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- 1512 Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
- 1520 Magellan entered the strait which bears his name
- 1553 Volumes of the Talmud are burned
- 1600 Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate, who in effect rule Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
- 1774 First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
- 1797 In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
- 1805 Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at Ulm, reaping Napoleon over 30,000 prisoners and inflicting 10,000 casualties on the losers. Ulm was considered to be one of Napoleon's finest hours.
- 1816 The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
- 1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
- 1833 Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and creator of the peace prize that bears his name, is born.
- 1854 Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
- 1867 Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty - Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.
- 1868 Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, Calif
- 1869 First shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
- 1872 Germany gives the San Juan Islands to the U.S.
- 1879 Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13 hours before burning out).
- 1915 Vera Deakin, daughter of former Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, establishes the Australian Red Cross Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau in Cairo, Egypt During the remainder of the war the bureau handled thousands of enquiries from Australian families seeking information about wounded and missing soldiers
- 1917 First Americans to see action on the front lines of WW I
- 1918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min
- 1918 The Mount Royal Tunnel, Montreal, is opened for regular traffic by the Canadian Northern Railway.
- 1941 7000 Serbs were shot in Kragujevac, Serbia by Nazi Germans.
- 1944 Prv. Ernest Alva Smith (The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada) wins the Victoria Cross at the Savio River, Italy
- 1944 The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
- 1944 US troops capture Aachen, first large German city to fall
- 1945 Argentine military officer and politician Juan Pern married actress Evita.
- 1945 Women in France allowed to vote for first time
- 1945 Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
- 1947 21 die as a fire destroys an asylum in Hoff, Germany.
- 1948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated in Washington DC
- 1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet
- 1950 Visitor posting - Shmuel Friedman was born - USA [email protected]
- 1951 Visitor posting - Brian Jackson (Now Living in Nottingham UK) was born in Northampton - United Kingdom
- 1951 Visitor posting - October 21, 1951 Donnie R. Looper is born in Dayton, Ohio
- 1953 Visitor posting - Theo Hendriks (gedoopt Matheus, Johannes, Wilhelmus) geboren in Nijmegen. Zoon van Wim Hendriks (fabriekschilder) en Lies Maas (coupeuse). Na de basisschool de MULO doorlopen en enige jaren op de ASO (analisten school te Oss). 1974 de militaire dienstplicht vervuld bij Koninklijke Landmacht. december 1947 de opleiding tot Onderofficier bij de Koninklijke Luchtmacht
- 1959 The Guggenheim Museum is dedicated in New York City.
- 1959 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
- 1962 The 1962 Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) closes.
- 1965 Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
- 1966 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfs a school in S Wales
- 1966 Aberfan disaster: A coal tip falls on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
- 1967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm the Pentagon
- 1967 Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility (event lasts until October 23; 683 people were arrested). Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.
- 1968 Visitor posting - Donna Neville born
- 1969 A coup d'tat in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power.
- 1969 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
- 1969 Jack Kerouac, novelist, dies.
- 1970 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
- 1970 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
- 1973 Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
- 1973 John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.
- 1975 Mexico City's first major subway accident takes 26 lives
- 1975 Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
- 1976 Visitor posting - Famous singer Adam Hunt was born - USA
- 1976 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1977 The European Patent Institute is founded.
- 1978 Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
- 1983 The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
- 1984 Visitor posting - Jessica Marie Onkels Chappell was born - USA
- 1986 In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he was released in August 1991).
- 1987 Former Miss America Bess Myerson is arrested on charges of bribery, conspiracy, and mail fraud, all involving an alimony-fixing scandal. She is later found not guilty.
- 1989 Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in SF earthquake
- 1989 Number one hit on UK music charts - Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers - That's What I Like
- 1990 Visitor posting - stephen aaron reyes born - USA
- 1990 The first Apple Day, is held in Covent Garden, London.
