October 20, 1935- Mao Zedong's 6,000 miles "Long March" ends after his communist forces reach Yanan, in northwest China, almost a year after fleeing Chiang Kai-shek's armies in the south. October 21, 1879- Thomas Edison successfully tested a electric incandescent lamp at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. October 22, 1962- President John F. Kennedy appears on TV to inform the American population that Russia is holding missiles in Cuba. October 23, 1990- Ukrainian Prime Minister Vitaly Masol became the first high ranking Soviet official that quite due to public pressure: A mass group of students protested against him. October 24, 1922- The Irish Parliament voted to adapt a constitution for an Irish Free State, which was officially created in December. October 25, 1881- The artist Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain. October 26, 1955- Ngo Dinh Diem proclaimed South Vietnam as a republic and announced himself president.
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