October

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Surrounded by the armies of King Louis XIII for 14 months, the Protestant Christians known as the Huguenots surrendered to the monarchy on October 28, 1628,…

Just months after establishing martial law in the captured territory of Lithuania, soldiers from Nazi Germany set out exterminating the Jewish population near Kaunas. After moving 9,000 of the city’s…

Less than a year after the United States Marine Corps came ashore to assume command of the United Nations effort to instill peace in Somalia as part of Operation Restore…

The President of Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Mobutu Sese Seko, had a unique opportunity to draw attention to his central African nation: boxing promoter Don King was looking…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Fifteen centuries after the death of Christ, the Catholic Church had grown to become the most influential organization in Western Europe. A theology professor and Augustinian…

Though it may seem difficult to contemplate, the current layout of the international calendar is a fairly recent invention. Six months after it debuted in the Inter gravissimas papal bull,…

Just three months after residents stormed the Bastille, the French Revolution gained steam on October 5, 1789 when a group of women frustrated with high food prices and rampant starvation…

Shortly after an election many Serbian citizens considered fraudulent, Slobodan Milosevic resigned from his position as the President of Serbia on October 6, 2000. Months later, he would become the…

Four days after being discovered on the streets of Baltimore disheveled and incoherent, Edgar Allan Poe died in the Washington College Hospital of Maryland’s capital on October 7, 1849. Just…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Cornered in the Yuro ravine in the southeast of Bolivia, Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara was finally captured on October 8, 1967. Since his execution the next…