23rd October
1814 1st plastic surgery is performed (England)
1819 1st ship sails through the Erie Canal from Rome, New York to Utica, New York
24th October
1857 World’s first soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in Yorkshire, England
1929 “Black Thursday”, the start of the stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
25th October
1616 Dutch East India Company ship “The Eendracht” discovers Dirk-Hartog Island, Australia 1671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, the satellite of Saturn
26th October
1858 Hamilton-Smith patents rotary washing machine
1912 Woolwich Foot Tunnel under the Thames river in England opens
27th October
1904 First section of the New York subway
1954 Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
28th October
1726 “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift is published by Benjamin Motte in London
1954 Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Ernest Hemingway
29th October
1929 “Black Tuesday” Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the “Great Depression”
2012 Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage and forces the New York stock exchange to close
30th October
1909 Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist was born (d. 1966)
1960 Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
31st October
1918 Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 people in the US in a single week
1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh at her home in New Delhi
