On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
1795: The day after he routed counterrevolutionaries in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte accepts their formal surrender.
1813: U.S. victory at the Battle of the Thames, in Ontario, broke Britain's Indian allies with the death of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh, and made the Detroit frontier safe.
1877: Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to Colonel Nelson Miles in Montana Territory, after a 1,700-mile trek to reach Canada falls 40 miles short.
1880: The first ball-point pen is patented on this day by Alonzo T. Cross.
1921: The World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time.
1962: The first James Bond film, Dr. No starring Sean Connery, debuts.
1968: Police attack civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland; the event is considered to be the beginning of "The Troubles."
1969: Monty Python's Flying Circus debuts on BBC One.
1970: Members of the Quebec Liberation Front kidnap British Trade Commissioner James Cross in Montreal, resulting in the October Crisis and Canada's first peacetime use of the War Measures Act.
1970: The U.S. Public Broadcasting Service is established.
2000: Slobodan Milosevic, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, resigns in the wake of mass protest demonstrations.
