On this day in History - Oct. 14

• 0530 - Antipope Dioscorus dies. Pope.
• 1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England.
• 1066 - Harold Godwinson dies. King of England.
• 1092 - Nizam al-Mulk dies (b. 1018). Persian vizier.
• 1256 - Kujo Yoritsugu dies (b. 1239). Japanese shogun.
• 1257 - King Przemysl II of Poland was born (d. 1296).
• 1318 - Edward Bruce dies. High King of Ireland.
• 1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
• 1404 - Marie of Anjou was born (d. 1463). Queen of France.
• 1493 - Shimazu Tadayoshi was born (d. 1568). Japanese warlord.
• 1499 - Claude of France was born (d. 1524). Queen of Louis XII of France.
• 1536 - Garcilaso de la Vega dies. Spanish poet.
• 1552 - Oswald Myconius dies (b. 1488). Swiss protestant reformer.
• 1565 - Thomas Chaloner dies (b. 1521). English statesman and poet.
• 1568 - Jacques Arcadelt dies. Flemish composer.
• 1574 - Anne of Denmark was born (d. 1619). Queen of James I of England.
• 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1586 - Mary I of Scotland goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
• 1610 - Amago Yoshihisa dies (b. 1540). Japanese samurai and warlord.
• 1619 - Samuel Daniel dies (d. 1562). English poet.
• 1630 - Sophia of Hanover was born (d. 1714).
• 1633 - James II of England and VII of Scotland, was born (d. 1701).
• 1637 - Gabriello Chiabrera dies (b. 1552). Italian poet.
• 1643 - Bahadur Shah I was born (d. 1712). Mughal Emperor of India.
• 1644 - William Penn was born (d. 1718). English founder of Pennsylvania.
• 1651 - Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.
• 1656 - Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the ritual-free Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
• 1660 - Thomas Harrison dies (d. 1606). English Puritan soldier.
• 1669 - Antonio Cesti dies (b. 1623). Italian composer.
• 1687 - Robert Simson was born (d. 1768). Scottish mathematician.
• 1703 - Thomas Hansen Kingo dies (b. 1634). Danish poet.
• 1711 - Tewoflos dies (b. 1708). Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1712 - George Grenville eas born (d. 1770). Prime Minister of Great Britain.
• 1726 - Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham was born (d. 1813). English sailor and politician.
• 1733 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt was born (d. 1798). Austrian field marshal.
• 1758 - Francis Edward James Keith dies (b. 1696). Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal.
• 1773 - The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in Poland.
• 1773 - Revolutionary War: Britain's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
• 1784 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain was born (d. 1833).
• 1785 - António Ribeiro Sanches dies. Portuguese thinker and physician.
• 1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.
• 1790 - Thursday October Christian (d. 1831)
• 1801 - Joseph Plateau was born(d. 1883). Belgian physicist.
• 1805 - Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
• 1806 - Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia.
• 1806 - Preston King was born (d. 1865). U.S. Senator from New York.
• 1808 - Simon Saint-Jean was born. French painter.
• 1812 - A digest of Pennsylvania laws could not bring itself to print the word "buggery," instead printing it as "B_GG__Y."
• 1812 - Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
• 1814 - Thomas Osborne Davis was born. Irish writer and politician.
• 1831 - Jean-Louis Pons dies (b. 1761). French astronomer.
• 1834 - In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning down of a block of buildings.
• 1834 - Henry Blair is the first African American to obtain a US patent. The patent was for a corn planter.
• 1835 - John Templeton, John Moore, Stanley Cuthbart and Ellen Ritchie were charged in Wheeling, Virginia with illegally teaching blacks to read.
• 1840 - Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
• 1842 - Joe Start was born (d. 1927). American baseball player.
• 1843 - The British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy.
• 1847 - António Soares dos Reis was born. Portuguese sculptor.
• 1856 - Francisco Robles toma posse na Presidência do Equador.
• 1857 - Elwood Haynes was born. American automobile pioneer.
• 1861 - Artur Gavazzi was born (d. 1944). Croatian geographer.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Bristol Station - Confederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia.
• 1865 - The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes signed a treaty with the U.S. at a camp on the Little Arkansas River in Kansas. However, none of the parties to the treaty abided by it.
• 1867 - The 15th and last Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan.
• 1869 - Joseph Duveen was born (d. 1939). British art dealer.
