A R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the USSR’s Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility. 100 people are killed.

The Yom Kippur War ends.

The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, ending the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War.

The police arrest John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, putting an end to the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.