| 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 yds) |
| 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 yds |
| 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 HR, 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 HR, 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 |
| 1834 | George Eastman patented paper-strip photographic film |
| 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 |
