AP US History This Day in American History October – At 2:35 on the afternoon of October 27, 1904, New York City Mayor George McClellan takes the controls on the inaugural run of the city's innovative new rapid transit system: the subway.

AP US History This Day in American History October – Complicated and tension-filled negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union finally result in a plan to end the two-week- old Cuban Missile Crisis. A frightening period in which nuclear holocaust seemed imminent began to come to an end.

AP US History This Day in American History October The U.S. Justice Department announces that the U.S. prison population has topped one million for the first time in American history. The figure—1,012,851 men and women were in state and federal prisons—did not even include local prisons, where an estimated 500,000 prisoners were held, usually for short periods. The recent increase, due to tougher sentencing laws, made the United States second only to Russia in the world for incarceration rates.

AP US History This Day in American History October – The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time since 1918, finally vanquishing the so- called "Curse of the Bambino" that had plagued them for 86 years. "This is for anyone who has ever rooted for the Red Sox," the team’s GM told reporters after the game. "This is for all of Red Sox Nation, past and present."