1553 Lucas Cranach the Elder (died), German painter (born 1472)
1758 Noah Webster (born), American lexicographer and author (died 1843)
1781 George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
1793 Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1834 Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
1846 William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
1854 Oscar Wilde (born), Irish author, poet, and playwright (died 1900)
1859 John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1869 The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.
1875 Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1886 David Ben-Gurion, Israeli politician, first Prime Minister of Israel (died 1973)
1888 Eugene O’Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953)
1916 In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1923 The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1944 Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker’s first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz’s cartoon.
1947 Bob Weir (born), American singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Grateful Dead, The Other Ones, Bobby and the Midnites, Kingfish, RatDog, Furthur, and The Dead)
1959 George Marshall (died), American military officer and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1880)
1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union begins when US President John F. Kennedy is shown photographs of missile sites in Cuba.
1964 China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1968 United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
1973 Gene Krupa (died), American drummer and composer (born 1909)
1973 Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1984 Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1984 The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police series in British television history.
2011 Dan Wheldon (died), English race car driver (born 1978)
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