Year 19 » Roman general Germanicus suddenly dies in Antioch under mysterious circumstances. Roman historian Tactius records that Germanicus was poisoned by Roman Syria known as Syrian Governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso under orders from Roman emperor Tiberius.
Year 680 » Battle of Karbala: Hussain bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitation e.g decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah.
Year 732 » Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Córdoba, Spain known as Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi,
Year 1471 » Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I of Denmark or Christian I, King of Denmark.
Year 1575 » Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
Year 1580 » Over 600 Papal States named Papal soldiers land at Ard na Caithne named Dún an Óir, Ireland to support a rebellion.
Year 1582 » Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar Gregorian reform called Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
Year 1631 » An Electorate of Saxony army takes over Prague.
Year 1760 » In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from Maroon (people) known as escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
Year 1780 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
Year 1845 » In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors.
Year 1846 » Triton (moon) e.g Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
Year 1860 » The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee known as Sewanee, Tennessee.
Year 1871 » The Great Chicago Fire: Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8 to October 10.
Year 1897 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann History of aspirin called discovers an improved way of synthesizing aspirin named acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
Year 1910 » Tau Epsilon Phi: Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is founded on the campus of Columbia University in New York City, New York.
Year 1911 » The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China (1912–1949) e.g Republic of China.
Year 1913 » President of the United States known as President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
Year 1920 » The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia (duchy) e.g Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
Year 1928 » Chiang Kai-Shek becomes President of the Republic of China known as Chairman of the Republic of China.
Year 1933 » United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
Year 1938 » The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
Year 1942 » The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
Year 1943 » Double Tenth Incident in Japanese-controlled Singapore
Year 1944 » The Holocaust known as Holocaust: 800 Romani (people) e.g Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Year 1945 » The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.
Year 1953 » Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington D.C.
Year 1957 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
Year 1963 » France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
Year 1964 » The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
Year 1967 » The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
Year 1970 » In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
Year 1971 » Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge (Lake Havasu City) e.g London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Year 1973 » Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
Year 1975 » Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
Year 1980 » A magnitude 7.3 1980 El Asnam earthquake or earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of Chlef e.g El Asnam. 3,500 die and 300,000 are left homeless.
Year 1980 » FMLN was founded in El Salvador.
Year 1985 » United States Navy Grumman F-14 Tomcat F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the wiktionary:Hijacking hijackers of the 'MS Achille Lauro Achille Lauro' cruise ship, and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are a
Year 1986 » An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
Year 1997 » An Austral Líneas Aéreas known as Austral Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 e.g DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
Year 1998 » A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is 1998 Lignes Aériennes Congolaises crash or shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
Year 2008 » The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
Year 2009 » Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
Year 2010 » The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.