1538 The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1636 A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, Harvard University.
1704 John Locke (died), English philosopher (born 1632)
1793 Eliphalet Remington (born), American businessman, founded Remington Arms (died 1861)
1818 Abigail Adams (died), Wife of John Adams, the second First Lady of the United States (born 1744)
1875 Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (born), American geographer (died 1966)
1886 In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1893 Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer’s death.
1900 Max Müller (died), German philologist and orientalist (born 1823)
1914 Jonas Salk (born), American biologist and physician (died 1995)
1915 Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
1919 The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
1929 Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
1930 Bernie Ecclestone (born), English businessman, the President and CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration.
1943 Charo López (born), Spanish actress
1955 Bill Gates (born), American businessman, co-founded Microsoft
1956 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born), Iranian politician, sixth President of Iran
1957 Ernst Gräfenberg (died), German physician and scientist (born 1881)
1962 End of Cuban missile crisis: Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
1965 Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
1980 Kanzi (born), American bonobo
2005 –Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame of outing the CIA agent case. Libby resigns later that day.
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