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20 Oktober merupakan hari ke-293 (hari ke-294 dalam tahun lompat) dalam kalendar Gregory. Tinggal 72 hari sebelum memasuki tahun selepasnya tetapi mengikut lamanweb Wikipedia.org. banyak peristiwa penting berlaku pada tarikh ini (fakta dalam ENGLISH) :-

§ 1548 – The city of Nuestra Senora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) was founded by Captain Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.
§ 1740 – Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
§ 1781 – Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
§ 1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
§ 1818 – The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada – United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
§ 1827 – Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is defeated by British, French, andRussian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
§ 1883 – Peru and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in theWar of the Pacific.
§ 1910 – The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
§ 1935 – The Long March ends.
§ 1941 – World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in theKragujevac massacre.
§ 1944 – The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
§ 1944 – Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
§ 1944 – General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during theSecond World War.
§ 1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration ofHollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
§ 1947 – United States of America and Pakistan establish diplomatic relations for the first time.
§ 1951 – The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
§ 1952 – Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
§ 1967 – A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.
§ 1968 – Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
§ 1970 – Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
§ 1971 – The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses.
§ 1973 – "Saturday Night Massacre": President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson andDeputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fireWatergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
§ 1973 – The Sydney Opera House opens.
§ 1976 – The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan andLuling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
§ 1977 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.
§ 1979 – The John F. Kennedy library is opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
§ 1982 – During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
§ 1984 – The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.
§ 1991 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.