• 1873 - Jules Rimet was born (d. 1954). President of FIFA.
• 1873 - Ray Ewry was born (d. 1937). American athlete.
• 1882 - Eamon de Valera was born (d. 1975). Irish politician and patriot.
• 1882 - Charlie Parker was born (d. 1959). English cricketer.
• 1882 - University of the Punjab is founded in Pakistan.
• 1884 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
• 1887 - Bernard Montgomery was born (d. 1976). British General.
• 1888 - Katherine Mansfield was born (d. 1923). New Zealand writer.
• 1888 - Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
• 1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower was born(d. 1969). U.S. general and 34th President of the United States
• 1892 - Sumner Welles was born (d. 1961). American diplomat.
• 1893 - Lillian Gish was born (d. 1993). American actress.
• 1894 - E. E. Cummings was born (d. 1962). American poet.
• 1900 - Agustín Lara was born (d. 1970). Mexican composer.
• 1901 - Renato da Costa Bonfim was born. Brasilian physician.
• 1902 - Learco Guerra was born (d. 1963). Italian cyclist.
• 1904 - Christian Pineau was born (d. 1995). French World War II resistance fighter.
• 1905 - Sevilla Fútbol Club is founded.
• 1905 - Eugene Fodor was born. Hungarian-born American travel writer.
• 1906 - Hannah Arendt was born (d. 1975). German political theorist and writer.
• 1906 - Imam Hassan al Banna was born (d. 1949). Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
• 1906 - Paul Cezanne dies (b.1839). French painter.
• 1907 - Allan Jones was born (d. 1992). American actor and singer.
• 1908 - Ruth Hale was born (d. 2003). American playwright and actress.
• 1909 - Bernd Rosemeyer was born (d. 1938). German racecar driver.
• 1909 - Dorothy Kingsley was born (d. 1996). American screenwriter.
• 1910 - English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman biplane on Executive Avenue (now Pennsylvania Avenue) near the White House.
• 1910 - John Wooden was born. American basketball coach.
• 1910 - Após a proclamação da República em Portugal, D. Manuel II e a família real chegam à Inglaterra na qualidade de exilados.
• 1911 - Le Duc Tho was born (d. 1990). Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1911 - John Marshall Harlan dies (b. 1833). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
• 1912 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper William Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.
• 1913 - The New Mexico Supreme Court upholds a sodomy conviction. Ex Parte DeVore, 136 P. 47.
• 1913 - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, which claimed 439 lives.
• 1914 - German troops occupy Bruges.
• 1914 - Raymond Davis Jr. was born. American physicist who shared one half of the Nobel Prize in Physics with Masatoshi Koshiba (Japan) [19 Sep 1926~] “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos”. The other half went to Riccardo Giacconi (USA) [06 Oct 1931~].
• 1914 - Dick Durrance was born (d. 2004). American skier.
• 1914 - Harry Brecheen was born (d. 2004). Baseball player.
• 1916 - C. Everett Koop was born. United States Surgeon General.
• 1916 - Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee Universities refuse to play against a black person.
• 1916 - The Perm State University was founded in Russia.
• 1916 - Manoel de Mello Cardoso Barata dies (b. 1841). Brazilian politician.
• 1918 - Marcel Chaput was born (d. 1991). French Canadian politician.
• 1920 - Part of Petsamo province is ceded by Soviet Union to Finland.
• 1925 - Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee).
• 1926 - The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published.
• 1926 - Bill Justis was born (d.1982). American saxophonist, composer and arranger.
• 1927 - The California Court of Appeals, in upholding a sodomy conviction, rules that corroborative evidence could be circumstantial in nature.
• 1927 - Roger Moore was born. English actor.
• 1928 - Frank E. Resnik was born (d. 1995). American business executive.
• 1929 - Yvon Durelle was born (d. 2007). Canadian boxer.
• 1930 - Joseph Mobutu was born (d. 1997). President of Zaire.
• 1931 - Nikhil Banerjee was born (d. 1986).Indian classical musician.
• 1932 - Anatoly Larkin was born (d. 2005). Russian-American physicist.
• 1932 - Enrico di Giuseppe was born (d. 2005). American tenor.
• 1933 - Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
• 1935 - La Monte Young was born. American composer.
• 1938 - John W. Dean III was born. American White House counsel and Watergate figure
• 1938 - Empress Farah Dib was born. Empress of Iran.
• 1938 - Ron Lancaster was born. Canadian Football League quarterback and coach.
