- 456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire
- 1355 – Louis, King of Sicily, was killed by the Black Death (b. 1337)
- 1430 – King James II of Scotland was born (d. 1460)
- 1555 – Hugh Latimer, an English Protestant, died a martyr death
- 1555 – Nicholas Ridley, an English Protestant, died a martyr death
- 1591 – Pope Gregory XIV died (b. 1535)
- 1649 – Isaac van Ostade, a Dutch painter, died (b. 1621)
- 1655 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, an Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist, died (b. 1591)
- 1751 – Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia, was born (d. 1805)
- 1755 – Saint Gerard Majella, a Catholic saint, died (b. 1725)
- 1774 – Robert Fergusson, a Scottish poet, died (b. 1750)
- 1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1793 – Marie Antoinette is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution
- 1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig
- 1822 – Eva Marie Veigel, an Austrian ballet dancer, died (b. 1724)
- 1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt to the ground
- 1846 – William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dom
- 1854 – Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer, was born (d. 1900)
- 1863 – Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, was born (d. 1937)
- 1865 – Andrés Bello, a Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist, died (b. 1781)
- 1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered"
- 1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women
- 1886 – David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel, was born (d. 1973)
- 1888 – Eugene O'Neill, an American writer, Nobel Prize laureate, was born (d. 1953)
- 1893 – Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France, died (b. 1808)
- 1903 – Yrjö Kokko, a Finnish author, is born.
- 1906 – The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer
- 1906 – León Klimovsky, Argentine film director, was born (d. 1996)
- 1914 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, Shah of Afghanistan, was born (d. 2007)
- 1916 – Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic
- 1917 – Alice Pearce, an American actress, was born (d. 1966)
- 1922 – Max Bygraves, an English singer/songwriter was born
- 1922 – Leon Sullivan, an American civil rights leader and pastor, was born (d. 2001)
- 1923 – Bert Kaempfert, a German orchestra leader and songwriter, was born (d. 1980)
- 1923 – Linda Darnell, an American film actress, was born (d. 1965)
- 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney
- 1925 – Angela Lansbury, an English-born actress, was born
- 1927 – Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate, was born
- 1928 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, an American actress, was born
- 1929 – Fernanda Montenegro, a Brazilian actress, was born
- 1930 – Carmen Sevilla, a Spanish actress, was born
- 1931 – Charles Colson, an American Watergate conspirator, was born
- 1931 – Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian, was born
- 1931 – Valery Klimov, a Russian violinist, was born
- 1932 – Henry Lewis, an American musician and conductor, waas born (d. 1996)
- 1934 – Peter Ashdown, a British racing driver, was born
- 1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman
- 1936 – Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer and a cannibal, was born (d. 1994)
- 1936 – Peter Bowles, an English actor, was born
- 1937 – Jean de Brunhoff, a French writer, died (b. 1899)
- 1938 – Jorma Ojaharju, a Finnish author, is born.
- 1938 – Nico (born Christa Päffgen; a singer-songwriter, a fashion model, an actress) was born (d. 1988)
- 1939 – World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe
- 1939 – Kaj Chydenius, a Finnish composer, is born.
- 1940 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army
- 1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established
- 1940 – Barry Corbin, an American actor, was born
- 1940 – Dave DeBusschere, an American basketball player, was born (d. 2003)
- 1940 – Ivan Della Mea, an Italian singer-songwriter, was born (d. 2009)
- 1941 – Tim McCarver, an American baseball player and commentator, was born
- 1943 – Fred Turner, a Canadian bass player (Bachman-Turner Overdrive), was born
- 1944 – A great number of books are removed form Finnish libraries because they are deemed to be anti-Soviet Union.
- 1946 – Suzanne Somers, an American actress, was born
- 1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial
- Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900)
- Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877)
- Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890)
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
- Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882)
- Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893)
- Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)
- Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1894)
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)
- Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887)
- 1947 – Bob Weir, an American musician (Grateful Dead), was born
- 1947 – David Zucker, an American film director, was born
- 1948 – Hema Malini, an Indian Actress, was born
- 1949 – Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War
- 1949 – The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established
- 1950 – Riitta Salin, a Finnish speed runner, is born.
