1898 – Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic concert
1908 – Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
1936 – Baseball World Series: Yankees beat Giants, 13-5 at the Polo Grounds to win all-New York series, 4-2
1939 – Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain
1944 – Canadians free Austria
1949 – US President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1959 – Chicago White Sox beat LA Dodgers, 1-0 in Game 5 of Baseball World Series at LA Memorial Coliseum; World Series record attendance 92,706
1963 – LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series
1973 – Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
2017 – British writer Kazuo Ishiguro is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature