Year 455 Calendar » Emperor Avitus enters Ancient Rome called Rome with a Gaul named Gallic army and consolidates his power.
Year 1170 Calendar » Combined English and Irish forces, under the command of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke and Diarmait Mac Murchada Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster seize Norse-Gaelic Dublin, forcing Ascall mac Ragnaill Asca
Year 1745 Calendar » Battle of Prestonpans: A House of Hanover Hanoverian army under the command of John Cope (British Army officer) Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobitism Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Year 1776 Calendar » Part of New York City is Great Fire of New York (1776) or burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
Year 1780 Calendar » American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the Kingdom of Great Britain e.g British the plans to West Point, New York e.g West Point.
Year 1792 Calendar » The National Convention declares France a republic and Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy known as abolishes the monarchy.
Year 1843 Calendar » John Williams Wilson takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the newly independent Chilean government.
Year 1860 Calendar » In the Second Opium War, an United Kingdom or Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
Year 1896 Calendar » British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
Year 1897 Calendar » The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial is published in the 'New York Sun (historical) or New York Sun.'
Year 1921 Calendar » A storage silo in Ludwigshafen or Oppau, Germany, Oppau explosion known as explodes, killing 500-600 people.
Year 1933 Calendar » Salvador Lutteroth ran the first ever Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre known as EMLL (now Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre known as CMLL) show in Mexico, marking the birth of Lucha Libre
Year 1934 Calendar » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
Year 1938 Calendar » The 1938 New England hurricane named Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
Year 1939 Calendar » Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by far-right legionnaires of the fascist paramilitary organization called the Iron Guard.
Year 1942 » In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
Year 1942 » In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynów, Lublin Voivodeship called Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów Podlaski,
Year 1942 » On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
Year 1953 Calendar » LT No Kum-Sok a North Korean pilot defected to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah.
Year 1961 Calendar » Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
Year 1972 Calendar » President of the Philippines known as Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under Martial Law in the Philippines e.g martial law and marking the beginning of his authoritarian rule.
Year 1976 Calendar » Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
Year 1976 » Seychelles joins the United Nations.
Year 1977 Calendar » A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union.
Year 1981 Calendar » Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
Year 1993 Calendar » President of Russia e.g Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends State Duma or parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
Year 1999 Calendar » Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
Year 2001 Calendar » Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of 19P/Borrelly called Comet Borrelly.
Year 2001 » America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
Year 2005 Calendar » Hurricane Rita becomes the third most intense hurricane (dropped to 4th on October 19, 2005).
Year 2013 Calendar » Al-Shabaab (militant group) or al-Shabaab Islamic militants Westgate shopping mall attack named attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 67 people.