- 1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi
- 1952 – Boogie Mosson, an American musician (P Funk), was born
- 1952 – Ron Taylor, an American actor, was born (d. 2002)
- 1952 – Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang, an Indian/Pakistani Muslim leader and poet, died (b. 1876)
- 1953 – Paulo Roberto Falcão, a Brazilian footballer, was born
- 1953 – Tony Carey, an American-born rock keyboardist, producer (Rainbow, Planet P Project), was born
- 1954 – Stephen Mellor, an American actor, was born
- 1956 – Jules Rimet, a president of FIFA, died (b. 1873)
- 1958 – Tim Robbins, an American actor, director, and writer, was born
- 1958 – Eleftheria Arvanitaki, a Greek singer, was born
- 1959 – Gary Kemp, a British musician and actor, was born
- 1959 – Erkki-Sven Tüür, an Estonian composer, was born
- 1959 – George Marshall, a United States Secretary of State, Nobel laureate, died (b. 1880)
- 1961 – Randy Vasquez, an American actor, was born
- 1961 – Marc Levy, a French novelist, was born
- 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba begins
- 1962 – Michael Balzary, "Flea", Australian-born American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers), is born.
- 1962 – Manute Bol, a Sudanese-born NBA basketball player, was born
- 1962 – Dmitri Hvorostovsky, a Russian baritone, was born
- 1962 – Gaston Bachelard, a French philosopher and poet, died (b. 1884)
- 1964 – The People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon
- 1964 – Patsy Callighen, a Canadian Hockey Player, died (b. 1906)
- 1965 – Steve Lamacq, a British journalist and disc jockey, was born
- 1966 – George O'Hara, an American actor, died (b. 1899)
- 1967 – Davina McCall, a British television presenter, was born
- 1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the USA's team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute
- 1968 – Randall Batinkoff, an American actor, was born
- 1968 – Elsa Zylberstein, a French actress, was born
- 1969 – Harri Hakkarainen, a Finnish javelin thrower, is born.
- 1969 – Roy Hargrove, an American jazz trumpeter, was born
- 1969 – Terri J. Vaughn, an American actress, was born
- 1969 – Wendy Wilson, an American pop singer (Wilson Phillips), was born
- 1969 – Takao Ōmori, a Japanese professional wrestler, was born
- 1970 – Mehmet Scholl, a German footballer, was born
- 1970 – Kazuyuki Fujita, a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter, was born
- 1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act
- 1971 – Chad Gray, an American singer, was born
- 1972 – Tomas Lindberg, a Swedish musician (At the Gates), was born
- 1972 – Darius Kasparaitis, a Russian Super League player, was born
- 1972 – Kordell Stewart, an American football player, was born
- 1972 – Leo G. Carroll, an English actor, died (b. 1886)
- 1973 – Gene Krupa, an American jazz drummer, died (b. 1909)
- 1973 – Peter Polaco, an American professional wrestler, was born
- 1973 – David Unsworth, an English professional footballer, was born
- 1973 – Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1974 – Paul Kariya, a Canadian hockey player, was born
- 1975 – Kellie Martin, an American actress, was born
- 1975 – Brynjar Gunnarsson, an Icelandic footballer, was born
- 1975 – Jacques Kallis, a South African cricketer, was born
- 1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops
- 1975 – Rahima Banu, a 2-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox
- 1975 – The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis
- 1976 – Freeda Foreman, an American boxer, is born.
