1. 1779 - John Adams is elected to negotiate with the British over the American Revolutionary War peace terms
2. 1924 - The Odessa to Moscow Odessa Express is attacked by bandits, and most of the passengers either killed or injured
3. 1938 - RMS Queen Elizabeth is launched at the John Brown and Company yard in Clydebank, Scotland
4. 1939 - Poland surrenders to Germany after just 26 days, and 140,000 Polish troops are taken prisoner
5. 1960 - The British suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst dies at the age of 78
6. 1964 - The 888-page Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is released after a 10-month investigation, concluding that there was no conspiracy in the assassination, either domestic or international, and that Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin, acted alone
7. 1968 - The American hippy musical Hair opens in London - one day after the abolition of theatre censorship.
8. 1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow is born
9. 1988 - Sprinter Ben Johnson is stripped of Olympic gold and sent home from the Games in disgrace
10. 1996 - Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, falls to opposition militia after three days of fierce fighting
11. 2001 - A gunman runs amok in a central Switzerland government building, killing at least 14 people before turning the gun on himself
Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com
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