1600 - Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)
1751 - Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort
1847 - 12 year old English boy William Nelman poisons his grandpa with arsenic, would become famous court case
1899 - Battle at Talana Hill, Natal: British army vs Boers
1912 - Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2)
1944 - Soviet and Yugoslav troops free Belgrade
1973 - US President Nixon accepts the resignations of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus as they refuse orders to discharge Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, in what has become known as "The Saturday Night Massacre"
1991 - Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo
1992 - 1st Baseball World Series game is played outside United States; Toronto Blue Jays beat Atlanta Braves, 3-2 in Game 3 at SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario
2017 - Pollution linked to 1 in 6 deaths worldwide or 9 million in 2015 in report published in "The Lancet"
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