680: Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers killed at Karbala by army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on the way to Kufa

1780: Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in the Caribbean, hitting Barbados first. Atlantic’s deadliest recorded hurricane.

1871: The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222m in damage

1954: Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops

1957: A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England becomes the world’s first major nuclear accident

Source: Onthisday.com