1437 – Peasant uprising in Transsylvania
1809 – Royal Opera House in London opens
1882 – Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)
1929 – Pirates loss to Braves and clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
1959 – Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1965 – “I Dream of Jeannie”, starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, premieres on NBC
1965 – Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
1993 – Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, and Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3
2012 – The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike.