1142 Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League [disputed date - other research places date between 1450 and 1660]
1888 The body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, is found in Whitechapel in London's East End
1897 Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope (Kinetographic camera), a device that produces moving pictures (US patent 589168)
1909 A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball
1917 Sun Yat-sen and his supporters' rump parliament establish a military government in Guangzhou, China, and elect him generalissimo
1940 British "Wuthering Heights" actor Laurence Olivier (33) weds British"Gone With The Wind" actress Vivien Leigh (26), at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California; second marriage for both end in divorce in 1960
1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies
1947 NY Giants set a season record for HRs by a club with 183 and end the season with 221
1957 Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain 1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland
1993 50th Venice Film Festival: "Short Cuts" directed by Robert Altman and "Three Colors: Blue" directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski are jointly awarded the Golden Lion
1994 A Pentium computer running Richard Lang's ChessGenius 2 program defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris
1999 "Fly," the 5th studio album by the Dixie Chicks is released (Grammy Award Best Country Album 2000, Billboard Album of the Year 2000)
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