Today in History

1998 -World Series, New York Yankees beat San Diego Padres 4 games to 0
1997 -Elton John's tribute to Princess Diana breaks world record, 318 million distributed
1997 -Cleveland Marquis Grissom hit in his 15th straight World Series game (streak ends at 15, he is 2nd to Hank Baur with 17)
1991 -Former California Governor Jerry Brown announce run for presidency
1989 -Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in San Francisco earthquake
1988 -Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges
1984 -Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal
1980 -1st (& only) time Phillies win World Series (in 98 years)
1976 -American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1976 -Cincinnati Reds sweep New York Yankees, in 73rd World Series
1975 -Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
1975-Elton John given a star in Hollywood
1975-Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit planet Venus launched
1970-Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
1970-Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
1967-Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon
1966-144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales
1964-Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta
1961-Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones"
1960-John F. Kennedy and Nixon clashed in 4th and final presidential debate (New York City)
1959-Guggenheim Museum, by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in N.Y.C.
1957-Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens
1950-Death penality abolished in Belgium
1950-Patty Berg wins LPGA Hardscrabble Women's Golf Invitation
1948-Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington D.C.)
1948-U.N. reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
1945-Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
1940-RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands
1918-Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min
1917-1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I
1916-U.S. Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps
1915 -1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Virginia to Paris
1914 -Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
1879-Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1858-In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed
1805- Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson defeats French and Spanish fleet and dies
1797- U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
1727- Russian and Chinese accord to correct boundaries
1555- English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king
1492- Columbus' discovers America (Oct 12, 1492 Julian calender)
1096- Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders
686 -Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope
335 -Constantinople emperor Constantine the Great rules laws against Jews