October 25:   1881: Pablo Picasso born Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, is born in M...

October 24:  1901: First barrel ride down Niagara Falls On this day in 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor become...

Marco Simoncelli (20 January 1987 – 23 October 2011) was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer . A top rider of the Italian Minim...