• 0732 - Battle at Tours: France under Karel Martel beat Moors
• 1492 - Columbus' ships sites land on the horizon (Bahamas)
• 1521 - Pope Leo X titles King Henry VIII of England "Defender of the Faith"
• 1531 - Battle at Kappel: Swiss RC kantons beat protestant
• 1540 - Emperor Karel names his son Philip, duke of Milan
• 1573 - Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy
• 1643 - Battle at Wincebt: English New Model-army beats royalists
• 1674 - Pierre Corneille's "Surena," premieres in Paris
• 1687 - Hungary accepts Habsburgse sovereignty
• 1689 - Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia
• 1698 - France, England & Netherlands signs 1st Extermination treaty
• 1726 - Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England
• 1737 - Earthquake kills 300,000 & destroys « of Calcutta India
• 1746 - Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Neth armies
• 1776 - Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British
• 1797 - Battle at Kamperduin: English fleet destroys Bataafse
• 1797 - British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, Netherlands
• 1811 - The Juliana, 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation
• 1861 - Battle of Dumfries, VA (Quantico Creek)
• 1863 - Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee
• 1864 - Slavery abolished in Maryland
• 1865 - Pres Johnson paroles CSA VP Alexander Stephens
• 1868 - Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine
• 1871 - Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed
• 1873 - Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to U of Toronto
• 1881 - David Houston patents roll film for cameras
• 1887 - A Miles patents elevator
• 1890 - 1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 secs, Wash DC)
• 1890 - Daughters of American Revolution forms
• 1895 - Emperor Menelik II of Addis Ababa draws against Italians
• 1899 - South African Boers declare war on Great Britain
• 1902 - 8th US Golf Open: Laurie Auchterlonie shoots a 307 at Garden City NY
• 1902 - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket between South Africa & Australia
• 1902 - Lawrence Auchterlonie wins US Open golf tournament
• 1906 - SF begins school for "Asians"
• 1906 - White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game
• 1911 - Ty Cobb (AL) & Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto
• 1913 - Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series
• 1914 - German troops occupy Gent
• 1915 - Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins
• 1919 - 1st transcontinental air race ends
• 1922 - 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)
• 1922 - Turkey & Greece sign cease fire
• 1923 - Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a World Series game
• 1923 - German mark falls to 10 billion per œ, 4 billion per $
• 1925 - Belgian episcopelian sspeaks against Flemish activism
• 1925 - NY Giants play 1st NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0
• 1927 - Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible)
• 1929 - Sean O'Casey's "Silver Tassle," premieres in London
• 1931 - 100,000 extreme-right Germans form "Harzburger Front"
• 1932 - 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC
• 1932 - Stalin forces Zinoviev & Kamenev out of Communist Party
• 1936 - "Professor Quiz," 1st radio quiz show premieres
• 1939 - Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb
• 1939 - Bucky Harris signs to manage Washington again
• 1939 - Gertrude Lawrence's "Skylark," premieres in NYC
• 1939 - NAACP organized Legal Defense & Education Fund
• 1941 - 1st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front
• 1942 - -Oct 12] Sea battle at Cape Esperance Guadalcanal
• 1943 - NY Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, to become 1st team to win 10 World Series
• 1944 - Allies bomb sea wall at Veere
• 1945 - Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung
• 1945 - JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere)
• 1947 - Brazil & Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR
• 1948 - "Love Life" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 252 performances
• 1948 - "Where's Chartev?" opens at St James Theater NYC for 792 performances
• 1948 - Cleve Indians beat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series
• 1954 - "On Your Toes" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 64 performances
• 1954 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam
• 1955 - All Peron feast days disposed of in Argentina
• 1955 - Persia signs Pact of Baghdad
• 1956 - 1st Pakistan v Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day
• 1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
• 1956 - AL Pres Will Harridge bars Wash Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners
• 1958 - "Goldilocks" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 performances
