Local

Oct. 7, 1989: A Piper Aztec twin engine airplane sustained $13,000 in damage as a result of a gas heater explosion. The Albert Lea Fire Department was dispatched to the airport to extinguish the resulting fire.

Oct. 9, 1989: A small plane crashed in a bean field near Delavan, killing two people. According to Faribault County Deputy Sheriff Jerry Kabe, the pilot lost control after hitting a power line.

Oct. 10, 1989: Eight felony counts were filed against a 12-year-old boy from Northfield after two people were hit by gunfire while traveling down Interstate 35. A man from Austin was shot in the neck, and a woman from Des Moines was struck in the head. The boy told authorities that he had been target shooting.

National

1871: The Great Chicago Fire erupted; fires also broke out in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and in several communities in Michigan.

1934: Bruno Hauptmann was indicted by a grand jury in New Jersey for murder in the death of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

1956: Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series to date as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5, 2-0.

1997: Scientists reported the Mars Pathfinder had yielded what could be the strongest evidence yet that Mars might once have been hospitable to life.

1998: The House triggered an open-ended impeachment inquiry against President Bill Clinton in a momentous 258-176 vote; 31 Democrats joined majority Republicans in opening the way for nationally televised impeachment hearings.

2002: A federal judge approved President George W. Bush’s request to reopen West Coast ports, ending a 10-day labor lockout that was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 to $2 billion a day.

2005: A magnitude 7.6 earthquake flattened villages on the Pakistan-India border, killing an estimated 86,000 people.

2009: An Arizona sweat lodge ceremony turned deadly as some participants became ill and collapsed inside the 415-square-foot structure; three died. The motivational speaker who led the ceremony was convicted in 2011 of three counts of negligent homicide.

2014: Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who was the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas 10 days after being admitted.

2017: Harvey Weinstein was fired from The Weinstein Company amid allegations that he was responsible for decades of sexual harassment against actresses and employees.

— Information gathered from Albert Lea Tribune and Associated Press.