On this day in history

1555: The Protestant martyrs Bishop Hugh Latimer and Bishop Nicholas Ridley are burned at the stake for heresy in England.
1701: Yale University is founded as the Collegiate School of Kilingworth, Connecticut by Congregationalists who consider Harvard too liberal.
1793: Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution.
1901: President Theodore Roosevelt incites controversy by inviting black leader Booker T. Washington to the White House.
1934: Mao Tse-tung decides to abandon his base in Kiangsi due to attacks from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. With his pregnant wife and about 30,000 Red Army troops, he sets out on the "Long March."
1946: Ten Nazi war criminals are hanged in Nuremberg, Germany.
1969: The New York Mets win the World Series four games to one over the heavily-favored Baltimore Orioles.
1984: A baboon heart is transplanted into 15-day-old Baby Fae – the first transplant of the kind – at Loma Linda University Medical Center, California. Baby Fae lives until November 15.
1995: The Million Man March for A Day of Atonement takes place in Washington, D.C.
1998: General Augusto Pinochet, former dictator of Chile, arrested in London for extradition on murder charges.
2002: Inaugural opening of Bibliotheca Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt., a modern library and cultural center commemorating the famed Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity.

Source: HistoryNet.com