| On this date in: |
| 1813 | Composer Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole, Italy. |
| 1845 | The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md. |
| 1886 | The tuxedo dinner jacket made its American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. |
| 1911 | Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty. |
| 1935 | George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess," featuring an all-black cast, opened on Broadway. |
| 1943 | Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China. |
| 1964 | The 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo. |
| 1966 | The Beach Boys released the single "Good Vibrations." |
| 1970 | Fiji became independent after nearly a century of British rule. |
| 1979 | Hockey Hall-of-Famer Wayne Gretzky made his NHL debut with the Edmonton Oilers. |
| 1985 | U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody. |
| 2002 | The House voted 296-133 to give President George W. Bush broad authority to use military force against Iraq. (The Senate followed suit the next day.) |
| 2005 | Angela Merkel became Germany's first female chancellor and its first leader from the former Communist east. |
| 2008 | Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled that gay couples have the right to marry. |
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