1858 – Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech “You can fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.”
1892 – 1st appearance of “Pledge of Allegiance” (Youth’s Companion)
1900 – 6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas.
1916 – US President Woodrow Wilson signs the Emergency Revenue Act, doubling the rate of income tax and adding inheritance and munitions profits tax.
1930 – 1st appearance of comic strip “Blondie”
1939 – FDR declares “limited national emergency” due to war in Europe.
1939 – Indians Bob Feller, 20, is youngest pitcher to win 20 games.
1945 – US invades Japanese-held Korea.
1952 – Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Old Man & the Sea” published.
1965 – Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana & Florida.
1967 – Surveyor 5 launched, makes soft landing on Moon September 10.
1971 – John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C.
1974 – US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes.
1979 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Tracy Austin becomes youngest US champion (16 years, 9 months); beats Chris Evert 6-4, 6-3.
1985 – “USA Weekend’s” 1st issue appears in 255 newspapers.
1986 – “The Oprah Winfrey Show’ is first broadcast nationally.
1994 – USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pittsburgh Airport, killing all 132 on board.
1999 – US Attorney General Janet Reno names former Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire a the Branch Davidian church near Waco, Texas in response to revelations in the film “Waco The Rules of Engagement”
2005 – Two EMERCOM II-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
2015 – Comedian Stephen Colbert debuts as the new host of CBS’ “The Late Show”
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