October 31 Wikipedia featured article

The Ninety-five Theses are a list of propositions written by Martin Luther that started the Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Catholic Church. Luther, a professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany, enclosed them in a letter to the Archbishop of Mainz on 31 October 1517, a date now commemorated annually as Reformation Day. They advance Luther's positions against the selling of plenary indulgences, certificates that...

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On this day: October 31

October 31: Halloween; Samhain begins (Northern Hemisphere); Beltane begins (Southern Hemisphere) Indira Gandhi 1517 – According to traditional accounts, Martin Luther first posted his Ninety-five Theses onto the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, present-day Germany, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. 1913 – Public transportation workers in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S., went on strike, shutting down mass transit in the...

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October 30 Wikipedia featured article

Dave Gallaher (30 October 1873 – 4 October 1917) was a New Zealand rugby union footballer and the captain of the 1905–06 Original All Blacks. They were the first representative New Zealand team to tour the British Isles, winning 34 out of 35 matches on their world tour. With his vice-captain Billy Stead, Gallaher co-wrote the classic rugby text The Complete Rugby Footballer. Retiring as a player after the tour, he took up coaching, and was a...

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On this day: October 30

October 30: Mischief Night in some areas of the United States Raúl Alfonsín 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Believing they were massively outnumbered, the 5,300-man German garrison at Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland), surrendered to a much smaller French force without a fight. 1888 – King Lobengula of Matabeleland granted the Rudd Concession to agents of Cecil Rhodes, setting in motion the creation of the British South Africa Company. 1918...

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October 29 Wikipedia featured article

Paul Palaiologos Tagaris (c. 1330 – after 1394) was a Byzantine Greek monk, a swindler, and an impostor. A scion of the Tagaris family, Paul also claimed a—somewhat dubious—connection with the Palaiologos dynasty that ruled the Byzantine Empire at the time. Married as a teenager, he left his wife and became a monk, but soon his fraudulent practices embroiled him in scandal. Fleeing Constantinople, he travelled widely, from Palestine to Persia and Georgia and eventually, via Ukraine and Hungary, to Italy, Latin Greece, Cyprus and France. During...

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On this day: October 29

October 29: Republic Day in Turkey (1923) Mount Hood, Oregon 539 BC – Cyrus the Great captured Babylon, incorporating the Neo-Babylonian Empire and making the Achaemenid Empire the largest in the history of the world to that time. 1792 – Lt. William Broughton, a member of George Vancouver's expedition, observed a peak in what is now Oregon, U.S., and named it Mount Hood (pictured) after British admiral Samuel Hood. 1917 – The Military Revolutionary...

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On this day: October 28

October 28: Feast day of Jude the Apostle (Western Christianity) Tutankhamun's mask 312 – Civil wars of the Tetrarchy: Constantine the Great defeated Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in Rome. 1453 – Ladislaus the Posthumous was crowned King of Bohemia, although George of Poděbrady remained in control of the government. 1919 – The U.S. Congress passed the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, reinforcing Prohibition...

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October 28 Wikipedia featured article

O. G. S. Crawford (28 October 1886 – 28 November 1957) was a British archaeologist who specialised in the study of prehistoric Britain and the archaeology of Sudan. After overseeing the excavation of Abu Geili in Sudan, he served during the First World War in the London Scottish Regiment and the Royal Flying Corps, performing ground and aerial reconnaissance along the Western Front. After the war, he obtained aerial photographs produced by the Royal Air Force and identified the extent of the Stonehenge Avenue, excavating it in 1923. With...

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On this day: October 27

October 27 Ayub Khan 1682 – William Penn landed at New Castle, Delaware Colony, on his way to founding the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1914 – World War I: The Royal Navy dreadnought HMS Audacious was sunk by a mine, but its loss was kept secret for four more years. 1958 – General Ayub Khan (pictured) deposed Iskander Mirza to become the second President of Pakistan. 1992 – U.S. Navy Petty Officer Allen R. Schindler Jr. was killed...

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October 27 Wikipedia featured article

USS Enterprise under attack by dive bombers during the battle The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (25–27 October 1942) was the fourth aircraft carrier battle fought between the navies of the United States and Japan during World War II. It was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign, through which the Allies sought to parry and reverse Japanese advances in the southwest Pacific. The Japanese Army, in an attempt to drive Allied forces from Guadalcanal...

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October 25 Wikipedia featured article

Nancy Cartwright (born October 25, 1957) is an American actress and comedian. On the animated television series The Simpsons, she is the voice of Bart Simpson, as well as Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, and Todd Flanders. Her first professional role was voicing Gloria in the animated series Richie Rich, followed by a starring role in the television movie Marian Rose White (1982). In 1987, intending to audition for the role of Lisa Simpson in a series...

