| 2012 | The governing Worker's Party takes control of Brazil's financial capital and largest city when Fernando Haddad is elected mayor of Sao Paulo |
| 2012 | Publishers Penguin and Random House merge to become Penguin Random House, the largest publisher in the world |
| 2011 | A lockout causes the Australia's Qantas airlines to ground its entire fleet while it handles the ongoing industrial dispute |
| 2011 | Millions lose power after the northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic United States are struck by a rare October snow storm |
| 2010 | Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission and the Tokyo Stock Exchange conduct an insider trading investigation of Japanese companies |
| 2010 | A series of eight 3G wireless transmitters have been installed along the trail to base camps on Mount Everest, with coverage reaching the summit |
| 2009 | Oil giant Dutch Shell warns its outlook remains uncertain after reporting its quarterly profit fell by 73% |
| 2008 | Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines merge |
| 1999 | Cyclone/tidal surge kills as many as 10,000 in eastern India |
| 1998 | John Glenn returns to space at the age of 77 as a payload specialist on the Discovery |
| 1995 | "Fool Moon" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City |
| 1995 | Sunday New York News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25 |
| 1995 | U.S. beats Japan, 19-17, at Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament |
| 1994 | Antonov AN-12 having an accident at Ust-Ilimsk Kaluga, 21 killed |
| 1994 | New York Lotto pays $60 million+ |
| 1994 | National Museum of American Indian opens (New York City) |
| 1993 | Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86 |
| 1991 | Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as New York Yankee manager |
| 1990 | 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria |
| 1989 | Colleen Walker wins LPGA Nichirei Golf International |
| 1989 | New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority opens 63rd street extension to subway |
| 1989 | Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions |
| 1988 | 2,000 U.S. anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics |
| 1988 | China announces a herbal male contraceptive |
| 1988 | Jim Elliott (U.S.) begins 24-hour paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi |
| 1988 | Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed) |
| 1987 | "Don't Get God Started" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 86 performances |
| 1987 | Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title |
| 1986 | Kirk Muller scores New Jersey Devil record 6 point, beat Penguins, 8-6 |
| 1986 | Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs |
| 1986 | West Indies all out for 53 vs. Pakistan (Abdul Qadir 6-16) |
| 1985 | Cards' Joaquin Andujar suspended for 10 games for bumping an ump |
| 1984 | Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) and Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win New York Marathon |
| 1983 | Notre Dame's Gil Fenerty rushes for 337 yards and 6 touchdowns |
| 1982 | Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted |
| 1982 | Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "Girl is Mine" |
| 1981 | Bill Giles becomes CEO of Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1979 | Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time) |
| 1979 | Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
| 1977 | "Act" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 233 performances |
| 1977 | Texas' Russell Erideben kicks his 3rd 60 yard field goal of the season |
| 1977 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1975 | Boston's Fred Lynn is the overwhelming choice as AL Rookie of Year |
| 1975 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1974 | Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application |
| 1972 | Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal |
| 1972 | Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
| 1970 | WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, Georgia (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1969 | Tom Seaver voted NL Cy Young Award |
| 1969 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1968 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| 1967 | Danny Abramowicz begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions |
| 1967 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1967 | MacDermot, Ragni and Rado's musical "Hair," premieres in New York City |
| 1966 | Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon: 6.7 degrees N 162 degrees E |
| 1966 | National Organization of Women founded |
| 1965 | U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians |
| 1964 | Bobby Simpson completes cricket century in each innings vs. Pakistan |
| 1964 | Karmi'el founded in Galilee |
| 1964 | Star of India and other jewels are stolen in New York |
| 1964 | Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee |
| 1964 | United Rep of Tanganyika and Zanzibar renamed United Rep of Tanzania |
| 1963 | "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published |
| 1961 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1960 | Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16 |
| 1960 | Muhammad Ali's 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6 |
| 1959 | 10 nation soccer league to play all games on New York Randalls Is, announced |
| 1958 | Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature |
| 1958 | Dr. F. Mason Sones is 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1957 | Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament) |
| 1956 | Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up |
| 1956 | International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco |
| 1956 | Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran |
| 1955 | Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours) |
| 1955 | Emile Zatopek runs world record 15 mile (1:14:01) and 25,000m (1:16:36) |
| 1954 | Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership |
| 1954 | Sweden begins experimental TV |
| 1953 | A Baltimore group purchases St. Louis Browns |
| 1950 | British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns |
| 1950 | Wally Triplett avgs 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns |
| 1950 | Cleveland Browns' Marion Motley sets record for highest avg gain in a game with 17.1 (10 attempts), Cleveland 45, Pittsburgh 7 |
| 1949 | White Sox trade Joe Tipton to A's for Nellie Fox |
| 1948 | Israeli forces liberate Meron and Gush-Halev |
| 1947 | Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherland form Benelux Union |
| 1947 | Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam |
| 1945 | 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented |
| 1945 | Happy Chandler, resigns as U.S. Senator, remains as baseball commish |
| 1944 | 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda, Netherlands |
| 1944 | Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland |
| 1943 | 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3 |
| 1942 | 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault |
| 1942 | Alaska highway completed |
| 1942 | Branch Rickey named president/General Manager of Brooklyn Dodgers |
| 1942 | Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union |
| 1941 | Cole Porters musical "Let's Face It," premieres in New York City |
| 1940 | Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in U.S. history |
| 1939 | Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure) |
| 1939 | NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 |
| 1932 | French liner Normandie is launched |
| 1931 | Lefty Grove, A's pitcher who won 31 games, is named the AL's MVP |
| 1930 | 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach |
| 1929 | Black Tuesday, Stock Market crashes triggers Great Depression |
| 1924 | "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater |
| 1924 | Labour loses British parliamentary election |
| 1923 | "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway |
| 1923 | Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon |
| 1923 | Gibbs/Grey/Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild," premieres in New York City |
| 1923 | Textile strike in Enschede, Netherlands, against lower wages, begins |
| 1923 | Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire) |
| 1920 | Ed Barrow appointed General Manager of New York Yankees |
| 1915 | Aristide Briand becomes premier of France |
| 1915 | Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia |
| 1914 | Turkish warships storm Black Sea |
| 1910 | Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game |
| 1905 | Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fataly injured |
| 1904 | 1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City and Snyder, Texas) |
| 1904 | IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) subway (New York City) opens |
| 1894 | 1st election of Hawaiian Republic |
| 1889 | New York Giants (NL) beat Brooklyn (AA) in world series 6 games to 3 |
| 1889 | Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia |
| 1889 | Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC |
| 1888 | Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company |
| 1872 | J. S. Risdon patents metal windmill |
| 1867 | Mail packets "Rhone" and "Wye" capsizes off St. Thomas Virgin Islands |
| 1864 | Greek parliament accept new Constitution |
| 1863 | International Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963) |
| 1833 | 1st U.S. college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded |
| 1814 | "Demologos," 1st steam-powered warship, is launched |
| 1811 | 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans |
| 1794 | French troops occupies Venlo |
| 1787 | Opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague) |
| 1727 | Severe earthquake in New England |
| 1709 | England/Netherlands sign anti-French "Barrieretraktaat" |
| 1682 | William Penn lands at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania |
| 1591 | Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX |
| 1552 | Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle |
| 1508 | Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre |
| 439 | Vandalen under Genseric occupy Carthago |
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