1572 - Spanish troops attack Maastricht 1805 - 45 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, one of the earliest women's clubs in America 1967 - Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to German-American nuclear physicist Hans Bethe 1978 - NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs LA Kings 1980 - Bernard Slade's stage comedy "Romantic Comedy", closes at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, after for 396 performances 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan 1999 - MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 1 2009 - British Mercedes driver Jenson Button finishes 5th in Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to clinch his first F1 World Drivers Championship 2017 - 19th Chinese Communist Party congress opens in Beijing with President Xi Jinping delivering 3hr 23min speech heralding “new era” 2019 - The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-host "Event 201", a table-top panel exercise on dealing with aa fictional high-level pandemic exercise in New York City More Historical Events »