| 2012 | Amidst protests against austerity, the Portuguese government announces details of its draft budget for 2013 |
| 2012 | The premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, announces his resignation |
| 2011 | In Auckland, New Zealand, France defeats Wales 9-8 in the 2011 Rugby World Cup |
| 2011 | The El Paso natural gas exploration and pipeline company is purchased by Kinder Morgan for $21.1 billion in cash and stock |
| 2010 | China's largest fair, Canton Fair, opens and is closely watched as it is the barometer of the country's trade and economic development |
| 2010 | In the Swiss Alps, final breakthrough occurs on the east bore of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, now the world's longest railway tunnel |
| 2009 | Six people sentenced to death over ethnic rioting in July that killed almost 200 in the region of Xinjiang |
| 2005 | Qinghai-Tibet Railway is completed in China |
| 2003 | China sends Yang Liwei into orbit, the third country to have successfully sent a person into space |
| 1997 | Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (763.035 mph) |
| 1997 | Cleveland Indians beat Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 2 in ALCS |
| 1997 | Former rep Dan Rostenkowski released from custody for mail fraud |
| 1997 | New York jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988 |
| 1997 | U.S. launches nuclear powered Cassini to Saturn |
| 1995 | Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf |
| 1995 | Carolina Panthers win 1st game ever beating New York Jets 26-15 |
| 1994 | Botswana President Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election |
| 1994 | President Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti |
| 1993 | Amstel brewery on Curaeao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle |
| 1993 | Guardian Angel Lisa Evers Sliwa files for divorce from Curtis Sliwa |
| 1993 | Nelson Mandela and South Africa President F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1992 | Charles Taylor launches an offensive against Monrovia Liberia |
| 1992 | Howard Stern radio show begins broadcasting on WLUP-AM, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1992 | New York City Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train |
| 1991 | Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice |
| 1990 | Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1989 | Billy Graham is given 1,900th star on Hollywood Blvd |
| 1989 | South Africa President FW de Klerk frees Sisulu and 4 other political prisoners |
| 1989 | South african ANC-founder/leader Walter Sisulu freed |
| 1989 | Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howes as NHL's all time top scorer |
| 1988 | Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires |
| 1988 | NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards-Oklahoma) |
| 1988 | With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run home run to gives Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of World Series |
| 1987 | "Late Nite Comic" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1987 | 6th Belgium government of Martens falls |
| 1987 | Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies |
| 1987 | Lanford Wilson's "Burn This," premieres in New York City |
| 1987 | NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike |
| 1986 | Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 and win NL pennant |
| 1985 | Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani |
| 1985 | Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit |
| 1985 | Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds |
| 1984 | Central Intelligence Agency's Information Act passes |
| 1984 | Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud |
| 1983 | Black Hawks and Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds) |
| 1983 | Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games |
| 1983 | U.S. Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut International Airport |
| 1981 | New York Yankees capture 33rd AL pennant, sweeping 3 games from Oakland A's |
| 1980 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein |
| 1979 | 1st Monday night game from New York City, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stad) |
| 1979 | Chinese premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris |
| 1979 | Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees |
| 1979 | New York Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier |
| 1978 | Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1977 | Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal |
| 1977 | Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life," goes #1 and stays #1 for 10 weeks |
| 1977 | Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (11:30:51) |
| 1976 | 1st debate of major-ticket Vice President nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R) |
| 1976 | Ringo releases "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll" |
| 1975 | Iceland moves International boundary from 50 to 200 miles |
| 1974 | National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing |
| 1974 | Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules) |
| 1974 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL tie, playing Los Angeles Kings to 1-1 tie |
| 1973 | 7th Country Music Association Award: Roy Clark wins |
| 1973 | Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed |
| 1972 | 61st Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Bucharest (3-2) |
| 1972 | Omni in Atlanta opens - Hawks beat New York Knicks 109-101 |
| 1970 | Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt |
| 1970 | Baltimore Orioles beat Cincinnati Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series |
| 1970 | Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35 |
| 1970 | Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey |
| 1969 | Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated |
| 1969 | Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs. North Stars) |
| 1969 | New York Met Ron Swoboda's spectacular diving catch of sinking liner with runners at 1st and 3rd in 9th, Mets win in 10th in World Series game |
| 1969 | Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a World Series |
| 1969 | Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war |
| 1968 | AL expansion draft, Kansas City pick Roger Nelson and Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st |
| 1966 | Australia bans Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself," as "terribly obscene" |
| 1966 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill creating Department of Transportation (DOT) |
| 1965 | Dodgers and Sandy Koufax win 7th game of 62nd World Series vs Twins |
| 1965 | WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor, ME (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph |
