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  • 16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland
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  • 15th October 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at his exile on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic
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  • 14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
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  • 13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber
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  • 12th October 539 BCE: Babylon falls to the Persian king Cyrus the Great
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  • 11th October 1521: King Henry VIII of England given the title Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X
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  • 10th October 1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills an estimated 22,000 people, making it the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record
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  • 9th October 1665: King Charles II moves Parliament to the University of Oxford to escape the Great Plague
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  • 8th October 1480: The Great Stand on the Ugra River by Ivan III
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  • 7th October 1879: Germany and Austria Hungary form the Dual Alliance
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  • 6th October 1927: The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, the first major “talkie” movie, premieres in New York City
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  • 5th October 1962: James Bond and The Beatles each make their debut with Dr. No and Love Me Do
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  • 4th October 1582: Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar
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  • 3rd October 1952: Britain conducts Operation Hurricane, its first test of an atomic bomb
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