1989
Death of Bette Davis, award-winning American stage, film and TV actress (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, All About Eve, and many others)
1985
Broadwater Farm Riots
1979
Pope John Paul II became the first pope to visit the White House
1978
London Underground’s first female train driver, Hannah Dadds, started work.
1973
Yom Kippur War precipitates world oil crisis
1949
Tokyo Rose (Iva Toguri dAquino) was found guilty of treason and sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000. She broadcast Japanese propaganda to American troops in the Pacific during World War II
1908
Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina .
1908
Birth of Carole Lombard, American actress .
1892
Alfred Lord Tennyson dies, aged 83, at his house Aldworth, near Haslemere

1889
Moulin Rouge cabaret opens in Paris
1884
The US Navys Naval War College was founded in Newport, Rhode Island
1883
The Orient Express completed its first run from Paris to Constantinople (now Istanbul).
1769
Captain James Cook arrives in New Zealand