1st October
1867 Karl Marx’ “Das Kapital” published
1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car
1949 People’s Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Zedong
2nd October
1967 Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice.
1984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
1869 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born
3rd October
1922 1st facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.
1942 Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to an altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
4th October
1947 Max Planck, German physicist, father of Quantum Physics dies at 89
1957 USSR launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite.
5th October
1864 Most of Calcutta destroyed by the cyclone, approx 60,000 die
1961 China & Nepal sign treaty
6th October
1948 The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
1956 Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
7th October
1806 Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgwood
1885 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist who expanded quantum physics, born in Copenhagen, Denmark
8th October
1604 Supernova “Kepler’s nova” first sighted
1932 The Indian Air Force is established.
