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- 0786 Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi.
- 0891 Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1180 Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
- 1607 Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
- 1682 Bishop Gore School one of the oldest schools in Wales founded.
- 1716 First lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor)
- 1752 England and colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear
- 1752 The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
- 1812 French grenadiers enter Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
- 1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow
- 1814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- 1829 Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
- 1848 Alexander Stewart opens the first US dept store
- 1872 Britain pays the US $15« M for damages during Civil War
- 1886 George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon
- 1886 Typewriter ribbon patented.
- 1891 "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7hours 5 min.
- 1899 Henry Bliss becomes first automobile fatality (NY)
- 1914 HMA Submarine AE1 lost off New Guinea
- 1917 Republican government declared in Russia .
- 1917 Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
- 1923 Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
- 1930 After stormtroopers terrorize political opponents, Nazi seats in Reichstag rise from 12 to 107.
- 1933 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
- 1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
- 1942 HMCS OTTAWA (RCN, ex 'Crusader'), sunk east of Newfoundland by 1 torpedo from German U.91.
- 1942 HMS COVENTRY (AA), sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean, northwest of Alexandria, Egypt by German Ju87 divebombers.
- 1942 HMS SIKH, sunk off Tobruk, eastern Libya - by German shore batteries. during landings Royal Marines for British combined operations raid on Tobruk
- 1942 HMS ZULU,sunk NW of Alexandria, Egypt (c 32-00'N, 29-00'E) - by Italian/German force of Ju87 and Ju88 bombers, while returning to Alexandria after combined operations raid on Tobruk
- 1944 United States troops arrive at the German border and proceed, with the British and Canadians, to launch an offensive to reach the Rhine.
- 1948 Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
- 1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage
- 1954 Visitor posting - paula supervisor - USA [email protected]
- 1956 First prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
- 1957 UN resolution deplores and condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
- 1958 Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.
- 1959 The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
- 1960 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
- 1964 The opening of the third period of the Second Vatican Council.
- 1964 Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House
- 1965 The Television show "F-Troop" premiers
- 1965 The opening of the fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council.
- 1972 "The Waltons" TV program premiers
- 1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
- 1974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
- 1975 The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
- 1979 Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC & back to Yates Center, Ks
- 1980 Visitor posting - Aaron M. Brown was born - USA
- 1981 Entertainment Tonight premiers on TV
- 1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of the English Channel
- 1982 President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
- 1982 Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"
- 1983 Visitor posting - Robin born. My pet is a parrot named Oscar - India
- 1984 Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1984 Madonna performs her "Like a Virgin" live at the MTV Video Music Awards for the first time.
- 1985 Eli Hosen is born
- 1987 ITV Schools was broadcast on Channel 4 for the very first time.
- 1987 The Toronto Blue Jays set a major league record for most home runs in a single game - 10 - versus the Baltimore Orioles at Exhibition Stadium, and the teams combined to tie the record for most homers by two teams - 11. The game also marked the end of Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings played, which is believed to be the longest, although this is not a record officially kept by MLB.
- 1989 Calgary Flames become first NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
- 1990 Ken Griffey and his son Ken Jr. become the first father-son duo to hit back-to-back home runs.
- 1991 Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii) crowned Miss America 1992
- 1993 Visitor posting - Miracle baby born ; Holly Sue to Brenda & Gary. - USA
- 1994 The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
- 1995 Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
- 1996 York - Durham Heritage Railway commences operation over the former CN line between Uxbridge and Stouffville, Ont.
- 1997 Google first registers the domain google.com.
- 1998 Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
- 1999 Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
- 2000 Microsoft introduced the last update to the OS, MS-DOS. (Version 8.0)
- 2000 Visitor posting - Darcy Jordan Sheppard was born Ashford, Kent. - United Kingdom
- 2000 Windows Me is released.
- 2001 Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
- 2003 Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
- 2003 In a referendum Sweden rejects adopting the euro.
- 2006 Duane "Dog" Chapman, his son Leland Chapman, and his bounty hunter partner Tim Chapman were arrested in Hawaii stemming from the arrest and capture of rapist Andrew Luster in Mexico.
- 2007 Restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass are officially removed in the Roman Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum takes effect.
- 2008 Fearing the fallout from Lehman failure Merrill Lynch & Co. arranges a hasty deal to be bought by Bank of America Corp.
- 2008 after a weekend of furious negotiations U.S. regulators make it clear there will be no government bailout for Lehman Bothers
- 2010 Visitor posting - Halo reach released (Xbox 360)
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