1573 – Battle of the South Seas: Dutch rebels defeat the Spanish navy
1915 – Bulgarian Prime Minister Vasil Radoslavov announces the country’s entrance into the First World War on the side of the Central Powers
1939 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with economic advisor Alexander Sachs to discuss Albert Einstein’s letter warning about the possibilities of an atomic bomb
1942 – Battle of Cape Esperance: naval battle between the Imperial Japanese navy and US navy begins
1967 – “Yoko Plus Me” art exhibition by Yoko Ono opens in London (the “Me” is John Lennon)
2006 – US sitcom “30 Rock,” created by and starring Tina Fey alongside Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan, first premieres on NBC in the US
2022 – Ringo Starr resumes his All-Starr Band tour with a show in Seattle, Washington, after his testing positive for COVID-19
2023 – Wild beavers are reintroduced to Ealing, London, from Scotland after being absent from the city for 400 years