1588 – Remnants of Medina Sidonia’s Spanish Armada returns to Santander, Spain
1934 – Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen attain record balloon height of 10.9 miles (17.5 km) over Lake Erie
1944 – Soviet army invades Hungary
1974 – Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks’ Big Creek Reservation dedicated
1978 – Punk rock singer Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker’s Detention Center in NYC
1997 – At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a power blackout due to sabotage
2008 – Joe Sakic scores his final career goal (#625) against the Edmonton Oilers
2009 – The UK markets had contracted by 0.4% in the third quarter against what was expected to be a period of growth, as a result of unexpectedly poor performance by the service sector
2010 – MLB National League Championship: San Francisco Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2
2012 – 12 people are killed and 40 are injured in a hospital fire in Tainan, Taiwan