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October 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitution Day, in honor of the country's independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) in 1974. Oxfordshire Day; World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day [44]
Armed conflicts and attacks. Gaza war. Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. October 2024 Beit Lahia attacks. Hamas claims that at least 73 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip, although the Israel Defence Forces dispute this claim.
1987 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22.6 percent on Black Monday, the largest one-day percentage decline in the stock market index's history. 1988 – The British government restricted the broadcast of the voices of representatives from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and loyalist paramilitary groups on television and radio.
Yusuf I (29 June 1318 – 19 October 1354) was the seventh Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada on the Iberian Peninsula, from 1333 until his death.He allied with the North African Marinids against Alfonso XI of Castile.
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On Oct. 18, 1867, the United States took formal possession of Alaska from Russia. In 1892, the first long-distance telephone line between New York and Chicago was officially opened (it could only ...
Today's featured picture The red-billed gull ( Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae scopulinus ), also known as the tarāpung, is a member of the gull family, Laridae . Endemic to New Zealand, it is found throughout the country and on outlying islands including the Chatham Islands and the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands .
A Day In History: October 12th On this day in 1492 , Italian explorer Christopher Columbus discovered the New World. The Italian explorer first found a Bahamian island, thinking he had reached ...