1. 1860 - 11 Year-Old Grace Bedell writes a letter to U.S. Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln stating that he would look better if he grew a beard
2. 1917 - Mata Hari, the archetype of the seductive female spy, is executed for espionage by a French firing
3. 1940 - Charlie Chaplin's satirical comedy The Great Dictator opens
4. 1958 - Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, is born
5. 1964 - Khrushchev 'retires' as head of USSR
6. 1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the Department of Transportation
7. 1969 - Americans take part in peace initiatives across the United States to protest against the continuing war in Vietnam
8. 1976 - Ike and Tina Turner split their musical act
9. 1993 - Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work to end apartheid in South Africa
10. 2003 - China becomes the third country to launch a staffed space mission
11. 2011 - Up to around 3,000 protesters gather outside St.Paul's Cathedral in London to demonstrate against corporate greed, in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protesters in the United States
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Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeopleshistory
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