1865 – William Sheppard is issued the first patent for liquid soap.
1901 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1906 – First Victor Victrola is manufactured.
1921 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed assistant director of the Bureau of Investigation.
1932 – British Broadcasting Corporation begins experimental regular TV broadcast.
1945 – Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup.
1946 – Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it.
1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first Black competitor in a national tennis competition in the United States.
1950 – First patent for controlling vehicle speed (cruise control) granted to American inventor Ralph Teetor.
1959 – American Football League officially named at a meeting in Dallas, Texas with charter members in Dallas, New York, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles and Minneapolis-Saint Paul.
1964 – Supreme’s “Where Did Our Love Go” reaches #1.
1971 – FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the “Camden 28,” a religious-left anti-war activist group intent on disrupting the military draft in Camden, New Jersey.
1984 – Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced.
1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson).
1994 – DNA testing links O.J. Simpson to the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.
2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2010 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, Crosswater Club: Fred Funk wins the last of his three Champions Tour majors by 1 stroke over Michael Allen and Taiwan’s Lu Chien-soon.
2018 – Longest-ever bull market for Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index at 3,453 days, using 19.9% decline in 1990 as the start, although the usual standard is 20%.
2021 – Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Singapore to begin a short visit to Southeast Asia.
2022 – Dr. Anthony Fauci announces he will step down as chief medical advisor to the president and as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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