1883 - Edward Harrigan's musical farce "Cordelia's Aspirations" premieres at Theatre Comique, NYC
1883 - Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army
1989 - 20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01
1997 - Davey Johnson is named AL Manager of Year two hours after resigning from the Baltimore Orioles
2025 - Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin becomes first NHL player to score 900 career goals in a 6-1 win over the St. Louis Blues at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.
1666 - Attilio Ariosti, Italian baroque composer (Court of Kingdom of Prussia, 1697-1703), viola d'amore player, and harpsichordist, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1729)
1851 - Charles Dupuy, 3 times Prime Minister of France, born in Le Puy-en-Velay, France (d. 1923)
1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (dirty-snowball theory), born in Red Oak, Iowa (d. 2004)
1977 - Tuula Puputti, Finnish ice hockey goalie (Finland, Olympics 1998), born in Kuopio, Finland
1984 - Tobias Enstrom, Swedish NHL hockey player (Atlanta Thrashers, Winnipeg Jets), born in Nordingrå, Sweden
1942 - George M. Cohan, American father of musical comedy (Phantom President; Give My Regards to Broadway), dies of cancer at 64
1951 - Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann, Czech organist and composer, dies at 67
1954 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader, dies at 46
2009 - Félix Luna, Argentine historian and lyricist, dies at 84
2021 - Charlie Burns, Canadian ice hockey forward (world champion Whitby Dunlops 1958) and coach (Minnesota North Stars), dies at 85
Led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin, leftist revolutionaries launch a nearly bloodless coup d’état against Russia’s ineffectual Provisional Government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in the Russian capital of Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and within two days had formed a new government with Lenin as its head. […]