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A millisecond (from milli-and second; symbol: ms) is a unit of time in the International System of Units equal to one thousandth (0.001 or 10 −3 or 1 / 1000) of a second [1] [2] or 1000 microseconds.
Red maple (Acer rubrum) leaf in October (Northern hemisphere).October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ôctō meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.
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1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Covenanter Scotland and King Charles I of England.; 1689 – General Enea Silvio Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera; he dies of the disease soon afterwards.
October (from Latin octo, "eight") or mensis October was the eighth of ten months on the oldest Roman calendar.It had 31 days. October followed September (from septem, "seven") and preceded November (novem, "nine").
1774 – The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".; 1797 – In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
1740 – France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.; 1774 – American Revolution: The Continental Association, a nonconsumption and nonimportation agreement against the British Isles and the British West Indies, is adopted by the First Continental Congress.
1221 – Salimbene di Adam, Italian historian and scholar (d. 1290) 1261 – Denis of Portugal (d. 1325) 1328 – Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369) 1581 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician, poet, and scholar (d. 1638) 1586 – Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (d. 1632) 1593 – Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (d ...