October Gallery
Here you can read what happened on every day of October. Please click on the images or the articles below to read more. Every article contains a direct link to PictRS where you can have your favourite image printed as a picture or on cups etc.
The First Model T
is produced (1906)
01 Oct
The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first mass-affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans...
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Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (1987)
02 Oct
Richard Lynn Stenhouse Jr. (born October 2, 1987) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 47 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Hyak Motorsports ...
Atlantis Maiden Flight
STS-51-J (1985)
03 Oct
STS-51-J was NASA's 21st Space Shuttle mission and the maiden flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis. It launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on October 3, 1985, carrying a payload for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)...
Car of the Week - The
Leyland Mini Cooper 1000 (2026)
04 Oct
The Mini is a two-door, four-seat small car produced for four decades over a single generation, with many names and variants, by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors British Leyland and the Rover Group, and finally (briefly) under BMW ownership...
First James Bond film
released in Britain (1962)
05 Oct
Dr. No is a 1962 spy film and the first film in the James Bond series, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Co-starring Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman and Jack Lord, it was directed by Terence Young and adapted by Richard Maibaum, from the 1958 novel by Ian Fleming...
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41 (1990)
06 Oct
STS-41 was the 36th Space Shuttle mission and the eleventh mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The four-day mission had a primary objective of launching the Ulysses probe as part of the "International Solar Polar Mission" (ISPM)...
Ford introduces first moving vehicle assembly line (1913)
07 Oct
Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines...
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Alain Ferte (1955)
08 Oct
Alain Ferté (born 8 October 1955 in Falaise, Calvados) is a French professional racing driver. He is the elder brother of Michel Ferté, who was also a professional racing driver...
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Scott Bakula (1954)
09 Oct
Scott Stewart Bakula (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor. He played Sam Beckett on Quantum Leap and Captain Jonathan Archer on Star Trek: Enterprise...
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. (1974)
Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. (born on October 10, 1974), also known as "Dale Jr" or simply "Junior", is a professional US stock car racing driver, team owner, broadcaster for Amazon Prime Video and TNT Sports, and podcaster.