1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scottish rebel William Wallace defeats the English
1609 An expulsion order is issued against the Moriscos of Valencia, beginning the expulsion of all of Spain's Moriscos (former Muslims and their descendants)
1697 Battle of Zenta: Holy League forces led by Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat an Ottoman army under Mustafa II near Zenta in the Kingdom of Hungary, ending Ottoman control over large parts of Central Europe
1708 Great Northern War: Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, the turning point in the war
1914 Father of the Blues, W. C. Handy, publishes "St. Louis Blues," his most famous composition
1783 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
1928 First TV drama WGY's "The Queen's Messenger," starring Izetta Jewell, broadcasts in the New York area
1977 The Atari 2600, originally known as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), is released in North America, revolutionizing the video game industry
1985 Sri Lanka achieves its first Test cricket victory, defeating India by 149 runs
2001 Passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 attempt to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists, causing the plane to crash in a Pennsylvania field, killing all 44 people on board
2001 Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon, killing 125 people
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