Sir Robert " Bobby " Charlton CBE ( born 11 October 1937 ) is an English former football player.

A car accident on October 13, 1937, damaged her legs and curtailed her prospects as a professional dancer.

Donald Campbell Dewar ( 21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000 ) was a Scottish politician who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) in Scotland from 1966-1970, and then again from 1978 until his death in 2000.

Trujillo, determined to expand his influence over all of Hispaniola, in October 1937 ordered the indiscriminate butchery by the Dominican army of an estimated 15, 000 to 20, 000 Haitians on the Dominican side of the Massacre River.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie were created by Ted Osborne and Al Taliaferro, and first appeared in a newspaper comic strip on October 17, 1937.

Following the coronation celebration, Alexander returned to India, where he was made the honorary colonel of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Punjab Regiment, and then in October 1937 was promoted to the rank of major-general, making Alexander the youngest general in the British Army.

They had two children together, Lev Sedov ( 1906 – 16 February 1938 ) and Sergei Sedov ( 21 March 1908 – 29 October 1937 ), both of whom would predecease their parents.

Peter Nilson ( 17 October 1937 – 8 March 1998 ) was a Swedish astronomer and novelist.

Running right through the block into Link Straße, this new Weinhaus Huth was designed by the architects Conrad Heidenreich ( 1873 – 1937 ) and Paul Michel ( 1877 – 1938 ), and opened on 2 October 1912, and contained a wine restaurant on the ground floor, and wine storage space above, so it had to take a lot of weight.

She had earlier appeared on the October 26, 1931 cover along-side her husband and on the January 3, 1937 cover with her husband as " Man and Wife of the Year )" Both husband and wife were on good terms with Time Magazine senior editor and co-founder Henry Luce, who frequently tried to rally money and support from the American public for the Republic of China.

Another example is the experiments carried out by the author Harold Sherman with the explorer Hubert Wilkins who carried out their own experiments in telepathy for five and a half months starting in October 1937.

* Anna Mukhamedova ( April – October 1937 ) ( acting )

* Yakov Abramovich Chubin ( October 1937 – November 1939 )

* Batyr Atayev ( acting ) ( August 1937 – October 1937 )

* Khivali Babayev ( October 1937 – 24 July 1938 )

* Aitbay Khudaybergenov ( October 1937 – 17 October 1945 )

On first publication in October 1937, The Hobbit was met with almost unanimously favourable reviews from publications both in the UK and the US, including The Times, Catholic World and The New York Post.

* October 11 – Rafi ' Daham Al-Tikriti, Director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service ( b. 1937 )

* October 16 – Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1937 )

* October 12 – Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1937 )

* October 14 – Ray Ewry, American athlete ( d. 1937 )

* October 6 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer ( d. 1937 )

* October 19 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist ( d. 1937 )

After several efforts, Spanish troops from Peru took advantage of the internecine strife to reconquer Chile in 1814, when they reasserted control by winning the Battle of Rancagua on October 12.

The first sighting of a Spanish boat approaching the island was on 28 October 1492, probably at Baracoa on the eastern point of the island.

Christopher Columbus ( Italian: Cristoforo Colombo ; Spanish: Cristóbal Colón ; before 31 October 145120 May 1506 ) was an explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy.

The second chapter in Ecuador's struggle for emancipation from Spanish colonial rule began in Guayaquil, where independence was proclaimed in October 1820 by a local patriotic junta under the leadership of the poet José Joaquín de Olmedo.

A transitional agreement, signed in October 1968, implemented a Spanish preindependence decision to assist Equatorial Guinea and provided for the temporary maintenance of Spanish forces there.

In 1933, the right-wing Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right ( CEDA ) won power, An armed rising of workers in October 1934, which reached its greatest intensity in Asturias and Catalonia, was forcefully put down by the CEDA government.

In legislation enacted on October 31, Congress made temporary provisions for local civil government to continue as it had under French and Spanish rule and authorized the President to use military forces to maintain order.

In October 2005, over 700 sub-Saharan migrants tried to enter Spanish territory from the Moroccan border.

To make matters worse, the porteño government agitated for Paraguayan military assistance against the Spanish in Uruguay and, disregarding the Treaty of October 11, for unification of Paraguay with Argentina.

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (, 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973 ), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

In October 2008 Rem Koolhaas was invited for a European " group of the wise " under the chairmanship of former Spanish prime minister Felipe González to help ' design ' the future European Union.

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

The Spanish exports grew 11. 5 % compared to October 2010, to reach 19. 394 million euros, the statement said.

On 17 October 1632, the Court of Star Chamber banned all " news books " because of complaints from Spanish and Austrian diplomats that coverage of the Thirty Years ' War in England was unfair.

On October 31, 1873, a merchant ship, Virginius, carrying war materials and men to aid the Cuban insurrection, was taken captive by a Spanish warship.

In October 2010, thousands of Sahrawis fled from El Aaiun, Smara or Bojador to the outskirts of Lemseid ( Gdeim Izik ), raising up a campament of thousands of " jaimas " ( Sahrawi tents ) called the " Dignity camp ", in the biggest Sahrawi movilization since the Spanish retreat.

* October 2 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat ( b. 1567 )

* October 28 – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright ( b. 1618 )

* October 21 – Jorge Oteiza, Spanish painter ( d. 2003 )

* October 18 – Haim Shirman, Russian-born Israeli professor of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry ( d. 1981 )

* October 17 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist ( d. 2010 )

* October 18 – October 21 – Spanish Civil War: The whole Spanish northern seaboard falls into the Falangists ' hands ; Republican forces in Gijon, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves prior to retreating before the advancing Falangists.