1783—Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock.
1863—Dr. Charles H. Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn.
1866—1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
1882—1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0.
1889—Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture.
1893—Nabisco Foods invents Cream of White.
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.
1927—“Jazz Singer,” 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
1946—90 degrees highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in October.
1956—Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine.
1961—JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters.
1965—Supremes release “I Hear a Symphony”
1966—Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout.
1974—“Mack & Mabel” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances.
1976—US President Gerald Ford says there is “no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe”
1979—Pope Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House in Washington, DC.
1990—Solar Polar Orbiter “Ulysses” launched.
1996—Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate.
2010—Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instagram.
2012—Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI’s butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.
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