54AD: Nero succeeds Claudius to become Roman Emperor.
1724: Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters.
1917: Soviets accept Petrograd Military rule during Russian Revolution.
1941: Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children and old people.
1943: Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany.
1960: Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba.
1963: "Beatlemania" coined after Beatles appear at Palladium.
2012: Fifteen people killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan.
2013: Stampede kills 109 people on bridge in Datia district, India.