Antonin Scalia 1936 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- 537 - The Goths began their siege on Rome.
- 1867 - In Hawaii, the volcano Great Mauna Loa erupted.
- 1901 - U.S. Steel was formed when industrialist J.P. Morgan purchased Carnegie Steep Corp.
- 1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the Lend-Lease Act, which authorized the act of providing war supplies to the Allies.
- 1969 - Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans.
- 1998 - The International Astronomical Union issued an alert that said that a mile-wide asteroid could come very close to, and possibly hit, Earth on Oct. 26, 2028. The next day NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that there was no chance the asteroid would hit Earth.
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