October 28, 1991: A storm hits the Northeastern U.S., and Canada's Maritime Provinces. It becomes known as the 1991 Perfect Storm, The No-Name, and the Halloween Gale.
Initially an extratropical cyclone, the storm absorbed Hurricane Grace to its south, and evolved into a small, never-named hurricane later in its life.
Damage from the storm totaled over $200 million, and 13 people were killed in total, 6 of which were an outcome of the sinking of a commercial fishing vessel, F/V Andrea Gail, off the coast of Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. The boat had left Gloucester, Massachusetts on September 20, and was heading for the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.
The boat's loss inspired a book, published in 1997, by Robert Case, a forecaster for the National Weather Service based in Boston, and journalist Sebastian Junger. They called it The Perfect Storm, after an expression used for a combination of meteorological phenomena that produces destructive results. It was made into a movie in 2000. Since then, the phrase "perfect storm" has come to mean any combination of events that forms any unusual result.
This Northeastern storm also caused another storm to, literally, stop cold over the Midwest, resulting in a Halloween Blizzard that dumped up to 3 feet of snow and killed 22 people.
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October 28, 1991 was a Monday. The baseball season had ended the day before, when the Minnesota Twins won Game 7, and thus the World Series, over the Atlanta Braves. Football was in midweek. The NBA season began 4 days later. On ABC Monday Night Football, the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Los Angeles Raiders, 24-21 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
There were 2 games in the NHL. The Toronto Maple Leafs and the St. Louis Blues played to a tie, 1-1 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. And the Los Angeles Kings beat the Detroit Red Wings, 4-3 at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.
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