International Day for Tolerance
42 BC Tiberius (born), Roman emperor (died 37)
1532 Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca.
1849 A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1873 W. C. Handy (born), American composer (died 1958)
1892 Tazio Nuvolari (born), Italian race car driver (died 1953)
1904 English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
1914 The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1940 New York City’s “Mad Bomber” George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1945 UNESCO is founded.
1946 Terence McKenna (born), American ethnobotanist, philosopher, and author (died 2000)
1950 Bob Smith (died), American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous ( born 1879)
1960 Clark Gable (died), American actor ( born 1901)
1973 Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
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