This is what was happening on this day all those years ago ...and quite recently. (note to self: I should open that database and put a few of my own entries in there... ;) )

• 0891 - Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1111 - Boudouin VII becomes earl of Flanders
• 1499 - French king Louis XII occupies Milan
• 1567 - Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of Netherlands
• 1683 - 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Phila)
• 1689 - Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII
• 1762 - English troops occupy Manila Philippines
• 1777 - Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British [OS=Sept 27]
• 1781 - Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War
• 1783 - Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock
• 1799 - Battle at Castricum: French & Bataafs army beats English/Russian army
• 1811 - French emperor Napoleon visits Utrecht
• 1857 - American Chess Assn organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
• 1861 - Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert
• 1861 - Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
• 1863 - Battle at Baxter Springs Kansas
• 1863 - Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
• 1866 - 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
• 1869 - John Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer," premieres
• 1871 - Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour
• 1876 - American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
• 1882 - 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
• 1884 - Naval War College forms in Newport RI
• 1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Resident Patient" (BG)
• 1889 - Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
• 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
• 1890 - Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
• 1893 - Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
• 1898 - Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic
• 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
• 1908 - Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant
• 1908 - Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season
• 1910 - Braves beat Phillies 20-7
• 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
• 1912 - Pirates Owen "Chief" Wilson hits record 36th triple of season
• 1918 - US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die
• 1919 - Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria
• 1919 - White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series
• 1920 - 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleve's Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln
• 1921 - Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962)
• 1921 - Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yanks (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0
• 1922 - Schwebla replaces Benes govt in Czechoslavakia
• 1923 - 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
• 1923 - 2nd govt of Stresemann in Germany forms
• 1923 - US lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)
• 1923 - USSR adopts experimental calendar
• 1925 - Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen P ngulos arrested
• 1926 - Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5
• 1927 - "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
• 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
• 1929 - 12th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest CC Los Angeles
• 1931 - Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish Natl Solidarists)
• 1935 - Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
• 1935 - Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
• 1936 - NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series
• 1938 - Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
• 1939 - Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain
• 1939 - Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
• 1940 - Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF
• 1941 - German army occupies Briansk, USSR
• 1941 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series
• 1942 - Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
• 1943 - Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island
• 1943 - Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"
• 1944 - Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel
• 1944 - Canadians free Austria
• 1944 - HM Zwaardvis sinks U168 at Java
• 1944 - Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia
• 1945 - Gen 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 & is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs
• 1946 - 90øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
• 1946 - Pres Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
• 1947 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series
• 1948 - "Polonaise" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances
• 1948 - KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
• 1949 - Pres Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
• 1951 - Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb
• 1953 - WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1955 - LSD made illegal in US
• 1956 - Dmitri Shostakovitch'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
• 1957 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1957 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open
• 1958 - US nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole
• 1959 - Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
• 1959 - Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
• 1961 - JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
• 1961 - USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962 - 16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto
• 1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
• 1963 - Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show"
• 1963 - LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series
• 1964 - "Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
• 1965 - Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
• 1965 - William Goodhart's "Generation," premieres in NYC
• 1966 - Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout
• 1966 - Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor
• 1967 - Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies
• 1967 - USSR performs nuclear test
• 1969 - WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1972 - 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
• 1973 - Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel
• 1974 - "Mack & Mabel," opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances
• 1974 - Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic
• 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 - Pres Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
• 1977 - DL Coburns "Gin Game," premieres in NYC
• 1977 - Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game
• 1978 - Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of US 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 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5
• 1979 - Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9"
• 1979 - Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House
• 1980 - Guyana adopts constitution
• 1980 - John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges
• 1982 - Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
• 1982 - Fokker's Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die
• 1983 - Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs
• 1983 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
• 1983 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
• 1983 - NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands
• 1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1984 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open
• 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 & also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
• 1986 - Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean
• 1987 - Milt coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic
• 1988 - Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
• 1990 - Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun
• 1990 - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
• 1990 - Ulysses launched (Solar Polar Orbiter)
• 1991 - Elizabeth Taylor weds for 8th time (Larry Fortensky)
• 1991 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship
• 1991 - NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
• 1991 - Orioles last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers)
• 1993 - Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time
• 1994 - -9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria
• 1994 - Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa
• 1995 - BPAA US Women's Open won by Cheryl Daniels
• 1995 - Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
• 1996 - Bob Dole & Pres Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate
• 1996 - Caroline Pierce wins JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
• 1996 - Lois & Clark (fictional characters) wed
• 1996 - NY Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals