1799 – Battle of Castricum: Franco-Dutch army beats British-Russian army
1861 – Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
1921 – Century Theater opens at 7th Ave and 59th St NYC (demolished 1962)
1931 – Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists)
1939 – Adolf Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1973 – Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
1978 – Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
1983 – Islander’s Mike Bossy’s 25th career hat trick
2014 – John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine