🎒🐰💭’On 31 October 1999, yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 30 October 1987, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 29 October 1998, Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 28 October 1956, Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV. This single event is credited with raising immunization levels in the United States from 0.6% to over 80% in just six months.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 27 October 1961, NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 26 October 1863, the Football Association, the oldest football association in the world, is formed in London.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 25 October 2007, Airbus A380: the world’s largest passenger airliner, and the airports at which it operates have upgraded facilities to accommodate it, entered commercial service.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 24 October 1946, a camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 23 October 1958, the Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewitadventure by Peyo, which is serialized in the weekly Spirou magazine.’

🎒🐰💭’On 22 October 1966, the Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album.‘