1864 – Battle of Westport, Missouri: Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price
1886 – “World Championship” Baseball Series, Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis: St.L Browns edge Chicago White Stockings, 4-3 in 10 innings in Game 6 to take series, 4-2
1954 – Britain, France and US agree to end occupation of Germany
1957 – First test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1958 – Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1974 – Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks’ Big Creek Reservation dedicated
1978 – CBS raises LP prices to $8.98
1978 – China and Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension
2001 – Apple releases the iPod
2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.