1789 – 1st loan to US government (from NY banks)
1902 – Chicago Cubs infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers & Frank Chance appear together as teammates for 1st time, creating the famed double-play combination of “Tinker to Evers to Chance”
1922 – The Straw Hat Riot begins in New York City as people protest the right to wear straw hats beyond the accepted end date of September 15.
1932 – NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant.
1934 – Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000.
1936 – Acting on the orders of Louis Buchalter, Murder Inc. killers gun down Joseph Rosen, a Brooklyn candy store owner.
1944 – Great Atlantic hurricane reaches peak intensity as a Category 4 storm, goes on to kill 300-400 along the US East Coast.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of US Congress.
1958 – Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times.
1961 – Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit.
1965 – Today Show’s 1st totally color broadcast.
1970 – IBM announces System 370 computer.
1977 – General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)
1985 – 2nd MTV Video Music Awards: Bruce Springsteen.
1997 – Carolina Hurricanes’ 1st exhibition game beat NY Islanders 4-1.
2001 – Relative calm returns to world oil markets as US retail gasoline prices return to normal levels; energy trading by Houston energy companies resumes and limited commercial aviation starts.
2013 – Jim Furyk fires 12-under-par 59 in the 2nd round of the BMW Championship at Conway Farms GC in Lake Forest, Illinois, becoming just the 6th player to shoot sub-60 in a PGA Tour event.
2017 – Nursing homes inhabitants rescued after losing air-conditioning in aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Hollywood, Florida, 11 die.
2019 – US actress Felicity Huffman sentenced to 14 days in prison for her role in the college admissions scandal.
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