Events768 -
Carloman I and
Charlemagne are crowned Kings of
France.1238 -
James I of Aragon conquers
Valencia and founds the
Kingdom of Valencia.1446 - The
Hangul alphabet is published in
Korea.1514 - Marriage of
Louis XII of France and
Mary Tudor.1558 -
Mérida is founded in
Venezuela.1582 - Because of the implementation of the
Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in
Italy,
Poland,
Portugal and
Spain.1595 - The
Spanish army captures
Cambrai.
1604 -
Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the
Milky Way.
1635 - Founder of
Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from
Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away
Native American land.
1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed
Yale University) is chartered in
Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
1760 -
7 Year's War:
Russian forces occupy
Berlin.
1771 - The
Dutch merchant ship
Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of
Finland.
1776 - Father Francisco Palou founds
Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now
San Francisco, California.
1799 - Sinking of
HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1804 -
Hobart, capital of
Tasmania, is founded.
1806 -
Prussia declares war on
France.
1812 -
War of 1812: In a naval engagement on
Lake Erie,
American forces capture two
British ships:
HMS Detroit and
HMS Caledonia.
1820 -
Guayaquil declares independence from
Spain.
1824 - Slavery is abolished in
Costa Rica.
1831 -
Capo d'Istria is
assassinated.
1835 -
Royal College, Colombo established with the name Hillstreet Academy in
Sri Lanka.
1837 - Meeting at the
U.S. Naval Academy establishes the
U.S. Naval Institute.
1845 - The eminent and controversial
Anglican,
John Henry Newman, is received into the
Roman Catholic Church.
1854 - Beginning of the
siege of Sebastopol.
1861 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Santa Rosa Island -
Union troops repel
Confederate attempt to capture
Fort Pickens.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Tom's Brook -
Union cavalrymen in the
Shenandoah Valley defeat
Confederate forces at
Tom's Brook, Virginia.
1871 - The
Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
1874 -
General Postal Union is created as a result of the
Treaty of Berne.
1888 - The
Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
1914 -
World War I:
Siege of Antwerp -
Antwerp,
Belgium falls to
German troops.
1919 -
Black Sox scandal: The
Cincinnati Reds "win" the
World Series.
1934 -
Regicide at
Marseille: The assassination of King
Alexander I of Yugoslavia and
Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
1936 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to
Hoover Dam) begin to generate
electricity from the
Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to
Los Angeles, California.
1940 -
World War II:
Battle of Britain - During a nighttime air raid by the
German Luftwaffe,
St. Paul's Cathedral in the
City of London,
England is hit by a bomb.
1941 - A coup in
Panama declares
Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 -
Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises
Australian autonomy.1942 - The last day of the October
Matanikau action on
Guadalcanal as
United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the
Matanikau River after destroying most of the
Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
1945 - Parade in
NYC for
Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC
Medal of Honor recipients
1962 -
Uganda becomes an independent
Commonwealth realm.
1963 - In northeast
Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large
landslide behind the
Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
1967 - A day after being caught,
Che Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in
Bolivia.
1969 - In
Chicago, the
United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "
Chicago Eight" (trial started on
September 24).
1970 - The
Khmer Republic is proclaimed in
Cambodia.
1981 - Abolition of
capital punishment in
France.
1983 -
Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of
South Korean President
Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to
Rangoon,
Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and 17 others were injured. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
1986 - The musical
The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at
Her Majesty's Theatre in
London.
1989 - An official news agency in the
Soviet Union reports the landing of a
UFO in
Voronezh.1989 - In
Leipzig,
East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalisation of opposition groups and
democratic reforms.
1991 -
Ecuador becomes a member of the
Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1992 - A 13
kilogram (est.)
meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in
Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980
Chevrolet Malibu1995 - An
Amtrak Sunset Limited train is
derailed by
saboteurs near
Palo Verde,
Arizona.
2001 - Second mailing of
anthrax letters from
Trenton,
New Jersey in the
2001 anthrax attack.
2004 - Democratic elections held for the first time in
Afghanistan.
2005 -
Smoking is completely banned on the UK rail network.
2006 -
North Korea allegedly tests
its first nuclear device.
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