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2017

Film producer Harvey Weinstein is fired from the Weinstein Company over allegations of sexual abuse.

2012

Women’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times at point-blank range by the Taliban as she tries to board a bus to go to school in Swat, Pakistan.

2006

North Korea conducts its first nuclear tests.

1994

The United States sends troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

1993

The Casino de Montréal opens its doors in the former French Pavilion at Expo ’67.

1986

The musical “The Phantom of the Opera,” written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, premieres in London.

1974

Oskar Schindler dies in Hildesheim, West Germany. He saved the lives of more than 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust.

1973

Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorce after six years of marriage.

1967

One day after his capture, Che Guevara is executed by soldiers for promoting the revolution in Bolivia.

1966

The Rolling Stones record their first album, “Got Live if You Want It.”

1855

American Isaac Singer invents the sewing machine.

It happened on… October 9

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