1916 – Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeats Cumberland 222-0. It’s the most lopsided score in the history of college football.
1919 – KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, established (oldest existing airline).
1936 – 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel.
1940 – World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1942 – United States and United Kingdom government announces establishment of United Nations.
1950 – Baseball World Series: New York Yankees beat Philadelphia Phillies 5-2 at Yankee Stadium to sweep series 4-0 for 13th World Series title in team history. MVP: New York second baseman Jerry Coleman.
1950 – United States forces invade North Korea by crossing 38th parallel.
1952 – First “Bandstand” broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute host).
1958 – United States manned space flight project renamed Project Mercury.
1963 – Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190.
1973 – Iraq nationalizes Exxon and Mobil shares in Basrah Petroleum Company representing 23.75 percent of equity in the company.
1979 – Cleveland Browns’ Dino Hall sets records with 9 kickoff returns.
1984 – Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL’s career rushing leader.
1991 – Law professor Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments to her.
1996 – Rupert Murdoch launches Fox News with Roger Ailes as CEO.
2001 – Crude oil resumes flowing through the Trans-Atlantic pipeline after workers welded shut a bullet hole that caused 260,000 gallons of oil to spill out.
2007 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, Baltimore CC: Loren Roberts wins his third of four Champions Tour major titles by 6 strokes from Tom Watson.
2018 – Limousine crash kills 20 people, including two pedestrians, in Schoharie, New York.
2020 – Hurricane Delta makes landfall on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, with 100 mph winds, the 25th named storm for 2020.
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