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Ian Fleming

The Man with the Golden Gun was written by Ian Fleming (pictured) and is the final novel in the James Bond series. It was published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author's death. The story centres on the fictional British Secret Service operative James Bond, who returns to Britain via the Soviet Union, where he had been brainwashed. After being de-programmed, Bond goes to the Caribbean to kill Francisco Scaramanga, the titular "Man with the Golden Gun". The first draft and part of the editing process were completed before Fleming's death; the level of detail from previous novels was missing, as this was often added by Fleming in the second draft. The novel was serialised in 1965 and a daily comic strip adaptation was published the following year. In 1974, the book was adapted as the ninth film in Eon Productions' James Bond series. ( This article is part of a featured topic: Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and short stories .)

Old Parliament House, Adelaide

• ... that South Australia's Old Parliament House (pictured) and the present Parliament House were jointly added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2006?
• ... that Franz Schnyder made his feature-film directorial debut after Swiss immigration authorities sought to prevent refugee filmmaker Leopold Lindtberg from directing another army-friendly film?
• ... that a Texas lawmaker voted to submit a 1914 referendum to voters while saying that he would "vote and work against its adoption"?
• ... that the English edition of Gottlob Herbert Bidermann 's Eastern Front memoir includes events absent from the German original, added 36 years later from interviews with him?
• ... that Dan Deacon wrote the song " When I Was Done Dying " because he liked the idea that his body, memory and consciousness are "three separate things that are constantly oscillating"?
• ... that a suicide bomber disguised himself as a schoolboy while attempting to assassinate Timothy Torlot ?
• ... that a professional sumo wrestler first appeared on television as a competitor on the obstacle-course competition show Sasuke Ninja Warrior ?
• ... that Paramacrobiotus pius was described more than a decade after its type specimens were collected?
• ... that two Ukrainian intelligence agencies had a shootout in Kyiv ?

Margaret Hamilton in 1989

• American computer scientist Margaret Hamilton (pictured) dies at the age of 90.
• Francis Halzen is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in neutrino astronomy.
• In motorsport, Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin win the World Rally Championship.
• A snap election is announced following widespread housing protests in Spain.
• In rugby league, the Super League Grand Final ends with Wakefield Trinity defeating the Warrington Wolves.

October 9 : Leif Erikson Day in the United States and parts of Canada, Independence Day in Uganda (1962), Hangul Day in South Korea (1446)

Mortimer War Memorial

• 1708 – Great Northern War: Russia defeated Sweden at the Battle of Lesnaya on the Russian–Polish border, in present-day Belarus.
• 1740 – European soldiers and Javanese collaborators started massacring Chinese Indonesians in the port city of Batavia, modern-day Jakarta: at least 10,000 people were killed.
• 1793 – French Revolution: After a month-long siege, the leaders of Lyon surrendered, ending their revolt against the National Convention.
• 1921 – The Mortimer War Memorial (pictured), designed by Herbert Maryon in memory of local servicemen who died in the First World War, was dedicated.
• 1952 – A footman shot and killed two colleagues and wounded the lady of the house at Knowsley Hall, England.