20 Oct 1910      British ocean liner RMS Olympic was launched.
20 Oct 1943      Enid Blyton married her second husband surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters.
20 Oct 1973      Queen Elizabeth II opened the Sydney Opera House after 14 years of construction.
20 Oct 1955      ‘The Return of the King’ the third and final volume of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ by JRR Tolkien was published.
20 Oct 1994      Burt Lancaster died.
20 Oct 2022      Liz Truss stepped down as Prime Minister after just 49 days in office.

21 Oct 1805      Admiral Horatio Nelson was shot and killed at the Battle of Trafalgar.
21 Oct 1824      Portland cement was patented.
21 Oct 1854      Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses was sent to the Crimean War.
21 Oct 1964      ‘My Fair Lady’ starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn had its premiere.
21 Oct 1966      116 children and 28 adults died as a coal waste heap engulfed a school in Aberfan in South Wales.
21 Oct 1984      Niki Lauda won his third and final F1 Drivers’ Championship Title.

22 Oct 1897      The World’s first car dealer opened in London.
22 Oct 2008      India launched its first uncrewed lunar mission.
22 Oct 2012      Lance Armstrong was formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being charged for doping.

23 Oct 1918      Charlie Chaplin married Mildred Harris.
23 Oct 1941      Walt Disney’s animated film ‘Dumbo’ was released.
23 Oct 1957      Christian Dior died.
23 Oct 2001      Apple released the iPod.
23 Oct 2015      Adele released the single ‘Hello’, it became the first song with more than a million downloads in its first week.~

24 Oct 1857      The oldest existing club still playing football in the world, Sheffield FC was founded.
24 Oct 1926      Harry Houdini made his last performance.
24 Oct 1931      Gangster Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion.
24 Oct 1979      Guinness Book of Records presented Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc as all-time best selling singer-songwriter.
24 Oct 2003      Concorde made its last commercial flight.
24 Oct 2004      Man United beat Arsenal ending their 49 match unbeaten run.

25 Oct 1760      King George III became King following the death of his grandfather George II.
25 Oct 1854      The infamous ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War resulted in over 100 killed.
25 Oct 1964      Dutchman Anton Geesink became the first non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner.
25 Oct 1978      ‘Halloween’ starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis was released.
25 Oct 2001      Microsoft released Windows XP.

26 Oct 1863      Football Association was formed, standardising football, splitting with rugby.
26 Oct 1881      The gunfight at the OK Corral took place.
26 Oct 1901      The first recorded use of a “getaway car” occurred after a shop in Paris was held-up.
26 Oct 1951      Winston Churchill won the general election and became prime minister for the second time.
26 Oct 1984      ‘The Terminator’ starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn was released.
26 Oct 2004      Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.