1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
1918 – Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs
1928 – George and Ira Gershwin’s musical “Treasure Girl” premieres in NYC
1949 – “All The King’s Men” based on Robert Penn Warren’s Pulizer winning novel, directed by Robert Rossen and starring Broderick Crawford premieres in New York (Best Picture 1950)
1983 – STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad
1988 – George H. W. Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) in US presdiential election
1431 – Vlad III the Impaler, Wallachian prince, born in Sighișoara, Transylvania, Romania (d. 1476)
1770 – Friedrich Witt, composer
1968 – Michelle Kline, Circle Pines Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1973 – Tara Johnson, Miss USA-Wisconsin (1997)
1978 – Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
1983 – Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
618 – St Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies
1494 – Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56
1908 – William Edward Ayrton, English Physicist and Inventor, dies at 60
1991 – Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45
1993 – Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1999 – Francis D. Foley, American Rear Admiral (WW II, Guadalcanal), dies at 89