| 1997 | Cleveland Marquis Grissom World Series hitting streak ends after 15 games |
| 1997 | Coldest World Series game Marlins vs Cleveland (38 degrees F) |
| 1997 | Yahoo completes purchase of Four11 |
| 1997 | New York Ranger Wayne Gretsky wife Janet is knocked unconcious and gets 2 stitches while watching the game as a plexiglass falls on her |
| 1997 | 2nd longest 9 inning World Series game (4:12) as Marlins and Indians were tied 7-7 going into the 9th, Mariners win 14-11 |
| 1997 | Compaq testifies Microsoft threaten to break Windows 95 agreement if they showcased a Netscape icon |
| 1996 | New York Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season home run, as Yankees tie record of 6th straight post season road win (en route to 8) |
| 1995 | "Swinging On a Star" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 97 performances |
| 1994 | "Philadelphia, Here I Come" closes at Criterion New York City after 52 performances |
| 1994 | Statue of Sam Houston unveiled in Texas |
| 1994 | Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (53,832 km) |
| 1993 | Actor James Coburn (65) weds Paula Murad (37) |
| 1993 | Cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk |
| 1992 | Atlanta, becomes 1st U.S. team to win a World Series game out of US |
| 1992 | Space Shuttle STS-52 (Columbia 13) launches into space |
| 1992 | Wendy Wasserstein's "Sisters Rosensweig," premieres in New York City |
| 1991 | General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion |
| 1989 | Denver Nuggets beat Jugoplastika Split 135-129 in 3rd McDonald Open |
| 1989 | Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia |
| 1988 | Elton John sells out MSG for a record 26th time |
| 1988 | Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery |
| 1987 | "Cabaret" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 262 performances |
| 1987 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky |
| 1986 | "Into the Light" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City for 6 performances |
| 1985 | Bret Saberhagen gives Kansas City Royals their 1st World Series win |
| 1984 | NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires |
| 1984 | Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack |
| 1982 | Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels |
| 1981 | Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified |
| 1981 | Start of 1st-class game at Newcastle, NSW vs. Queensland |
| 1981 | U.S. national debt tops $1 trillion |
| 1981 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1980 | 4th government of Martens forms in Belgium |
| 1980 | New South Korean constitution comes into effect |
| 1979 | "One Mo' Time" with Vernel Bagners premieres in New York City |
| 1979 | Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in New York for medical treatment |
| 1979 | Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest |
| 1978 | "King of Hearts" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| 1978 | 8th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:32:30 |
| 1978 | 9th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:12:12 |
| 1978 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Houston Exchange Golf Classic Clubs |
| 1978 | Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8) |
| 1978 | Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession |
| 1978 | Pope John Paul II installed |
| 1977 | International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 and 2 launched into Earth orbit |
| 1976 | Rick Barry (SF), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60 |
| 1975 | "Me and Bessie" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 453 performances |
| 1975 | Cincinnati Reds beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 72nd World Series |
| 1975 | Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus |
| 1975 | Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna |
| 1975 | World Football League disbands |
| 1974 | Yankees trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds |
| 1973 | Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon |
| 1973 | Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War |
| 1972 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA GAC Golf Classic |
| 1972 | Oakland A's 1st championship; beat Reds, 4 games to 3 in World Series |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1969 | KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara, California changes call letters to KDB-AM |
| 1969 | Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death |
| 1968 | Apollo 7 returns to Earth |
| 1967 | 17th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 23 -8 at Champions Golf Club Texas |
| 1967 | Joe DiMaggio is hired as executive Vice President of A's by Charlie Finley |
| 1967 | Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA Carlsbad Jaycee Golf Open |
| 1966 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon |
| 1964 | EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers," they go on to become The Who |
| 1964 | French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize |
| 1964 | U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss |
| 1963 | 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest |
| 1962 | John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba |
| 1962 | John F. Kennedy imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis |
| 1962 | John F. Kennedy receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote |
| 1962 | Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights and Flemish language in Belgium |
| 1961 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Golf Civitan |
| 1960 | Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer |
| 1959 | "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 448 performances |
| 1959 | Bob Merrill's musical "Take me Along," premieres in New York City |
| 1957 | Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany |
| 1957 | KJAC TV channel 4 in Port Arthur-Beaumont, Texas (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1956 | France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella |
| 1956 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| 1955 | WWNY TV channel 7 in Carthage-Watertown, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| 1953 | Laos gains full independence from France |
| 1951 | Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed |
| 1951 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1950 | Los Angeles Rams beat Baltimore Colts 70-27 |
| 1949 | 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland |
| 1949 | Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:21.2) |
| 1948 | Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel |
| 1946 | 2 British ships sink near Albania |
| 1944 | Kurita's Vice-Admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo |
| 1942 | 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland |
| 1942 | U.S. General Clark and Lemnitzer and French General Mast meet secretly in Algeria |
| 1941 | Maxwell Anderson's "Candle in the Wind," premieres in New York City |
| 1939 | 1st TV NFL game-Eagles vs Dodgers |
| 1938 | Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine |
| 1936 | 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii |
| 1935 | 18th PGA Championship: Johnny Revolta at Twin Hills CC Oklahoma City |
| 1933 | Primo Carnera beats Paulin in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1932 | Charles de Broqueville becomes premier of Belgium |
| 1932 | George Kaufman and Edna Ferbers "Dinner at 8," premieres in New York City |
| 1930 | 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult |
| 1930 | Blake and Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930," premieres in New York City |
| 1930 | South Carolina Genemuiden soccer team forms |
| 1929 | French government of Briand falls |
| 1929 | James H. Scullin forms Australia government |
| 1928 | China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants |
| 1928 | ESL Robinson's "Far-Off Hills," premieres in Dublin |
| 1928 | President Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism" |
| 1922 | Lucerne Street in Bronx named |
| 1922 | Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera |
| 1913 | Explosion at Dawson New Mexico coal mine kills 263 mine workers |
| 1907 | Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum and Bailey circus |
| 1906 | 3,000 blacks demonstrate and riot in Philadelphia |
| 1904 | Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship |
| 1899 | British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa |
| 1897 | World's 1st car dealer opens in London |
| 1895 | David Belasco's "Heart of Maryland," premieres in New York City |
| 1885 | John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players, 1st baseball union |
| 1884 | General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi |
| 1884 | Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds New York City to determine baseball champion |
| 1883 | 1st New York Horse Show held (Madison Square Garden) |
| 1883 | Original Metropolitan Opera House (New York City) grand opening (Faust) |
| 1881 | Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its 1st concert |
| 1875 | Sons of American Revolution organizes |
| 1868 | Jacques Offenbach's opera "Genevieve de Brabant," premieres in New York City |
| 1862 | Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory |
| 1862 | Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee |
| 1861 | 1st telegraph line linking West and East coasts completed |
| 1844 | 7th day adventists wait for appearance of Jesus |
| 1836 | Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of Republic of Texas |
| 1819 | 1st ship sails by Erie-channel (Rome-Utica) |
| 1812 | Duke of Wellington seizes Burgos Spain |
| 1799 | Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition |
| 1797 | 1st sky diver (Andre-Jacques Trim, above Paris) |
| 1797 | Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris) |
| 1746 | Princeton University (NJ) received its charter |
| 1721 | Czar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator" |
| 1708 | Great Alliance occupies Rijsel |
| 1335 | Ex-emperor Hanazono became a Zen priest |
