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13 German Mennonite families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in present-day  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the ship Concord to begin one of America’s oldest settlements – Germantown.

Babe Ruth hit three homeruns in one World Series game, a record shared with only one other Major League ball-player, Reggie Jackson, also in a Yankee uniform.  The game was played at Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis, Missouri.

The era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of “The Jazz Singer,” starring Al Jolson.

In a speech to the Reichstag, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler spoke of his plans to reorder the ethnic layout of Europe – a plan which would entail settling the “Jewish problem.”

In Game 4 of the World Series played at Wrigley Field, Billy Goat Tavern owner “Billy Goat” Sianis bought a seat for his goat and was escorted out of the stadium and cast a goat curse on the Chicago Cubs.

Joseph Stalin proclaimed that the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb.

The New York Mets won the National League Championship, defeating the Atlanta Braves, 7-4, at Shea Stadium.

A caravan of Native Americans departed from the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle and ended in Washington, D.C. in an attempt to meet with United States Government leaders in an attempt to raise national awareness of issues related to Indian-federal relations. This trek was called the Trail of Broken Treaties.

War erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday. (Israel, initially caught off-guard, suffered heavy losses before a cease-fire finally took hold in the nearly three-week conflict.)

Pope John Paul II, on a week-long U.S. tour, became the first Pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by Moslem fundamentalists while reviewing a military parade.

Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a fence. He died five days later.