On October 30, 1905 , Tsar Nicholas II granted Russians basic civil liberties in the October Manifesto.
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On October 29, 1863, the International Red Cross was established in Geneva, Switzerland. Learn more about the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the history of International Humanitarian law.
On October 29, 1901, Leon Czolgosz was executed for assassinating President William McKinley.
On October 28, 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. Learn more about the Cuban Missile Crisis from the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, and read declassified documents as provided by The George Washington University.
On October 28, 1919, the Volstead Act was passed, ushering in Prohibition. Learn more about the Volstead Act and the prohibition era from the National Archives and Records Administration.
On October 27, 1986, the so-called “Big Bang” deregulated markets throughout the London Stock Exchange as part of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s financial reform program. Learn more about the effects of the Big Bang in the United Kingdom.
On October 27, 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers, written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison under the pen-name “PUBLIUS” to promote the ratification of the new US Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper.
On October 26, 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and his Jordanian counterpart Abdelsalam al-Majali signed the Treaty of Peace Between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The treaty ended a state of war that had existed between the two nations since the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. In addition to other [...]
On October 26, 1916, feminist Margaret Sanger was arrested for distributing birth control information shortly after establishing the first US birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
On October 25, 1988, the murder trial of Joel Steinberg became the first trial to be televised in New York during an 18-month experiment with televised courtroom proceedings that eventually led to the founding of Court TV in July 1991.