- 1976 – Ryan Fitzgerald, an Australian football (AFL) player and media personality, was born
- 1977 – John Mayer, an American musician, was born
- 1978 – Ethan Luck, an American musician (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, Relient K), was born
- 1978 – Dan Dailey, an American actor, died (b. 1913)
- 1979 – Johan Borgen, a Norwegian author, died (b. 1903)
- 1979 – Erin Brown, an American actress, model, filmmaker, and musician, was born
- 1978 – Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave
- 1980 – Sue Bird, an American basketball player, was born
- 1980 – Jeremy Jackson, an American actor, was born
- 1980 – Timana Tahu, an Australian Rugby League player, was born
- 1981 – Caterina Scorsone, a Canadian actress, was born
- 1981 – Anthony Reyes, an American baseball player, was born
- 1981 – Martin Halle, a Danish footballer, was born
- 1982 – Vincy Chan, a Hong Kong singer, was born
- 1982 – Frédéric Michalak, a French rugby player, was born
- 1982 – Pippa Black, an Australian actress, was born
- 1983 – Jennifer Hurt, a model, was born
- 1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1984 – Trevor Blumas, a Canadian actor, was born
- 1984 – Melissa Lauren, a French pornographic actress, was born
- 1984 – Shayne Ward, a British singer, was born
- 1985 – Casey Stoner, an Australian motorcycle racer, was born
- 1986 – Craig Pickering, a British sprinter, was born
- 1986 – Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders
- 1987 – Great Storm of 1987: Hurricane force winds hit much of the South of England killing 23 people
- 1988 – Zoltán Stieber, a Hungarian footballer, was born
- 1989 - T.J.M., a Finnish university student, was born
- 1989 – Cornel Wilde, an American actor, died (b. 1915)
- 1990 – Jorge Bolet, a Cuban-American classical pianist, died (b. 1914)
- 1990 – Art Blakey, an American jazz drummer, died (b. 1919)
- 1991 – Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria
- 1992 – Shirley Booth, an American actress, died (b. 1898)
- 1993 – Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters
- 1994 – The Finnish public votes whether or not to join the EU. Yes -vote wins with 57%.
- 1994 – Raúl Juliá, a Puerto Rican actor, died (b. 1940)
- 1995 – The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C
- 1995 – The Skye Bridge is opened in Scotland
- 1996 – Eric Malpass, an English novelist, died (b. 1910)
- 1996 – Jason Bernard, an American actor, died (b. 1938)
- 1996 – Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City
- 1997 – James Michener, an American writer, died (b. 1907)
- 1997 – Audra Lindley, an American actress, died (b. 1918)
- 1998 – Jon Postel, an American Internet pioneer, died (b. 1943)
- 1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges
- * 1999 – Jean Shepherd, an American writer and actor, died (b. 1921)
- 2000 – Mel Carnahan, an American politician, died (b. 1934)
- 2001 – Low-flying USA army plane bombs the Red Cross storage in Kabul.
- 2002 – Dawson family, an American family murdered
- 2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated
- 2003 – Avni Arbas, a Turkish artist, died (b. 1919)
- 2003 – Stu Hart, a Canadian professional wrestler, died (b. 1915)
- 2003 – László Papp, a Hungarian boxer, died (b. 1926)
- 2004 – Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary, died (b. 1925)
- 2005 – "Len" Dresslar, an American singer and voice actor, died (b. 1925)
- 2005 – Eugene "Porky" Lee, an American child actor, died (b. 1933)
- 2005 – David Reilly, an American singer (God Lives Underwater), died (b. 1971)
- 2005 – Ursula Howells, an English actress, died (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Valentín Paniagua Corazao, an ex President of Peru, dies (b. 1936).
- 2006 – John Murra, an Ukranian-american anthropologist, dies (b. 1916).
- 2006 – Ross Davidson, a Scottish actor, dies (b. 1949).
- 2006 – Lister Sinclair, a Canadian broadcaster and playwright, died (b. 1921)
- 2006 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport
- 2007 – Deborah Kerr, a Scottish actress, dies (b. 1921).
- 2007 – Toše Proeski, a Macedonian music star and a humanitarian, dies (b. 1981).
- 2007 – Barbara West, Second to last living Titanic survivor, dies (b. 1911).
- 2008 – Ere Kokkonen, a Finnish film director, dies.
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