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@FXMC1957 "17 September 1929. Stirling Moss was born in London. He was the 1st Englishman to win the British Grand Prix and is regarded as the best F1 driver never to have been World Champion finishing runner up X times"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-09-17T08:12Z 84.3K followers, 3319 engagements

"13 October 1884. Voting began at the International Meridian Conference held in Washington DC USA to determine a prime meridian for international use. It resulted in Greenwich bring accepted as the Universal Time Meridian of longitude (GMT)"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-13T08:10Z 84.3K followers, 3110 engagements

"14 October 1969. Bank of England introduced the 50p coin to replace the XX Shilling (Ten Bob) note. It was part of the transition towards the full introduction of decimal currency in February 1971"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-14T08:26Z 84.3K followers, 2816 engagements

"12 October 1978. Nancy Spungen (aged 20) was stabbed to death in the Hotel Chelsea in New York City. Former Sex Pistol Sid Vicious was charged with her murder but he died of a heroin overdose in February 1979 before the case went to trial"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-12T08:22Z 84.3K followers, 3090 engagements

"@BrexitLondon @DCBMEP Numerically thats true - but the government that takes power is the winner even if it does not gain an overall majority as it gets the right to form a government. Also vote share does not count as we have a First Past The Post system. Wilson formed a government X times"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-15T17:40Z 84.3K followers, XXX engagements

"11 October 1937. England and Man Utd football star Bobby Charlton was born in Ashington Northumberland. He played XXX league games for the club scoring XXX goals. He played XXX times for England notching up XX goals. He was a member of the 1966 England World Cup winning team"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-11T08:10Z 84.3K followers, 3061 engagements

"15 October 1971. 1st episode of the BBC drama series The Onedin Line was broadcast. It was set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 revolving around a fictional shipping company. There were X series totalling XX episodes until XX October 1980"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-15T08:20Z 84.3K followers, 19.1K engagements

"9 October 1967. Ernesto (Che) Guevara (aged 39) was shot dead by Bolivian armed forces for inciting revolution. Guevara opposed US economic and political interference in Latin America. His stylized image photographed by Alberto Korda made him a 1960s poster boy for rebellion"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-09T08:25Z 84.3K followers, 2710 engagements

"15 October 1956. The last RAF Lancaster MR3 bomber took off from RAF St Mawgan on its way to the breakers yard. This was the last operational flight of an RAF Lancaster which had become famous during the Second World War and participated in the 1943 Dambusters Raids"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-15T08:17Z 84.3K followers, 3433 engagements

"17 October 1980. Elizabeth II met Pope John Paul II during a State Visit to the Vatican in Rome. It was a first such meeting for a British monarch. The Queen gave assurances of sincere British friendship and she invited the Pope to visit Britain in two years time"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-17T08:27Z 84.3K followers, 1469 engagements

"10 October 1871. The Great Chicago Fire which began after a barn accident X days earlier was finally brought under control. The fire killed approximately XXX people destroyed XXX square miles of the city and left more than 100000 residents homeless"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-10T08:04Z 84.3K followers, 2027 engagements

"PHOTO OF THE DAY. David Bowie as Aladdin Sane (1973). 📷 Brian Duffy"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-09-23T08:31Z 84.3K followers, 2985 engagements

"15 October 1917. Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod ne Zelle) was executed by a firing squad in France (aged 41) She was convicted of being a German spy. She did admit she was paid to work as a German spy but some historians doubt this"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-15T08:12Z 84.3K followers, 3220 engagements

"13 October 1925. Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider) was born in Mineola New York USA. He was renowned for his open freestyle critical form of comedy which contained satire politics religion and vulgarity. He was deeply influential in the evolution of stand up comedy"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-13T08:16Z 84.3K followers, 2999 engagements

"@PeterKalve It was originally in French and dubbed into the language where it was broadcast"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-13T11:34Z 84.3K followers, XX engagements

"16 October 1984. South African bishop Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to South Africas brutal apartheid regime. Tutu was saluted by the Nobel Committee for his clear views and his fearless non-violent stance"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-16T08:23Z 84.3K followers, 2415 engagements

"4 October 2006. Wikileaks was launched by Julian Assange. It released top secret information from governments around the world. Over XX million documents were released in its first XX years. Since September 2018 Kristinn Hrafnsson has served as its new editor-in-chief"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-04T08:22Z 84.3K followers, 2580 engagements

