1866 – Howard University founded in Washington, D.C.
1888 – Willard Bundy patents timecard clock.
1914 – US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports.
1919 – 1st municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Arizona.
1943 – US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island.
1947 – 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)
1959 – WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal.
1962 – Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP for the 3rd time.
1962 – USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba & US lifts blockade.
1968 – 2nd Country Music Association Award: Glen Campbell and Tammy Wynette win.
1971 – 21st NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins.
1974 – The US files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T.
1983 – 100 million watch ABC-TV movie “The Day After” about nuclear war.
1984 – McDonald’s makes its 50 billionth hamburger.
1990 – US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space.
1993 – Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California Senator Alan Cranston for his “dealings” with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
2001 – US President George W. Bush dedicates the US Department of Justice headquarters the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, on what would have been his 76th birthday.
2008 – After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.
2014 – Nearly 5 million illegal immigrants in the US have the threat of deportation deferred, after President Barack Obama announces sweeping immigration changes.
2018 – South African golfer Gary Player receives PGA recognition for his 3 Senior British Open wins (1988,90,97) from before event registered as a major title (2003); takes him to 9 Senior majors.
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