1884 – Naval War College forms in Newport, Rhode Island.
1893 – Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat.
1908 – Detroit Tigers beat Chicago White Sox 7-0 to win American League pennant.
1921 – Century Theater opens at 7th & 59th St. in New York City (demolished 1962)
1935 – Market Street Railway, San Francisco, starts using trackless trolley coaches.
1946 – 90 degrees F, highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in October.
1949 – President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1960 – “Spartacus”, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, premieres in New York City.
1961 – President John Kennedy advises Americans to build fallout shelters.
1966 – LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in the state of California, other states follow.
1976 – President Gerald Ford says there is “no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe.”
1979 – Pope John Paul II is first Pope to visit The White House, meeting with President Jimmy Carter in Washington, D.C.
1985 – New York Yankees knuckleballer Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games. At 46 he becomes the oldest to pitch a shutout, beating Toronto 8-0.
1990 – United States’ 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit.
1993 – After 9 seasons & 3 championships with Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the NBA; returns on March 18, 1995 and leads Bulls to another 3 NBA titles.
2009 – Manhattan Records releases “The List”, the twelfth album by singer Rosanne Cash with song selections culled from a list of 100 titles that her father compiled and gave her when she decided to pursue a career in music. The album features guest appearances by Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Tweedy, Elvis Costello and Rufus Wainwright.
2013 – Presidents Cup Golf, Muirfield Village GC: US wins for 5th time with an 18½-15½ victory over the International team.
2018 – Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed and sworn onto the Supreme Court amid protests and after an FBI investigation.
2021 – Carnegie Hall in New York City reopens after an 18-month pandemic shut down with a concert by The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nezel Seguin.
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