Post the most interesting thing that happened on this day in history

October 12, 1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.

 

October 14

• 1066 – Norman conquest of England: Battle of Hastings: In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
• 1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.

 

October 16, 1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.

 

October 29, 1941 – World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.

 

Do you find death fascinating?

 

Is it that obvious?

 

Obviously obvious

 

Oktober 26, 1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.

 

October 30, 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

 

November 7, 1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.

 

November 10, 1918 - Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941), the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, crosses the border by train and goes into exile in the Netherlands.