Historical Events
1812 – Battle of Queenstown Heights: British forces defeat United States forces attempting to invade Canada
1903 – Victor Herbert and by Glen MacDonough’s operetta “Babes in Toyland” premieres at Majestic Theater, New York City
1993 – MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Atlanta Braves, 4 games to 2
2005 – English playwright Harold Pinter is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
2012 – 15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan
Famous Birthdays
1794 – Anselm Hüttenbrenner, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1868)
1881 – George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet and composer (Plumb), born in Bacău, Romania (d. 1957)
1903 – Jens Bjerre Jacobsen, Danish organist, and composer (Mosaïque musicale), born in Aarhus, Denmark (d. 1986)
1958 – Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian progressive journalist, author, and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel who was brutally murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, born in Medina, Saudi Arabia (d. 2018)
1960 – Peter Keisler, American lawyer and acting Attorney General of the United States (2007), born in Hempstead, New York
Famous Deaths
1959 – Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer and musicologist (Concert Amsterdam), dies at 67
1990 – Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese revolutionary general, politician and negotiator in Paris (1975), dies at 78
2005 – Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
2008 – Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (Damien in “Versailles”, Fred in “The Apprentices”), dies of pneumonia at 37
2011 – Barbara Kent, Canadian born – U.S. silent film actress and WAMPAS Baby Stars (b.1907)