🎒🐰💭’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.‘
🎒🐰💭’On 21 October 1965, Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.‘
🎒🐰💭’On 20 October 1999, One Piece: the best-selling manga series in history started broadcasting on television.‘
🎒🐰💭’On 19 October 2014, C/2013 A1: an Oort cloud comet passed the planet Mars very closely, at a distance of 140,496.6 ± 4.0 km ‘
🎒🐰💭’On 18 October 1922, BBC is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.‘
🎒🐰💭’On 17 October 2003, the pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 56 metres and become the world’s tallest highrise.’
🎒🐰💭’On 16 October 1847, the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is published in London.‘
🎒🐰💭’On 15 October 1956, Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.‘
🎒🐰💭’On 14 October 2012, Felix Baumgartner successfully jumped to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere in the Red Bull Stratos project.‘