1873 - First women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institution 1950 - Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for the first time and beat the Steelers 30-17 1961 - American Phil Hill's Ferrari team does not participate in the season-ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, having already clinched the World Drivers' Championship; English driver Innes Ireland wins Lotus's first Grand Prix 1975 - San Antonio Spurs, then members of the ABA, defeat the NBA's Atlanta Hawks 109-107 in the first basketball game played in the Louisiana Superdome 1977 - Largest baseball crowd in Pennsylvania, 64,924, sees Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in the 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant) 1980 - British Leyland starts selling the Mini Metro 2001 - US President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security 2012 - John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on reprogramming mature cells to become pluripotent More Historical Events »