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Ten days later, on 17 October 1854, at the Eureka Hotel between 1, 000 and 10, 000 miners gathered to protest that James Bentley, the hotel proprietor and prime suspect in Scobie's murder, had been acquitted by a corrupt magistrate.
Ten locomotives were entered, but on the day the competition began — 6 October 1829 — only five locomotives actually began the tests:
But it was mostly his international critical renown which enabled Eisenstein to direct October ( aka Ten Days That Shook The World ) as part of a grand tenth anniversary celebration of the October Revolution of 1917, and then The General Line ( aka Old and New ).
* October 4 – Charlton Heston, American actor ( The Ten Commandments ) ( d. 2008 )
News of Jacopo's death caused Foscari to withdraw from his government duties, and in October 1457 the Council of Ten forced him to resign.
In October 1988 Network Ten finally decided to move YTT to Friday nights at 7. 30pm.
* " Ten Ton Door Made of Bronze is Thirty Five Feet High " Popular Mechanics, October 1934, bottom of pg.
After this event 10 October became known as the commemoration of Double Ten Day.
Several liberal members of SAG, led by Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Danny Kaye, and Gene Kelly formed the Committee for the First Amendment ( CFA ) and flew to Washington, DC, in late October 1947 to show support for the Hollywood Ten.
John Silas " Jack " Reed ( October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920 ) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, best remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the World.
It was this reenactment which provided the inspiration for the scenes in Sergei Eisenstein's film October: Ten Days That Shook the World.
Ten years later, he hanged himself with his belt in his cell on the evening of 16 October 1910, after a guard confiscated and destroyed his uncompleted memoirs.
The date of the uprising, October 10, widely known as Double Ten Day (), is celebrated as the National Day () of the Republic of China.
Ten days later, Hitler signed a secret directive for war against Czechoslovakia to begin no later than 1 October.
* October 5-The Ten Commandments opens in cinemas and becomes one of the most successful and popular movies of all time, currently ranking 5th on the list of all time moneymakers ( when adjusted for inflation )
More well known to South East viewers was Scene South East, a weekly magazine programme introduced on 9 October 1964 as Friday on Ten, which replaced Day by Day on Friday nights.
On 31 October 2007, ITV announced that, early in 2008, McDonald would come out of retirement to present the relaunched News at Ten together with Julie Etchingham.
It was announced on the 30 October 2008 that McDonald would step down from News at Ten once the US 2008 Presidential elections were over, to be replaced by Mark Austin.
October 10 is commemorated in Taiwan as Double Ten Day, the National Day of the Republic of China.
* The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, set between 1660 and 1673 ; serialized from October 1847 to January 1850.
* October: Ten Days That Shook the World on MosFilm video channel with optional english subtitles.

October and Days
Olson was working on her second book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House ( published October 2001 ) at the time of her death.
* The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House ( October 2001 ; ISBN 0-89526-167-7 )
*" Distress Signal Heard From American Sailor Missing For 17 Days ", The New York Times, October 31, 1976.
Having been defeated by a seven nation army at the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813, he was forced to abdicate after the Six Days Campaign and the occupation of Paris.
Napoleon was largely defeated in the Battle of the Nations outside Leipzig in October 1813, and was overwhelmed by much larger armies during the Six Days Campaign ( February 1814 ), although, the Six Days Campaign is often considered a tactical masterpiece because the allies suffered much higher casualties.
On October 29, 2005, Fox played the first few seconds of Minor Threat's " Salad Days " during an NFL broadcast.
Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.
* October 9 – October 12 – Days of Rage: In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in to control demonstrations involving the radical Weathermen, in connection with the " Chicago Eight " Trial.
The historical speech itself is depicted in the 2000 film Thirteen Days with Michael Fairman playing Stevenson, as well as partially depicted in the 1974 television play The Missiles of October by Ralph Bellamy.
* In Between Days: An Armchair Guide To The Cure by Dave Thompson, Helter Skelter Publishing ( October 2005 ) ISBN 1-905139-00-4
Smith performed covers of some of her songs – most notably " Chelsea Girls " and " These Days ", both of which he performed live at Satyricon in Portland, Oregon in October 1999.
* Life These Days ( October 1998 )
Louis-Napoléon returned to France in October 1836, trying to emulate the start of the Hundred Days by initiating a Bonapartist coup at Strasbourg, calling on the local garrison to join him in restoring the Empire.
Furthermore, the artwork for the song " November has Come " off of the Gorillaz ' 2005 album Demon Days has a picture of a calendar pinned to a brick wall set to the month of October with all the dates marked off in red Xs ( reminiscent of the opening scene in Day of the Dead ).
" Eight Days a Week " is noteworthy as one of the first examples of the in-studio experimentation that the band would use extensively in the future ; in two recording sessions totalling nearly seven hours on 6 October devoted exclusively to this song, Lennon and McCartney tried one technique after another before settling on the eventual arrangement.
* Jim Wangers, Glory Days: When Horsepower and Passion Ruled Detroit, Bentley Publishers ( October 1998 ), trade paperback: 348 pages, ISBN 0-8376-0208-4 ISBN 978-0-8376-0208-0 hardcover: 309 pages, ISBN 0-8376-0207-6 ISBN 978-0-8376-0207-3
LaRue County is home to the annual Lincoln Days celebration, which takes place on the first full weekend of each October.
A second Battle of Cambrai took place between 8 and 10 October 1918 as part of the Hundred Days Offensive.
Daniel " Danny " Boyle ( born 20 October 1956 ) is an English film director and producer, best known for his work on films such as Slumdog Millionaire, Shallow Grave, 127 Hours, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Trainspotting.
Other annual festivals include Fort Verde Days ( October ); the Pecan, Wine and Antiques Festival ( February ); and the Crawdad Festival ( June ).
Every year in October, the community celebrates with the Borrego Days Desert Festival at Christmas Circle.

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