1905 – President Theodore Roosevelt sends identical notes for Japan and Russia urging them to negotiate and end hostilities, offering his personal services.
1917 – Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School in Kansas City.
1928 – First United States-to-Australia flight piloted by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith lands in Brisbane.
1933 – Athletics first baseman Jimmie Foxx hits three consecutive home runs as Philadelphia outscores the New York Yankees 14-10. It gave Foxx four straight homers after he had homered last time up the previous day.
1942 – Bing Crosby records “Silent Night”
1944 – General Bernard Law Montgomery lands in Normandy, sets up headquarters in Chateau de Creully.
1948 – “Texaco Star Theater” premieres on NBC-TV with “Mr. Television” Milton Berle made permanent emcee in September.
1953 – Cluster of six tornadoes touched down in Flint, Michigan, killing 113.
1961 – Milwaukee sets record of four consecutive home runs hit by Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock and Frank Thomas.
1963 – American Heart Association is first agency to campaign against cigarettes.
1964 – “The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena),” by 1960s pop singers Jan and Dean, is released.
1968 – James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., is captured.
1977 – California Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan notches his fourth career 19-strikeout game in a 10-inning, 2-1 win over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays.
1982 – President Ronald Reagan addresses the British Parliament in his “ash heap of history” speech.
1988 – Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on jets cuts bird collisions by 20%.
1995 – Downed Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
2002 – British-Canadian Lennox Lewis retains boxing’s WBC heavyweight title with eighth-round knockout of Mike Tyson at The Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee.
2009 – First section of the elevated High Line park, built on an old railway, opens in New York from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street.
2017 – Former FBI chief James Comey testifies to a US Senate committee that President Donald Trump told “lies, plain and simple.”
2023 – Supreme Court upholds Voting Rights Act, ruling 5-4 that Republican-drawn congressional districts in Alabama had weakened Black voting by creatng just one district where they were a majority.
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