1865 – William Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid soap.
1901 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902 – US President Theodore Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car.
1906 – 1st Victor Victrola manufactured.
1921 – J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI.
1945 – Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup.
1946 – Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it.
1950 – Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competitor in a US rational tennis competition.
1956 – Elvis Presley begins filming “Love Me Tender” (The Reno Brother)
1964 – Supreme’s “Where Did Our Love Go” reaches #1.
1975 – McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens.
1980 – Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr. for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale.
1984 – Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced.
1989 – 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered.
1994 – DNA testing links O.J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman.
2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2007 – The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a term in modern MLB history.
2018 – Longest ever Bull market for Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index at 3,453 days (using 19.9 percent decline in 1990 as the start, usually 20%)
2021 – Tropical storm Henri makes landfall near Westerly, Rhode Island.
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