• 1958 - 2nd US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
• 1959 - KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1960 - Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
• 1960 - Radio-TV exec John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Det Tigers
• 1961 - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m
• 1961 - USSR performs nuclear test
• 1962 - 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show
• 1962 - 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
• 1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Hillside House Ladies' Golf Open
• 1967 - World Series record 3 consecutive HRs (Carl Yastremski, Reggie Smith, & Rico Petrocelli) by Red Sox
• 1967 - Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
• 1968 - Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
• 1968 - Billy Martin named manager of Twins
• 1968 - Panama revolts
• 1969 - -28] Rome: 2nd bishop synod
• 1969 - Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3
• 1969 - Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days
• 1971 - 60th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2)
• 1971 - Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times
• 1971 - Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show
• 1971 - Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam
• 1972 - Panama adopts constitution
• 1972 - Prison uprising at Washington DC jail
• 1972 - Reads beat Pirates in NLCS
• 1973 - Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant
• 1974 - A's Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract
• 1975 - "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin
• 1975 - Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham
• 1975 - Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick
• 1975 - Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host
• 1976 - 10th Country Music Assn Award: Mel Tillis wins
• 1976 - Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing & "Gang of Four," arrested & charged with plotting a coup
• 1977 - Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
• 1978 - Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
• 1978 - Belgium govt of Tindemans resigns
• 1978 - Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th
• 1979 - "Most Happy Fella" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 53 performances
• 1979 - German DR frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro & Nico Hbner
• 1979 - Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan
• 1980 - Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
• 1980 - Dallas Mavericks 1st game at Reunion Arena beat San Antonio 103-92
• 1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1981 - Expos beat Phillies, 3 games to 2, in NLCS
• 1981 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
• 1981 - LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)
• 1981 - Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
• 1981 - Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series
• 1982 - 16th Country Music Assn Award: Willie Nelson & Ricky Skagg
• 1982 - English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England
• 1982 - Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire
• 1983 - Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
• 1984 - 1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)
• 1984 - August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," premieres in NYC
• 1984 - NASA launches space vehicle S-208
• 1984 - VP candidate debate-Graldine Ferraro (D) & George Bush (R)
• 1985 - Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
• 1985 - Pres Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
• 1985 - US intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists
• 1986 - Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
• 1987 - 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
• 1990 - "Miser" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 93 performances
• 1990 - Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
• 1990 - Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
• 1990 - Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
• 1991 - Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her
• 1991 - Chip Beck ties PGA lowest 18 hole score of 59
• 1991 - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute
• 1992 - 1st 3-way presidential debate (Bush-Clinton-Perot)
• 1992 - Deion Sanders, plays for Atlanta Falcons (NFL) & Braves (Baseball)
• 1992 - Toronto down 6-1 in 7th beats A's 7-6 in 11th in AL playoff
• 1993 - Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack
• 1993 - US warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti
• 1994 - Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar
• 1994 - Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), lands
• 1995 - John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches
• 1995 - O J Simpson cancels a TV appearance on Dateline
