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Events: 61 BC - Pompey, the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars 855 - Pope Benedict III becomes Pope 1364 - Battle of Auray - English forces defeat French at Brittany 1789 - United States War Department first establishes regular army with strength of several hundred men. 1789 - First United States Congress adjourns 1829 - London's reorganized police force goes on duty. Later became known as Scotland Yard. 1864 - Battle of New Market Heights 1902 - Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens. 1918 - Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I 1938 - Britain and France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. 1939 - Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union 1941 - Babi Yar massacre begins 1943 - United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta. 1944 - Soviet forces invade Yugoslavia 1963 - Opening of second period of Second Vatican Council 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster 2004 - the asteroid 4179 Toutatis is projected to pass within 4 lunar distances of Earth. Births: 106 BC - Pompey the Great, Roman statesman and general 1328 - Joan of Kent 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, author († 1616) 1725 - Robert Clive, general and statesman († 1774) 1758 - Lord Horatio Nelson, British admiral († 1805) 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist († 1954) 1901 - Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and non-violent activist († 1981) 1904 - Greer Garson, British actress († 1996) 1907 - Gene Autry, actor, singer, businessman († 1998) 1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, film director 1913 - Trevor Howard, actor († 1988) 1913 - Stanley Kramer, film director 1931 - Anita Ekberg, actress 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician 1938 - Wim Kok, Dutch politician and former prime minster 1939 - Larry Linville, actor († 2000) 1941 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician 1942 - Madeline Kahn, actress († 1999) 1943 - Lech Walesa, Polish trade union activist and politician 1948 - Bryant Gumbel, television personality 1956 - Sebastian Coe, track and field champion 1961 - Rebecca DeMornay, actress 1964 - Tom Sizemore, actor 1964 - Les Claypool, bassist of Primus 1966 - Jill Whelan, actress 1967 - Craig Bowie, musician/composer, computer scientist Deaths: 48 BC - Pompey, the Great, Roman General, assassinated. 235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope 855 - Lothair, King of Lotharingia 1804 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States 1902 - Emile Zola, important writer 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, Irish poet 1908 - Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer 1913 - Rudolf Diesel, automobile pioneer 1913 - Trevor Howard, actor 1967 - Carson McCullers, author 1970 - Edward Everett Horton, actor 1975 - Casey Stengel, American baseball player and coach 1988 - Charles Addams, cartoonist 1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, artist 1998 - Tom Bradley, former mayor of Los Angeles, California 2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam Holidays: Michaelmas - Christian feast of St. Michael the Archangel See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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