1683 – Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu
1913 – US federal income tax at 1% is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson
1941 – French right-wing Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire (MSR) blows up six synagogues in Paris with Nazi-provided explosives
1943 – British 8th Army lands at Termoli, East Italy
1974 – Future Basketball Hall of Fame guard Jerry West (“Mr. Clutch”) retires after 14 NBA seasons with the LA Lakers; West scores 25,192 career points and averages 29.1 ppg in 153 playoff games
2004 – Seattle Mariners’ Japanese right fielder Ichiro Suzuki adds two more singles in a 3-0 defeat to Texas to finish the season with an MLB record of 262 hits
2017 – Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”
2021 – MLB Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Hector Neris strikes out three Miami Marlins, setting a new franchise record of 520 in his last game before becoming a free agent