| 2348 BC | Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood. | |
| 1863 | Union ends the siege of Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge. | |
| 1876 | Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroys Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife‘s village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War. | |
| 1901 | Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek concessions in Korea. | |
| 1914 | German Field Marshal Friedrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans’ 35,000 in two weeks of fighting. | |
| 1918 | Chile and Peru sever relations. | |
| 1921 | Hirohito becomes regent of Japan. | |
| 1923 | Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences. | |
| 1930 | An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people. | |
| 1939 | Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim. | |
| 1946 | The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government. | |
| 1947 | The Big Four meet to discuss the German and European economy. | |
| 1951 | A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea. | |
| 1955 | The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate travel. | |
| 1963 | The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. | |
| 1964 | Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency. | |
| 1986 | As Reagan announces the Justice Department’s findings concerning the Iran-Contra affair; secretary Fawn Hall smuggles important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North’s office. | |
| 1987 | Typhoon Nina hits the Philippines with 165 mph winds and a devastating storm surge and causes over 1,030 deaths. | |
| 1992 | The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to partition the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, beginning Jan. 1, 1993. | |
| 2008 | Sri Lanka is hit by Cyclone Nisha, bringing the highest rainfall the area had seen in 9 decades; 15 people die, 90,000 are left homeless. |
The mayor of Japan’s western city of Osaka plans to cut ties
with U.S. sister-city San Francisco after the latter accepted the
donation of a “comfort women” statue from a private group there.
A woman died of severe injuries after she was accidentally shot by a
hunter who mistook her for a deer Wednesday night. 