• 1939 - German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak.
• 1939 - Ralph Lauren was born. American fashion designer.
• 1939 - Rocky Thompson was born. American golfer.
• 1940 - Balham tube disaster during the Blitz.
• 1940 - Cliff Richard was born. British singer.
• 1940 - Christopher Timothy was born. British actor.
• 1940 - Perrie Mans was born. South African snooker player.
• 1941 - Art Shamsky was born. American baseball player.
• 1942 - Evelio Javier was born (d. 1986). Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant.
• 1942 - José Viegas was born. Brazilian diplomat.
• 1942 - A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137.
• 1942 - Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field.
• 1943 - Japan declares Philippine Independence.
• 1943 - U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortresses during assault on Schweinfurt.
• 1943 - Prisoners at the Sobibor death camp in Poland revolt, resulting in the death of 11 SS. About half of the camp's 600 prisoners escape; about 50 survive the war.
• 1944 - World War II: Given the choice between a public treason trial and a certain death by firing squad or suicide with honor, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chooses the latter.
• 1944 - Allied troops land in Corfu.
• 1944 - British troops march into Athens.
• 1944 - Udo Kier was born. German actor.
• 1944 - Erwin Rommel dies (b. 1891). German field marshall.
• 1945 - Colin Hodgkinson was born. English musician (Whitesnake).
• 1946 - Netherlands and Indonesia sign cease fire.
• 1946 - Al Oliver was born. American baseball player.
• 1946 - Craig Venter was born. American biologist.
• 1946 - Dan McCafferty was born. Scottish musician (Nazareth).
• 1946 - James Robert "Radio" Kennedy, American football coach.
• 1946 - Justin Hayward was born. English musician (Moody Blues).
• 1947 - Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
• 1947 - Lukas Resetarits was born. Austrian cabaret artist and actor.
• 1948 - David Ruprecht wasd born. American game show host.
• 1948 - Harry Anderson was born. American actor.
• 1949 - Eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Ten defendants are sentenced to 5 years in prison each, and the eleventh to 3 years. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions on June 4, 1951.
• 1949 - Chinese Red Army occupies Canton (Guangzhou).
• 1949 - Katha Pollitt was born. American writer.
• 1949 - Katy Manning was born. English-Australian actress.
• 1952 - Harry Anderson was born. American actor.
• 1952 - Nikolai Andrianov was born. Soviet gymnast.
• 1953 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower promised to fire as a Communist any federal worker invoking the Fifth Amendment.
• 1953 - The Qibya massacre was carried out by Israeli troops in a West Bank village.
• 1953 - Shelley Ackerman was born. American astrologer, writer, singer.
• 1954 - Carole Malone was born. English newspaper columnist.
• 1957 - Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne.
• 1957 - Michel Després was born. Quebec politician.
• 1958 - The Anshai Emath Reform Jewish Temple in Peoria, Illinois was damaged by a crude bomb.
• 1958 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
• 1958 - The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
• 1958 - Thomas Dolby was born. British musician.
• 1958 - Douglas Mawson dies (b. 1882). Australian Antarctic explorer.
• 1959 - Errol Flynn dies (b. 1909). Australian actor (Captain Blood).
• 1960 - Carla Camurati was born. Brazilian actress and director.
• 1960 - Steve Cram was born. British track athlete.
• 1960 - Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the Peace Corps.
• 1960 - Abram Ioffe dies (b. 1880). Russian physicist.
• 1961 - Isaac Mizrahi was born. American fashion designer.
• 1961 - Harriet Shaw Weaver dies (b. 1876). English political activist.
• 1961 - Paul Ramadier dies (b. 1888). French politician.
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
• 1962 - Jaan Ehlvest was born. Estonian chess player.
• 1963 - The term "Beatlemania" is coined by the British press to describe the scene at the previous night's performance by The Beatles on the TV show "Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium," a top-rated program that was the British equivalent to "The Ed Sullivan Show."
• 1963 - Lori Petty was born. American actress.
• 1963 - Yim Jae-beom was born. South Korean singer.
• 1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes general secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev.
• 1964 - American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1964 - Alexandre Frota was born. Brazilian actor and model.
• 1964 - Jim Rome was born. American sport talk show host.
• 1964 - Joe Girardi was born. American baseball player.
• 1965 - Constantine Koukias was born. Australian composer.
• 1965 - Jüri Jaanson was born. Estonian rower.
• 1965 - Karyn White was born. American singer.
• 1965 - Steve Coogan was born. English actor.
• 1966 - The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro system.
• 1966 - Savanna Samson was born. American porn star.
• 1967 - Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.
• 1967 - Pat Kelly was born. American baseball player.
• 1967 - Stephen A. Smith was born. American sports journalist
• 1967 - Sylvain Lefebvre was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1967 - Marcel Aymé dies (b. 1902). French novelist and playwright.
• 1968 - Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio in San Francisco for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War. Charged with mutiny, their long prison sentences are later reduced to two years.
• 1968 - Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours.
• 1968 - First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft Apollo 7.
• 1968 - A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, and also ruptured all major roads and railways nearby.
• 1968 - Jim Hines of the USA becomes the first man ever to break the ten second barrier in the 100 metres Olympic final at Mexico City with a time of 9.95 sec. He would be the only man to do so until 1983.
• 1968 - Johnny Goudie was born. American musician.
• 1968 - Matthew Le Tissier was born. English football player.
• 1969 - The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalisation of the currency in 1971.
  
• 1969 - Golpe Militar de 1964: são editados o AI-16 e AI-17.
• 1969 - A race riot occurs in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 1969 - Olof Palme becomes Prime Minister of Sweden.
• 1969 - David Strickland was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1969 - P. J. Brown was born. American basketball player.
• 1970 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
• 1970 - Daniela Peštová was born. Czech supermodel.
• 1970 - Jim Jackson was born. American basketball player.
• 1970 - Jon Seda was born. Puerto Rican actor.
• 1970 - Pär Zetterberg was born. Swedish football player.
• 1971 - Two people are killed in a Memphis, Tennessee race riot.
• 1971 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
• 1971 - Antonio Nikopolidis was born. Greek footbll player (goal-keeper of Olympiakos and National team).
• 1971 - Jorge Costa was born. Portuguese football player.
• 1971 - Armando Cortes-Rodrigues dies. Portuguese (from Azores) writer.
• 1973 - Thailand's University Students protest for a democratic government; 77 are killed and 857 injured.
• 1973 - Lasha Zhvania was born. Georgian politician.
• 1973 - Edmund A. Chester dies (b. 1897). American broadcaster and journalist.
• 1974 - Jessica Drake was born. American porn star.
• 1974 - Joseph Utsler was born. American musician.
• 1974 - Natalie Maines was born. American musician (Dixie Chicks).
• 1975 - Floyd Landis was born. American cyclist.
• 1975 - Shaznay Lewis was born. English singer (All Saints).
• 1976 - Ben Pridmore was born. World Memory Champion.
• 1976 - Henry Mateo was born. Professional baseball player.
• 1976 - Nataša Kejžar was born. Slovenian swimmer.
• 1976 - Dame Edith Evans dies (b. 1888). English actress.
• 1977 - Kelly Schumacher was born. Canadian basketball player.
• 1977 - Bianca Beauchamp was born. Canadian adult model.
• 1977 - Jonathan Kerrigan was born. English actor.
• 1977 - Tina Dico was born. Danish singer-songwriter.
• 1977 - Bing Crosby dies (b. 1903). American singer and actor.
• 1977 - Keenan Wynn dies (b. 1913). American actor.
• 1978 - Javon Walker was born. American football player.
• 1978 - Justin Brannan was born. American musician, writer.
• 1978 - Paul Hunter was born. English snooker player.
• 1978 - Ryan Church was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 - Steven Thompson was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1978 - Usher was born. American singer and actor.
• 1979 - The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," draws 200,000 people.
• 1979 - Rodrigo Tello was born in Santiago. Chilean football player.
• 1979 - Stacy Keibler was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1980 - Niels Lodberg was born. Danish footballer.
• 1980 - Paul Ambrosi was born. Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1980 - Terrence McGee was born. American football player.
• 1981 - Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
• 1981 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
• 1981 - Akon was born. Senegalese R&B singer.
• 1981 - Boof Bonser was born. American baseball player.
• 1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
• 1982 - 5837 Unification church couples wed in South Korea.
• 1983 - Grenada leftist coup under Vice-Premier Coard.
• 1983 - Lin Dan was born. Chinese badminton player.
• 1983 - Vanessa Lane was born. American porn star.
• 1983 - Willard Price dies. Canadian author and naturalist.
