1833 – Chicago incorporated as a village of about 200.
1889 – Dan Rylands patents screw cap.
1904 – New York Highlanders pitcher Jack Chesbro ends streak of 30 consecutive complete games in a 5-1 loss to Chicago White Sox at South Side Park, Chicago.
1921 – Franklin Roosevelt stricken with a paralysic illness at summer home on Canadian island of Campobello. At the time it was thought to be polio, but could possibly have been Guillanin-Barre’ syndrome.
1936 – 120 degrees F at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)
1943 – General George S. Patton calls injured soldier “cowardly.”
1948 – Allen Funt’s “Candid Camera” TV show debuts on ABC.
1960 – Los Angeles premiere of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh.
1971 – Minnesota Twins’ Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 home runs & adds his 501st.
1975 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Firestone CC: Jack Nicklaus wins his 4th PGA crown by 2 shots from Australian Bruce Crampton.
1980 – Allen, most powerful hurricane in the Caribbean, hits Brownsville, Texas.
1981 – Pete Rose collects 3,631st career hit, breaks Stan Musial’s National League record.
1990 – NASA’s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus.
1997 – 36th Walker Cup: United States wins 18-6.
1997 – Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to then-record 5-year, $57.5 million deal.
2008 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Irishman Padraig Harrington wins his second straight major by 2 shots from Sergio Garcia and Ben Curtis.
2015 – Google announces its restructure as Alphabet, a holding company with Google, YouTube, Android and Chrome as subsidiaries.
2018 – Landmark case against weed killer Roundup. San Francisco court awards groundsman Dewayne Johnson $289 million against Monsanto for giving him terminal cancer.
2021 – Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo resigns amid a sexual harassment scandal.
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