On This Day In October

On October the…

1st 1982, who replaced Helmut Kohl as Chancellor of Germany?

2nd 1950, who published his first Peanuts cartoon strip?

3rd 1992, who shocked US TV viewers by ripping up a photograph of the Pope?

4th 1883, which youth organisation founded by William Alexander Smith held its first meeting in Glasgow?

5th 1947, who delivered the first televised White House address?

6th 1981, who was assassinated whilst attending a military parade?

7th 1919, which airline company was founded in the Netherlands?

8th 1982, in which country was the trade union Solidarity banned?

9th 1970, in which country was the Khmer Republic proclaimed?

10th 1964, which city witnessed the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics?

11th 1982, which vessel was raised from the sea bed in the Solent?

12th 1915, which nurse was executed by a German firing squad?

13th 1923, what was proclaimed as the new capital of Turkey?

14th 1964, who became the new leader of the Soviet Union?

15th 1990, which world leader was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

16th 1793, which wife of Louis XVI was executed?

17th 1967, which rock musical featuring the song Good Morning Starshine, made its Broadway debut?

18th 1968, who set a new world record for the long jump?

19th 1982, which car manufacturer was arrested for alleged cocaine smuggling?

20th 1968, who married Aristotle Onassis?

21st 1959, which New York museum opened its doors to the public?

22nd 1966, which group became the first all female group to top the album charts in the USA?

23rd 1739, which war between Britain and Spain began?

24th 1956, which country was invaded by the Soviet Union?

25th 1760, who was crowned King of Great Britain?

26th 1881, which town witnessed the Gunfight at the OK Corral?

27th 1991, which nation achieved its independence from the Soviet Union?

28th 1868, who applied for his first ever patent, an electric vote recorder?

29th 1901, Leon Czolgosz was executed for assassinating which President?

30th 1974, who faced Ali in The Rumble in the Jungle?

31st 1922, who became the youngest Premier in the history of Italy?
 

Answers
 

1st – Helmut Schmidt

2nd – Charles Schulz

3rd – Sinead O’Connor

4th – Boys Brigade

5th – Harry S Truman

6th – Anwar Sadat

7th – KLM

8th – Poland

9th – Cambodia or Kampuchea

10th – Tokyo

11th – Mary Rose

12th – Edith Cavell

13th – Ankara

14th – Leonid Brezhnev

15th – Mikhail Gorbachev

16th - Marie Antoinette

17th – Hair

18th – Bob Beamon

19th – John De Lorean

20th – Jackie Kennedy

21st – Guggenheim Museum

22nd – The Supremes

23rd – War of Jenkins Ear

24th – Hungary

25th – George III

26th – Tombstone

27th – Turkmenistan

28th – Thomas Alva Edison

29th – William McKinley

30th – George Foreman

31st – Benito Mussolini