622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina.
1780 - Benedict Arnold flees to the British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John Andre exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
1789 - The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1869 - "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot t control the market.
1890 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
1914 - World War I: The Siege of Przemysl (present day Poland) begins.
1946 - Clark Gifford and George Elsey, military advisors to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.
1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1960 - USS Enterprise (CVN - 65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
1962 - United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
2009 - The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of LRAD in U.S. history.
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On this day in history...
1776 - Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
1780 - Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
1792 - The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
1827 - Joseph Smith, Jr. is reportedly visited by the angel Moroni, who gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Smith has translated into The Book of Mormon.
1897 - The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial is published in the New York Sun.
1937 - J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
1938 - The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500 - 700 people.
1942 - On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, NAZIS send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
1942 - In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynow and move to the Ghetto in Biala Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janow Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.
1942 - In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, NAZIS murder 2,588 Jews.
1942 - The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
1961 - Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
1964 - The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
1976 - Orlando Letelieris assassinated in Washington D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court Justice.
1780 - Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
1792 - The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
1827 - Joseph Smith, Jr. is reportedly visited by the angel Moroni, who gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Smith has translated into The Book of Mormon.
1897 - The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial is published in the New York Sun.
1937 - J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
1938 - The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500 - 700 people.
1942 - On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, NAZIS send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
1942 - In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynow and move to the Ghetto in Biala Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janow Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.
1942 - In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, NAZIS murder 2,588 Jews.
1942 - The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
1961 - Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
1964 - The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
1976 - Orlando Letelieris assassinated in Washington D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court Justice.
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