915 - Pope John X crowned Berengar I of Italy as Roman Emperor.
1818 - Illinois becomes the 21st US state.
1901 - US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
1912 - Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War
1944 - Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
1970 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Canadian government grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches a pre-emptive strike against India and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
1984 - Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
1997 - In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign The Ottawa treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
Famous Birthdays:
1368 - King Charles VI of France
1755 - Gilbert Stuart, painter
1884 - Rajendra Prasad, First President of India
1887 - Naruhiko, Prince Higashikuni of Japan
1899 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan
1969 - Bill Steer, guitarist
1978 - Trina, rapper
1985 - Robert Swift, basketball player
1994 - Jake T. Austin, actor
2005 - HH Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, third in the line of succession to the Norwegian Throne
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