1893 - The first musical comedy, The Gaiety Girl, is performed in London
1912 - President Theodore Roosevelt is shot in an attempted assassination
1913 - An explosion at Universal Colliery in South Wales kills 439 miners - Britain's worst mining disaster.
1939 - 810 die as The Royal Navy battleship Royal Oak is torpedoed and sinks in Scapa Flow
1973 - Egypt and Syria invade Israel as the nation celebrates the holy Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur.
1976 - Death of Dame Edith Evans, British stage actress.
1997 - Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Amritsar in Punjab, India, and spend time at Jallianwala Bagh and the Golden Temple complex.
2010 - French-American mathematician and father of fractal geometry Benoît Mandelbrot dies, aged 85.
2012 - Human breaks sound barrier
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