1621 – Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England.
1768 – 1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (NYC)
1792 – George Washington casts 1st presidential veto.
1862 – Siege of Yorktown, fought in York County and Newport News, Virginia ends (Yorktown campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires.
1927 – Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 meter free styles.
1936 – Tupelo, Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die.
1941 – San Francisco Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses.
1949 – 60 year old St. Anthony’s Hospital in Effingham, Illinois, catches fire, 77 people killed.
1951 – Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death.
1962 – NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 meters.
1968 – Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens.
1969 – Massive anti-Vietnam War demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
1971 – US Lt. William Calley sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre.
1982 – 43 year old St. Louis reliever Jim Kaat pitches 1 inning for the Cardinals in a season-opening 14-3 rout of Houston; sets Major League Baseball record for pitchers by playing in his 24th consecutive season.
1989 – Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak.
1991 – Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23.
2015 – Rolling Stone Magazine retracts its “Rape on Campus” story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia after being discredited.
2016 – PayPal announces it is canceling a $3.6 million investment in North Carolina after the state passes anti-gay legislation.
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