1861 – Battle of Belmont, fought in Mississippi County, Missouri begins, first combat test for Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant, Union victory (US Civil War)
1885 – Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie
1917 – British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks
1942 – Italian cyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world hour record 45.798km in Vigorelli, Milan, Italy
1984 – STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
1985 – Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota’s Palace of Justice
2001 – 35th Country Music Association Award: Tim McGraw, Lee Ann Womack and Toby Keith win
2009 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Santa Anita Racetrack; Day 2 winners: Pounced, California Flag, Dancing In Silks, Vale of York, Goldikova, Furthest Land, Conduit, Zenyatta
2015 – Sierra Leone is declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (death toll 4,000)
2020 – Kamala Harris makes US history as the 1st woman and 1st woman of color to be elected to the vice presidency (date election called)