1883 - Edward Harrigan's musical farce "Cordelia's Aspirations" premieres at Theatre Comique, NYC
1883 - Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army
1989 - 20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01
1997 - Davey Johnson is named AL Manager of Year two hours after resigning from the Baltimore Orioles
2025 - Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin becomes first NHL player to score 900 career goals in a 6-1 win over the St. Louis Blues at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.

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1666 - Attilio Ariosti, Italian baroque composer (Court of Kingdom of Prussia, 1697-1703), viola d'amore player, and harpsichordist, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1729)
1851 - Charles Dupuy, 3 times Prime Minister of France, born in Le Puy-en-Velay, France (d. 1923)
1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (dirty-snowball theory), born in Red Oak, Iowa (d. 2004)
1977 - Tuula Puputti, Finnish ice hockey goalie (Finland, Olympics 1998), born in Kuopio, Finland