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| Theophany (Julian calendar) | refimprove section |
| 649 – Conquest of the Western Turks: Kuchean forces surrendered after a siege, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China. | The article contradicts this statement: |
| 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila, the oldest extant church in the Philippines, was completed. | Too much uncited |
| 1746 – During the Second Jacobite Rising, Bonnie Prince Charlie occupied the town of Stirling, Scotland, but failed to capture its castle. | refimprove sections |
| 1764 – English radical and politician John Wilkes was expelled from the British Parliament and declared an outlaw for seditious libel. | refimprove section |
| 1806 – The United Kingdom occupied the Cape of Good Hope for a second time after relinquishing control of the territory three years earlier. | unreferenced sections |
| 1817 – An army of over 5,400 soldiers led by General José de San Martín crossed the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru from Spanish rule. | needs more footnotes |
| 1839 – The Royal Marines landed at Aden to occupy the territory and stop attacks by pirates against the British East India Company's shipping to India. The city in present-day Yemen remained under British control until 1967. | refimprove |
| 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore was first performed at the Teatro Apollo in Rome. | original research |
| 1862 – American Civil War: In their first significant victory, Union forces defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Mill Springs near modern Nancy, Kentucky. | refimprove section |
| 1917 – Approximately 50 tons of TNT exploded at a munitions factory in Silvertown in West Ham, present-day Greater London, killing more than 70 people and injuring more than 400 others. | unreferenced section |
| 1935 – In Chicago, Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs, a new style of men's undergarment. | briefs and undergarment both {{refimprove}} |
| 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberated the Łódź Ghetto; only 877 Jews of the initial population of 164,000 remained there at that time. | refimprove section |
| 1983 – Apple Inc. introduced the Apple Lisa, their first commercial personal computer with a graphical user interface and a computer mouse. It had 1 MB of RAM, and was priced at US$9,995. | original research |
| Paul Cézanne |b|1839| | Too much uncited |
| Marcel Chaput |d|1991 | referencing issues |
Eligible
- 1511 – War of the League of Cambrai: Troops led by Pope Julius II captured Mirandola after a brief siege.
- 1795 – The Batavian Republic was established the day after William V fled the Dutch Republic as a result of the Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam.
- 1915 – World War I: The first major attack of the German bombing campaign against Britain took place when Zeppelins bombed several towns in Norfolk.
- 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union was founded by the directors of the National Civil Liberties Bureau.
- 1972 – The French newspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie (pictured), the "Butcher of Lyon", had been found to be living in Peru.
- 1975 – An earthquake registering 6.8 Ms struck northern Himachal Pradesh in India, causing extensive damage to the region.
- 2001 – The key of Majulah Singapura, the national anthem of Singapore, was changed to F major.
- 2007 – Turkish-Armenian journalist and human-rights activist Hrant Dink was assassinated by a Turkish nationalist in Istanbul.
- 2007 – A four-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, the first people to get there since 1967, and the first to do so on foot.
- 2012 – The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.
- Born/died: | Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger |d|1636| Edgar Allan Poe |b|1809| Thomas Willing |d|1821| Herbert Chapman |b|1878| Natacha Rambova |b|1897| Arthur Morris |b|1922| Francesca Woodman |d|1981| K. Sello Duiker |d|2005| Abdul Ghani Azhari |d|2023
Notes
- Death of Edgar Allan Poe appears on October 7, so his birthday should not appear soon after
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- 1419 – Hundred Years' War: The siege of Rouen ended with English troops capturing the city from Norman French forces.
- 1909 – A deed was recorded for David Hanbury to sell Island No. 2 in northern California to his brother John for $10 ($339.00 in 2023).
- 1977 – Iva Toguri (pictured), convicted of treason for broadcasting Japanese propaganda, was granted a full pardon by U.S. president Gerald Ford.
- 1996 – A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in Rhode Island, causing a spill of an estimated 828,000 U.S. gallons (3,130,000 L) of home heating oil.
- 2006 – In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an Antonov An-24 operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.
- Giuseppe Millico (b. 1737)
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp (b. 1889)
- Choor Singh (b. 1911)
- Sarah Burke (d. 2012)
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