1640 - English Long Parliament forms
1883 - US Supreme Court decides federal courts have no jurisdiction over Native American tribal Council (Ex parte Crow Dog)
1886 - Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao
1930 - Bank of Italy is renamed the Bank of America
1968 - Oregon voters elect lawyer Bob Packwood (36) as their US Senator
1799 - William Sprague III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1842-44)), born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1856)
1910 - Richard Hurndall, British actor (Doctor Who, The Inheritors, It's Murder But Is It Art), born in Darlington, Durham, England (d. 1984)
1928 - Nick Holonyak Jr., American electrical engineer and inventor of the first visible light-emitting diode, born in Zeigler, Illinois (d. 2022)
1962 - Gabe Newell, American computer programmer, businessman and co-founder of Valve Corporation (Half-Life, Steam), born in Colorado
1973 - Ben Fogle, British broadcaster and author (Channel 5, BBC), born in London, England
1913 - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, Prussian pianist, composer and music director (Royal Theatre of Hanover, 1867-87), dies at 83
1944 - Jack Miner, Canadian naturalist and conservationist, dies at 79
2002 - Jonathan Harris [Charasuchin], American stage and screen character actor (The Bill Dana Show - "Mr. Phillips"; Lost In Space - "Dr Zachary Smith"), dies at 87
2009 - Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
2011 - Bob Forsch, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1974-1989 (St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros), dies of a thoracic aortic aneurysm at 61
One World Trade Center officially opens in New York City on November 3, 2014. The gleaming glass skyscraper, along with the rest of the World Trade Center complex, replaced the Twin Towers.