1380 - Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow’s great monarch Dimitri defeats the Mongols beginning the decline of the Tatars
1504 - Michelangelo’s Statue of David is unveiled in Florence
1522 - Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completing 1st circumnavigation of the globe (expedition began under Ferdinand Magellan)
1565 – Victory of the Knights and the Maltese over the Ottoman Empire in the Siege of Malta.
1664 - Dutch surrender colony of New Netherlands (including New York) to 300 English soldiers
1970 - Black September hijackings begin, three airliners hijacked and blown up by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 1943 – Italy announces its unconditional surrender to the Allied forces, thus ending the second Siege of Malta.
1986 - “The Oprah Winfrey Show” is first broadcast nationally
Births & Deaths: 2003 – German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl—who was perhaps the finest and most-influential female director of the 20th century, but her association with Adolf Hitler made her almost as much reviled as admired—died in Germany.
Film & TV
1960 - Nationwide release (US) of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
1966 – The first episode of the sci-fi series Star Trek aired on American television.
Music:
2001 – Kylie Minogue releases her single “I Just Can’t Get You Out of My Head”, the biggest of her career
