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Events
of the day
768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne
are crowned Kings of The Franks.
1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia
and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1264 – The Kingdom of Castile conquers the
city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation
since 711.
1446 – The hangul alphabet is published
in Korea.
1514 – Marriage of Louis XII of France and
Mary Tudor.
1558 – Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
1582 – Because of the implementation of
the Gregorian calendar, this day does not
exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal
and Spain.
1595 – The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova
to be observed in the Milky Way.
1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams
is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
as a religious dissident after he speaks
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.
1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes
at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1740 – Dutch colonists and various slave
groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in
Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading
to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
1760 – Seven Years' War: Russian forces
occupy Berlin.
1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria
sinks near the coast of Finland.
1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission
San Francisco de Asis in what is now San
Francisco, California.
1799 – Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss
of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1806 – Prussia declares war on France.
1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement
on Lake Erie, American forces capture two
British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from
Spain.
1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 – Capo d'Istria, the first head of
state of independent Greece is assassinated.
1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown
Railway, the first public railway on the
island of Ireland.
1845 – The eminent and controversial Anglican,
John Henry Newman, is received into the
Roman Catholic Church.
1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol
begins.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Santa
Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate
attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Tom's
Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah
Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's
Brook, Virginia.
1873 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy
establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1874 – General Postal Union is created as
a result of the Treaty of Berne.
1888 – The Washington Monument officially
opens to the general public.
1907 – Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
1911 – An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou,
Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall
of the Qing Empire
1913 – Steamship SS Volturno catches fire
in the mid-Atlantic.
1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp,
Belgium falls to German troops.
1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati
Reds win the World Series.
1934 – Regicide at Marseille: The assassination
of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis
Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later
renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate
electricity from the Colorado River and
transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain –
During a night-time air raid by the German
Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City
of London, England is hit by a bomb.
1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo
Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 – Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises
Australian autonomy.
1942 – The last day of the October Matanikau
action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine
Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau
River after destroying most of the Imperial
Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
1945 – Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz
and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
1950 – Goyang Geumjeong Cave Massacre started.
1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth
realm.
1963 – In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people
are killed when a large landslide behind
the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water
to overtop it.
1966 – Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
1966 – Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh
massacre
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 on September 24.
1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed
in Cambodia.
1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in
France.
1983 – Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination
of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan
during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma.
Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of
his entourage, including four cabinet ministers,
and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials
also die in the blast.
1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera
has its first performance at Her Majesty's
Theatre in London.
1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet
Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne
Convention copyright treaty.
1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of
the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway
of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New
York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet
Malibu
1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is
derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
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.
2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first
nuclear device.
2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur
and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's
Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Denis
Dionysius the Areopagite
Ghislain
John Henry Newman
John Leonardi
October 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Hangul Day (South Korea)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Uganda from United Kingdom in 1962.
Independence of Guayaquil from Spain in
1820 (Guayaquil)
Leif Erikson Day (United States, Iceland
and Norway)
National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust
(Romania)
Takayama Autumn Festival (Takayama)
World Post Day (International)
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