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King Fernando of Portugal
Sam Houston
Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd
André-Jacques Garnerin's parachute
Cuban missiles
Edison's carbon filament light bulb
Montparnasse derailment
Ineligible
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| 1383 – King Ferdinand I died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, resulting in a period of civil war and anarchy. | Interregnum: refimprove; Ferdinand: refimprove |
| 1730 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal linking the Neva and the Svir River, one of the first major canals constructed in Russia, was completed. | refimprove |
| 1879 – Thomas Edison performed a successful test using a carbon filament thread in an incandescent light bulb, which would become the most successful version of the product. | refimprove section |
| 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera in New York City opened with a performance of French composer Charles Gounod's opera Faust. | refimprove/unreferenced sections |
| 1884 – At the International Meridian Conference, the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, was adopted as the Universal Time meridian of longitude. | Conference: unreferenced section; UTC: appears on Feb 8 |
| 1934 – Pretty Boy Floyd, an American bank robber and alleged killer who was later romanticized by the media, was gunned down by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents near East Liverpool, Ohio. | refimprove |
| 1962 – Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that Soviet nuclear weapons had been discovered in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation. | refimprove section |
| 1964 – The French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre became the first Nobel Laureate to voluntarily decline the prize, saying that he did not wish to be "transformed" by such an award. | refimprove section |
| 1999 – Vichy France official Maurice Papon was jailed for crimes against humanity committed during World War II. | unreferenced sections |
| 2006 – An expansion project to double the Panama Canal's capacity was approved by Panamanian voters in a national referendum by a wide margin. | unreferenced section |
| 2008 – India launched Chandrayaan-1, the country's first unmanned lunar mission. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 906 – Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh, an Abbasid military officer of Turkic origin, led a raid against the Byzantine Empire, taking at least 4,000 captives.
- 1707 – In one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of the British Isles, at least 1,400 sailors on four Royal Navy ships were lost in stormy weather off the Isles of Scilly.
- 1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach were crowned king and queen of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey.
- 1797 – Dropping from a hydrogen balloon at a height of approximately 3,000 feet (1,000 m), André-Jacques Garnerin carried out the first descent using a frameless parachute.
- 1844 – Millerites, including future members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, were greatly disappointed that Jesus did not return as predicted by American preacher William Miller.
- 1877 – Scotland's worst mining accident occurred when an explosion at a colliery in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, killed 207 miners.
- 1895 – At Gare Montparnasse in Paris, an express train derailed after overrunning the buffer stop and crashed through the station wall, with the locomotive landing on the street below.
- 1924 – The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California.
- 1966 – With their album The Supremes A' Go-Go, the Supremes became the first all-female group to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart.
- 2013 – The Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 made the Australian Capital Territory the nation's first jurisdiction to legalise same-sex marriage, although the High Court struck the act down two months later.
- 2015 – A sword-wielding man attacked students and teachers in a high school in Trollhättan, killing three people in Sweden's deadliest school attack.
- Born/died: | Qian Weijun |b|955| Johann Reinhold Forster |b|1729| Constantine Samuel Rafinesque |b|1783| Charles Scott |d|1813| Sahle Selassie |d|1847| Charles Kingston |b|1850| Edith Kawelohea McKinzie |b|1925| Hannah Mitchell |d|1956| Oona King |b|1967| James K. Baxter |d|1972| Betty Binns Fletcher |d|2012
Notes
- Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse appears on October 12 so André-Jacques Garnerin should not appear in the same year.
October 22: International Stuttering Awareness Day; feast day of Saint John Paul II (Catholicism)
Hubert Pierlot
- 1633 – Ming Chinese naval forces defeated a Dutch East India Company fleet in the Taiwan Strait, the largest naval encounter between Chinese and European forces before the First Opium War more than two hundred years later.
- 1740 – A two-week massacre of ethnic Chinese in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, came to an end with at least 10,000 people killed.
- 1907 – A bank run forced New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations, which triggered the Panic of 1907.
- 1940 – After evading French and Spanish authorities, Belgian prime minister Hubert Pierlot (pictured) arrived in London, marking the beginning of the Belgian government in exile.
- 2001 – The controversial video game Grand Theft Auto III was first released to critical acclaim, and went on to popularise open-world and mature-content games.
- James Strachan-Davidson (b. 1843)
- George Coulthard (d. 1883)
- Deepak Chopra (b. 1946)
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