Births
§ 1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (d. 1512)
§ 1496 – Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (d. 1550)
§ 1616 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
§ 1620 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
§ 1632 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (d. 1723)
§ 1656 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)
§ 1660 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723)
§ 1677 – Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland (d. 1766)
§ 1700 – Charlotte Aglaé of Orléans, Duchess of Modena (d. 1761)
§ 1711 – Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795)
§ 1719 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (d. 1772)
§ 1759 – Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815)
§ 1780 – Pauline Bonaparte, princess Borghese, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1825)
§ 1784 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)
§ 1785 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
§ 1801 – Melchior Berri, Swiss architect (d. 1854)
§ 1808 – Karl Andree, German geographer (d. 1875)
§ 1819 – The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
§ 1819 – Carl Mikuli, Polish pianist (d. 1897)
§ 1822 – Thomas Hughes, English novelist (d. 1896)
§ 1832 – Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894)
§ 1854 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
§ 1858 – John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
§ 1859 – John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952)
§ 1864 – James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951)
§ 1873 – Nellie McClung, Canadian feminist (d. 1951)
§ 1874 – Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
§ 1882 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
§ 1889 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (d. 1965)
§ 1891 – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
§ 1891 – Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (d. 1978)
§ 1893 – Charley Chase, American comedian (d. 1940)
§ 1894 – Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
§ 1895 – Rex Ingram, American actor (d. 1969)
§ 1897 – Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
§ 1900 – Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (d. 1974)
§ 1904 – Anna Neagle, English actress (d. 1986)
§ 1904 – Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
§ 1905 – Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter and Olympic medalist (d. 1965)
§ 1905 – Ellery Queen, pseudonym of two American writers (d. 1982)
§ 1907 – Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 2001)
§ 1909 – Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
§ 1909 – Carla Laemmle, American actress
§ 1910 – Bob Sheppard, New York Yankees press announcer (d. 2010)
§ 1913 – Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and singer (d. 1998)
§ 1914 – Fayard Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2006)
§ 1917 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (d. 1973)
§ 1918 – Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003)
§ 1919 – Tracy Hall, American inventor (d. 2008)
§ 1922 – John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992)
§ 1923 – Robert Craft, American conductor
§ 1925 – Art Buchwald, American humorist (d. 2007)
§ 1925 – Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (d. 2002)
§ 1925 – Roger Hanin, French actor
§ 1927 – Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet (d.2007)
§ 1927 – Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and advice columnist
§ 1931 – Richard Caliguiri, American politician (d. 1988)
§ 1931 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
§ 1932 – Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004)
§ 1932 – William Christopher, American actor (M*A*S*H)
§ 1934 – Bill Chase, American trumpet player (d. 1974)
§ 1934 – Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
§ 1934 – Michiko, empress of Japan
§ 1935 – Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
§ 1935 – Barrie Chase, American dancer
§ 1937 – Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
§ 1937 – Wanda Jackson, American rock and rockabilly singer
§ 1938 – Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (d. 2006)
§ 1940 – Kathy Kirby, British singer
§ 1940 – Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States
§ 1942 – Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003)
§ 1942 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
§ 1943 – Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano
§ 1944 – David Mancuso, American disc jockey
§ 1944 – Nalin de Silva, Sri Lankan theoretical physicist, philosopher and a political analyst
§ 1946 – Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (d. 1994)
§ 1946 – Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
§ 1946 – Richard Loncraine, British film director
§ 1946 – Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
§ 1948 – Melih Gökçek, Turkish politician
§ 1949 – Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
§ 1950 – Tom Petty, American musician
§ 1951 – Patrick Hall, British politician
§ 1951 – Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician
§ 1951 – Claudio Ranieri, Italian football player and manager
§ 1951 – Ken Ham, Australian evangelist and businessman
§ 1951 – Al Greenwood, American rock musician (Foreigner)
§ 1953 – Keith Hernandez, American baseball player
§ 1953 – Bill Nunn, American actor
§ 1954 – Steve Orich, orchestrator
§ 1954 – Günter Müller, German sound artist, improvisor and percussionist
§ 1955 – Thomas Newman, American composer
§ 1955 – David Profumo, English novelist
§ 1955 – Aaron Pryor, American boxer
§ 1955 – Robert ten Brink, Dutch TV personality
§ 1956 – Danny Boyle, English film director
§ 1957 – Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer
§ 1957 – Hilda Solis, American politician
§ 1957 – Chris Cowdrey, English Cricketer
§ 1958 – Valerie Faris, American film director
§ 1958 – Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author
§ 1958 – Scott Hall, American professional wrestler
§ 1958 – Mark King, English musician and singer (Level 42)
§ 1958 – Dave Krieg, American football player
§ 1958 – Viggo Mortensen, American actor
§ 1958 – Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist
§ 1958 – Dave Finlay, Irish professional wrestler
§ 1959 – Mark Little, Australian actor and comedian
§ 1960 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004)
§ 1960 – Lepa Brena, Yugoslav singer
§ 1961 – Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
§ 1961 – Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
§ 1962 – David M. Evans, American screenwriter and film director
§ 1962 – Dave Wong, Hong Kong/Taiwanese singer-songwriter
§ 1963 – Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut
§ 1963 – Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
§ 1965 – Norman Blake, Scottish musician
§ 1965 – Jil Caplan, French singer and songwriter
§ 1965 – Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player
§ 1965 – William Zabka, American actor
§ 1966 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq (d. 2006)
§ 1966 – Allan Donald, former South African cricketer
§ 1966 – Fred Coury, American drummer (Cinderella)
§ 1966 – Stefan Raab, German entertainer
§ 1966 – Patrick J. Volkerding, Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution
§ 1967 – Luigi Lo Cascio, Italian actor
§ 1967 – Elizabeth Carling, English actress and singer
§ 1967 – Luck Mervil, Québécois actor and singer
§ 1967 – Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor
§ 1968 – Susan Tully, English actress (Eastenders)
§ 1969 – Juan González, Puerto Rican baseball player
§ 1969 – Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league footballer
§ 1969 – Lambros Papakostas, Greek high jumper
§ 1970 – Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler
§ 1970 – Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author
§ 1970 – Sander Boschker, Dutch footballer
§ 1971 – Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
§ 1971 – Matt Norman, Australian director/producer
§ 1971 – Eddie Jones, American basketball player
§ 1971 – Snoop Dogg, American rapper
§ 1972 – Will Greenwood, England rugby union player
§ 1976 – Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx)
§ 1977 – Matt Jansen, English footballer
§ 1977 – Leila Josefowicz, Canadian classical violinist
§ 1977 – Sam Witwer, American actor
§ 1978 – Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
§ 1978 – Paul Wilson, Scottish bass player (Snow Patrol)
§ 1979 – Paul Ifill, Barbadian footballer
§ 1979 – John Krasinski, American actor
§ 1979 – Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
§ 1980 – Gary Jarman, English musician
§ 1980 – Niall Matter, Canadian actor
§ 1980 – Jose Veras, Dominican baseball player
§ 1981 – Willis McGahee, American football player
§ 1981 – Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
§ 1981 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
§ 1982 – Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer
§ 1982 – Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer
§ 1983 – Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
§ 1983 – Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor
§ 1984 – Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer
§ 1984 – Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player
§ 1985 – Jennifer Nicole Freeman, American actress
§ 1985 – Alphonso Smith, American football player
§ 1985 – Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
§ 1985 – James Sutton, British racing driver
§ 1986 – Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress
§ 1987 – Raphael Hackl, German rugby player
§ 1988 – Candice Swanepoel, South African model
§ 1988 – Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
§ 1992 – Ksenia Semenova, Russian Olympic gymnast
§ 1994 – Morgan Featherstone, Australian model

