Oct 08, 1871 Great Chicago Fire begins
|Artist's rendering of the fire, by John R. Chapin, originally printed in Harper's Weekly;|
the view faces northeast across the Randolph Street Bridge.
It was reported that the flames was sparked in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary with
popular legend blaming a cow which kicked over a lantern in the barn. Other theories blamed the cause on humans or even a comet. In 1997, the Chicago City Council exonerated Mrs. O'Leary and her cow. She turned into a recluse after the fire, and died in 1895.
Oct 09, 1967 Che Guevara is executed.
On this day in 1967, socialist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara, age 39, is killed by the Bolivian army. The U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8 and assassinated him the next day. His hands were cut off as proof of death and his body was buried in an unmarked grave. He played a key role in Fidel Castro's seizure of power from Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and later served as Castro's right-hand man and minister of industry. He strongly opposed U.S. domination in Latin America and advocated peasant-based revolutions to combat social injustice in Third World countries. Castro later described him as "an artist of revolutionary warfare."
|"Guerrillero Heróico". That's how Alberto Korda named his |
photograph of Che Guevara, which is the most reproduced in all times
Oct 10, 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking ends
Oct 11, 2002 Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Prize
On this day in 2002, former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
Carter, a peanut farmer from Georgia, served one term as U.S. president between 1977 and 1981. One of his key achievements as president was mediating the peace talks between Israel and Egypt in 1978. The Nobel Committee had wanted to give Carter the prize that year for his efforts, along with Anwar Sadat and Menachim Begin, but was prevented from doing so by a technicality--he had not been nominated by the official deadline.
Oct 12, 1492 Columbus reaches the New World
|On 3rd August 1492 Christopher Columbus left Spain with three ships. On 12th October 1492 |
the crew sighted land. It was an island in what is now called The Bahamas.
Oct 13, 1792 White House cornerstone laid
|1792 The cornerstone of the White House was laid by George Washington.|
Oct 14, 1947 Yeager breaks sound barrier
U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.
|Captain Chuck Yeager gives an interview next to the prototype Bell X1 Rocket Plane|
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