The Clay Street Hill Railroad was successfully tested, becoming San Francisco’s first operational cable car.
12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad
12th October 2018
The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d’Orient, departed Paris.
The industrial revolution, combined with the first of the Enclosure Acts, had seen the earnings of poor farmers plummet.
Mary Celeste had departed New York on 7 November.
The United States Supreme Court upheld the District Court’s ruling in Browder v. Gayle that segregation on public buses and transportation in Alabama was illegal.
26th October 1881: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp
26th October 2020
25th October 1415: The Battle of Agincourt is fought
25th October 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018