1786 – Francis Light founded George Town(city hall pictured), the first British settlement in Southeast Asia and the present-day capital of the Malaysian state of Penang.
1819 – Around 15 people were killed and 400 to 700 others injured when cavalrycharged into a crowd demanding the reform of parliamentary representation in Manchester, England.
1907 – Pike Place Market, one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the U.S. and a popular tourist attraction, opened in Seattle, Washington.
1910 – Hurricane-force winds combined hundreds of small fires in the U.S. states of Washington and Idaho into the Devil's Broom fire, which burned about 4,700 square miles (12,100 km²), the largest fire in recorded U.S. history.
1920 – The American Professional Football Association, a predecessor of the National Football League, was founded.
1643 – A Dutch expedition arrived at the mouth of the Valdivia River, in present-day Chile, to establish a new colony in the ruins of the abandoned Spanish settlement of Valdivia.
1940 – The 1940 New England hurricane formed over the Atlantic Ocean; it would go on to cause widespread damage despite never making landfall in the United States.
1968 – The Beatles released "Hey Jude", which became the then-longest single to top the UK charts.
1909 – The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico.
1969 – On the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1969, an event attended by approximately 150,000 people over three days, Bob Dylan appeared in his first gig in three years.