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Events

Pre-1600

*46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix, fulfilling a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus.
* 715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
*1087 – William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.
* 1212 – The Golden Bull of Sicily is issued to confirm the hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
* 1345 – Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of Warns.
*1371 – Serbian–Turkish wars: Ottoman Turks fought against a Serbian army at the Battle of Maritsa.
*1423 – Hundred Years' War: A French army defeats the English at the Battle of La Brossinière.
* 1493 – Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull ''Dudum siquidem'' to the Spanish, extending the grant of new lands he made them in '' Inter caetera''.
*1580 – Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth in Plymouth, England.

1601–1900

* 1687 – Morean War: The Parthenon in Athens, used as a gunpowder depot by the Ottoman garrison, is partially destroyed after being bombarded during the Siege of the Acropolis by Venetian forces.
*1688 – The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
* 1777 – American Revolution: British troops occupy Philadelphia.
*1789 – George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.
* 1799 – War of the 2nd Coalition: French troops defeat Austro-Russian forces, leading to the collapse of Suvorov's campaign.
* 1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates, and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.

1901–present

*1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
*1907 – Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions within the British Empire.
*1910 – Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
* 1914 – The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
* 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
*1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive began which would last until the total surrender of German forces.
* 1923 – The German government accepts the occupation of the Ruhr.
*1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
*1934 – The ocean liner is launched.
*1936 – Spanish Civil War: Lluis Companys reshuffles the Generalitat de Catalunya, with the marxist POUM and anarcho-syndicalist CNT joining the government.
* 1942 – Holocaust: Senior SS official August Frank issues a memorandum detailing how Jews should be "evacuated".
* 1950 – Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
*1953 – Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
*1954 – The Japanese rail ferry ''Tōya Maru'' sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
*1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
*1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
*1969 – ''Abbey Road'', the last recorded album by the Beatles, is released.
* 1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
*1980 – At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people die and 211 are injured.
* 1981 – Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
* 1983 – Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
* 1983 – Australia II wins the America's Cup, ending the New York Yacht Club's 132-year domination of the race.
*1984 – The United Kingdom and China agree to a transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, to take place in 1997.
*1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan airport, killing 234.
* 1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
*2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
* 2000 – The sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
*2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry, , capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.
*2005 – The PBS Kids Channel is shut down and replaced by a joint network with Comcast called Sprout.
*2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
*2009 – Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
*2010 – The Philippine Bar exam bombing occurred near the De La Salle University in Taft Avenue, Manila injuring 47 people.
*2014 – A mass kidnapping occurs in Iguala, Mexico.

Births

Pre-1600

* 932 – Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, Arab caliph (d. 975)
* 1329 – Anne of Bavaria, German queen consort (d. 1353)
*1406 – Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
* 1462 – Engelbert, Count of Nevers, younger son of John I, Duke of Cleves (d. 1506)
* 1526 – Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1569)

1601–1900

* 1637 – Sébastien Leclerc, French painter (d. 1714)
* 1641 – Nehemiah Grew, English plant anatomist and physiologist (d. 1712)
* 1651 – Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germantown, Philadelphia (d. 1720)
*1660 – George William, Duke of Liegnitz (d. 1675)
* 1698 – William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (d. 1755)
*1711 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, First Lord of the Admiralty (d. 1779)
*1750 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (d. 1810)
*1758 – Cosme Argerich, Argentinian physician (d. 1820)
* 1767 – Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1835)
*1774 – Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and environmentalist (d. 1845)
* 1783 – Richard Griffin, 3rd Baron Braybrooke, English politician and literary figure (d. 1858)
* 1791 – Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer (d. 1824)
*1792 – William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand explorer and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (d. 1842)
* 1820 – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Indian philosopher, painter, and academic (d. 1891)
*1840 – Louis-Olivier Taillon, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Premier of Quebec (d. 1923)
*1843 – Joseph Furphy, Australian author and poet (d. 1912)
*1848 – Henry Walters, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1931)
* 1849 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
*1865 – Archibald Butt, United States Army Officer (d. 1912)
* 1865 – Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford (d. 1937)
* 1869 – Komitas, Armenian-French priest and composer (d. 1935)
*1870 – Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)
* 1872 – Max Ehrmann, American poet and lawyer (d. 1945)
* 1873 – Wacław Berent, Polish author and translator (d. 1940)
*1874 – Lewis Hine, American photographer and activist (d. 1940)
*1875 – Edmund Gwenn, English-American actor (d. 1959)
*1876 – Edith Abbott, American economist, social worker, and author (d. 1957)
* 1876 – Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian poet, lawyer, and politician (d. 1952)
*1877 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist and academic (d. 1963)
* 1877 – Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1962)
* 1877 – Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (d. 1958)
* 1878 – Walter Steinbeck, German actor (d. 1942)
* 1884 – Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1951)
*1886 – Archibald Hill, English physiologist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)
* 1887 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English author and poet (d. 1958)
* 1887 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor and director (d. 1967)
* 1887 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb (d. 1979)
*1888 – J. Frank Dobie, American journalist and author (d. 1964)
* 1888 – T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
* 1889 – Gordon Brewster, Irish cartoonist (d. 1946)
* 1889 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (d. 1976)
*1890 – Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager (d. 1959)
*1891 – William McKell, Australian politician, 12th Governor General of Australia

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