EVENTS:
- 1773 – America’s first insane asylum opens for ‘Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’ in Virginia.
- 1792 – First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York City.
- 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters.
- 1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
- 1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children’s Hospital, Boston
- 1962 – Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages
- 1968 – Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain
- 1992 – 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
- 1999 – The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia
- 2013 – Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in La Convención Province in Peru.
- 2013 – Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in La Convención Province in Peru.
- 2017 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO.
- 2018 – Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
- 2019 – Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.
- 2019 – Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.
- 2019 – The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing three workers and injuring 30 others.
BIRTHS:
- 1896 – Eugenio Montale, Italian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
- 1935 – Don Howe, English footballer and manager
- 1935 – Shivraj Patil, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Defence
- 1949 – Paul Went, English footballer and manager
- 1960 – Carlo Perrone, Italian footballer and manager
- 1962 – John Coleman, English footballer and manager
- 1971 – Bronzell Miller, American football player and actor (d. 2013)
- 1980 – Ledley King, English footballer
- 1981 – Sneha, Indian actress
- 1983 – Alex Brosque, Australian footballer
- 1983 – Carlton Cole, English footballer
- 1990 – Henri Lansbury, English footballer
- 1996 – Owen Watkin, Welsh rugby player
- 1997 – Curtis Scott, Australian rugby league player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Freethought Day (United States)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Equatorial Guinea from Spain in 1968.
- Mother’s Day (Malawi)
- UN Spanish Language Day (United Nations)
- Indigenous Peoples’ Day (United States)
