1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is founded by Englishman William Penn.
1838 – Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
1871 – Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, NY, Boss Tweed is arrested after the NY Times exposes his corruption.
1893 – Hurricane hits coast between Savannah, Georgia & Charleston, South Carolina.
1904 – First section of New York subway – Lower Manhattan to Broadway Harlem, opened by Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), fare one nickel.
1913 – President Woodrow Wilson says US will never attack another country.
1920 – Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins operation.
1925 – Water skis patented by Fred Waller.
1938 – DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called “nylon”
1941 – Chicago Daily Tribune editorializes there will not be a war with Japan.
1954 – President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem.
1960 – American League admits LA & Washington to the league.
1962 – Black Saturday during the Cuban Missile Crisis: An American spy plane is shot down over Cuba and the Navy drops warning depth charges on Soviet submarines.
1969 – Ralph Nadar sets up a consumer organization known as Nader’s Raiders.
1973 – Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6.
1978 – US President Jimmy Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill.
1992 – Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to December.
1997 – Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million.
1997 – Microsoft argues it should be “free from government interference”
2018 – Gunman shoots and kills 11 people and injures six at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in an anti-Semitic attack.
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