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September 27th, 1938 : RMS Queen Elizabeth is launched at the John Brown and Company yard in Clydebank, Scotland. ... September 27th, 1939 : Poland surrenders to Germany after just 26 days and 140,000 Polish troops are taken prisoner.

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1934 Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3

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1940 British liner Empress, loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk.


@very-rusty said
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1940 British liner Empress, loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk.
Wrong date, not October 2.


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3 Oct, 1928 - U.S.A. Taxicab War.


@very-rusty said
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1940 British liner Empress, loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk.
Rusty, the Empress of Britain did not sink on October 2. Check your source and own up to your mistakes.

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4 Oct, 1919 - U.S.A. 1919 World Series
1919 : By the 4th game of the 1919 World Series between the champion Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds. Questions were already being asked re "Is The 1919 Series Fixed" which the Cincinnati Reds won. Following 12 months of investigation and confessions from 2 of the players all eight implicated White Sox were banned from Major League Baseball for life and the first Commissioner of Baseball is created to ensure it never happened again. History of Baseball.

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On this day October 5
1962 "Dr. No", 1st James Bond film based on the novel by Ian Fleming and starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress, premieres in London


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@divegeester removed their quoted post
New Zealand was first discovered circa 1300 by Polynesians.

The first European to discover NZ was Abel Tasman in 1643.

Cooke is credited with mapping the coast.

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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, legally Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V.
(literal translation: Royal Aviation Company, Inc.), the flag carrier airline
of the Netherlands was founded 100 years ago.

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