1097 The first Crusaders arrive in Antioch, Ancient Syria, during the First Crusade
1714 Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as Britain's King George I at Westminster Abbey
1818 US and Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
1903 US wins the disputed boundary between the District of Alaska and Canada
1917 US suffragette Alice Paul begins a seven-month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of the Women's Suffrage (right to vote) Amendment at the White House in Washington, D.C.
1928 Wien Alaska Airways, Inc. is incorporated as the first airline in Alaska and one of the first in the US, with Noel Wien as president
1934 MLB All-Star team led by Connie Mack and including Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Lou Gehrig sails to Japan for an 18-game series against Big-Six University League
1936 Carl Hubbell, with a 26-6 record, edges out Dizzy Dean, who has a 24-13 record, for MVP honors in the NL
1944 Liquid gas tanks explode in Cleveland, Ohio, killing 135 people and leaving 3,600 homeless
1944 US First Army wins the Battle of Aachen on Germany's western border
1944 US forces under General Douglas"I Shall Return" MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the US Sixth Army on the island of Leyte .PS - HE didn't need to return
1964 31st President of the United States (Republican: 1929-33), dies in NY at 90
1973 US President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe to have been the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century
1976 NY Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving is sold to Philadelphia 76ers
1977 Plane chartered by rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd runs out of fuel and crashes in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi, killing six people, including band members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and road manager Dean Kilpatrick
1982 Billy Martin is fired as manager of the Oakland A's
1987 Ten people die as a US Air Force jet crashes into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
1988 Reggie Rogers, Detroit Lions' #1 pick, kills three people by driving intoxicated
1994 Burt Lancaster American actor (From Here to Eternity; Elmer Gantry; Birdman of Alcatraz; Field of Dreams), dies of a heart attack at 80
1996 MLB Atlanta Braves' Andruw Jones becomes the youngest player at 19 to hit a home run in the World Series
1998 Comedian Richard Pryor receives the first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
2003 Jack Elam, American actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo), dies at 82
2007 Max McGee, wide receiver, punter (NFL C'ship 1961, 62, 65, 66, 67; Super Bowl I, II; Pro Bowl 1961; Green Bay Packers), dies at 75
2010 Bob Guccione, American publisher (Penthouse, Omni), dies of lung cancer at 79
2011 Muammar Gaddafi Libyan revolutionary and dictator (1969-2011), beaten to death in captivity by a Misratan militia at 69
2021 Confirmation that Vikings establish a settlement in 1021 AD in the New World at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, is provided by a new dating technique using solar storms
