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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 12h

9 October 2012: A terrorist from the Pakistani Taliban shot and wounded 15 year old schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai as she rode home on a bus after taking an exam. #History #Pakistan

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 12h

9 October 2006: North Korea conducted its first nuclear test. #History

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 12h

9 October 1984: The first episode of the children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends (based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry) was broadcast on ITV in the #UK. #History #television

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 13h

9 October 1981: Capital punishment was abolished in #France. #History

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 15h

9 October 1967: Ernesto "Che" Guevara was executed in Bolivia. #History

Portrait photograph of Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 15h

9 October 1940: The high altar at St. Paul's Cathedral was destroyed during a Luftwaffe air raid. #History #London #WW2

The high altar at St. Paul's Cathedral in the aftermath of the Luftwaffe bombing.

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 15h

9 October 1914: The Siege of #Antwerp came to an end when surviving members of the garrison surrendered to besieging German forces. #History #WW1

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 16h

9 October 1874: Treaty of Bern established The Universal Postal Union. Today, the Universal Postal Union operates as an agency of the United Nations. #History

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 16h

9 October 1854: The siege of #Sevastopol began. Allied troops began to construct earthworks that would surround the city. #History #Crimea #CrimeanWar

French plan depicting the siege of Sevastopol.

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 17h

The Majority of the cargo aboard HMS Lutine has never been salvaged, but the ship's bell was eventually recovered on 17 July 1858, and the Lutine Bell now hangs in the Underwriting Room at Lloyd's of London. #History (2/2)

Photograph of the Lutine Bell, hanging in the Underwriting Room at Lloyd's of London.

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 17h

9 October 1799: HMS Lutine sank during a storm off the West Frisian Islands with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000. #History (1/2)

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 17h

9 October 1514: Mary #Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII of England, married Louis XII of France. #History

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 20h

9 October 768: Charlemagne and his younger brother Carloman I were crowned joint kings of the Franks. #History #France

8 October 2001: As part of the United States' response to the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush announced the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security (OHS). The office was initially headed by former Pennsylvania governor, Tom Ridge. #History #USA

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8 October 1982: The government of #Poland banned #Solidarity and all other trade unions. #History

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8 October 1982: The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical #Cats opened on Broadway. It would run until September 2000. #History

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8 October 1967: #Che Guevara and his men were captured in Bolivia. #History

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8 October 1965: The Post Office Tower (now renamed as the 'BT Tower') opened in #London. At the time, it was Britain's tallest building. #History #UK

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8 October 1952: A series of collisions involving three trains at Harrow and Wealdstone station killed 112 people and injured more than 340 others. It remains Britain's worst peacetime rail crash. #History #Railways #UK

Photograph showing the aftermath of the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash.

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8 October 1908: The Wind In The Willows, written by Kenneth Grahame, was published by Methuen. #History #Literature

Cover of the first edition of The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

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8 October 1871: The Great #Chicago Fire began in, or near to, a small barn belonging to the O'Leary family. #History #USA The Great Chicago Fire would destroy about 3.3 square miles of the city, kill about 300 people, and leave more than 100,000 more homeless.

Photograph showing some of the destruction in the aftermath of the Great Chicago fire.

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8 October 1829: Stephenson's locomotive, "The Rocket", won The Rainhill Trials. #History #Railways

8 October 1806: British forces under Commodore Edward Owen attacked the French flotilla at Boulogne using Congreve rockets. #History

Drawings of Congreve rockets in a plate from Congreve's book.

8 October 1200: Isabella of Angoulême, wife of King John, was crowned Queen consort of #England. #History Isabella of Angoulême would have five children by King John, and a further nine children by her second husband, Hugh X of Lusignan!

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7 October 2023: Several Palestinian militant groups led by Hamas launched a series of surprise coordinated attacks into #Israel. The attacks resulted in the deaths of around 1,200 Israeli citizens, the vast majority being civilians. More than 240 hostages were also taken. #History

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Asteroid 2008 TC3 was about 4 metres in diameter, and had a mass of approximately 80-tonnes. #History #space (2/2)

7 October 2008: Asteroid 2008 TC3 entered the Earth's atmosphere and exploded almost 40 km above Sudan. This was the first time an asteroid impact had been detected prior to its entry into Earth's atmosphere. #History #space (1/2)

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7 October 2001: The United States invasion of #Afghanistan began with an air assault and ground operations by special forces. #History

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7 October 1986: The first issue of the #Independent newspaper was published. #History

Publicity photo of Independent journalists holding copies of the first issue of the newspaper

7 October 1985: Four terrorists from the Palestine Liberation Front hijacked the Italian ocean liner MS Achille Lauro off the coast of #Egypt. #History

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7 October 1959: The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmitted the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. #History #Space #Exploration

Photograph of the far side of the Moon taken by Luna 3.

7 October 1958: Project #Mercury, the U.S. crewed space-flight project, received official approval. #History #Space #Exploration #NASA

7 October 1919: The Dutch airline Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij ( #KLM ) was founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name. #History

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7 October 1913: The #Ford Motor Company introduced the first moving vehicle assembly line at it's factory in Highland Park, Michigan. #History

7 October 1870: French politicians Léon Gambetta and Eugène Spuller escaped the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon during the Franco-Prussian War. #History #France

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Many historians have suggested that King George III's Royal Proclamation of 1763 was the real casus belli for the American Revolution. #History #USA

7 October 1763: King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which forbade all new settlements west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. That land was delineated as an "Indian Reserve". #History #USA

King George III's Royal Proclamation of 1763.

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