1862 – -28] Battle at Garnett’s/Golding’s Farms, Virginia
1893 – Great stock crash on NY stock exchange
1934 – Federal Savings and Loan Association created
1974 – “Flip Wilson Show” last airs on NBC-TV
1980 – Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
1981 – Ali Khamenei narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, when a bomb concealed in a tape recorder, explodes on a desk in front of him
1986 – Ibrahim Babangida’s regime in Nigeria launches the ‘Structural Adjustment Program” to restructure the Nigerian economy via deregulation and privatization with the support of the IMF and the World Bank
2005 – “Bad Day” single is released by Daniel Powter, 1st song to sell 2 million digital copies in the US (Billboard Song of the Year 2006)
2018 – President Salva Kiir of South Sudan and former Vice President Riek MacharSouth sign peace deal to end four-year civil war
2018 – Malaysian police announce seizure of goods linked to former prime minister Najib Razak, worth $273 million, biggest in the country’s history, including 567 handbags and 14 tiaras