1876 – First two-way telephone conversation over outdoor wires
1910 – Nap Lajoie challenges Ty Cobb’s batting average with eight hits, six of which are bunts, as Browns’ third baseman Red Corriden plays deep, but Cobb still wins
1921 – Babe Ruth hits 1st World Series home run; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1968 – 2,000 students from Queen’s University Belfast try to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against “police brutality” but are blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley, leading to the formation of the student civil rights group People’s Democracy
1983 – Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) bombing: North Korean agents attempt to assassinate the South Korean President, resulting in 21 deaths, including 9 South Korean government officials, presidential advisors, security team members, and 3 reporters
1986 – Stage musical “The Phantom of the Opera,” written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, premieres in London and runs for 13,629 performances
1992 – An estimated 13-kilogram meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family’s 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
2012 – Women’s rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot by a Taliban gunman as she tries to board her school bus in the Swat district of northwest Pakistan