1873 – First women’s prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institution
1950 – Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for the first time and beat the Steelers 30-17
1961 – American Phil Hill’s Ferrari team does not participate in the season-ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, having already clinched the World Drivers’ Championship; English driver Innes Ireland wins Lotus’s first Grand Prix
1975 – San Antonio Spurs, then members of the ABA, defeat the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks 109-107 in the first basketball game played in the Louisiana Superdome
1977 – Largest baseball crowd in Pennsylvania, 64,924, sees Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in the 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
1980 – British Leyland starts selling the Mini Metro
2001 – US President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security
2012 – John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on reprogramming mature cells to become pluripotent