929 Charles the Simple (died), French king (born 879)
1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1868 Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment of 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
1885 Niels Bohr (died), Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)
1894 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (died), American physician, author, and poet (born 1809)
1896 Emma Darwin (died), English wife of Charles Darwin, (born 1808)
1903 Rudolf Lipschitz (died), German mathematician (born 1832)
1916 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1919 KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1931 Desmond Tutu (born), South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 Joy Behar (born), American talk show host and actress
1951 John Mellencamp (born), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1955 American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
1955 Yo-Yo Ma (born), French-American cellist (Silk Road Project)
1963 John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
1991 Leo Durocher (died), American baseball player and manager (born 1905)
1996 The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2001 The US invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
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