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October 1, 1949 - People's Republic of China established.
October 6, 1981 - Answar el-Sadat, president of Egypt, assassinated.
October 7, 1769 - James Cook, British navigator, sighted the coast of New Zealand.
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October 10, 1975 - The Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 established the Waitangi Tribunal in New Zealand.
October 14, 1066 - William the Conqueror, won the Battle of Hastings.
October 16, 1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish-born dramatist, born.
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October 16, 1936 - Jean Batten made the first direct flight from UK to New Zealand.
October 19, 1879 - Thomas Edison first demonstrated his electric light. See primary source document under Research Tools.
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October 21, 1805 - British Admiral Nelson was killed at Trafalgar.
October 23, 1942 - British began offensive at El Alamein in Egypt in World War II.
October 24, 1945 - United Nations formally established.
October 25, 1616 - Dirk Hartog landed on an island off the coast of Western Australia.
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October 26 - International Red Cross Day.
October 28, 1914 - Jonas Salk, developer of a polio vaccine, born.
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October 29, 1929 - Collapse of US stock market (Black Tuesday), beginning the Great Depression.
October 31 - Halloween in many countries.
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Mohandas Gandhi
Born October 2, 1949
Mohandas Gandhi helped India become a free nation. He was one of the foremost spiritual, political, moral, and cultural leaders of the 1900's. The people called Gandhi the Mahatma (Great Soul).
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