1907 - Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) plays its first game; Montreal defeats Toronto 17-8 in Montreal
1942 - Budy Massacre at Auschwitz sub-camp, 90 French-Jewish women are beaten to death by prison guards
1947 - Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Al Gionfriddo makes a famous catch off Joe DiMaggio in Game 6 of the Baseball World Series; Dodgers beat Yankees 8-6; the catch inspires the "back-back-back" expression
1994 - Magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes the Kuril Islands, killing at least 10 people
2020 - Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of hepatitis C virus
1703 - Jonathan Edwards, Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (Original Sin), born in East Windsor, Connecticut Colony (d. 1758)
1795 - Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian politician (4th Mayor of Halifax) and brewer (founder of the Alexander Keith's Nova Scotia Brewery), born in Halkirk, Caithness, Highland, Scotland (d. 1873)
1917 - Robert Adams, English sculptor and designer, born in Far Cotton, Northampton (d. 1984)
1932 - Richard Lamparski, American interviewer and author (Whatever Became Of...?), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2025)
1942 - Maureen Waaka, first Māori Miss World contestant, second Māori woman to win Miss New Zealand (1962), and council politician (1998–2013), born in Ohinemutu, New Zealand (d. 2013)
1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1046-56), dies at 38
1883 - Joachim Barrande, French paleontologist and geologist (fossils in Bohemia, opposed Darwin's Theory of Evolution), dies at 84
1892 - Bob Dalton, American outlaw of the Old West (leader of the Dalton Gang), killed in failed bank robbery attempt in Coffeyville, Kansas at 23
1954 - Oscar Charleston, American Baseball HOF CF (NgL Triple Crown 1921 St. Louis Giants, 1924, 25 Harrisburg Giants) and manager (NgL WS 1933, 35, 36 Pittsburgh Crawfords), dies of a stroke at 57
2003 - Denis Quilley, British actor (Anything Goes, The Lady's Not For Burning, Masada), dies from liver cancer at 75