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On this day: October 25

October 25 George III 1147 – Reconquista: Forces under Afonso I of Portugal captured Lisbon from the Moors after a four-month siege in one of the few Christian victories during the Second Crusade. 1760 – George III (pictured) became King of Great Britain and Ireland. 1927 – A propeller shaft on the Italian cruise liner SS Principessa Mafalda broke and fractured the hull, sinking it and resulting in 314 deaths. 1950 – Korean War: The Chinese...

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October 24 Wikipedia featured article

Astraeus hygrometricus, the false earthstar, is a fungus common in temperate and tropical regions around the world. When young, it resembles a puffball; in maturity, the outer layer of fruit body tissue splits open in a star shape, similar in appearance to the earthstars. The fungus grows in mutual symbiosis with roots of various trees, especially in sandy soils. It can open up its rays to expose the spore sac in response to increased humidity,...

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On this day: October 24

October 24 Japanese battleship Musashi 1789 – The Brabant Revolution, sometimes considered as the first expression of Belgian nationalism, began with the invasion of the Austrian Netherlands by an émigré army from the Dutch Republic. 1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, was founded. 1871 – The largest mass lynching in United States history took place when around 500 white rioters entered Chinatown...

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October 23 Wikipedia featured article

Blackbeard (Edward Teach, c. 1680 – 1718) was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies. He was probably born in Bristol, but little is known about his early life. He may have served on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before he joined the crew of Benjamin Hornigold, a pirate who operated from the Caribbean island of New Providence. In the Queen Anne's Revenge, a renamed merchant...

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On this day: October 23

October 23: Mole Day Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis 1850 – The first National Women's Rights Convention, presided over by Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (pictured), was held in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces began their ill-fated attempt to recapture Henderson Field from the Americans. 1956 – The Hungarian Revolution began as a peaceful student demonstration which attracted thousands as it marched through central...

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On this day: October 22

October 22: Bicentenary of the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh (Bahá’í Faith, 2017), International Stuttering Awareness Day André-Jacques Garnerin's parachute 1797 – Dropping from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet (980 m) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin carried out the first descent using a frameless parachute (schematic pictured). 1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster, Scotland's worst mining accident, occurred when an explosion at a colliery in Blantyre...

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October 22 Wikipedia featured article

Amargasaurus was a sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina from roughly 129 to 122 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous epoch. The only known skeleton was discovered in 1984 and is virtually complete. Amargasaurus cazaui, the only species in the genus, was a large animal reaching 9 to 10 meters (30 to 33 feet) in length, with two parallel rows of tall spines down its neck and back. The spines, taller than in any other...

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On this day: October 21

October 21: Twin Holy Birthdays begin (Bahá'í Faith, 2017) Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1520 – The islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon were visited by Portuguese explorer João Álvares Fagundes near Canada, who named them "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins". 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Lord Nelson (pictured) signalled "England expects that every man will do his duty" to the rest of his Royal Navy forces before the Battle of Trafalgar off the...

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October 21 Wikipedia featured article

The "Interrupted Flight" monument to the victims The Kragujevac massacre (21 October 1941) was the mass murder of almost 2,800 men and boys in the city of Kragujevac in the German-occupied territory of Serbia by German soldiers during World War II. Coming in reprisal for insurgent attacks that killed 10 German soldiers in the Gornji Milanovac district, it followed a punitive German operation in which 492 males were shot and four villages...

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October 19 Wikipedia featured article

Henry III (1207–1272) was King of England from 1216 until his death. The son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême, Henry assumed the throne when he was only nine in the middle of the First Barons' War. He was known for his piety, holding lavish religious ceremonies, giving generously to charities, and adopting Edward the Confessor as his patron saint. In 1230 he attempted to reconquer the provinces of France that had once belonged to his father,...

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On this day: October 19

October 19 Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces led by Lord Cornwallis officially surrendered (pictured) to Franco-American forces under George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau, ending the Siege of Yorktown. 1914 – First World War: Allied forces engaged German troops in the First Battle of Ypres. 1944 – The Guatemalan Revolution began when a small group of army officers led by...

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October 18 Wikipedia featured article

An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier. Cores are drilled with hand augers (for shallow holes) or powered drills; they can reach depths of over two miles, and contain ice up to 800,000 years old. The physical properties of the ice and of material trapped in it can be used to reconstruct the climate over the age range of the core. The ratio of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes provides information...

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