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0732 - Battle at Tours: France under Karel Martel beat Moors
1303 - Boniface VIII, [Benedetto Gaetani], lawyer/pope (1294-1303), dies
1347 - Louis IV, Duke of Bayern/Romania-Germany King/emperor, dies
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
1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss church reformer (Zwinglianen), dies
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
1687 - Hungary accepts Habsburgse sovereignty
1689 - Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia
1698 - France, England and Netherlands signs first Extermination treaty
1726 - Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England
1737 - Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys � of Calcutta India
1746 - Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Neth armies
1776 - Brig General 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
1809 - Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis and Clark Expedition), commits suicide at 35
1811 - The Juliana, first steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation
1861 - Battle of Dumfries, Virginia (Quantico Creek)
1863 - Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee
1864 - Slavery abolished in Maryland
1865 - President Johnson paroles CSA VP Alexander Stephens
1868 - Thomas Edison patents his first invention: electric voice machine
1871 - Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed
1873 - Toronto Argonaut Football Club first game losing to U of Toronto
1881 - David Houston patents roll film for cameras
1887 - A Miles patents elevator
1890 - First 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 first Test Cricket between South Africa and Australia
1902 - Lawrence Auchterlonie wins US Open golf tournament
1906 - San Francisco begins school for "Asians"
1906 - White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game
1911 - Ty Cobb (AL) and Frank Schulte (NL) are first MVPs, each gets an auto
1913 - Philadelphia A's beat New York Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series
1914 - German troops occupy Gent
1915 - Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins
1919 - First transcontinental air race ends
1922 - First woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)
1922 - Turkey and Greece sign cease fire
1923 - Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a World Series game
1925 - Belgian episcopelian sspeaks against Flemish activism
1925 - NY Giants play first 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 - First political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC
1932 - Stalin forces Zinoviev and Kamenev out of Communist Party
1936 - "Professor Quiz," first 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 and Education Fund
1941 - First 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 first 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 (first Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere)
1947 - Brazil and Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR
1948 - Cleveland Indians beat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series
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 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1956 - AL President Will Harridge bars Wash Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners
1958 - Second US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
1960 - Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
1960 - Radio-TV exec John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers
1961 - Leonard "Chico" Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers), dies at 74
1961 - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test
1962 - First appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show
1962 - Second 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, and Rico Petrocelli) by Red Sox
1967 - Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
1968 - Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and 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 and 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
1976 - 10th Country Music Assn Award: Mel Tillis wins
1976 - Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing and "Gang of Four," arrested and 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 - German DR frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro and Nico Huebner
1979 - Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan
1980 - Cosmonauts Popov and Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
1980 - Dallas Mavericks first 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 and win only Eastern Championship Series
1982 - 16th Country Music Assn Award: Willie Nelson and 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 - First space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)
1984 - NASA launches space vehicle S-208
1984 - VP candidate debate: Geraldine Ferraro (D) and George Bush (R)
1985 - Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1985 - President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1985 - US intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists
1985 - Tex Williams, country-western singer, dies at 68 of cancer
1986 - Norm Cash, first baseman (Detroit Tigers), dies at 51
1986 - Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
1987 - 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1990 - Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
1990 - Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
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 - First 3-way presidential debate (Bush-Clinton-Perot)
1992 - Deion Sanders, plays for Atlanta Falcons (NFL) and 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 - 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
2000 - The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown
2001 - The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection
2002 - A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven
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