1492- Columbus reaches the “New World”
1940- Silent-film star Tom Mix dies in Arizona car wreck
2000- USS Cole attacked by terrorists
1810- The origin of Oktoberfest
1964- USSR leads the space race
2002- Terrorists kill 202 in Bali
1945- Conscientious objector awarded Medal of Honor
1972- Racial violence breaks out aboard U.S Navy ships
1786- Thomas Jefferson composes Romantic Letter
1997- John Denver dies in an aircraft accident
2007- Al Gore wins Nobel Prize in the wake of “An Inconvenient Truth”
1918- Fire Rages in Minnesota
1998- Matthew Shepard, victim of anti-gay hate crime, dies
1960- Nikita Khrushchev allegedly brandishes his shoe at the United Nations
1870- Robert E. Lee dies
1915- British nurse Edith Cavell Executed
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