1555 – Bishop of Oxford Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic
1777 – Continental Congress, flees to York, Pa, as British forces advance
1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1791 – The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots.
1861 – William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company (d. 1932) was born.
1867 – Midway Islands formally declared a US possession
1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1898 – City of NY established
1907 – McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1917 – Buddy Rich, New York, American jazz drummer and band leader (Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go), (d. 1987)Born
1924 – Truman Capote, New Orleans Louisiana, American author (In Cold Blood) Born
1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1929 – 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1931 – Start of “Die Voortrekkers” youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 – At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws “intentional bombings of civilian populations”.
1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34-7.
1940 – Dewey Martin, Canadian-American drummer (Buffalo Springfield and The Standells) (d. 2009) was born.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C allegedly complete Babi Yar massacre.
1943 – Marilyn McCoo, American singer and actress (The 5th Dimension) was born.
1945 – Ehud Olmert, Israeli politician, 12th Prime Minister of Israel was birthed
1947 – Marc Bolan, London England, rock vocalist (T-Rex-Bang a Gong)Born
1947 – The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
1950 – Radio’s “Grand Ole Opry” is broadcasted on TV for 1st time
1954 – USS Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the US Navy
1955 – Anton Chekhov [Anton Pavlovich Chekhov]Russian short-story writer, novelist, and playwright of the modern era. Dies at 95 of Tuberculosis
1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
1961 – Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost
1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1964 – Trey Anastasio, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Phish, Oysterhead, Dave Matthews & Friends, Phil Lesh and Friends, Surrender to the Air, and SerialPod) was born.
1965 – The 30 September Movement attempts a coup against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
1965 – Matt Fallon, American singer-songwriter (Skid Row and Anthrax) was born.
1969 – Chris Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1991) was born.
1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson’s Field hijackings.
1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982 – Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
1986 – Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel’s covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa.
1996 – The United States Congress passes an Amendment that bars the possession of firearms for people who were convicted of domestic violence, even misdemeanor level.
1999 – Japan’s worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2005 – The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, “Catalonia is a nation”.
2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2009 – The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115 people.
2012 – Two opposition Venezuelan politicians are shot dead a week before the presidential election