| 1964 | Kosygin and Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev |
| 1964 | St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series |
| 1964 | New York Yankees appears in 14 and win 9 of last 16 World Series |
| 1963 | Ludwig Erhard follows Conrad Adenauer as West German Chancellor |
| 1962 | Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court |
| 1962 | WLOX TV channel 13 in Biloxi-Gulfport, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | "Laughs and Other Events" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| 1959 | "Untouchables" premieres |
| 1959 | KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1957 | Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for San Francisco Seals-franchises only, not the players |
| 1956 | Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8) |
| 1956 | William J Brennan, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court |
| 1956 | Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series |
| 1954 | Hurricane Hazel strikes U.S. and Canada, 348 die |
| 1954 | KLTV TV channel 7 in Tyler-Longview, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | John Patrick's "Teahouse of the Red Moon," premieres in New York City |
| 1953 | KOIN TV channel 6 in Portland, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WJNL (now WFAT) TV channel 19 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (IND) begins |
| 1952 | Arthur Laurent's "Time of the Cuckoo," premieres in New York City |
| 1951 | "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV |
| 1951 | Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty |
| 1949 | Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian government |
| 1949 | Billy Graham begins his ministry |
| 1949 | Tripura accedes to Indian union |
| 1948 | China's Red army occupies Chinchov |
| 1946 | Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140) |
| 1946 | St. Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series |
| 1946 | Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series |
| 1945 | Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest) |
| 1942 | German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die |
| 1941 | 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe |
| 1941 | Japan Tojo regime forms |
| 1941 | Jews caught outside Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death |
| 1940 | Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed |
| 1940 | London's Waterloo Station bombed by Germans |
| 1939 | LaGuardia Airport opens in New York City |
| 1939 | Yeshiva of Mir closes after 124 years |
| 1938 | Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in New York City |
| 1937 | Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not" published |
| 1937 | Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yankees release Tony Lazzeri |
| 1935 | NHL's St. Louis Eagles fold |
| 1933 | Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to New York Giants 56-0 |
| 1928 | German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, New Jersey |
| 1928 | Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators |
| 1926 | Austria government of Seipel, forms |
| 1926 | Philip Barry's "White Wings!," premieres in New York City |
| 1925 | Pittsburgh Pirates beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series |
| 1925 | Willem Landre's opera "Beatrice" premiers in The Hague |
| 1924 | President Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument |
| 1923 | New York Yankees 1st World Series win beating New York Giants, 4 games to 2 |
| 1919 | 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money |
| 1918 | British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6 |
| 1917 | Chicago White Sox beat New York Giants, 4 games to 2 in 14th World Series |
| 1914 | ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) founded |
| 1914 | Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends Oct 21) |
| 1914 | Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union and strike rights) |
| 1913 | Train crash in Liverpool during "Black Week" |
| 1912 | Red Sox Tris Speaker's makes only world series unassisted double play, from the outfield |
| 1905 | Claude Debussy's "La Mer," premieres |
| 1905 | Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands |
| 1899 | Cincinnati closes season with 16-1 and 19-3 victories over Cleveland Spiders |
| 1897 | Aaron/Samuel Bloch carry 1st Mail Pouch |
| 1897 | King Leopold II takes Belgian crown |
| 1894 | Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage |
| 1890 | Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham |
| 1889 | Amsterdam Central Station officially opens |
| 1885 | Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of season |
| 1883 | Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional |
| 1881 | 1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published |
| 1880 | Koln cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun |
| 1878 | Edison Electric Light Company incorporated |
| 1877 | 45th Congress (1877-79) convenes |
| 1874 | Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force |
| 1866 | Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses |
| 1864 | Confederate troops occupy Glasgow, Missouri |
| 1863 | Cliff House opens in San Francisco (1st of many on site) |
| 1860 | 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard |
| 1846 | Dr. William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether |
| 1842 | Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung |
| 1827 | Charles Darwin reaches Christ's Counsel, Cambridge |
| 1815 | Napoleon Bonaparte exiled on Island of St. Helena |
| 1789 | 1st presidental tour - George Washington in New England |
| 1786 | Earliest 32 degrees F (0 degrees C) recorded temp in New York City |
| 1783 | Jean Pilatre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent |
| 1777 | Major James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queen's Rangers |
| 1756 | Saxon army surrenders to Prussia |
| 1724 | Cornelis Steenoven is 1st archbishop of Old-Catholic church |
| 1705 | English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona |
| 1660 | Asser Levy granted butchers license (kosher meat) in New Amsterdam |
| 1655 | Jews of Lublin are massacred |
| 1654 | Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Overijssel |
| 1641 | Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal |
| 1598 | Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine |
| 1582 | Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days |
| 1581 | Commissioned by Catherine De Medici, the 1st ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine," is staged in Paris |
| 1522 | Emperor Karel I names Hernan Cortes governor of Mexico |
| 1520 | King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall |
| 1501 | English crown prince Arthur marries Catharina of Aragon |
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