1793 ~ Marie Antoinette was guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1854 ~ Birthday of
Oscar Wilde, Irish writer.
1859 ~ John Brown led
a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1886 ~ Birthday of David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel.
1925 ~ Birthday of Angela Lansbury, actress
1964 ~ China detonated its first
atomic bomb.
1970 ~ Anwar Sadat elected President of Egypt.
1978 ~ Karol Józef Wojtyła became
Pope John Paul II. He was the first non Italian to be elevated to the position since 1522.
1981 ~ Death of Moshe Dayan, Israeli general.
1983 ~ The Baltimore Orioles beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 3 in the
80th World Series.