| 2012 | Sisters Eva Hoffe and Ruth Wiesler, who inherited valuable documents belonging to Franz Kafka and his colleague Max Brod are ordered to turn the documents over to the National Library in Tel Aviv |
| 2012 | Australian daredevil Felix Baumgartner breaks the world record for human ascent by balloon by space diving 128,100 feet out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon over Roswell, New Mexico |
| 2011 | A colony of stromatolites is discovered at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland |
| 2011 | Spain's credit receives a negative outlook from Standard &: Poor's, with their ranking reduced to AA- |
| 2010 | Known as Africa's female Mandela, Victoire Ingabire, Rwanda's opposition leader, is arrested on charges of forming a terrorist organization |
| 2010 | Indonesian rights groups applaud the end of a Suharto-era law that bans books deemed 'offensive' or a 'threat to public order' |
| 2009 | U.S. Senate Committee passes healthcare reform bill, hailed as a 'critical milestone' by President Obama |
| 2009 | A new kind of flying reptile fossil, Darwinopterus, lived over 160 million years ago, is found in China |
| 1998 | New York Islanders beat Tampa Bay, 7-1, to end 11 game winless streak |
| 1997 | Florida Marlins beat Atlanta Braves 4 games to 1 in NLCS |
| 1996 | Braves blow out St. Louis, 14-0 in an NLCS game |
| 1996 | Dow Jones closes over 6,000 for 1st time (6,010) |
| 1996 | Packer Chris Jacke kicks longest field goal to end overtime (53 yards) |
| 1995 | Atlanta Braves become 1st team to sweep in NL playoff (beat Reds) |
| 1994 | Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres |
| 1994 | Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus |
| 1992 | Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates in 7 games for NL pennant |
| 1992 | Toronto Blue Jays beats Oakland A's to win their 1st AL pennant |
| 1991 | Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1991 | New York Rangers right wing Mike Gartner scores his 500th NHL goal |
| 1990 | Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Trophee Urban World Golf Championship |
| 1990 | Jeff Goldblum and wife Geena Davis file for divorce |
| 1990 | SF 49er Joe Montana passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Atlanta (45-35) |
| 1989 | Dave Stewart is 1st since 1976 to start consec World Series openers |
| 1989 | Texas A&I, Johnny Bailey sets NCAA season rush record at 6,085 yards |
| 1988 | Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce and annulment |
| 1988 | New Jersey Devils raise their 1st pennant (Patrick Div Playoff Champs) |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize |
| 1987 | In Midland, Texas 1 -year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well |
| 1987 | St. Louis Cardinals beat San Francisco Giants, 4 games to 3 in NLCS |
| 1986 | Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1986 | IOC decides to stagger Winter and Summer Olympic schedule |
| 1986 | Tim Kides of West New York, New Jersey performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15 |
| 1985 | 19th Country Music Association Award: Ricky Skaggs wins |
| 1985 | On Mon Night football, Jets retire Joe Namath's #12, beat Miami 23-7 |
| 1984 | "Quilters" closes at Jack Lawrence Theater New York City after 24 performances |
| 1984 | Browns' Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yards |
| 1984 | Detroit Tigers beat San Diego Padres, 4 games to 1 in 81st World Series |
| 1984 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Smirnoff Ladies Irish Golf Open |
| 1983 | Grenada leftist coup under vice-premier Coard |
| 1983 | U.S. Marine peacekeeper Sergeant Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut |
| 1982 | 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea |
| 1982 | Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total) |
| 1982 | New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins |
| 1982 | President Reagan proclaims war against drugs |
| 1981 | Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game |
| 1980 | Bob Marley's last concert |
| 1980 | Phils rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals, 7-6 to take WS opener |
| 1980 | President nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court |
| 1979 | 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy |
| 1979 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| 1979 | Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3 |
| 1979 | NHL's greatest scorer Wayne Gretzky scores his 1st NHL goal |
| 1978 | 1st TV movie from a TV series - "Rescue from Gilligan's Island" |
| 1978 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1978 | New York Yankee Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy by getting in the way of a throw to 1st and deflects the ball away |
| 1978 | Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-22-2-1 |
| 1977 | Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series |
| 1977 | Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro |
| 1976 | Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives New York Yankees pennant #30 |
| 1976 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman |
| 1976 | Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking |
| 1975 | President Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside |
| 1974 | 8th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Rich |
| 1973 | Egyptian tanks move further into Israel |
| 1973 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Willie Mays last hit, as Mets beat A's in World Series game 2 A's Mike Andrews makes 2 errors, prompting owner Finley to remove him |
| 1972 | Oakland A Gene Tenace is 1st to homer in 1st 2 World Series at bats |
| 1971 | 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances |
| 1971 | John and Yoko appear on "Dick Cavett Show" |
| 1970 | 4th Country Music Association Award: Merle Haggard wins |
| 1970 | Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92 |
| 1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1969 | Palme government forms in Sweden |
| 1969 | T Agee and Ed Kranepool home run, Agee makes 2 great catches, Mets win 5-0 |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1968 | 1st live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft (Apollo 7) |
| 1968 | Beatles "White Album" completed |
| 1968 | Gruener and Watson (U.S.) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas |
| 1968 | In NL expansion draft, Expos and Padres choose 30 players each |
| 1968 | J R Hines of U.S. runs 100m in world record 9.95 sec |
| 1966 | 175 U.S. airplanes bomb North Vietnam |
| 1966 | Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer |
| 1965 | Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km |
| 1965 | Sandy Koufax hurls his 2nd shutout of World Series beating Twins 2-0 |
| 1964 | Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1964 | Martin Walser's "Der Schwarze Schwan," premieres in Stuttgart |
| 1964 | Philips begins experimenting with color TV |
| 1964 | Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle hit home runs runs on back-to-back pitches |
| 1964 | Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts weds Shirley Shepherd |
| 1963 | Algeria and Morocco border conflict |
