1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1635 Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after speaking out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
1835 Camille Saint-Saëns (born), French composer and conductor (died 1921)
1873 Charles Rudolph Walgreen (born), American businessman, founded Walgreens (died 1939)
1888 The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
1919 Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
1935 Prince Edward (born), Duke of Kent
1940 John Lennon (born), English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Beatles, The Quarrymen, Plastic Ono Band, and The Dirty Mac) (died 1980)
1941 Brian Lamb (born), American broadcaster, founded C-SPAN
1944 John Entwistle (born), English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Who) (died 2002)
1948 Jackson Browne (born), German-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1967 A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the “Chicago Eight” that began onSeptember 24.
1974 Oskar Schindler (died), Austro-Hungarian businessman (born 1908)
1975 Sean Lennon (born), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Plastic Ono Band, and Cibo Matto)
1980 First consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville TN)
1986 The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London.
1989 The official news agency in the Soviet Union, TASS, reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1992 A 12 kilogram fragment, one foot in diameter (4.4 billion years old) of the Peekskill meteorite landed in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family’s 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
2001 Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2003 Mission: SPACE opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
2004 Jacques Derrida (died), French philosopher (born 1930)
2006 North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
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