October 1, 1949 – The new democratic revolution in China was completed on October 1st, 1949, The People’s Republic of China led by the CPC under Com Mao was proclaimed on this day. The Chinese revolution was a triumph of the people against the feudal and colonial forces.
October 4, 1957 – On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States, who had hoped that the United States would accomplish this scientific advancement first.
October 7, 2023 – Operation Al-Aqsa Flood – Palestinian fighters led by Hamas launched a military offensive out of the Gaza Strip. They inflicted a shattering blow against Israel’s army bases and militarized settlements which have besieged Palestinians for decades – all of which are built on land that Palestinian families were expelled from since 1948.
October 9, 1967 – On this day in 1967, the CIA had Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara assassinated in the jungles of Bolivia – the heroic exploits of this Latin American revolutionary and expert on guerilla warfare, rendered the US Government’s many undercover agencies red-faced before the international press.
October 9, 1900 – Fatima Sheikh, an Indian educator and social reformer, a colleague of the social reformers Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule, widely considered to be India’s first Muslim woman teacher, died on this day.
October 15, 1966 – The Black Panther Party was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California.
October 24, 1946 – The Punnapra-Vayalar revolt was an uprising that took place in October 1946 led by the Communist Party of India (CPI) against the feudal princely state of Travancore under C.P Ramaswamy Iyer, the Dewan. The revolt is named after the two places in which it took place; beginning in Punnapra and ending in Vayalar.
