1889 – 1st all NYC World Series NY Giants (NL) play Bkln (AA)
1918 – NHL’s Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P. J. Quinn
1962 – US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon
1968 – Circus Circus hotel opens in Las Vegas, largest permanent big top in the world
1969 – Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
1977 – West German commandos liberate Boeing 737 with 86 hostages at Mogadishu
1992 – Start of Zimbabwe’s 1st Test match, v India at Harare
2009 – QB Tom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdown passes in one quarter
2012 – Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan
2019 – 1st all-female spacewalk by NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir outside the International Space Station