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October 4, 2020 - October 10, 2020 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries for each day of the week. This week features the rock singer Janis Joplin, the 1918 flu virus, the 2008 banking crisis, the old Wembley stadium, Russia’s Kalibr-NK long-range cruise missile, Turkey’s invasion of north-eastern Syria and Germany’s A. Merkel.
October 4, 1970: Janis Joplin, one of the premier blues-influenced rock singers of the late 1960s, died from an overdose of heroin and alcohol at age 27
October 5, 2005: Scientists announced that the 1918 flu virus that killed 50 million people worldwide was a strain of H1N1 avian flu that jumped to humans
October 6, 2008: A major banking and financial crisis erupted in Iceland. It was particularly exposed to the global credit crisis with banking debts much larger than its economy
October 7, 2000: England lost to Germany in the last match played at London’s old Wembley stadium, the “home of football” since it opened in 1923, before it was demolished
October 8, 2015: Russia’s Kalibr-NK long-range cruise missile made its combat debut, reaching targets in Syria from Russian warships in the Caspian Sea
October 9, 2019: Turkey launched a military invasion of north-eastern Syria following an abrupt decision by President Donald Trump to pull U.S. troops out of the region
October 10, 2005: A. Merkel, leader of the conservative Christian Democrats, became Germany’s first ever woman Chancellor, and the first from the former East Germany