1810 | First Oktoberfest held in Munich, Bavaria.

1901 | US President Theodore Roosevelt officially renamed the Executive Mansion to the White House.

1935 | Shivraj Patil, former Union Minister of Home Affairs, was born.

1967 | Indian Freedom Fighter and activist Ram Manohar Lohia died.

1968 | Noted Australian actor Hugh Jackman was born.

1977 | Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao Zedong as the second supreme leader of the Chinese Communist Party.

1999 | General Pervez Musharraf took power from Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a bloodless army coup.

2012 | European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing democracy and peace in the region.