1849 – British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras
1904 – Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur
1926 – Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200
1942 – Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
1949 – WDAF TV channel 4 in Kansas City, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1969 – T Agee and Ed Kranepool HR, Tommie Agee makes 2 great catches, New York Mets win Baseball World Series 4-1
1978 – Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Herbert A Simon
1979 – First global telenovela Mexican “Los ricos también lloran” (The Rich Also Cry) premieres, second foreign series to be screened in the Soviet Union
1982 – Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley’s comet on 13th return
2013 – 21 people are killed after a minibus hits a land mine in Nawa, Syria