1485 - King Henry VII of England is crowned.
1863 - Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
1905 - Tzar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
1922 - Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1941 -1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
1944 - Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
1974 - The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
1975 - Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
1993 - The Troubles: The Ulster Defence Association, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary, carry out a mass shooting at a Hallowe'en party in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are murdered and thirteen wounded.
Famous Birthdays:
39 BC - Julia the Elder, the only child of the Roman Emperor Augustus
1218 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan
1735 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
1748 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson the 3rd President of the United States
1873 - Francisco I. Madero, 33rd President of Mexico
1906 - Hermann Fegelein, Nazi official and brother-in-law to Adolf Hitler
1939 - Jean Chapman, writer
1946 - Chris Slade, Welsh drummer
1966 - Scott Innes, voice actor
1978 - Matthew Morrison, actor
1989 - Vanessa White, singer
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