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Mookie Wilson's two-run at bat won Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.

The 1986 New York Mets season began on April 8, 1986. It concluded on October 27 with a Mets victory in Game 7 of the World Series, for their second and most recent World Series title. The Mets had narrowly missed winning the NL East in 1985, but in 1986 were not seriously challenged, winning the division by 21½ games. They defeated the Houston Astros in six games in the NLCS, with the Mets erasing a three-run ninth-inning deficit and winning Game 6 in sixteen innings. They played the Boston Red Sox in the World Series and, in Game 6 of that series, trailing three games to two, they rallied from two runs down with two outs and none on base in the tenth inning. The Mets won that game on an error by Bill Buckner, winning Game 7 two days later. The 1986 Mets have been described as one of the best teams in major league history, but their failure to sustain their success marred their legacy. Many team members drank heavily and the 1986 Mets became known for their lifestyle off the field. (Full article...)

Construction of Englewood Methodist Church

• ... that crews assembled the structure of Englewood Methodist Church (pictured) in just four days by using Thomas Moore's design for precast concrete panels?
• ... that Otonose Kanade sang one song 100 times during a 6-hour 48-minute livestream?
• ... that rights to make a film adaptation based on the novel Submarine were arranged before it was published?
• ... that Lázaro Peña was arrested multiple times for his labor activism, including in 1953 for alleged "subversive activity"?
• ... that the video game Old Skies was praised for its handling of a time traveler revisiting events surrounding the September 11 attacks?
• ... that a 1982 anthology referred to Romanian writer Tiberiu Iliescu as still "honing [his] craft" – four years after his death aged 71?
• ... that the Neptune Theatre Restaurant had its own in-house dance troupe?
• ... that Jean-Jacques Moll made plans for cities of 100,000 inhabitants that could be built anywhere on a relatively flat site?
• ... that a cookbook from Victorian Britain contained recipes for parrot pie and roast wallaby?

Two aircraft mechanics servicing a rotary aircraft engine

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Hôtel de Ville the day after the fire

• In the Serbian parliamentary election, the Student List wins a majority of seats, defeating former President Aleksandar Vučić.
• Two high-impact security vulnerabilities in PHP cause disruptions to many online services.
• A drone attack on a market in the disputed Abyei region on the South Sudan–Sudan border kills at least 220 people.
• The Hôtel de Ville in Limoges is partially destroyed by arson (damage pictured) amid fuel and student protests in France.

October 27

Michael D. Higgins

• 1726 – In Leipzig, J. S. Bach led the first performance of Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, one of the few works that he called a cantata.
• 1904 – The first underground segment of the New York City Subway opened, connecting New York City Hall with Harlem.
• 1946 – Inter-religious riots in which Hindu mobs targeted Muslim families began in the Indian state of Bihar, resulting in thousands of deaths.
• 2011 – Michael D. Higgins (pictured) was elected President of Ireland with far more votes than any politician in the country's history.