Deaths
§ 460 – Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress
§ 1139 – Henry X, Duke of Bavaria
§ 1570 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
§ 1631 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
§ 1640 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
§ 1652 – Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
§ 1713 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
§ 1740 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
§ 1842 – Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
§ 1865 – Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerrilla (b. 1821)
§ 1890 – Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
§ 1900 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
§ 1907 – Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b. 1834)
§ 1910 – David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
§ 1926 – Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
§ 1935 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
§ 1936 – Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
§ 1940 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885)
§ 1953 – Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (b. 1916)
§ 1964 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
§ 1967 – Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
§ 1968 – Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896)
§ 1972 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
§ 1977 – Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash:
§ Cassie Gaines (b. 1948)
§ Steve Gaines (b. 1949)
§ Ronnie Van Zant (b. 1948)
§ 1978 – Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1948)
§ 1983 – Peter Dudley, British actor (b. 1935)
§ 1983 – Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915)
§ 1984 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
§ 1984 – Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
§ 1987 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
§ 1988 – Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (b. 1922)
§ 1989 – Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
§ 1990 – Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905)
§ 1992 – Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (b. 1926)
§ 1993 – Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
§ 1994 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
§ 1995 – Christopher Stone, American actor (b. 1942)
§ 1999 – Calvin Griffith, Former owner of Washington Senators (b. 1911)
§ 1999 – Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1917)
§ 2001 – Ted Ammon, American financier (b. 1949)
§ 2002 – Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
§ 2002 – Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
§ 2003 – Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
§ 2003 – Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (b. 1924)
§ 2004 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923)
§ 2004 – Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (b. 1934)
§ 2005 – Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934)
§ 2005 – Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (b. 1941)
§ 2005 – Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940)
§ 2006 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
§ 2007 – Max McGee, American football player (b. 1932)
§ 2007 – Paul Raven, British bass-player (Killing Joke, Ministry) (b. 1961)
§ 2008 – Gene Hickerson, American football player (b. 1935)

AN EVENING IN ......PORT DICKSON!!!!!!

Untuk tatapan semua......













































Menggunakan Nikon D40X, lens 18-105mm VR, setting semua Auto......dah nama jurugambar amatur....heheheh

THE JOURNEY CONTINUE.................

10.10.10!!!!!!!!!

10.10.10 atau 10 oktober 2010..apa yang menariknya hari bulan ni?? (gambar dari google image)

• Pernikahan angkasawan negara, Datuk Dr.Syeikh Muszaphar dengan Dr. Halina Yusof
• Kemalangan ngeri yang meragut 12 nyawa di KM223 Lebuhraya Utara Selatan dekat Pedas, Negeri Sembilan

Tetapi dari apa yang saya dapat dari sumber (wikipedia.org (in english) :-

EVENTS

• 680 – Battle of Karbala: Hussain bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah.
• 732 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslimsfrom spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.
• 1471 – Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack byChristian I, King of Denmark.
• 1575 – Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
• 1580 – After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Irish and Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland.
• 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1631 – A Saxon army takes over Prague.
• 1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.
• 1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.
• 1860 – The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
• 1868 – Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence
• 1911 – The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
• 1911 – The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
• 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
• 1920 – The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
• 1933 – United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
• 1935 – A coup d'état by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris and establishes a regency underGeorgios Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic.
• 1938 – The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
• 1942 – The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
• 1943 – Double Tenth Incident in Japanese controlled Singapore
• 1944 – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1945 – The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.
• 1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
• 1957 – The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.
• 1963 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
• 1964 – The opening ceremony at The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
• 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
• 1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
• 1970 – In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
• 1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
• 1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
• 1975 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
• 1985 – United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
• 1986 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
• 1997 – An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
• 1998 – A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
• 2006 – The Greek city of Volos floods in one of the prefecture's worst recorded floods.
• 2008 – The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
• 2009 – After having closed borders for about two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
• 2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved.

