1. 1789 - Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first Secretary of the Treasury
2. 1960 - The American runner Wilma Rudolph confirms her place in sporting history with a third Olympic gold medal in Rome
3. 1962 - The Beatles record their first single, Love Me Do
4. 1965 - Moby is born
5. 1971 - Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev dies at age 77
6. 1973 - President Salvador Allende of Chile - the world's first democratically-elected Marxist head of state - dies in a revolt led by the armed forces
7. 1980 - The Marlborough Diamond is stolen from a London jewellers in a bold £1m robbery
8. 1997 - Voters in Scotland approve the establishment of a parliament to run their domestic affairs
9. 2001- Two hijacked commercial jets are crashed by terrorists into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing the collapse of both towers. A short while later, another plane crashes into the Pentagon
10. 2003 - The Swedish Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh, dies of her injuries after she is stabbed in a Stockholm department store
11. 2005 - Thirty-eight years of military rule come to an end as Israeli soldiers lower the flag and pull out of Gaza
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