1956 - Margaret Towner becomes the first woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the US (PCUSA)
1957 - Cincinnati Redlegs decline to move to Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City
1958 - USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build the Aswan High Dam across the Nile river
1973 - John Lennon sues US government to admit FBI is tapping his phone; they deny doing so
2004 - Manchester United beats Arsenal 2-0 at Old Trafford, ending Arsenal's English Premier League record 49-game unbeaten streak
1808 - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist, born in Meiningen, Germany (d. 1879)
1885 - Ernest Claes, Belgian author (De Witte - Whitey), born in Zichem, Belgium (d. 1968)
1920 - Julius Youngner, American scientist, helped develop Salk polio vaccine, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2017)
1939 - F. Murray Abraham, American actor (All the President's Men and Amadeus), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1965 - Vernice Smith, American NFL guard (Phoenix Cardinals, Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins, St Louis Rams), born in Orlando, Florida
1679 - Barent Avercamp, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 66
1785 - Jean-Jacques Robson, Flemish composer, dies at 64
1935 - Otto "Aba Daba" Berman, American gangster (accountant for Dutch Schultz), murdered at 44
1955 - Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, British Anthropologist (Structural Functionalism and studies of Andaman Islanders and Australian Aborigines), dies at 74
1993 - Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54
A 63-year-old schoolteacher, Annie Edson Taylor, becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel on October 24, 1901. She survived the daring publicity stunt.