• 1984 - João Cajuda was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1984 - LaRon Landry was born. American football player.
• 1984 - Martin Ryle dies (b. 1918). English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics.
• 1985 - U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese says in U.S. News & World Report, "If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."
• 1985 - Digão was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1985 - Sherlyn was born. Mexican actress.
• 1985 - Emil Gilels dies (b. 1916). Ukrainian pianist.
• 1986 - Elie Wiesel (b. 1928), concentration camp survivor, wins Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1986 - Tom Craddock was born. English footballer.
• 1986 - Skyler Shaye was born. American actress.
• 1986 - Keenan Wynn dies (b. 1916). American actor.
• 1987 - 18-month-old Jessica McClure ("Baby Jessica") falls down an abandoned well in Midland, Texas (her nationally televised rescue takes 58 hours).
• 1988 - MacKenzie Mauzy was born. American actress.
• 1988 - Max Thieriot was born. American actor.
• 1989 - Michael Carmine dies (b. 1959). American actor.
• 1990 - Leonard Bernstein dies (b. 1918). American composer and conductor.
• 1991 - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991 to Aung San Suu Kyi [19 Jun 1945~] of Myanmar (former Burma) for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.
• 1992 - The Nobel Prize for chemistry went to American Rudolph A. Marcus; the prize for physics went to George Charpak of France.
• 1992 - Savannah Outen was born. American singer/songwriter.
• 1994 - Emil Gilels dies (b. 1916). Ukrainian pianist.
• 1994 - Israelis and Arafat share peace prize: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and two Israelis - the Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres - are the winners of The 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1994 - Bryan Breeding was born. American singer.
• 1996 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.62 to 6,010.00, closing above 6,000 for the first time ever.
• 1997 - Harold Robbins dies (b. 1915). American novelist.
• 1998 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1998 - Amartya Sen (b. 03 Nov 1933) is named the winner of the 1998 Nobel Economics Prize “for his contributions to welfare economics”.
• 1998 - Cleveland Amory dies (b. 1917). American writer and animal rights activist.
• 1998 - Frankie Yankovic dies (b. 1916). American musician.
• 1999 - The South Carolina Supreme Court rules that the video poker machines in the state must be unplugged by June 30, 2000.
• 1999 - Julius Nyerere dies (b. 1922). Tanzanian politician.
• 2000 - Two hijackers seize a London-bound Saudi Arabian Airlines jetliner carrying more than 100 people, taking it first to Syria and then to Baghdad, Iraq, where the hijackers surrender peacefully.
• 2001 - Delta Flight 458 from Atlanta to Newark, New Jersey, is diverted to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, and passengers are taken off the flight while officials investigate a report of two "Middle Eastern men" making threats in a foreign tongue. It turned out to be two Orthodox Jews who were praying peacefully.
• 2002 - Norbert Schultze dies (b. 1911). American composer and songwriter.
• 2003 - Patrick Dalzel-Job dies (b. 1913). English soldier and inspiration for James Bond.
• 2004 - Vlassis Bonatsos dies (b. 1949). Greek singer, actor and entertainer.
• 2005 - Former President of Ecuador, Lucio Gutiérrez Borbúa, deposed by the Ecuadorian military on April 20, 1995, after days of civil disturbances in Quito, returns voluntarily to Ecuador and is immediately locked in a maximum security prison cell in Quito, on charges of attempting to subvert national security, after having repeatedly stated to the international media that he continues to be the legitimate President of the Republic of Ecuador.
• 2005 - Jody Dobrowski dies (b. 1981). English murder victim.
• 2006 - Freddy Fender dies (b. 1937). American musician.
• 2006 - Jared Anderson dies. American death metal bassist.
• 2006 - Gerry Studds dies (b. 1937). Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts.
• 2006 - Maurice Grosse dies (b. 1919). British paranormal investigator.
• 2006 - Nancy Lynn dies (b. 1956). American aviator.
• 2007 - Big Moe dies (b. 1974). American rapper.
• World Standards Day.
  
• Yemen : Celebration of the Fight against Colonisation.
• Teachers' Day, or National Education Day in Poland.
• RC Saints - Pope Callistus I, Angadrisma.
• French Republican Calendar - Navet (Turnip) Day, twenty-third day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
• Chişinău's (Republic of Moldova's capital) - national holiday (known as "Hramul Oraşului" by locals).