| 2012 | John Hume, Ireland's former Social Democratic Party Leader, receives the papal knighthood at a special mass at St. Eugene's Cathedral in Derry |
| 2012 | Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, says Islam should join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
| 2011 | The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer |
| 2011 | The Bank of England pumps an additional 75 billion pounds into the British economy via quantitative easing |
| 2010 | In North Waziristan, Pakistan, 11 suspected militants are killed by a U.S. drone attack |
| 2010 | Pusan, South Korea, celebrates the 15th annual Pusan International Film Festival |
| 2000 | Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resigns |
| 1996 | Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate |
| 1996 | Caroline Pierce wins JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
| 1996 | New York Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals |
| 1995 | BPAA U.S. Women's Open won by Cheryl Daniels |
| 1995 | Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit |
| 1994 | European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria |
| 1994 | Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa |
| 1993 | Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time |
| 1991 | Elizabeth Taylor weds for 8th time (Larry Fortensky) |
| 1991 | Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship |
| 1991 | New York Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies |
| 1991 | Orioles last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Detroit Tigers) |
| 1990 | Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun |
| 1990 | U.S. 67th manned space mission STS-41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit |
| 1988 | Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant |
| 1987 | Military coup leader Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic |
| 1986 | Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
| 1985 | Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia |
| 1985 | Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games and also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0 |
| 1984 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open |
| 1983 | Buffalo Bill quarterback Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs |
| 1983 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1983 | Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick |
| 1983 | New York Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1982 | Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals |
| 1982 | Fokker's Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk, Netherlands, 17-22 die |
| 1980 | Guyana adopts constitution |
| 1980 | John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges |
| 1979 | Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yards 1'9" |
| 1979 | Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House |
| 1978 | Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of U.S. university (Chic) |
| 1978 | Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person |
| 1978 | Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls" |
| 1978 | Royals' George Brett hits 3 home runs, Yankees win championship game 3, 6-5 |
| 1977 | DL Coburns "Gin Game," premieres in New York City |
| 1977 | Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat Kansas City Royals 5-3 in 5th and deciding playoff game |
| 1976 | "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing |
| 1976 | Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack |
| 1976 | John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent |
| 1976 | President Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe" |
| 1974 | "Mack and Mabel," opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 66 performances |
| 1974 | Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel |
| 1972 | 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico |
| 1969 | WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1966 | Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout |
| 1966 | Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor |
| 1965 | Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony" |
| 1965 | William Goodhart's "Generation," premieres in New York City |
| 1964 | "Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 23 performances |
| 1963 | Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show" |
| 1963 | Los Angeles Dodgers sweep New York Yankees, in 60th World Series |
| 1962 | 16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy advises Americans to build fallout shelters |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar and Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1959 | Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA) |
| 1959 | Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon |
| 1958 | U.S. nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1957 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open |
| 1956 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad |
| 1956 | Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine |
| 1956 | South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan |
| 1955 | LSD made illegal in U.S. |
| 1953 | WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb |
| 1949 | Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years and $10,000 fine |
| 1949 | President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO) |
| 1948 | "Polonaise" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 113 performances |
| 1948 | KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series |
| 1946 | 90 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct |
| 1946 | President Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine |
| 1945 | General Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train) |
| 1945 | Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge |
| 1945 | Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series and is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs |
| 1944 | Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel |
| 1944 | Canadians free Austria |
| 1944 | HM Zwaardvis sinks U168 at Java |
| 1944 | Soviets march into Hungary and Czechoslovakia |
| 1943 | Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island |
| 1943 | Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution" |
| 1942 | Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram |
| 1941 | German army occupies Briansk, U.S.S.R. |
| 1941 | New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series |
| 1940 | Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat and Skyline in SF |
| 1939 | Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain |
| 1939 | Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem |
| 1938 | Yankees Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss |
| 1936 | New York Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series |
| 1935 | Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia |
| 1935 | Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches |
| 1931 | Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists) |
| 1929 | 12th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest CC Los Angeles |
| 1928 | 11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms CC Baltimore |
| 1928 | Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China |
| 1928 | Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail |
| 1927 | "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (New York City) |
| 1926 | Babe Ruth hits 3 home runs in a World Series game, Yankees beat Cards 10-5 |
| 1925 | Greek premier Papanastasiou orders General Pangulos arrested |
| 1923 | 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies) |
| 1923 | 2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms |
| 1923 | U.S. lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record) |
| 1923 | U.S.S.R. adopts experimental calendar |
| 1922 | Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslovakia |
| 1921 | Century Theater opens at 7th Ave and 59th St. New York City (demolished 1962) |
| 1921 | Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yankees (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0 |
| 1920 | 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleveland's Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln |
| 1919 | Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria |
| 1919 | White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series |
| 1918 | U.S. ship Otranto sinks between Scotland and Ireland, 425 die |
| 1912 | Pirates Owen "Chief" Wilson hits record 36th triple of season |
| 1911 | Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot |
| 1911 | Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game |
| 1910 | Braves beat Phillies 20-7 |
| 1908 | Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 1908 | Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant |
| 1908 | Yankees lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season |
| 1898 | Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic |
| 1893 | Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat |
| 1890 | Mormon Church outlaws polygamy |
| 1889 | Moulin Rogue opens in Paris |
| 1889 | Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture |
| 1886 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Resident Patient" |
| 1884 | Naval War College forms in Newport RI |
| 1882 | 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0 |
| 1876 | American Library Association organized in Philadelphia |
| 1871 | Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour |
| 1869 | John Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer," premieres |
| 1866 | 1st train robbery in U.S. (Reno Brothers take $13,000) |
| 1863 | Battle at Baxter Springs Kansas |
| 1863 | Dr. Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn |
| 1861 | Naval Engagement at Charleston, South Carolina USS Flag vs BR Alert |
| 1861 | Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg |
| 1857 | American Chess Association organized; 1st major U.S. chess tournament (New York City) |
| 1811 | French emperor Napoleon visits Utrecht |
| 1799 | Battle at Castricum: French and Bataafs army beats English/Russian army |
| 1783 | Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock |
| 1781 | Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War |
| 1777 | Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British |
| 1762 | English troops occupy Manila Philippines |
| 1689 | Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII |
| 1567 | Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of Netherlands |
| 1499 | French king Louis XII occupies Milan |
| 1111 | Boudouin VII becomes earl of Flanders |
| 891 | Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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