Out of Babylon, London Tornado, OPEC Twists The Spigot, Loma Prieta Quake

539BC - Cyrus the Great marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile. Cyrus allows the Jews to return to Yehud Medinata and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.

1091 London Tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.

1771 - Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.

1931 - Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.

1933 -  Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.

1956 - The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.

1973 - OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.

1977 - German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board.

1979 -  Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1979 - The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.

1989 - 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly).