31st October 1984 - Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, was killed by two assassins believed to be her own bodyguards. Booh - It's Halloween!

29th October 1986 - The M25 motorway was officially opened by Margaret Thatcher.

23rd October 1958 - Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced Smurfs to the world.

21st October 1966 at 09:15 - 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a tip of coal waste slid onto the village of Aberfan in South Wales. At the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster, the NCB was found responsible for the disaster, due to "ignorance, ineptitude and a failure of communication". […]

20th October 1781 - British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force led by George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, at Yorktown, Virginia, paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War. 2015 - English radio launched online.

18th October 1922 - The BBC (British Broadcasting Corp.) was established.