1282 – Nichiren Daishonin, founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism, dies, his ashes are interred at Taisekiji Temple
1890 – The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
1921 – Baseball World Series: NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 1-0 at the Polo Grounds for a 5-3 series win; final WS played in best-of-nine format; Yankees first ever WS appearance
1949 – “Touch and Go” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 176 performances
1964 – Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser wins her third consecutive Olympic 100m freestyle gold medal at the Tokyo Games; Olympic record 59.05s
1975 – Rock vocalist Neil Young undergoes throat surgery
1975 – 9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins
1982 – IOC Executive Committee approves the reinstatement of Jim Thorpe’s gold medals from the 1912 Olympics
1993 – Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.
2019 – Kurdish forces make a deal with Syrian army for them to patrol border areas in north east Syria to combat Turkish offensive after US President Donald Trump pulls out US forces