October 16, 1923: Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded

October 17, 1660: Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I , are hanged, drawn and quartered. 

October 18, 1009: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock 

October 19, 202 BC: Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca and the Carthaginian army are defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus, ending 2nd Punic War. 

October 20, 1864: US President Abraham Lincoln  formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday 

October 21, 1520: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific Ocean.

October 22, 1897: World's first car dealer opens in London

October 23, 1915: An estimated 25,000 supporters in a women's suffrage, march on New York's Fifth Ave, led by Dr. Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters 

October 24, 1911: Aviator Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.

October 25, 1521: Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam.

October 26, 1918: Germany's supreme commander General Eric Ludendorff resigns, protesting the terms to which the German Government has agreed in negotiating an armistice, signalling an end to WW1.

October 27, 312: Roman Emperor Constantine the Great  is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. 

October 28, 1922:  Italian fascists conduct the March on Rome, leading to the assumption of power by Benito Mussolini

October 29, 1929: "Black Tuesday" Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the "Great Depression" 

October 30, 1270: The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis ended by agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.

October 31, 1517: Martin Luther, sends his 95 Theses to Albrecht von Brandenburg, the Archbishop of Mainz, precipitating the Protestant Reformation