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7th October 1949: East Germany founded in the Soviet zone

On the 7th October 1949 the German Democratic Republic, otherwise known as East Germany, was founded in the Soviet occupied zone of ...

6th October 1683: Germantown founded in the Pennsylvania Colony

Germantown was founded in the Pennsylvania Colony by immigrant Quaker and Mennonite ...

5th October 1962: First James Bond film & first Beatles single released

On the 5th October 1962, two cultural icons made their first appearance when Dr No – the first of the James Bond series of films – hit cinema screens on the same day as the Beatles released their debut single Love Me ...

4th October 1936: The Battle of Cable Street took place in London’s East End

The Battle of Cable Street saw demonstrators block a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of ...

3rd October 1990: East and West Germany reunited

On the 3rd October 1990, Germany was reunified when the territory of the communist German Democratic Republic joined with the Federal Republic of Germany to create a single, united ...

2nd October 1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke while in office

United States President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on his left-hand ...

1st October 1928: USSR introduces first five-year plan

On the 1st October 1928, the Soviet Union introduced Joseph Stalin’s first five-year ...

30th September 737: Umayyad Caliphate defeated in the Battle of the Baggage

The Battle of the Baggage saw the defeat of an army from the powerful Umayyad Caliphate by Turgesh forces. The Umayyads had seized the region of Transoxiana, now in northern Afghanistan, in the early 700s. They were unpopular rulers, and by 720 the native Iranian and Turkic populations had begun to revolt with the support of the nearby Turgesh kingdom. Over the next two decades the Umayyads faced a number of attacks and revolts in Transoxiana. In 724 they were forced to retreat across the riv...

29th September 1938: Munich Conference agrees annexation of Sudetenland

On the 29th September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier reached an agreement on the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland areas of Czechoslovakia. Seen by many as the ultimate act of failed appeasement, the Munich Agreement that was tabled on the 29th and signed in the early hours of the 30th was broken by Hitler six months later when he annexed the rest of Czechoslovakia. As a result of the Treaty of Versailles at the end of the First World War, Germ...

28th September 1066: William of Normandy lands in England

William, duke of Normandy, landed in England to begin the Norman Conquest. Edward the Confessor died childless in January 1066, prompting a succession crisis that had a dramatic effect on the course of English history. William was a distant cousin of Edward and claimed that he had been promised him the throne of England in 1051. He further maintained that Harold Godwinson, the king’s brother-in-law and the most powerful man in England after the king, had sworn in 1064 to support William’s cla...