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1938 The War of the Worlds Broadcast
Orson Welles airs a Martian invasion as fake news bulletins on CBS radio. Some listeners believe it.
1961 Tsar Bomba Is Tested
The USSR sets off the largest bomb ever, about 50 megatons, over Novaya Zemlya.
1974 The Rumble in the Jungle
In Kinshasa, Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the eighth round and regains the heavyweight title.
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1860 Abraham Lincoln Is Elected President
Republican Abraham Lincoln wins the presidential election in a four-way race, with almost no votes from the South.
1869 The First College Football Game
Rutgers beats Princeton 6-4 in what is often called the first game of American college football.
1893 Tchaikovsky Dies in St. Petersburg
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky dies at 53, nine days after conducting the premiere of his Sixth Symphony.