1055 – Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad
1686 – Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Daniel Defoe)
1777 – Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania for the winter
1928 – 1st autogyro flight in US
1945 – Austrian Republic re-establishes
1951 – Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands
1978 – Indira Gandhi ambushed in India
1986 – Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hrs of community service and fined $500
1986 – “Platoon” directed by Oliver Stone and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1987)
2014 – The Guardian newspaper calls 2014 ‘The year the people stood up’