Year 1582 Calendar » Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
Year 1594 Calendar » The Portuguese Empire army is annihilated by the Kingdom of Kandy on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
Year 1604 Calendar » Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
Year 1635 Calendar » Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams (theologian) known as 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 Americans in the Unite
Year 1701 Calendar » The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Year 1708 Calendar » Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
Year 1740 Calendar » Dutch East Indies Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin 1740 Batavia massacre massacring ethnic Chinese Indonesians Chinese in Jakarta Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a Java War (1741–1743) two-year-long war throughout Java.
Year 1767 Calendar » Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
Year 1771 Calendar » The Netherlands e.g Dutch merchant ship 'Vrouw Maria' sinks near the coast of Finland.
Year 1799 Calendar » Sinking of HMS Lutine (1779) or HMS 'Lutine', with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
Year 1812 Calendar » War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit 1812 6 and HMS Caledonia (1807) HMS 'Caledonia'.
Year 1831 Calendar » Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassination e.g assassinated.
Year 1834 Calendar » Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
Year 1845 Calendar » The eminent and controversial Anglicanism known as Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Year 1854 Calendar » Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) or siege of Sebastopol begins.
Year 1861 Calendar » American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island United States called Union troops repel a Confederate States of America e.g Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
Year 1873 Calendar » A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
Year 1874 Calendar » General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
Year 1888 Calendar » The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
Year 1911 Calendar » An Wuchang Uprising Revolutionary groups and a bombing incident e.g accidental bomb explosion in Hankou District e.g Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
Year 1913 Calendar » Steamship SS Volturno 1906 6 catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
Year 1914 Calendar » World War I: Siege of Antwerp (1914) e.g Siege of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
Year 1919 Calendar » Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
Year 1934 Calendar » Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
Year 1936 Calendar » Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River (U.S.) or Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles.
Year 1941 Calendar » A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
Year 1942 Calendar » Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
Year 1945 Calendar » Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz named Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
Year 1963 Calendar » 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.
Year 1966 » Vietnam War: Diên Niên - Phước Bình massacre
Year 1967 Calendar » A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
Year 1969 Calendar » 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.
Year 1983 Calendar » Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Yangon named Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four
Year 1989 Calendar » An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a Unidentified flying object e.g UFO in Voronezh.
Year 1991 Calendar » Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works or Berne Convention copyright treaty.
Year 1995 Calendar » An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is 1995 Palo Verde derailment known as derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
Year 2001 Calendar » Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey known as Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
Year 2003 Calendar » 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.
Year 2006 Calendar » North Korea allegedly tests 2006 North Korean nuclear test called its first nuclear device.
Year 2012 Calendar » Members of the Pakistani Taliban made a failed attempt to assassinate Malala Yousafzai on her way home from school.