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- 1895 – Dreyfus affair: French airmy officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped o his rank an sentenced tae life imprisonment on Deil's Island.
- 1919 – The German Wirkers' Pairty, that wad become the Nazi Pairty, is foondit.
- 1933 – Construction o the Gowden Gate Brig (picturt) begins in San Francisco Bay.
- 1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
- 2005 – Eris, the maist massive an seicont-mucklest kent dwarf planet in the Solar Seestem, is diskivert bi the team o Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, an David L. Rabinowitz uisin eemages oreeginally taen on 21 October 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
Juan Carlos I o Spain (b. 1938) · Hayao Miyazaki (b. 1941) · Bradley Cooper (b. 1975)