| 1963 | WGHP TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point, North Carolina (ABC) begins |
| 1962 | Houston Oiler George Blanda throws for 6 TD passes vs New York Titans 56-17 |
| 1962 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Thunderbird Tourney Golf Tournament |
| 1962 | U.S. U-2 planes locate missile launchers in Cuba |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | "How to Succeed in Business" opens at 46th St. New York City for 1415 performances |
| 1961 | 14th Ryder Cup: U.S., 14 -9 at Royal Lytham and St. Annes, England |
| 1960 | Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen |
| 1960 | Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy |
| 1959 | WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Brendan Behan's "Hostage," premieres in London |
| 1958 | Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community |
| 1958 | Paul Osborn's "World of Suzie Wong," premieres in New York City |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1 |
| 1956 | Charles Ives' overture "Robert Browning," premieres in New York City |
| 1956 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Arkansas Golf Open |
| 1954 | Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53 |
| 1953 | 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service |
| 1953 | Belgian Convair crashes at Frankfurt, 44 die |
| 1953 | Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr |
| 1953 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia |
| 1953 | Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment |
| 1953 | WTEN TV channel 10 in Albany, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | "Buttrio Square" opens at New Century Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| 1951 | Det Lion Jack Christiansen returns 2 punts for touchdowns vs Los Angeles Rams |
| 1951 | Organization of Central American States forms |
| 1950 | Reverend Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison |
| 1949 | 14 U.S. Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition |
| 1949 | Chinese Red army occupies Canton |
| 1949 | Ezzard Charles TKOs Pat Valentino in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1948 | Batavia lieutenant governor general Of Mook dismissed |
| 1948 | Large scale fighting between Israel and Egypt |
| 1947 | Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015) |
| 1947 | Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower |
| 1946 | Netherland and Indonesia sign cease fire |
| 1945 | Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears |
| 1944 | Allied troops land in Corfu |
| 1944 | British troops march into Athens |
| 1943 | 400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland |
| 1943 | Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/president Jose Laurel) |
| 1943 | Outbreak attempt in Sobibor Concentration Camp |
| 1943 | U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 during assault on Schweinfurt |
| 1942 | Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution |
| 1942 | German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed |
| 1942 | Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal |
| 1941 | 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk and Riga |
| 1939 | BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed |
| 1939 | German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed |
| 1939 | Sugar rationed in Netherlands |
| 1938 | Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities |
| 1934 | "Lux Radio Theatre" premieres |
| 1933 | Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations |
| 1931 | 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University |
| 1931 | Spanish Cortes agrees to separation of Church and State |
| 1930 | Ethel Mermans debuts on Broadway in "Girl Crazy" |
| 1930 | George Gershwin/Walter Donaldsons musical premieres in New York City |
| 1929 | Philadelphia A's beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1 in 26th World Series |
| 1929 | Philadelphia A's set World Series record of 10 runs in an inning |
| 1926 | Alan Alexander Milne's book "Winnie-the-Pooh" released |
| 1926 | Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark |
| 1925 | Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee) |
| 1924 | Arnold Schonbergs opera "Die Gluckliche Hand," premieres in Vienna |
| 1922 | 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue New York City |
| 1922 | 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in New York City |
| 1920 | Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland |
| 1914 | German troops occupy Brug |
| 1913 | Explosion in coal mine at Cardiff kills 439 |
| 1912 | Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee |
| 1911 | Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379) |
| 1909 | Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series |
| 1908 | Baseball Writers Association of America, forms |
| 1908 | Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 1 in 5th World Series, 1st rematch |
| 1908 | Smallest crowd at World Series, 6,210 fans see Cubs beat Tigers |
| 1906 | All Chicago World Series, 1st AL victory, White Sox win 4 games to 2 Cubs losers share of $439.50 is lowest for World Series |
| 1905 | New York Giants beats Philadelphia A's, 4 games to 1 in 2nd World Series |
| 1905 | Giant's Christy Mathewson's 3rd straight World Series shutout |
| 1901 | Justin Huntly McCarthy's "If I were King," premieres in New York City |
| 1899 | Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa |
| 1893 | George Edwardes "Gaiety Girl" premieres in London |
| 1893 | Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret |
| 1884 | George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film |
| 1867 | 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan |
| 1865 | Cheyennes and Arapaho's sign "peaces treaty" then chased out Colorado |
| 1863 | Battle at Bristoe Station Virginia (about 2000 casualties) |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Catlett's Station, Virginia (Bristoe Campaign) |
| 1862 | Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting home run, dies 10/18 |
| 1862 | Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9 |
| 1843 | British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy |
| 1834 | 1st black to obtain a U.S. patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter |
| 1806 | Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians |
| 1774 | 1st Continental Congress is 1st to declare colonial rights, Philadelphia |
| 1774 | 1st American colonial decl of rights with sinking of Peggy Stewart |
| 1758 | Battle at Hochkirk, Saksen: Austrian army beats Prussia |
| 1745 | French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland |
| 1700 | Rabbi Judah Hasid and Chayim Molocho arrive in Jerusalem |
| 1586 | Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth |
| 1529 | Sultan Suleiman II ceases Vienna |
| 1492 | Columbus leaves San Salvador; arrives in Santa Maria of Concepcion |
| 1468 | Treaty of Peronne: Duke Charles the Stoute and French king Louis XI |
| 1322 | Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence |
| 1066 | Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England |
| 530 | [Discorus] ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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