Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces led by Lord Cornwallis officially surrendered (pictured) to Franco-American forces under George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau, ending the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1914 – First World War: Allied forces engaged German troops in the First Battle of Ypres.
- 1944 – The Guatemalan Revolution began when a small group of army officers led by Francisco Javier Arana and Jacobo Árbenz launched a coup against the dictator Jorge Ubico.
- 1987 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22.6% on Black Monday, the largest one-day percentage decline in Dow Jones history.
- 2005 – Hurricane Wilma became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar.
John Juvenal Ancina (b. 1545) · Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (b. 1897) · Eleanor Norcross (d. 1923)
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