1360 - The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
1648 - The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
1861 - The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
1911 - Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
1917 - The day of the Russian revolution, The Red Revolution.
1926 - Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1929 - "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
1945 - Founding of the United Nations
1947 - Walt Disney testifies to the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
1973 - Yom Kippur War ends.
1980 - Government of Poland legalises Solidarity trade union.
2002 - Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
BORN:
1763 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839)
1788 - Sarah Hale, American poet (d. 1879)
1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1903 - Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
1904 - Moss Hart, American dramatist (d. 1961)
1915 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
1915 - Roger Milliken, American millionaire
1930 - The Big Bopper, American singer (d. 1959)
1933 - Ronald and Reginald Kray, British gangsters (d. 1995; d. 2000)
1949 - Robert Pickton, Canadian charged with the first degree murders of twenty-six women.
1961 - Mary Bono, American politician
1972 - Scott Peterson, American murderer
DIED:
1537 - Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1507/08)
1572 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (b. 1508)
1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
1655 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (b. 1592)
1669 - William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
1852 - Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician (b. 1782)
1935 - Dutch Schultz, American gangster (b. 1902)
1972 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player (b. 1919)
1991 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
2005 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
2005 - Robert Sloman, writer (b. 1926)
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