• 1996 - Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million
• 1997 - Dennis Rodman returns from 2nd longest NBA suspension (11 games)
• 1998 - Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail LPGA Tournament

Famous birthdays for this day ..

• 1573 - Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer
• 1593 - Claes P "Nicolaas" Tulip, anatomy/mayor of Amsterdam (1654..71)
• 1611 - Hugues de Lionne, Marquess de Berry, French ambassador to Rome
• 1661 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/elect (Anti-Lucretius)
• 1671 - Frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730)
• 1738 - Arthur Phillip, admiral/1st governor New-South Wales
• 1747 - Marian Paradeiser, composer
• 1758 - Wilhelm Olbers, discovered asteroids (Pallas & Vesta)
• 1768 - Adriaan van den Ende, Dutch vicar/educationalist
• 1782 - Steen Steensen Blicher, Denmk, poet/short-story writer (E Binddstouw)
• 1788 - Simon Sechter, composer
• 1803 - Albartus Telting, Frisian poet (Frisianch Jierboeckjen)
• 1806 - Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58)
• 1815 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican representative of the people
• 1820 - Alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
• 1821 - Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer
• 1821 - George Williams, England, founder YMCA
• 1825 - C F Meyer, writer
• 1825 - Elkanah Brackin Greer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
• 1835 - Hunter Holmes McGuire, Med Director (Confederate Army), died in 1900
• 1841 - Freidrich Hegar, composer
• 1844 - Henry John Heinz, founded prepared-foods company (57 varieties)
• 1863 - Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, composer
• 1865 - Hans E Kinck, Norwegian philological/writer (Mot Karnaval)
• 1869 - Gordon Frederic Norton, composer
• 1872 - Harlan Fiske Stone, NH, Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (41-46)
• 1875 - Stefan O Iosif, Romania, poet (Beautiful Irine)
• 1876 - G von Le Fort, writer
• 1877 - John Parsons Beach, composer
• 1881 - Stark Young, US critic/writer (So Red the Rose)
• 1882 - Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer
• 1882 - Will Vesper, German author (Vom grossen Krieg)
• 1883 - Archibald T Davison, composer
• 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, [Anna], 1st lady (1933-1945)/crusader (Nobel 1931)
• 1884 - Friedrich C R Bergius, German chemist (benzine from brown coal, Nobel)
• 1884 - Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer
• 1884 - Sig Ruman, [Siegfried Rumann], Hamburg Germany
• 1885 - Alfred Haar, Hungary, mathematician
• 1885 - Fran‡ois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright (Nobel 1952)
• 1888 - Piero Coppola, composer
• 1891 - Antonius [Jacob LT] van der Veen Zeppenfeldt, Antillian Bishop
• 1894 - Albert Stoessel, composer
• 1895 - H Schiebelhuth, writer
• 1896 - Roman Jakobson, linguist/Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language)
• 1897 - Arvo Hannikainen, composer
• 1897 - George Preston Marshall, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
• 1897 - Nathan F Twining, USAF general (Neither Liberty nor Safety)
• 1897 - Russell Collins, New Orleans LA
• 1899 - A L "Oosh" Ochse, cricketer (no relation to A E S African fast bowler)
• 1900 - Cal Hubbard, NFL tackle (Giants, Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates)
• 1901 - Emil Hlobil, composer
• 1901 - Gerard Roms‚e, Flemish nationalist
• 1902 - Leon Belasco, Odessa Russia, actor (Lucky Partners, My Sister Eileen)
• 1906 - Earl "Dutch" Clark, Colo, NFL hall of fame QB (Spartans, Detroit)
• 1908 - Armen Carapetyan, composer
• 1910 - Eugene John Weigel, composer
• 1910 - Francis James Claude Piggott, soldier
• 1910 - Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist (Men Around the President)
• 1913 - J J Pickle, (Rep-D-TX, 1963- )
• 1914 - Edward J Day, US Postmaster General (1961)
• 1917 - Franz Alphons Wolpert, composer
• 1917 - Thelonious Monk, jazz great, stroke
• 1918 - Jerome Robbins, [Rabinowitz], NY, choreographer (Tony-West Side Story)
• 1919 - Art Blakey, Pitts PA, drummer (Billy Eckstine Band, Jazz Messengers)
• 1925 - Elmore Leonard, US writer (Glitz, Mr Majestyk, Touch, 52 Pick-Up)
• 1925 - Nancy Guild, LA Calif, actress (Where Was I?)
• 1926 - Earle Hyman, NC, actor (Russell-Cosby, Coriolanus)
• 1926 - John Dewes, cricketer (England opener late 40's early 50's)
• 1928 - Thomas Burnett Swann, US, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur)
• 1930 - Bill Fischer, baseball player
• 1930 - Harry Glass, German DR, 1st E German Olympic medalist (bronze-1956)
• 1930 - Sam Johnson, (Rep-R-Texas)
• 1932 - Dottie West, Nashville Tenn, country singer (Here Comes My Baby)
• 1933 - Dawn French, actress/com‚dienne (Supergrass)
• 1935 - Jan van Vlijmen, composer
• 1935 - Roy Scheider, actor (Jaws, Fren Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion)
