1920 - 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleveland's Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Brooklyn
1942 - Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
1945 - Memorial for the executed unveiled in Terbregge, Netherlands
2013 - Presidents Cup Golf, Muirfield Village GC: US wins for 5th successive time with an 18½–15½ victory over the International team
2018 - Oil tanker collision with a car leaves at least 50 people dead and one hundred with serious burns near Kisantu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
1459 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer, designed the Erdapfel, the oldest terrestrial globe in the world, born in Nuremberg, Germany (d. 1507)
1618 - Miguel Gómez Camargo, Spanish Baroque composer, born in Avila, Spain (d. 1690)
1946 - Millie Small, Jamaican ska singer, and songwriter ("My Boy Lollipop"), born in Clarendon, Jamaica (d. 2020)
1974 - Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer, born in Palmar Sur, Costa Rica
1988 - Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress known for " Nobuta wo Produce", born in Tokyo, Japan
1861 - Elias Canneman, Dutch liberal politician and minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84
1992 - Denholm Elliott, British actor (Alfie; A Room with a View; Raiders of the Lost Ark), dies of tuberculosis at 70
2004 - (Hillegonda) "Hilly" Axwijk, Suriname-Dutch social worker and women's rights activist, dies at 69
2006 - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
2011 - Brad Felt, American jazz tuba and euphonium player, composer, and bandleader, dies of pancreatic cancer at 55
On October 6, 1866, the Reno brothers stage the first moving train robbery in American history, making off with $13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson County, Indiana.