768 – Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks
1000 – Leif Ericson discovers “Vinland” (possibly L’Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America
1446 – The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, first Head of State of modern Greece, assassinated in Nafplion
1932 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin expels Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev from the Communist Party after a power struggle
1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project
1947 – First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane
1962 – Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1997 – Italian playwright Dario Fo was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
2004 – For the first time in Afghanistan’s history, voters went to the polls to choose a president, selecting Hamid Karzai, who had served as the interim president after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.
2006 – North Korea conducts its first nuclear test, with an estimated yield of between 0.4-2 kilotons
2012 – A Taliban gunman shot 15-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, a vocal opponent of the ultraconservative group’s prohibition on the education of girls; despite being struck in the head, she survived the assassination attempt.
2012 – 25,000 people in Athens protest against German Chancellor Angela Merkel
2012 – Women’s rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she tried to board her school bus in Swat district of northwest Pakistan
2016 – Second US Presidential debate: Hostile confrontation between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at Washington University, St. Louis
2017 – Producer Harvey Weinstein is fired from The Weinstein Company after allegations of sexual abuse
2019 – Nearly 1 million people in northern California have their power cut by Pacific Gas and Electric to prevent wildfires amid high winds
Births & Deaths:
1982 – Anna Freud, psychoanalyst, author, and daughter of Sigmund Freud, died in London.
Film & TV:
1926 – NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
Music:
1965 – Beatles’ “Yesterday” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1978 – 12th Country Music Association Award: Dolly Parton, Crystal Gayle & Don Williams wins
1986 – “Phantom of the Opera” premieres in London, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman
Sport:
1919 – Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox scandal as 8 White Sox throw series
1928 – NY Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series; Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in game
