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October 9: Leif Erikson Day; Thanksgiving in Canada (2023) Giardia muris, an example of a protozoan. 1676 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek wrote a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules" – the first known description of protozoa (pictured). 1740 – European soldiers and Javanese collaborators massacred Chinese Indonesians in the port ...
October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 83 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 768 – ...
www.famousbirthdays.com. Launched. 1996; 28 years ago (1996) (original) Current status. Active. Written in. HTML, JavaScript. Famous Birthdays is an American website based in Santa Monica, California, [1] which is dedicated to cataloging the birthdays of famous people and compiling other facts about them. [2][3]
October 8 is the 281st day of the year (282nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 84 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 314 ...
October 7: 1885 – Birth of Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962) 1896 – Death of Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist, wife of Charles Darwin, (b. 1808) 1903 – Death of Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832) 1939 – Birth of Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1970 – Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec Vice Premier Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec. 1971 – Aeroflot Flight 773 is destroyed by a bomb over Moscow Oblast, killing 25. [9] 1973 – U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
In New Zealand, the most common birthday is September 29, and the least common birthday is December 25. The ten most common birthdays all fall within a thirteen-day period, between September 22 and October 4. The ten least common birthdays (other than February 29) are December 24–27, January 1–2, February 6, March 22, April 1 and April 25 ...
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