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Events in History

  • Oct 7 Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands
  • Oct 8 First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
  • Oct 14 Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.

Birthdays in History

  • Oct 5 John Addington Symonds, British historian and writer (Probs in Greek Ethics)
  • Oct 9 Simeon Solomon, English Pre-Raphaelite painter, born in London (d. 1905)
  • Oct 15 HonorĂ© Mercier, politician and premier of Quebec (d. 1894)
  • Oct 16 Kuroda Kiyotaka, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (1894-1899), born in Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain (d. 1900)
  • Oct 30 William G Sumner, US sociologist, political analyst, born in Paterson, New Jersey (d. 1910)