1731 – In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st library in the north American colonies.
1789 – Bourbon Whiskey 1st distilled from corn by Elijah Craig in Bourbon, Kentucky.
1904 – American President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B. Parker (D).
1910 – 1st Washington State election in which women could vote.
1917 – Telephone Co runs 1st advertisement for Army operators, receives 7,000 applicants.
1926 – George Gershwin’s musical “Oh, Kay” premieres in NYC.
1933 – FDR creates Civil Work Administration.
1935 – “Mutiny on the Bounty” directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1936)
1942 – 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
1950 – A US aircraft shoots down a North Korean jet in the Korean War, the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history.
1951 – NY Yankee catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards.
1960 – JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) to become 35th US president.
1965 – “Days of our Lives” premieres on TV.
1970 – Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal.
1979 – ABC broadcasts “Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage” with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to “Nightline”)
1990 – 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf.
1991 – Carol Burnet Show premieres on CBS-TV.
2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2014 – US President Obama authorizes deployment of 1,500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants.
2016 – Republican Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America, defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton despite Clinton receiving 2.9 million more votes.
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