439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take the city of Carthage in North Africa
1948 - "My Romance" opens at the Shubert Theatre in New York City for 95 performances
1967 - Mariner 5 makes a flyby of Venus
2007 - Bomb explosion rocks Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati, Philippines, killing 11 and injuring more than 100 people
2019 - UK Parliament votes for the Letwin amendment in a special Saturday sitting, forcing Boris Johnson to ask the EU for an extension and delaying the vote on his Brexit deal
1720 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist, born in Province of New Jersey (d. 1772)
1834 - Francis Channing Barlow, American lawyer and Union general during the US Civil War (met General John B. Gordon at Gettysburg), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1896)
1911 - Hilde Spiel, Austrian writer, born in Vienna (d. 1990)
1915 - Farid al-Atrash [El-Atrache], Syrian composer, musician, virtuoso oud player, and actor (Akher kedba), born in Jebel Ed-Druz, Southern Syria (d. 1974)
1936 - Tony Lo Bianco, American stage and screen actor (The French Connection; A View From the Bridge; Hizzoner!), born in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 2024)
1335 - Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Queen consort of Bohemia and Poland, dies at 47
1960 - Günter Raphael, German composer (Busskantate), dies at 57
1972 - Dr. Fredrick Arthur Willius, American cardiologist and medical historian, dies from bladder cancer at 83
1994 - Martha Raye [Margaret Reed], American comedienne and actress (Waikiki Wedding The Martha Raye Show), dies at 78
2020 - Spencer Davis [Davies], English guitarist (Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin'"), dies of pneumonia at 81
British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8,000 British soldiers to the Americans at the Battle of Yorktown, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution.