Historical Events
1812 - Battle of Queenstown Heights: British forces defeat United States forces attempting to invade Canada
1903 - Victor Herbert and by Glen MacDonough's operetta "Babes in Toyland" premieres at Majestic Theater, New York City
1993 - MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Atlanta Braves, 4 games to 2
2005 - English playwright Harold Pinter is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
2012 - 15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan
Famous Birthdays
1794 - Anselm Hüttenbrenner, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1868)
1881 - George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet and composer (Plumb), born in Bacău, Romania (d. 1957)
1903 - Jens Bjerre Jacobsen, Danish organist, and composer (Mosaïque musicale), born in Aarhus, Denmark (d. 1986)
1958 - Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian progressive journalist, author, and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel who was brutally murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, born in Medina, Saudi Arabia (d. 2018)
1960 - Peter Keisler, American lawyer and acting Attorney General of the United States (2007), born in Hempstead, New York
Famous Deaths
1959 - Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer and musicologist (Concert Amsterdam), dies at 67
1990 - Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese revolutionary general, politician and negotiator in Paris (1975), dies at 78
2005 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
2008 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (Damien in "Versailles", Fred in "The Apprentices"), dies of pneumonia at 37
2011 - Barbara Kent, Canadian born - U.S. silent film actress and WAMPAS Baby Stars (b.1907)
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