630 Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca.
1789 The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1803 Hector Berlioz (born), French composer (died 1869)
1880 Oliver Winchester (died), American businessman and politician (born 1810)
1882 Fiorello La Guardia (born), American politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (died 1947)
1909 John Wyer (born), English race car manager and engineer (died 1989)
1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (born), Russian soldier and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)
1934 Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.
1939 Tom Hayden (born), American politician and activist
1943 John Kerry (born), American politician, 68th United States Secretary of State
1946 The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
1962 Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
1964 Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York.
1964 Sam Cooke (died), American singer-songwriter (The Highway Q.C.’s and The Soul Stirrers) (born 1931)
1968 The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus featuring The Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull , The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, The Dirty Mac, Yoko Ono, Sir Robert Fossett’s Circus and the Nurses is filmed at the Intertel (V.T.R. Services) Studio, Wycombe Road, Wembley
1971 Maurice McDonald (died), American businessman, co-founded McDonald’s (born 1902)
1980 The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, also known as CERCLA or Superfund, is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
1997 The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
2006 Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.
2008 Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
2012 Ravi Shankar (died), Indian-American sitar player and composer (born 1920)
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