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1930 - Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1950 - Playwright George Bernard Shaw dies.
1995 - Argentina's Supreme Court ordered the extradition to Italy of former SS captain Erich Priebke to face trial for a World War Two massacre of prisoners.
1998 - Hurricane Mitch faded after a week-long rampage through Central America. The death toll reached an estimated 9,000.
2001 - Five Bosnian Serbs were found guilty of crimes against humanity against Muslims and Croats at the notorious Omarska detention camp during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
2002 - A 10-day U.N. environment conference concluded in India with rich countries saying they had agreed not to press poor nations to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases.
2003 - The Rev. Canon V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as the first openly gay bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church, a move that threatened to tear apart the worldwide Anglican community.
2004 - Controversial Dutch filmmaker and newspaper columnist Theo van Gogh, who made a film about violence against women in Islamic societies, was murdered in Amsterdam by a Dutch-Moroccan man.
2005 - Most valuable stamp trade ever made between a block of 1918 U.S. 24-cent airmail stamps known as the "Inverted Jenny" and an 1868 U.S. 1-cent "Z-Grill" stamp.
2014 - Daredevil Nik Wallenda performs blindfolded walk along tightrope between two Chicago skyscrapers.
2016 - The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the first time since 1908, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship.
