TODAY
9:00 AM AIDS Walk Los Angeles 2023
MONDAY
9:00 AM Helen Albert Certified Farmers’ Market
6:00 PM City Council Meeting
TUESDAY
10:00 AM Community Health and Wellness Event
7:00 PM Russian-Speaking Advisory Board Meeting
WEDNESDAY
5:30 PM 25th Annual Disability Service Awards
6:30 PM WeHo Reads: Creating Hope in Times of Trouble
6:30 PM Transportation and Mobility Commission Meeting
THURSDAY
5:00 PM Urban Art Subcommittee Meeting
5:30 PM Long Range Planning Projects Subcommittee Meeting
6:00 PM The Spirit Royale Drag Cheerleading Competition
6:30 PM Planning Commission Meeting
SATURDAY
Visual Arts competition for young performers “Colibri”2023
2:00 PM Youth Halloween Carnival
This week in history
- October 15, 1582: The Gregorian calendar is adopted by the Catholic Church.
- October 16, 1349: The Black Death reaches Paris, France.
- October 17, 1492: Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba.
- October 18, 1867: The United States purchases Alaska from Russia.
- October 19, 1929: The New York Stock Exchange crashes, marking the beginning of the Great Depression.
- October 20, 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis begins.
- October 21, 1805: The Battle of Trafalgar is fought, with British forces led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeating French and Spanish forces.
- October 22, 1836: Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
- October 16, 1859: John Brown leads a raid on the US federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to spark a slave insurrection.
- October 17, 1863: The Battle of Gettysburg begins during the American Civil War.
- October 18, 1898: The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Paris, ending the Spanish-American War.
- October 19, 1921: The first insulin injection is given to a diabetic patient.
- October 20, 1944: The Soviet Red Army liberates Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, from Nazi occupation.
- October 21, 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
- October 22, 1973: The Yom Kippur War begins, with Arab forces attacking Israel on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
- October 16, 1979: The Iranian Revolution begins.
- October 17, 1989: The Loma Prieta earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay Area, killing 67 people and causing billions of dollars in damage.
- October 18, 1991: The Gulf War begins, with US-led coalition forces attacking Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
- October 19, 1998: The Matthew Shepard Act, a federal hate crime law, is passed by the US Congress.
- October 20, 2011: Muammar Gaddafi, the dictator of Libya, is killed by rebels after a long civil war.
- October 21, 2022: The James Webb Space Telescope releases its first full-color images of the deep universe, the deepest and sharpest infrared images of the distant universe to date.
