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Red maple (Acer rubrum) leaf in October (Northern hemisphere).October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ôctō meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.
1604 – Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.; 1635 – Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
Red Guard unit of the Vulkan factory in Petrograd, October 1917 Bolshevik (1920) by Boris Kustodiev The New York Times headline from 9 November 1917. The October Revolution, [b] also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution [c] (in Soviet historiography), October coup, [4] [5] Bolshevik coup, [5] or Bolshevik revolution, [6] [7] was a revolution in Russia led by Vladimir Lenin's ...
1822 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Congress of the Mexican Empire.; 1837 – Approximately 300 Muscogee die in the steamboat Monmouth disaster on the Trail of Tears in the United States.
1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.; 1910 – English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. [1]366 – Pope Damasus I is consecrated. [2]959 – Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England, in succession to Eadwig.
The 20th anniversary parade in 1937. Leonid Brezhnev and Dmitry Ustinov at the 1979 Revolution Day Parade celebrating the 62nd anniversary of the revolution.. The first military parade took place on 7 November 1919 on the second anniversary of the revolution.
In Ireland, the October Holiday (sometimes called the October Bank Holiday, Irish: Lá Saoire i Mí Dheireadh Fómhair or Lá Saoire Oíche Shamhna) is observed on the last Monday of October. [1]