1998
Death of Joan Hickson, British actress .
1989
Loma Prieta Earthquake: An earthquake in San Francisco, California killed 63 people, injured 3,500 and damaged 100,000 buildings
1979
Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work in Calcutta, India

1979
Death of S.J. Perelman, American author, humorist and screenwriter
1934
Death of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Nobel Prize-winning Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, one of the founders of modern neuroscience

1933
Physicist Albert Einstein arrived in the USA as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
1919
The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was founded
1918
Birth of Rita Hayworth, American actress .
1895
First people in Britain to be charged with motor offences – John Henry Knight and James Pullinger of Farnham, Surrey
1860
The Open Championship (golf) begins the 1st Professional Golf Tournament.

1859
Birth of (Frederick) Childe Hassam, American Impressionist artist
1660
The Ten Regicides responsible for the execution of King Charles 1st were drawn and quartered. Thomas Harrison, John Jones, Adrian Scrope, John Carew, Thomas Scot and Gregory Clement, who had signed the death warrant; the preacher Hugh Peters; Francis Hack

1346
Battle of Neville Cross
