876 – Battle at Andernach: East Frankish king Louis the Younger heavily defeats the West Frankish king Charles the Bald
1906 – Karl Nessler demonstrates the first “permanent wave” for hair in London
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
1982 – MGM releases comedy film “My Favorite Year,” directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Peter O’Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, and Joseph Bologna
1983 – MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Los Angeles Dodgers 3-1
1986 – “The Color of Money,” directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise, premieres in New York City
2012 – 35 people are killed when a Nigerian military bomb strikes a convoy in Maiduguri