Free rural postal service began in the United States, 1896.
First \"Model T\" Ford put on the market, 1908.
Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. president, born 1924.
Mohandas Gandhi, Indian political leader, born 1869.
Cordell Hull, American statesman, born 1871.
Guinea became independent, 1958.
George Bancroft, American historian, born 1800.
Eleonora Duse, Italian actress, born 1858.

Jean Francois Millet, French painter, born 1814.
Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th U.S. president, born 1822.
Frederic Remington, American artist, born 1861.
Gregorian calendar introduced, 1582.
Denis Diderot, French author, born 1713.
Chester A. Arthur, 21st U.S. president, born 1829.
Jenny Lind, Swedish singer, born 1820.
George Westinghouse, American inventor, born 1846.
Le Corbusier, Swiss-born architect, born 1887.
First double-decked steamboat, the Washington, arrived at New Orleans, 1816.
James Whitcomb Riley, American poet, born 1849.
Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, born 1885.
John M. Hay, American statesman, born 1838.
Great Chicago Fire began, 1871.
Eddie Rickenbacker, American air ace, born 1890.
Camille Saint-Saens, French composer, born 1835.
Uganda became independent, 1962.

Sports Day, Japan.
Henry Cavendish, English scientist, born 1731.
U.S. Naval Academy opened at Annapolis, Maryland, 1845.
Arthur Phillip, first governor of New South Wales, Australia, born in London, 1738. 
Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, born 1884.
Francois Mauriac, French novelist, born 1885.
Christopher Columbus landed in America, 1492.
Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer, born 1872.

U.S. White House cornerstone laid, 1792.
Rudolf Virchow, German scientist, born 1821.
Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister, born 1925.
William the Conqueror, won the Battle of Hastings, 1066.
William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, born 1644.
Eamon de Valera, president of the Irish Republic, born 1882.
Virgil, Roman poet, born 70 B.C.
J. F. Pilatre de Rozier became the first person to ascend in a captive balloon, 1783. 
Helen Hunt Jackson, American novelist, born 1830.
Noah Webster, American dictionary editor, born 1758.
Oscar Wilde, Irish-born dramatist, born 1854.
David Ben-Gurion, Israeli prime minister and Zionist leader, born 1886.
British General John Burgoyne surrendered his army at Saratoga, New York, in the American Revolution, 1777.
Abolitionist John Brown and his men seized the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), 1859.

Henri Bergson, French philosopher, born 1859.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau, prime minister of Canada, born 1919.

First general court in New England held in Boston, 1630.
British troops under Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, ending the American Revolution in 1781.
Thomas Edison first demonstrated his electric light, 1879.
Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, born 1632.
The Bab, first prophet in the Age of Fulfillment in the Baha'i faith, born 1819.
John Dewey, American philosopher, born 1859.
Magellan entered strait that bears his name, 1520.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, born 1772.
U.S.S. Constitution, better known as Old Ironsides, launched in 1797.
Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer, born 1811.
Sam Houston inaugurated as first president of the Republic of Texas, 1836.

British began offensive at El Alamein in Egypt in World War II, 1942.
Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines began in World War II, 1944.

Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch naturalist, born 1632.
First transcontinental telegram sent, 1861.
United Nations formally established, 1945.
Henry V of England defeated the French at Agincourt in the Hundred Years' War, 1415.
Thomas B. Macaulay, British historian, born 1800.
\"Waltz King\" Johann Strauss, Jr., born 1825.
International Red Cross Day.
Helmuth von Moltke, Prussian general, born 1800.
Erie Canal opened to traffic, 1825.
Captain James Cook, British explorer, born 1728.
Niccolo Paganini, Italian violinist, born 1782.
The Federalist papers began appearing in the New York newspaper Independent Journal, 1787.
Harvard College (now Harvard Univesity) founded, 1636.
Statue of Liberty dedicated, 1886.
Jonas Salk, American developer of a polio vaccine, born 1914.
Republic Day, Turkey.
James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson, born 1740.
Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist, born 1921.
John Adams, second U.S. president, born 1735.
Benito Mussolini, founder of fascism, became prime minister of Italy, 1922.

Halloween in many countries.
UNICEF Day in United States.
According to tradition, the day Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of a church at Wittenberg, 1517.
