2003
Last commercial flight of Concorde

1989
US TV evangelist Jim Bakker was sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $500,000 for defrauding his followers in a multi-million dollar scam
1983
British civil servant Dennis Nilsen went on trial in London, accused of six murders and two attempted murders.

1962
Cuba missile crisis – brink of nuclear war
1929
Wall Street crash on 'Black Thursday', followed on Oct 29 by 'Black Tuesday, regarded as the start of the Great Depression' – the Dow Jones Index didn't recover to its pre-crash level until 1954
1911
Orville Wright made a 9 minute 45 second flight in the Wright Glider, a record that stood for 10 years.

1901
Annie Edson Taylor celebrated her 63rd birthday by being the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

1861

1857
Sheffield FC founded – claim to be the world's first football team
1788
Birth of Sarah Josepha Hale, American ladies magazines editor and author of the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb.

1708
Death of Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
1537
Jane Seymour dies from complications in giving birth to a son, the future Edward VI