- 314 – Constantine I defeats Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories.[1]
- 451 – The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins.
- 876 – Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat emperor Charles II (“the Bald”).
- 1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia.
- 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England.
- 1322 – Mladen II Šubić of Bribir is deposed as the Croatian Ban after the Battle of Bliska.
- 1480 – The Great stand on the Ugra river puts an end to Tartar rule over Moscow
- 1573 – End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years’ War.
- 1645 – Jeanne Mance open the first lay hospital in North America.
- 1813 – The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria.
- 1821 – The Peruvian Navy is established during the War of Independence.
- 1829 – Stephenson’s Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials.
- 1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.
- 1871 – Slash-and-burn land management, months of drought, and the passage of a strong cold front cause the Peshtigo Fire, the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires to break out.[2]
- 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos.
- 1895 – Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
- 1912 – The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918 – World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
- 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
- 1939 – World War II: Germany annexes western Poland.
- 1941 – World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
- 1943 – World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert’s paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete.
- 1944 – World War II: Captain Bobbie Brown earns a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Crucifix Hill, just outside Aachen.
- 1952 – The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
- 1956 – The New York Yankees’s Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.
- 1962 – Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.
- 1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
- 1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.
- 1970 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
- 1973 – Yom Kippur War: Israel loses more than 150 tanks in a failed attack on Egyptian-occupied positions.
- 1973 – Spyros Markezinis begins his 48-day term as prime minister in an abortive attempt to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
- 1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
- 1978 – Australia’s Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
- 1982 – Poland bans Solidarity and all other trade unions.
- 1982 – After its London premiere, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
- 1990 – Second Intifada: Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock.
- 1991 – Upon the expiration of the Brioni Agreement, Croatia and Slovenia sever all official relations with Yugoslavia.
- 2001 – A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
- 2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
- 2005 – The 7.6 Mw Kashmir earthquake leaves 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.
- 2014 – Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.
- 2016 – In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to nearly 900.
- 2019 – About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of Leinster House (parliament) in the Republic of Ireland.[3]
-Source: wikipedia
