. The bone evolves inside that cartilage. However, whenever a tarsal coalition is present, some sort of connection of bone tissue grows in between two bones within the rearfoot. In the beginning this cartilage material tarsal coalition is not a difficulty, however as the bone develops it restricts movements

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Monday, October 24, 2011

25 October 1983

The United States and its allies in the Caribbean invade Grenada, 6 days after the Prime Minister and several of his supporters are executed in a coup

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Sunday, October 23, 2011

24 October 2002

The police arrest John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, putting an end to the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington,

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Saturday, October 22, 2011

23 October 2002

In Moscow, Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater taking approximately 700

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Friday, October 21, 2011

22 October1962

US President John F. Kennedy announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of

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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

19 October 1956

The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration that officially ended the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Sunday, October 16, 2011

17 October 1965

The New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 000 000 people had attended the two-year

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Friday, October 14, 2011

15 October 1989

Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the National Hockey

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

14 October 1968

Jim Hines of the becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95

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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

13 October 2010

In Chile, the Copiapó mining accident in comes to an end when all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground waiting for

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

12 October 2000

The hip USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least

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Monday, October 10, 2011

11 October 1942

Off the coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the

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Sunday, October 9, 2011

10 October 2008

A suicide bomber driving a pick up truck in Orakzai kills 110 and injures 200

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Friday, October 7, 2011

8 October 1968

United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta called Operation

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

7 October 1982

The musical, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before it closes on September 10,

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

6 October 1976

All 73 people on board are killed as Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA,

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Monday, October 3, 2011

4 October 1777

Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe during the Battle of

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Sunday, October 2, 2011

3 October 1993

Trying to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US soldiers and 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy

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Saturday, October 1, 2011

2 October 1967

Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American justice of United States Supreme

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