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1520 - King Carlos I crowned, German emperor Charles V

1814 - 1st plastic surgery is performed (England)

1824 - 1st steam locomotive is introduced

1910 - Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight

1915 - 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)

1941 - Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released

1943 - Burma railway opens

1956 - 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast

1957 - 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3

1958 - Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1964 - Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball

1977 - Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 34-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered

1984 - STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad

1989 - US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space

BIRTHDAYS
1698 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French court architect (Palace de la Concorde)

1715 - Peter II Aleksejevitsj, Emperor of Russia (1727-30)

1752 - Nicolas Appert, inventor (food canning, bouillon tablet)

1893 - Earnest Julius �pik, Estonian astronomer (Physics of meteor flight)

1903 - Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer

1905 - Felix Bloch, Swiss/US nuclear physicist (Nobel 1952)

1925 - Johnny Carson, Corning Iowa, comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust)

1935 - Chi Chi Rodriguez, Rio Piedras PR, PGA golfer (1972 Byron Nelson)

1942 - Anita Roddick, English cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop)

1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, Calif, parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)

1962 - Doug Flutie, CFL/NFL quarterback (Argonauts, Generals, Bears, Pats)

Taken from www.ignorancedenied.com

From the historychannel.com
42 B.C. Brutus commits suicide
Marcus Junius Brutus, a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, commits suicide after his defeat at the second battle of Philippi.

Two years before, Brutus had joined Gaius Cassius Longinus in the plot against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, believing he was striking a blow for the restoration of the Roman Republic. However, the result of Caesar's assassination was to plunge the Roman world into a new round of civil wars, with the Republican forces of Brutus and Cassius vying for supremacy against Octavian and Mark Antony. After being defeated by Antony at a battle in Philippi, Greece, in October 42 B.C., Cassius killed himself. On October 23, Brutus' army was crushed by Octavian and Antony at a second encounter at Philippi, and Brutus took his own life.

Antony and Octavian soon turned against each other, and in 27 B.C. the Roman Republic was lost forever with the ascendance of Octavian as Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome.

The Templars
Interesting that the templars appear to have a lot happen in october:
Jacques de Molay was the Templars leader before they were disolved.
'After his arrest on 10th October 1307, Jacques de Molay 'confessed' to many things including perjury, idolatry, and anything else the Inquisitors could think of, in order to avoid the torture chamber.'

Just a few ideas to work on... I think the templars link is promising take a look at my post!