18 October It Happened Today
1685 Louis XIV of France revokes the 1598 Edict of Nantes. 1865 Death of former British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston. 1898 The US takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain. 1910 The trial...
Category: Events
17 October It Happened Today
1651 Defeated by Oliver Cromwell at Battle of Worcester, Charles II of England flees to France. 1806 Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated. 1956 Britains first nuclear power station at Calder Hall...
6 October 1981 Assassination of President Sadat of Egypt
President Sadat was attending the eighth anniversary of the Yom Kippur war with Israel as Field Marshal of the armed forces. He had taken the salute, laid a wreath and was watching...
