Tuesday 8th October 1974; Five construction workers working on the City Hospital building site were attacked with machine gun fire. All were seriously injured and one man died in hospital from his wounds

[Spanish anti-fascist exiled in France who had been a member of the abortive mission that had crossed the Pyrenees on foot in October 1944 to liberate several Spanish villages, near Toulouse, France]

At the end of October 1938, thousands of Polish Jews residing in Germany were forcibly repatriated by the Nazis. They were temporarily housed in military barracks in Zbaszyn, Poland