1862 – Battle at Barbee’s Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties
1881 – French government-Ferry resigns
1886 – British Open Men’s Golf, Musselburgh Links: David Brown beats fellow Scot Willie Campbell by 2 strokes
1895 – US state Utah accepts female suffrage
1919 – Ir à Steringa Idzerda begins hosting “soirée-musical” on Dutch radio
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for an unprecedented third term, defeating Republican candidate Wendell Willkie
1983 – NY Rangers and Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period
1988 – Cornell confirms a graduate student is the source of a major computer sabotage known as the Morris Worm, initially created as an experiment but spreading rapidly due to a programming error