BIRTHS

• 1344 – Mary Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1362)
• 1567 – Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)
• 1678 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (d. 1743)
• 1684 – Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
• 1700 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
• 1731 – Henry Cavendish, British scientist (d. 1810)
• 1780 – John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
• 1794 – William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
• 1813 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
• 1819 – Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian (d. 1883)
• 1825 – Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic (d. 1904)
• 1828 – Samuel J. Randall, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
• 1830 – Queen Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)
• 1834 – Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (d. 1872)
• 1837 – Robert Gould Shaw, American Army officer (d. 1863)
• 1861 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, Nobel laureate (d. 1930)
• 1863 – Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
• 1863 – Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
• 1864 – T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924)
• 1870 – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1953)
• 1870 – Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935)
• 1884 – Ida Wüst, German actress (d. 1958)
• 1885 – Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
• 1889 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forgers (d. 1947)
• 1895 – Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)
• 1895 – Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
• 1898 – Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
• 1900 – Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
• 1901 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
• 1903 – Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (d. 1969)
• 1903 – Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)
• 1903 – Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist and educator (d. 2009)
• 1906 – Paul Creston, American composer (d. 1985)
• 1906 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
• 1908 – Johnny Green, American songwriter, arranger and conductor (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983)
• 1909 – Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director (d. 2010)
• 1910 – Julius Shulman, American architectural photographer (d. 2009)
• 1911 – Clare Hollingworth, British journalist
• 1913 – Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer (d. 1974)
• 1915 – Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
• 1917 – Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
• 1919 – Willard Estey, Canadian justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Nicholas Parsons, English actor
• 1924 – James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (d. 2004)
• 1924 – Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
• 1925 – Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1927 – Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1930 – Eugenio Castellotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1957)
• 1930 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1930 – Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
• 1930 – Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)
• 1932 – Harry Smith, English footballer
• 1933 – Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
• 1935 – André Bureau, French Canadian communications executive
• 1935 – Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (d. 1988)
• 1936 – Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.
• 1938 – Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer
• 1939 – Joseph Pitts, American politician
• 1940 – Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (d. 2010)
• 1941 – Peter Coyote, American actor
• 1942 – Radu Vasile, Romanian Prime Minister
• 1943 – Frederick Barthelme, American author
• 1946 – Charles Dance, English actor
• 1946 – Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), English writer
• 1946 – Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
• 1946 – Peter Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1946 – John Prine, American singer
• 1946 – Chris Tarrant, English TV presenter
• 1946 – Ben Vereen, American actor
• 1947 – Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (d. 1998)
• 1948 – Séverine, French singer
• 1948 – Ed Volker, American musician
• 1949 – Ioannis Glavakis, Greek politician
• 1950 – Nora Roberts, American novelist
• 1951 – Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman
• 1953 – Midge Ure, Scottish musician
• 1953 – Gus Williams, American basketball player
• 1954 – Patric Zimmerman, American voice actor
• 1954 – Rekha, Bollywood actress
• 1954 – Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian musician
• 1954 – David Lee Roth, American singer (Van Halen)
• 1956 – Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress
• 1956 – Mark Gordon, American film producer
• 1957 – Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist
• 1958 – Tanya Tucker, American singer
• 1959 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
• 1959 – Bradley Whitford, American actor
• 1960 – Eric Martin, American singer (Mr. Big)
• 1960 – Ron Flockhart, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Simon Townshend, British rock guitarist
• 1961 – Jodi Benson, American voice actress
• 1961 – Henrik Jørgensen, Danish marathon runner
• 1961 – Martin Kemp, British musician (Spandau Ballet) and actor
• 1961 – Julia Sweeney, American actress and comedian
• 1963 – Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
• 1963 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
• 1963 – Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
• 1963 – Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian cross-country skier.
• 1964 – Sarah Lancashire, English actress
• 1964 – Quinton Flynn, American voice actor
• 1965 – Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1965 – Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress
• 1965 – Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan)
• 1966 – Tony Adams, English footballer
• 1966 – Derrick McKey, American basketball player
• 1967 – Jonathan Littell, French-American writer
• 1967 – Mike Malinin, American drummer (Goo Goo Dolls)
• 1967 – Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco
• 1968 – Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker
• 1968 – DJ Skribble, American DJ, producer, remixer, radio personality and actor
• 1969 – Shawn "Thunderbird" Jamison, American basketball coach and ex Harlem Globetrotter
• 1969 – Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress
• 1969 – Brett Favre, American football player
• 1969 – Dilsa Demirbag Sten, Swedish author and journalist
• 1969 – Francis Escudero, Filipino senator
• 1970 – Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
• 1970 – Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger
• 1970 – Bai Ling, Chinese American actress
• 1970 – Corinna May, German singer
• 1970 – Mohammed Mourhit, Belgian athlete
• 1970 – Sir Matthew Pinsent, English rower
• 1971 – Ian Bennett, English footballer
• 1971 – Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
• 1972 – Russell Hantz, American Survivor Contestant
• 1972 – Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter
• 1972 – Dean Roland, American guitarist (Collective Soul)
• 1972 – Alexei Zhitnik, Russian ice hockey player
• 1973 – Mario López, American actor
• 1973 – Semmy Schilt, Dutch kickboxer
• 1973 – Zach Thornton, American soccer player
• 1974 – Assi Cohen, Israeli comedian and actor
• 1974 – Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
• 1974 – Dale Earnhardt Jr, American NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver
• 1974 – Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Ramón Morales, Mexican footballer
• 1975 – Plácido Polanco, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder
• 1976 – Pat Burrell, American baseball player
• 1976 – Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American actress
• 1978 – Scott Dobie, English born Scotland International footballer
• 1979 – Mya Harrison, American singer
• 1979 – Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
• 1979 – Wu Chun, Brunei born Taiwanese actor (Fahrenheit/Fei Lun Hai)
• 1979 – Ahn Chil Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T.
• 1979 – Joel Przybilla, American basketball player
• 1980 – Blaž Emeršič, Slovenian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer
• 1980 – Casey FitzSimmons, American football player
• 1980 – Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)
• 1980 – Sherine, Egyptian singer
• 1981 – Michael Oliver, American actor
• 1981 – Una Healy, Irish singer (The Saturdays)
• 1982 – Amon Buchanan, Australian rules footballer
• 1982 – Hideki Mutoh, Japanese racing driver
• 1983 – Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1983 – Nikos Spiropoulos, Greek footballer
• 1983 – Tolga Zengin, Turkish football player
• 1984 – Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
• 1984 – Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
• 1984 – Paul Posluszny, American football player
• 1984 – Amber Scott, American actress
• 1984 – Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player
• 1985 – Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
• 1985 – Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer/songwriter
• 1986 – Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player
• 1987 – Ryan Mathews, American football player
• 1987 – Colin Slade, New Zealand rugby player
• 1989 – Aimee Teegarden, American actress
• 1991 – Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer
• 1991 – Mariana Espósito, Argentine actress, singer and model