"15 October 1964. The Labour Party led by Harold Wilson won the general election with a majority of just X seats thereby ending XX years of Conservative rule. Wilson went on to win X more general elections"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-15T08:18Z 84.3K followers, 15.5K engagements

"17 October 1943. The BurmaThailand Railway was completed including the famous Bridge on the River Kwai. The building of the bridge featured in the classic Hollywood film Bridge on the River Kwai starring Alec Guinness"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-17T08:18Z 84.3K followers, 1421 engagements

"14 October 1940. Cliff Richard (Harry Rodger Webb) was born in Lucknow India but moved UK in 1948. Hes sold over XXX million records and XX million singles in the UK with XX No X hits. Hes 3rd-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history behind The Beatles and Elvis Presley"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-14T08:15Z 84.3K followers, 3141 engagements

"16 October 1968. During the medal ceremony in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City for the XXX metres X black US athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos each raised a black-gloved fist during the playing of the US national anthem The Star-Spangled Banner"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-16T08:20Z 84.3K followers, 4788 engagements

"12 October 1940. Adolf Hitler postponed indefinitely Operation Sealion the German plan for the invasion of Britain. As a precondition Hitler had specified the achievement of air and naval superiority over the English Channel but German forces never achieved either during WW2"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-12T08:13Z 84.3K followers, 35.4K engagements

"PHOTO OF THE DAY. A stunning image of Christ the Redeemer seemingly holding the Moon in Rio de Janeiro (2024). 📷 Leo Sans"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-12T08:37Z 84.3K followers, 5344 engagements

"13 October 1996. British racing driver Damon Hill won the Japanese Grand Prix to clinch his 1st (and only) F1 World Championship. Hill had finished 2nd in the previous X seasons. The son of Graham he was one of only X sons of a F1 world champion to also win the title"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-13T08:28Z 84.3K followers, 3079 engagements

"USA No.1 on this day in 1970: Neil Diamond - Cracklin' Rosie via @YouTube"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-10T08:32Z 84.3K followers, 4312 engagements

"13 October 1958. Michael Bond introduced Paddington Bear to the world with the release of his book A Bear Called Paddington. The Paddington books have been translated into XX languages across XX titles and have sold more than XX million copies worldwide"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-13T08:22Z 84.3K followers, 10.9K engagements

"6 October 1956. Bobby Charlton made his debut for Manchester United. He played XXX league games for the club scoring XXX goals with many being spectacular long range efforts. He was also a key member of the 1966 England World Cup winning team. In all he gained XXX caps"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-06T08:14Z 84.3K followers, 2412 engagements

"15 October 1993. Nelson Mandela and South Africas President FW de Klerk were named as the joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-15T08:24Z 84.3K followers, 2763 engagements

"@BrexitLondon @DCBMEP"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-15T17:48Z 84.3K followers, XXX engagements

"PHOTO OF THE DAY. The famous Hollywood sign which was originally called Hollywoodland (1923) 📷 S H Woodruff"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-11T08:31Z 84.3K followers, 3565 engagements

"16 October 1834. The original Houses of Parliament were almost completely destroyed by fire. The blaze was caused by the burning of small wooden tally sticks which had previously been used as part of the accounting procedures of the Exchequer"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-16T08:06Z 84.3K followers, 2590 engagements

"6 October 1889. Moulin Rouge opened in Paris at the bottom of a hill in the Montmartre neighborhood. It put on cabaret entertainment focused on its female dancers who popularised the modern form of the Can-Can dance. It remains a popular tourist attraction"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-06T08:04Z 84.3K followers, 2171 engagements

"5 July 1937. Spam luncheon meat was introduced by the Hormel Foods Corporation in USA. Its basic ingredients are pork and ham salt water modified potato starch sugar and sodium nitrite (as a preservative). Natural gelatin is formed during the cooking in tins"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-07-05T08:12Z 84.3K followers, 5747 engagements

"15 October 2021. David Amess (aged 69) Conservative MP for Southend West was stabbed to death at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea by Ali Harbi Ali (aged 25) who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-15T08:26Z 84.3K followers, 2503 engagements

"17 October 1972. American rap star Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mathers III) was born in St Joseph Missouri USA. Hes been credited with gaining the acceptance of white rappers in hip-hop music. His songs often portray the angst of the American underclass"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-17T08:22Z 84.3K followers, 1529 engagements

