Bobby Knight 1940 - Basketball coach
- 1854 - The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War. The British were winning the Battle of Balaclava when Lord James Cardigan received an order to attack the Russians.
- 1917 - The Bolsheviks (Communists) under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power in Russia.
- 1955 - The microwave oven, for home use, was introduced by The Tappan Company.
- 1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and admit mainland China.
- 1983 - U.S. troops and soldiers from six Caribbean nations invaded Grenada to restore order and provide protection to U.S. citizens after a recent coup within Grenada's Communist (pro-Cuban) government.
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