1311 – Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens
1861 – Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
1925 – Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1967 – WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 – The People’s Democracy (PD), formed on Oct 9, organise a march of 1,300 students from the Queen’s University of Belfast to the City Hall in the centre of the city, Northern Ireland
1990 – US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
1995 – Million Man March held in Washington, D.C. (over 830,000 African American men attend)
2013 – 49 people are killed after Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes in the Mekong River, Laos
2018 – Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman denies knowledge of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi according to President Trump
2019 – Netflix reveals its most popular original movie was Sandra Bullock’s “Bird Box” and TV series “Stranger Things” for the year