Hafez Assad (Syria) 1930
- 1683 - The first Mennonites arrived in America aboard the Concord. The German and Dutch families settled in an area that is now a neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA.
- 1880 - The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out for selling beer.
- 1889 - The Kinescope was exhibited by Thomas Edison. He had patented the moving picture machine in 1887.
- 1890 - Polygamy was outlawed by the Mormon Church.
- 1928 - War-torn China was reunited under the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek.
- 1961 - U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
- 1973 - Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in an attempt to win back territory that had been lost in the third Arab-Israel war. Support for Israel led to a devastating oil embargo against many nations including the U.S. and Great Britain on October 17, 1973. The war lasted 2 weeks.
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