DEATHS

• 19 – Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
• 680 – Husayn ibn Ali, Shi'a Imam, Muhammad's grandson (b. 626)
• 732 – Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
• 833 – al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
• 1359 – King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
• 1459 – Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist and classicist (b. 1380)
• 1659 – Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
• 1674 – Thomas Traherne, English poet
• 1691 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
• 1708 – David Gregory, Scottish mathematician (b. 1659)
• 1714 – Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
• 1720 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
• 1723 – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
• 1725 – Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
• 1747 – John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
• 1759 – Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
• 1765 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
• 1795 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
• 1806 – Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
• 1827 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (b. 1778)
• 1837 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
• 1872 – William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
• 1875 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
• 1876 – Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
• 1893 – Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
• 1901 – Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
• 1911 – Jack Daniel, American Distiller and the founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery (b. 1846 or 1850)
• 1913 – Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
• 1913 – Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
• 1914 – King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
• 1922 – Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek writer (b. 1866)
• 1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
• 1930 – Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
• 1940 – Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
• 1948 – Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)
• 1953 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand judge (b. 1884)
• 1957 – Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
• 1963 – Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
• 1964 – Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
• 1964 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Édouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)
• 1971 – John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
• 1976 – Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
• 1977 – Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
• 1978 – Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)
• 1978 – Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
• 1979 – Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Paul Paray, French conductor (b. 1886)
• 1982 – Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
• 1983 – Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
• 1985 – Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
• 1990 – Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
• 1990 – Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor and writer (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
• 2000 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 2003 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
• 2004 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
• 2004 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
• 2004 – Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Mehmed Uzun, contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (b. 1976)
• 2010 – Solomon Burke, American singer (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (b. 1926)