Some idiots dubbed the 2016 Brexit referendum 'our Independence Day'. As John Oliver remarked: "Britain is already independent. Actually, Britain is what many countries have become independent from."

For instance:

Independence Day (Cyprus)

In Cyprus, Independence Day falls on 1 October. It is celebrated by festivals at schools and a large military parade in the capital. Cyprus became independent from the British in 1960 after Cyprus won full sovereignty from Britain.

Todd Akin, sunk by `legitimate rape' remark, dies

16 October 2021: Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is murdered in a car bomb attack in Malta.

On This Day in 1961, French Police Murdered Dozens of Pro-independence Algerians

October 17, 1961: A massacre of Algerians in the heart of Paris

In deep secrecy, the FLN started organising a march against the curfew and police repression of Algerians more broadly. The group called on Algerian men, women and children to take to the streets of Paris on the evening of October 17.
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Some Algerians were beaten to death, bludgeoned by clubs, batons or other such contraptions. Some were shot dead. Some were thrown into the Seine; some already dead, some still alive, their feet and hands bound. They were the people "drowned by bullets" according to Paris police HQ's official expression. For several days, those bodies washed up in the Seine and Paris's canals.

The Paris chief of police, Maurice Papon, who organized the repression, was later appointed to the cabinet under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1978 to 1981). During the 1980s, Papon's role  in the deportation of 1,600 Jews of Bordeaux to Drancy from 1942-44, under the Vichy government, came to light. Papon was finally tried for crimes against humanity and was convicted in 1998; he died in 2007.

Colin Powell joins Ray Odierno in the circle of miscreants.
wut: "Saddam was captured by U.S. forces while hiding out in northern Iraq in December 2003 and later executed by the Iraqi government."

A bomb (actually a grenade) is sent to US Ambassador to France Myron Herrick, in the guise of a package from "a well-known perfumery house," but it only injures his English valet, who luxuriates in the very English-valet name Blanchard....

From another forum:

Today marked the 65th anniversary of the uprising in Hungary, which began on October 23, '56 with a student rally in Budapest as a sign of solidarity with Poland.
The Hungarians tried to free themselves from Russian occupation. The uprising was bloodily suppressed by the Soviets. pic.twitter.com/Mkqo6PS8oN

— The PIASA Archives (@PIASA_NY) October 23, 2021