Events
454 -
Roman Emperor Valentinian III assassinates
Aëtius in his own throne room.1217 - An
Estonian tribal leader
Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against
Teutonic Knights.
1745 -
Battle of Prestonpans: A
Hanoverian army under the command of
Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the
Jacobite forces of
Prince Charles Edward Stuart1765 -
Antoine de Beauterne announces he had killed the
Beast of Gévaudan, but was later proved wrong by more attacks.
1780 -
American Revolutionary War:
Benedict Arnold gives the
British the plans to
West Point.
1792 - The
French National Convention votes to abolish the
monarchy.
1827 - According to
Joseph Smith, Jr., the
angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Joseph translated into
The Book of Mormon.
1860 - In the
Second Opium War, an
Anglo-
French force defeats
Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao.
1896 -
British force under
Horatio Kitchener takes
Dongola in the
Sudan.
1897 - The "
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" letter is published in the
New York Sun.
1898 -
Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the
Hundred Days' Reform in
China.
1921 -
Oppau explosion, a
storage silo at a fertilizer producing plant exploded in Oppau,
Germany, 500—600 killed.
1937 -
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
1938 - The
Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on
Long Island in
New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
1939 -
Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by pro-
Nazi members of the
Iron Guard.
1942 - On
Jewish holiday of
Yom Kippur,
Nazis sent over 1.000
Jews of
Pidhaytsi (west
Ukraine) to
Belzec extermination camp.1942 - On the end of
Yom Kippur, the
Germans ordered
Konstantynow Jews (
Poland) to permanently evacuate
Konstantynow and move to the
Ghetto - established in
Biala Podlaska, meant to assemble
Jews from nearby 7 towns among them:
Konstantynow, Janów Podlaski, Rossosz,
Terespol, and 3 more. 1942 - In
Dunaivtsi,
Ukraine,
Nazis murder 2588
Jews.1942 - The
B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
1950 -
George Marshall sworn in as the
3rd Secretary of Defense of United States.
1964 -
Malta becomes independent from the
United Kingdom.1964 - The
North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first
Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight from
Palmdale, California.
1965 - Singapore admitted as a part of the United Nations.
1970 - The
Cleveland Browns beat the
New York Jets at
Cleveland Municipal Stadium 31-20 on the first edition of
Monday Night Football.1970 -
New York Times starts first modern
op-ed page.
1972 -
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under
martial law.
1976 -
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Chilean socialist government of
Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
1979 - Two
RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from
RAF Wittering collide over the
UK. Both pilots ejected safely. One of the jets broke up in midair and fell harmlessly into a field but the other dropped onto the centre of Wisbech in
Cambridgeshire, destroying two houses and a bungalow. Several people were injured in the accident - including a mother and her baby - and three people were killed.
1980 -
Bob Marley plays at The
Stanley Theater in
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. It was the last show of the
Uprising Tour.
1981 -
Belize is granted full independence from the
United Kingdom.1981 -
Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the
U.S. Senate as the first female supreme court justice.
1989 -
Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in the
U.S. state of
South Carolina.
1991 -
Armenia is granted independence from
Soviet Union.
1993 -
Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends
parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the
Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
1995 - The
Hindu milk miracle occurs, in which statues of the
Hindu God
Ganesh began drinking milk when spoonfuls were placed near their mouths.
1999 -
Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central
Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
2001 -
Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of
Comet Borrelly.2001 -
AZF chemical plant explodes in
Toulouse,
France, killing 29 people.
2003 -
Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into
Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
2004 - The
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the
Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the
Communist Party of India (Maoist).
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