1772 – New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine.
1789 – Edmund J. Randolph becomes 1st US Attorney General.
1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.
1892 – 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa’s band (NJ).
1914 – Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce.
1933 – Sidney Kingsley’s “Men in White” premieres in NYC.
1947 – Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series.
1954 – Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd & Mickey Mantle plays shortstop.
1955 – NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929.
1957 – Bernstein & Sondheim’s musical “West Side Story” premieres at the Winter Garden Theater in NYC.
1960 – 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago).
1962 – TV comedy series “Beverly Hillbillies” premieres on CBS.
1964 – “Gilligan’s Island”, starring Bob Denver as Gilligan, debuts on CBS.
1979 – 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million.
1988 – NYC’s Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark.
1993 – Seattle’s Randy Johnson joins 300-strikeout club.
1996 – Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), lands.
2006 – Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed”, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Mark Wahlberg, premieres in New York City (Best Picture 2007).
2104 – World Health Organizations estimate that Ebola death toll has reached 3,091 – with Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone hit hardest.
2016 – First US Presidential debate: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton vs Republican Donald Trump at Hofstra University.
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