• 1937 - Bobby Charlton, English soccer player
• 1937 - Georgi Vladimirovich Machinski, cosmonaut
• 1937 - Ron Leibman, NYC, actor (Norma Rae, Where's Poppa?, Beauty & Beast)
• 1939 - Franklin A Sonn, union leader (South African workers)
• 1939 - Maria Bueno, Sao Paulo Brazil, tennis player (Wimbledon 1959)
• 1939 - Woiciech Wiesidlowski Lowski, dancer
• 1942 - Amitabh Bachan, actress (Deewar)
• 1942 - Malvin Whitfield, Bay City Tx, track star (Oly-3 gold/silv/br-48, 52)
• 1942 - Victor H Fazio, (Rep-D-California, 1979- )
• 1943 - Frank Muyser, Dutch guitarist/saxophonist (Les Baroques)
• 1943 - Gene Watson, Palestine Tx, country singer (Heartaches, Love & Stuff)
• 1943 - Keith Boyce, cricketer (big-hitting WI all-rounder of 70's)
• 1943 - Ken Boyce, cricketer
• 1943 - Per-Gunnar Alldahl, composer
• 1944 - Rodney Marsh, athlete
• 1946 - Felton Perry, actor (Magnum Force, Sudden Death)
• 1946 - Gary Mallaber, Buffalo NY, rocker (Steve Miller Band-Abracadbra)
• 1946 - Sawao Kato, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
• 1948 - Daryl Hall, [Hohl], Penn, rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates-Sara Smile)
• 1949 - Bobby Jones, baseball player
• 1949 - Greg Douglas, rock guitarist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
• 1950 - Amos Gitai, actor (Neo-Fascist Trilogy, Golem, Arena of Murder)
• 1950 - Andrew Woolfolk, US pop musician (Earth, Wind & Fire-Shining Star)
• 1950 - Catlin Adams, LA Calif, actress (Ms Loomis-Square Pegs)
• 1950 - Patty Murry, (Sen-D Washington)
• 1950 - Thomas J Tauke, (Rep-R-IA, 1979- )
• 1951 - Wesley Magoogan, rocker
• 1953 - David Morse, Beverly Mass, actor (St Elsewhere, House, Inside Moves)
• 1957 - Blair Cunningham, Memphis Tn, rock drummer (Haircut 100)
• 1957 - Jon Moss, rock drummer (Culture Club)
• 1959 - Bob Inglis, (Rep-R-South Carolina)
• 1959 - Michiel Schapers, Netherlands, tennis star
• 1960 - Curt Ford, baseball player
• 1960 - Joe Nash, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
• 1961 - Bryant Young, defensive tackle (San Francisco 49ers)
• 1961 - Steve Young, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers, NFL Player of Year '92)
• 1962 - Eric Johnson, Seaside OR, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE Louisiana Open-3rd)
• 1962 - Joan Cusack, Evanston Illinois, actress (SNL, Addams Family Values)
• 1962 - Leslie Landon, LA Calif, actress (Etta Plum-Little House on Prairie)
• 1962 - Martin Bayless, NFL safety (KC Chiefs)
• 1962 - Philip Newport, cricketer (England pace bowler in 3 Tests 1988-91)
• 1965 - Chris Spielman, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions, Buffalo Bills)
• 1965 - Sean Patrick Flanery, actor (Young Indiana Jones, Powder)
• 1966 - Gregg Olson, Omaha NE, pitcher (Balt Orioles, Detroit Tigers)
• 1966 - Luke Perry, Mansfield Ohio, actor (Dillon-Beverly Hill 90210)
• 1966 - Shawn Chambers, Royal Oaks MI, NHL defenseman (Team USA, NJ Devils)
• 1967 - Bruce Dickson, CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
• 1967 - Charles Ogletree, Greenville NC, tornado yachter (Olympics-8th-1996)
• 1967 - Dennis Vaske, Rockford, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
• 1967 - John Lovell, Baton Rouge LA, tornado yachter (Olympics-8th-1996)
• 1967 - Rob Selby, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
• 1967 - Sean Moynihan, Burlington Vt, actor (Powell-One Life to Live)
• 1968 - Amy Louise Taylor, [Kallested], actress (Silent Night Deadly Night 5)
• 1968 - Claude Lapointe, Lachine, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
• 1968 - Cynthia Johnston, Calgary Alberta, basketball forward (Olympics-96)
• 1969 - Cal Dixon, NFL center/guard (NY Jets)
• 1969 - Mike Kerr, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
• 1969 - Prince Constantijn, CF Aschwin, of Netherlands
• 1969 - Ty Murray, rodeo cowboy(5-time all-around world champion)
• 1970 - Chidi Ahanotu, NFL defensive end/defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
• 1970 - Kelly Sims, WLAF cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals)
• 1970 - Nicole Jeray, Cook County IL, LPGA golfer (1995 Sprint Champ-22nd)
• 1971 - Chann McRae, Albany Ga, cyclist (Olympics-96)
• 1971 - Natalie Jay, Hendon England, actress (Baywatch)
• 1972 - Brigitte Soucy, Moncton New Brunswick,volleyballer (Olympics-96)
• 1972 - Cherokee Parks, NBA center (Dallas Mavericks, Minn Timberwolves)
• 1972 - Kyoko Ina, Tokyo Japan, figure skater (1993 North Atlantic Sr champ)
• 1972 - Troy Corbett, cricket pace bowler (Victorian lefty since 1994-95)
• 1973 - Sharon Dominguez, Miss Belize Universe (1997)
• 1974 - Jason Arnott, Collingwood Ontario, NHL center (Edmonton Oilers)
• 1975 - Kellie Martin, Riverside CA, actress (Life Goes On, Cristy)
• 1975 - Zach Conrad, Ft Collins Colo, cyclist (Olympics-96)
• 1992 - Sarah Cannon, daughter of singer Amy Grant