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October 16, 1943, gets its 1st helicopter – a Sikorsky YR-4B. was the 1st war w/helicopters

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Bagpuss yawned, You and Me asked us "Oranges or lemons?" and Secret Squirrel investigated a gold heist 40 years ago. On Jackanory, Elaine Stritch read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, while on Stopwatch, "Daley Thompson answers your questions about himself".

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in 1834 the Palace of Westminster burnt down in a fire caused by the burning of tally sticks, which were medieval tax receipts, in the furnaces below the . Great efforts were made to save Westminster Hall. Read more about it: https://t.co/O7SA1Wwq2i

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The Railway Station
by Edward Ardizzone born 1900 from the J. Lyons series Lithographs by Contemporary Artists vol. I pub. 1947

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The illustrations of Pamela "Pixie" Colman Smith who was born in 1878.

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Born OTD French Painter
James
1836-1902

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The Sam Raimi classic starring Bruce Campbell; THE EVIL DEAD was released in 1981.

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Also Alan Trammell of the Tigers blasts 2 HRs in Game 4 of the 1984 World Series to give the Tigers a 3-1 Series lead. Those 2 homers helped Trammell in being named the 1984 World Series MVP!

Prints are available at the link below:

https://t.co/aAPalAXiGu

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1805 Oct 13: Japanese doctor Hanaoka Seishu performed his first breast cancer operation with "tsusensan" as an oral general anesthetic. He did dozens more https://t.co/sNzEnhxbXy

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2/2 A little girl poses as a huntress (Diana) in 1655 for Caesar van Everdingen, who died OTD in 1678.

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13 October 1648, birth of Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans, Duchesse de Savoie. She was a daughter of Gaston de France and Marguerite de Lorraine, and died aged 15.

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Joachim Murat was executed
in 1815 in Pizzo, Calabria, Italy

rest in peace dandyman✨💖

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1996 Oct 12: Obstetric anesthesia & public health pioneer Robert A. Hingson died https://t.co/9sSHXz0Ed8

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7'7" actor Lock Martin who played Gort in THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL(1951) and a mutant in INVADERS FROM MARS(1953)was born in 1916.

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a correspondent for the Franklin (TN) Review reported on a visit to see Millie and Christine (the "Carolina Twins"). These two 7-year-old girls were born conjoined and enslaved. On this date, the girls were on a tour of the cities and towns along the Cumberland River.

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“Why is the night sky dark, if we live in an infinite universe?” Kepler, Halley, and Cheseaux all pondered this apparent paradox, but the question is commonly attributed to Heinrich Olbers. He was born in 1758.
Images: https://t.co/4e5Bs8V4Zd, Wellcome Collection

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Richard Denning and Mara Corday star in THE BLACK SCORPION, released in 1957.

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Jean Cocteau–who died 1963–held true to certain principles of artistic creation in all his work. One of these principles was the invocation of mystery: “the less a work of art is understood, the less quickly it will open its petals & the less quickly it will wither.”

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OTD (11 Oct 51) the light carrier HMAS Sydney (III) created a record for a light fleet carrier by flying 89 sorties in one day. Sydney was operating against Communist store dumps at Kojo, Korea. Though her sisters operated with 8 different navy's, her record was never beaten.

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