1793 – President Washington attends opening of Rickett’s, 1st circus in US.
1864 – US mints 2 cent coins (1st appearance of “In God We Trust”)
1898 – Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry.
1914 – Babe Ruth’s 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit, 6-0 win.
1930 – US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty.
1934 – US Division of Investigation (later the FBI) under Melvin Purvis botch an operation to capture the John Dillinger Gang at Little Bohemia Lodge, Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, with 2 dead and 4 injured.
1951 – Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in NYC.
1954 – NBA adopts 24-second shot clock & 6 team-foul rule.
1964 – World’s Fair at Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY opens.
1969 – 1st human eye transplant performed.
1970 – NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19.
1972 – Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on the Moon.
1981 – Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts.
1981 – More than $3.3 million is stolen from the First National Bank of Arizona in Tucson in the then largest US bank robbery in history.
1991 – Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from “The Tonight Show”
1995 – George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas.
1998 – Disney’s Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elian Gonzalez from his relatives’ home in Miami, Florida.
2016 – Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2’C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees C.
2018 – Gunman opens fire at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, killing four before James Shaw, Jr. wrestled the rifle from the gunman’s hands.
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