Births

• James II - 1633
• William Penn - 1644
• George Grenville - 1712
• Ferdinand VII - 1784
• Eamon De Valera - 1882
• Katherine Mansfield - 1888
• President Dwight Eisenhower - 1890
• Hannah Arendt - 1906
• Roger Moore - 1927
• Mobatu Sese Seko - 1930
• Ralph Lauren - 1939
• Cliff Richard - 1940
• Beth Daniel - 1956
• George Floyd, an American bouncer murdered in police custody by police officer, Derek Chauvin, was born in 1973
• Natalie Maines - 1974
• Usher was born - 1978
• Rowan Blanchard - 2001

Deaths

• Harold II - 1066
• Lionel Martin - 1945
• Errol Flynn - 1959
• Bing Crosby - 1977
• Leonard Bernstein - 1990
• Harold Robbins - 1997
• Harold Bloom - 2019
• Robbie Coltrane - 2022

Events

• The Norman Battle of Hastings led to William the Conquerors rule in England - 1066
• The first US patent received by Henry Blair, a black inventor, for a corn planter - 1834
• The first US patent awarded to Henry Blair, as above, for his corn planter - 1843
• Chuck Yeager’s first supersonic flight - 1947
• Nobel peace prize was shared by Yitzhac Rabin, Yasser Arafat, and Shimon Peres for the Oslo Accords - 1994
• Christopher Columbus arrived in the Bahamas - 1492
• Mary, Queen of Scots went to trial - 1586
• The U.K. East India Company’s tea ships cargo were burned in Maryland - 1773
• Arthur Conan Doyle published ‘the adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ in the Strand Magazine - 1892
• Winston Churchill departed for South Africa - 1899
• Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the worst coal mining accident in the U.K. kills 439 people - 1913
• A sophomore football player, Paul Robeson was excluded from the Rutgers after Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person - 1916
• A. A. Milne published Winnie the Pooh - 1926
• Nazi Germany announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations - 1933
• Nazis announced plans to create Jewish ghettos for all major cities - 1938
• German U-47 sunk British battleship HMS Royal Oak with 833 deaths - 1939
• Balham tube station in London was bombed, killing 64 people - 1940
• 600 Jewish prisoners mounted an uprising at the Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor, 300 successfully escaped - 1943
• The Philippines were declared independent by Japan - 1943
• German field Marshall Erwin Rommel (the desert fox) committed suicide by drinking poison after he was discovered to have been involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler - 1944
• Martin Luther King Jr was named the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace - 1964

National holidays/celebrations

• National ‘I love you’ day 
• National real sugar day
• National Desert day
• Be bald and be Free day 
• World Standards day
• Columbus Day  and Native American day ((South Dakota and Wisconsin) the day before, on Oct 13