1777: The Battle of Saratoga ends, deciding the outcome of the American Revolution.
1814: Nine people lose their lives in a beer flood in central London. It was caused when a large vat of beer burst at the Meux brewery and its contents poured into the street, flooding many nearby houses in one of the English capital’s slums.
1864: Greece’s new Constitution is adopted, establishing the system of Crowned Democracy.
1912: Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria declare war on Turkey.
1915: American playwright Arthur Miller is born.
1915: Britain offers Cyprus to Greece to persuade it to join the First World War. Citing Greece’s neutrality, the government of Alexandros Zaimis rejects the offer.
1918: American actress Rita Hayworth is born. Her real name was Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino.
1920: Celebrated American actor Montgomery Clift is born.
1931: Bishop Nikodimos of Kition proclaims the union of Cyprus with Greece.
1931: Legendary gangster Al Capone, Chicago’s most powerful crime boss during Prohibition, is arrested and sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax offences.
1937: Donald Duck’s triplet nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, appear in a comic strip for the first time.
1941: The German occupying forces execute 250 residents of Ano and Kato Kerdyllia in Serres, in reprisal for the killing of a German soldier.
1957: French-Algerian writer Albert Camus is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1961: A decision is taken to remove Stalin’s body from Lenin’s Mausoleum in Moscow.
1967: China’s last emperor, Puyi, dies aged 61 as an obscure archivist.
1972: US rapper Eminem, the stage name of Marshall Bruce Mathers III, is born.
1973: OPEC imposes an embargo on the United States and the countries that provided military aid to Israel during the Yom Kippur War (the 1973 Oil Crisis).
1989: Sixty dead and $10 billion in damage is the tragic toll of a devastating magnitude 7 earthquake that strikes San Francisco.
1997: The remains of legendary revolutionary Che Guevara are brought to Santa Clara, Cuba, and buried there, thirty years after his execution in Bolivia.
1998: An oil pipeline explodes in the Niger Delta, killing around 1,200 local residents.
2003: The spire is installed on the Taipei 101 building in Taipei, making it the tallest in the world.
2012: Mass rallies are held across Greece against the Memorandum.
