1651 – English parliament passes Navigation Act
1655 – Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow
1855 – American inventor Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
1958 – NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series
1961 – World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
1961 – Volcanic eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
1971 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 – Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
1997 – Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico
2011 – German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel finishes 3rd in the Japanese F1 Grand Prix to clinch his second consecutive World Drivers Championship