1821 – 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia.
1857 – Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit another country (Puerto Rico and Panama)
1925 – Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin.
1932 – Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba, kills 2,500.
1946 – US President Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze.
1950 – White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930.
1953 – Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws.
1961 – PGA eliminates caucasian only rule.
1965 – Willie Mays named NL MVP.
1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1967 – Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon.
1969 – “Bridge over Troubled Water” single recorded by Simon & Garfunkel.
1979 – False alarm of a Soviet ballistic missile attack by US NORAD system after technician fails to code a test properly.
1984 – Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title.
1998 – Brokerage houses are ordered to pay $1.03 billion USD to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing – largest civil settlement in US history.
2011 – 45th Country Music Association Award: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins.
2015 – San Diego’s SeaWorld announces it will overhaul its killer whale show after controversy over the whales treatment.
2017 – Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls in “Washington Post” report.
2018 – Amid California forest fires US President Donald Trump accuses state forest management of “gross mismanagement”, threatens to withhold funding.
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