1. 1759 - The French are defeated by the British on the Plains of Abraham in the final French and Indian War
2. 1916 - Roald Dahl is born
3. 1970 - The First New York Marathon takes place, attracting 127 competitors runners who paid $1.00 to compete. Fireman Gary Muhrucke won
4. 1971 – Stella McCartney, the English fashion designer and daughter of Paul McCartney, is born
5. 1974 - Stevie Wonder starts his first tour since his near-fatal car accident
6. 1980 - The bear who went missing on a Scottish island while being filmed for a television commercial is recaptured
7. 1988 - A Cuban diplomat opens fire in a crowded London street because of an American plot to make him defect, his government says
8. 1993 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat shake hands after signing an historic peace agreement
9. 1999 - At least 118 people are killed when a bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia
10. 2001 - The US government names Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the September 11th terrorist attacks
11. 2004 - A protestor representing the Fathers 4 Justice campaign dressed as Batman breaks into the grounds of Buckingham Palace and protests on a ledge by the balcony
Sources: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com
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