1. 1492 - Christopher Columbus lands in the Bahamas and is credited as the first European to reach the Americas
2. 1899 - The Boer War begins
3. 1935 - Luciano Pavarotti is born
4. 1945 - The Nazi party is ordered to dissolve by The Allied Control Council, which states that any attempt at it's revival in any guise would be considered a criminal offense
5. 1968 - The 19th Summer Olympics Games of the XIX Olympiad opens in Mexico City, Mexico
6. 1970 - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar debuts on Broadway
7. 1978 - British punk rocker Sid Vicious from is arrested on suspicion of murder, after his girlfriend's body is found in their New York hotel room
8. 1983 - The 3 surviving members of the Beatles are invited to Liverpool to accept the Freedom of the City
9. 1984 - A bomb explodes at the Conservative Party conference in Brighton in a direct attack on the British Government
10. 1986 - Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev fail to reach agreement at disarmament talks in Reykjavik
11. 2000 - At least six American sailors die in what's thought to have been a suicide bomb attack on a US Navy destroyer in Yemen
Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeopleshistory
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