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Events
455
– Emperor
Avitus
enters
Rome
with a
Gallic
army and consolidates his power.
1170
– Combined English and Irish forces, under the command of
Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke
and
Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster
seize Norse-Gaelic
Dublin
, forcing
Ascall mac Ragnaill, King of Dublin
into exile.
1217
–
Livonian Crusade
: The
Estonian
leader
Lembitu
and
Livonian
leader
Kaupo
the Accursed are killed in
Battle of Matthew's Day
.
1435
– The
Congress of Arras
causes
Burgundy
to switch sides in the
Hundred Years' War
.
1745
–
Battle of Prestonpans
: A
Hanoverian
army under the command of
Sir John Cope
is defeated, in ten minutes, by the
Jacobite
forces of
Prince
Charles Edward Stuart
1776
– Part of New York City is
burned
shortly after being occupied by British forces.
1780
–
American Revolutionary War
:
Benedict Arnold
gives the
British
the plans to
West Point
.
1792
–
French Revolution
: The
National Convention
declares France a republic and
abolishes the absolute monarchy
.
1843
–
John Williams Wilson
takes possession of the
Strait of Magellan
on behalf of the newly independent Chilean government.
1860
–
Second Opium War
: An
Anglo
-French force defeats Chinese troops at the
Battle of Palikao
.
1896
–
Mahdist War
: British forces under the command of
Horatio Kitchener
takes Dongola in the
Sudan
.
1897
– The "
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
" editorial is published in the
New York Sun
.
1898
–
Empress Dowager Cixi
seizes power and ends the
Hundred Days' Reform
in China.
1921
– A
storage silo
in
Oppau
, Germany,
explodes
, killing 500-600 people.
1933
–
Salvador Lutteroth
ran the first ever
EMLL
(now
CMLL
) show in Mexico, marking the birth of
Lucha libre
1934
– A large
typhoon
hits western
Honshū
, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
1937
–
J. R. R. Tolkien
's
The Hobbit
is published.
1938
– The
Great Hurricane of 1938
makes landfall on
Long Island
in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
1939
–
Romania
n
Prime Minister
Armand Călinescu
is assassinated by far-right legionnaires of the fascist paramilitary organization
Iron Guard
.
1942
–
The Holocaust
: On the Jewish holiday of
Yom Kippur
,
Nazis
send over 1,000 Jews of
Pidhaitsi
(west
Ukraine
) to
Bełżec extermination camp
.
1942 – In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate
Konstantynów
and move to the
ghetto
in
Biała Podlaska
, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including
Janów Podlaski
,
Rossosz
and
Terespol
.
1942 – In
Dunaivtsi
,
Ukraine
, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
1942 – The
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
makes its maiden flight.
1953
– Lieutenant
No Kum-sok
, a
North Korean
pilot, defects to South Korea and is associated with
Operation Moolah
.
1961
– Maiden flight of the
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
transportation helicopter.
1964
–
Malta
gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1964 – The
North American XB-70 Valkyrie
, the world's first
Mach 3
bomber, makes its maiden flight from
Palmdale, California
.
1965
–
The Gambia
,
Maldives
and
Singapore
are admitted as members of the
United Nations
.
1971
–
Bahrain
,
Bhutan
and
Qatar
join the
United Nations
.
1972
– Philippine President
Ferdinand Marcos
signs
Proclamation № 1081
, placing the entire country under
martial law
and marking the beginning of his authoritarian rule.
1976
–
Orlando Letelier
is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of
Salvador Allende
, overthrown in 1973 by
Augusto Pinochet
.
1976 –
Seychelles
joins the
United Nations
.
1977
– A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the
Soviet Union
.
1981
–
Belize
is granted full independence from the
United Kingdom
.
1981 –
Sandra Day O'Connor
is unanimously approved by the
U.S. Senate
as the first female
Supreme Court
justice.
1984
–
Brunei
joins the
United Nations
.
1991
–
Armenia
is granted independence from
Soviet Union
.
1993
– Russian President
Boris Yeltsin
suspends
parliament
and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the
Russian constitutional crisis of 1993
.
1996
– The
Defense of Marriage Act
passes the
United States Congress
(a vote of 342-67 in the
House of Representatives
and a vote of 85-14 in the
Senate
). The law prohibited federal recognition of
same-sex marriage
, while allowing states to adopt any marital definition of their choosing.
1999
–
Chi-Chi earthquake
occurs in central
Taiwan
, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
2001
–
Deep Space 1
flies within 2,200 km of
Comet Borrelly
.
2001 – is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the
September 11 attacks
.
2003
–
Galileo
mission is terminated by sending the probe into
Jupiter
's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
2005
–
Hurricane Rita
becomes the third most intense hurricane (dropped to 4th on October 19, 2005).
2013
–
al-Shabaab
Islamic militants
attack the Westgate shopping mall
in
Nairobi
,
Kenya
, killing at least 67 people.
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