the Spartacus revolt took place. Spartacus was a Roman soldier, who also became a gladiator after being made a slave. He was one of the slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. About 90,000 rebels joined him but in a decisive confrontation against the Roman soldiers in Puglia. Spartacus died during the battle.
In 1816, the famous German optician and fine mechanic Carl Zeiss is born. He founded his company in Jena and began the manufacture of optical and mechanical products.
In 1867 in Hamburg the first volume of Marx's Capital is published.
In 1961 Slovenian politician and ethnologist Niko Županič dies.
In 1970 in Moscow politician Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, who began the process of de-Stalinisation in the Soviet Union, dies.
In 2001, at 14.45 CET al-Qaeda terrorists, led by Osama bin Laden, with planes attack and demolish the two towers of the World Trade Centre in New York. At the same time another plane hit the Pentagon in Washington. A fourth plane, crashed in Pennsylvania. About 3,000 people die.
In 2003, one day after an assassination attempt on the life of Swedish politician Anna Lindh she dies.
MUSIC HISTORY
1961 – 13 year old Judy Garland takes the No. 1 spot on the American charts with 'Judy At Carnegie Hall'.
1976 - KC and the Sunshine Band are at the top of the American charts with '(Shake Shake Shake), Shake Your Body'.
1982 - Chicago reign on the American charts with 'Hard To Say I'm Sorry'.
1993 - Mariah Carey is No. 1 on the American singles chart with 'Dreamlover'.
BORN ON THIS DAY
1965 - Moby, his real name is Richard Hall, producer and singer (1991 'Go').
1971 - Richard Ashcroft, guitarist and singer in the group The Verve (1997 'The Drugs Don't Work').