0638 Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

0642 John IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1285 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire

1492 Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day

1776 British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in the Bronx

1853 John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans

1860 British and French troops capture Peking

1861 Confederate ironclad Manassas attacks Union's Richmond on Mississippi

1862 Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf troops in Missisippi

1886 Hurricane and sea surge kills 250 at Indianola Texas

1886 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Second Stain" (BG)

1915 English nurse Edith Cavell executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II)

1915 Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens with dual nationalities

1918 Cloquet Minn and 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die

1918 First use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)

1924 Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow

1933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)

1933 John Dillinger escapes from the Allen County, OH, jail

1939 First deportation of Austrian / Moravian Jews to Poland.

1941 Germans approach Moscow, partial evacuation of the city.

1942 US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance

1944 700 Riot Police are called in to restore order at Frank Sinatra Columbus Day appearance in New York City's Paramount Theater.

1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session

1962 US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications and meteorology

1963 Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel

1964 Launch of Voskhod 1, First 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov)

1968 19th modern Olympic games opens in Mexico City

1968 Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is First woman to light Olympic flame

1969 Soyuz 7 is launched

1969 Yoko Ono suffers another miscarriage

1972 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk

1972 Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole

1973 Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP

1976 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach and land test (ALT) flight

1976 Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party

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