- 1991 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif
- 1992 Visitor posting - October 21, 1992 5:41 P.M. Marina Lee Karinen was born
- 1992 Visitor posting - Shawn Moffitt was born in Wichita, Kansas - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Zachary Stork was born to Larry and Brenda (Deppe) Stork Oct. 21, 1992
- 1993 Visitor posting - Alicia Cano was born - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Sian Rogers born (: - United Kingdom
- 1993 Visitor posting - Dennis Delaney Jr. was born - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - brian jackson was born, in brooklyn new york - USA [email protected]
- 1993 Visitor posting - october 21 1993 Ashley Power was born - Newfoundland Canada 11:40 am
- 1994 In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Kari Mest was born - Dubuque Iowa! - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - October 21, 1994 - Bodey Cooper was born in Dallas, TX (6 lbs. 15 oz.) - USA
- 1995 Dayton Agreement The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1997 Visitor posting - Chris and Amy Kirkland get married in Waldo, Florida - USA
- 1998 Visitor posting - the wonderful Cem Nart Guney was born - Turkey
- 2001 "United We Stand" benefit concert for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. Event organized and headlined by Michael Jackson, also featuring pop stars Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, The Backstreet Boys, and others.
- 2001 Visitor posting - Christian Guzman was born to Jolene Guzman and Ferlan Bailey weighing in at a whopping 8lbs. 5oz. Born at Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando, Fl. A true blessing indeed! - USA [email protected]
- 2002 Violence in Badlapur, suburb of Mumbai created a tension in the city resulted in a lot of property damage injuring 4 people.
- 2003 Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
- 2007 San Diego County has its worst wildfire disaster in San Diegan history as the Harris and Witch Fires blazed across the county. Together, they have burned at least 200,000 acres (810 km) of land. Only one casualty has been reported.
- 2008 Jewish Holiday - Shemini Atzeret - No work is permitted.
- 2009 A Japanese convict who served seventeen years in prison for the murder of a four-year-old girl pleads not guilty during a retrial.
- 2009 A goods train derails east of Poti, Georgia, in an incident described as "sabotage".
- 2009 A report on the discovery of a new species of dinosaur, Fruitadens haagarorum, measuring around 70cm long, is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
- 2009 After 10 hours, a man armed with a rifle and wearing military camouflage holding 8 people hostage in downtown Edmonton, Canada during the 2009 Workers Compensation Board of Alberta Hostage crisis surrenders peacefully to the Edmonton Police Service
- 2009 Armed men take six people captive at a Lidl supermarket in Sevran, France.
- 2009 At least thirteen people die in India's Rajasthan state after the Goa Express crashes into the stationary Mewar Express.
- 2009 Azza Transport Flight 2241 crashes on take-off from Sharjah International Airport, in the United Arab Emirates, killing all six crew.
- 2009 Former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela denies writing a foreword praising Republic of the Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso's biography, Straight Speaking for Africa.
- 2009 Hundreds of protestors gather in Lima, Peru, as a bill proposing the legalisation of some form of abortion is approved.
- 2009 Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev appoints former mayor of Bishkek, Daniar Usenov, as the new Prime Minister following the resignation of his predecessor, Igor Chudinov
- 2009 Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk agrees to station SM-3 missile interceptors from United States President Barack Obama's reformulated missile defense system on the territory of this NATO ally.
- 2009 President of the Marshall Islands Litokwa Tomeing is ousted in the country's first successful vote of no confidence. Ruben Zackhras is appointed acting president until a new election on October 23, 2009.
- 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announces plans to curb the number of state companies by privatising some.
- 2009 Several people are arrested over a bomb attack in southeastern Iran that killed 42 people, including members of the Revolutionary Guards
- 2009 The International Atomic Energy Agency propose draft agreement for Iran and three world powers to agree, aimed at reducing international concerns over Tehran's nuclear programme.
- 2009 The Philadelphia Phillies win the 2009 National League Championship Series 4 games to 1 after defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 10–4.
- 2009 The United States is to send a rare mission to Burma for talks with the military government.
- 2009 The crypt of Daniel O'Connell at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin is refurbished and opened to tourists .
- 0202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus in the Battle of Zama.
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