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حدث في مثل هذا اليوم - 16 - 22 تشرين الأول - الأسبوع 42

October 16, 2022 - October 22, 2022 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries for each day of the week. This week features the ancient Bibliotheca Alexandrina of Egypt, the first Cadillac automobile, the first complete specimen of the extinct woolly mammoth, “Black Monday” on Wall Street, the republic of Barbados, the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

October 16, 2002: A new library in Egypt, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, was opened on the site of the fabled original destroyed by fire in the fourth century AD

October 17, 1902: The first Cadillac automobile was manufactured in Detroit. Always a luxury brand, the picture above shows the classic tail fins of the 1959 Coupe de Ville

October 18, 1999: The first complete specimen of the extinct woolly mammoth, which died around 23,000 years ago, was dug out of the icy wastes of northern Siberia

October 19, 1987: Wall Street stocks plunged a record 22.6% on “Black Monday”, worse even than the crash of 1929 which ushered in the Great Depression of the 1930s

October 20, 2021: Sandra Mason was elected as the first president of Barbados. She took office six weeks later, when the Caribbean nation formally became a republic

October 21, 2021: Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally injured after actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a New Mexico film set while making his movie, Rust

October 22, 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis began when U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced a naval blockade of Cuba until Soviet missiles were removed

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PUBLISHED: 14/10/2022; DESIGN: Phil Bainbridge; PICTURE RESEARCH: Julie Mullins; EVENT SELECTION: Fiona Roberts and Susan Shepherd; PROOFING: Julie Mullins; TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTION: Fiona Roberts;; STORY: Julie Mullins; PICTURES: Newscom, Getty, Associated Press
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