962-Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under future Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist
1852-First Chinese theater in US, the Celestial John, opens in San Francisco
1888-Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a female courtesan for safe keeping
1930-Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
1947-Transistor invented by John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley is first publicly demonstrated at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey
1954-The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts
1968-82 members of U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo released by North Korea
1975-U.S. President Gerald Ford signs Metric Conversion Act in to law
1990-Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
1997-U.S. Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18