Henry Tudor, who was crowned Henry VII on this day in 1485, founded the Tudor dynasty, ended the Wars of the Roses, used his children's marriages to build alliances, and signed treaties that increased England's power.
| 1974: | | Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle,” regaining the world heavyweight boxing title. |
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| 1938: | | Orson Welles's radio dramatization of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds caused a national panic as thousands of listeners feared a genuine invasion from Mars. |
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| 1905: | | Emperor Nicholas II issued the October Manifesto, bringing the end of unlimited autocracy in Russia and ushering in an era of constitutional monarchy. |
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| 1895: | | | German bacteriologist and pathologist Gerhard Domagk, recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery (announced in 1932) of the antibacterial effects of Prontosil, was born. |
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| 1340: | | An allied force of Castilian and Portuguese Christians defeated the Muslim Mar┤nids of North Africa at the Battle of Río Salado. |
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| 130: | | | The Roman emperor Hadrian officially founded the city of Antinoöpolis in ancient Egypt. |
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