"9 October 1955. Steve Ovett was born in Brighton. He was gold medalist in the XXX metres and bronze medalist in 1500 metres at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games when the Ovett v Coe events grabbed world attention. Ovett also set world records for the 1500 metres and the mile"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-09T08:18Z 84.3K followers, 2354 engagements

"5 October 2011. Steve Jobs co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. died (aged 56). He is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer and mobile phone revolutions along with the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-05T08:28Z 84.3K followers, 2916 engagements

"17 October 2015. Howard Kendall died (aged 69). He played XXX league games for Everton from 1967 to 1974 and was Evertons most successful manager winning X Top division League titles an FA Cup X Charity Shields and the 1985 European Cup Winners Cup"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-17T08:28Z 84.3K followers, 1565 engagements

"30 September 1957. BBC Panorama reported on London on a Sunday"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-09-30T08:20Z 84.3K followers, 123.3K engagements

"7 October 1940. In a memorandum Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum director of the Office of Naval Intelligences Far East Asia section advised US naval captains to provoke Japan to attack the USA. Its unclear whether Roosevelt saw the memo or endorsed the policy"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-07T08:12Z 84.3K followers, 2078 engagements

"12 October 1810. The Bavarian Royal Family invited the citizens of Munich to celebrate the marriage of Prince Ludwig (later King Ludwig I) and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. The Oktoberfest was born and is still celebrated annually"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-11T08:04Z 84.3K followers, 2954 engagements

"11 October 1899. 2nd Boer War began between the British ruled Cape Colony and South African Orange Free State and the Transvaal. It ended with a British victory in 1902 though the use of concentration camps aroused enormous criticism from humanitarian groups"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-11T08:07Z 84.3K followers, 2492 engagements

"PHOTO OF THE DAY. Archduke Franz Ferdinand posing as a mummy on a trip to Cairo (1896). 📷 google images"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-13T08:31Z 84.3K followers, 6843 engagements

"PHOTO OF THE DAY. A Thracian chariot and horses found in the village of Karanovo Bulgaria thought to date from 1st century AD. 📷 Veselin Ignatov"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-15T08:29Z 84.3K followers, 3130 engagements

"13 October 1963. The Beatles appearance on ITVs Sunday Night at The London Palladium created scenes of unprecedented fan hysteria inside and outside the theatre. The Beatles topped the bill and performed X songs: From Me to You Ill Get You She loves You and Twist and Shout"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-13T08:24Z 84.3K followers, 3352 engagements

"17 October 1997. Remains of communist revolutionary Ernesto (Che) Guevara were laid to rest in Cuba as part of a huge memorial XX years after his execution in Bolivia"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-17T08:28Z 84.3K followers, 1526 engagements

"UK No.1 on this day in 1978: John Travolta & Olivia Newton John- Summer Nights via @YouTube"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-09-30T08:29Z 84.3K followers, 3426 engagements

"17 October 1849. Polish composer and pianist Frdric Chopin died (aged 39). He gave his last performance in London for the Friends of Poland. Upon his instructions his heart was preserved in an amber jar of cognac after his death"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-17T08:06Z 84.3K followers, 1564 engagements

"17 October 1920. Montgomery Clift was born in Omaha Nebraska USA. He was one of the first method actors to appear in Hollywood films. His films include: The Heiress A Place in the Sun I Confess From Here to Eternity Judgment at Nuremberg and The Misfits"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-17T08:15Z 84.3K followers, 1401 engagements

"15 October 1945. Pierre Laval (aged 62) former premier of the Vichy French government was executed for treason by a firing squad. He had openly collaborated with Hitlers government during the war"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-15T08:14Z 84.3K followers, 2192 engagements

"15 October 1940. Charlie Chaplin's classic film The Great Dictator premiered in New York City. Chaplin played X roles in the film: a ruthless fascist dictator and a persecuted Jewish barber. The film featured a moving monologue against totalitarianism"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-15T08:12Z 84.3K followers, 12.3K engagements

"12 October 1986. Elizabeth II became the 1st British monarch to undertake a state visit to China. During her 6-day visit she saw the newly excavated army of terracotta warriors in Xian visited the Great Wall in Beijing and met the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-12T08:25Z 84.3K followers, 3827 engagements

"17 October 1915. American playwright Arthur Miller was born in New York City USA. Among his most popular plays were All My Sons Death of a Salesman The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. He was married to Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe from 1956 to 1961"
X Link @FXMC1957 2025-10-17T08:12Z 84.3K followers, 1498 engagements