1869 – 1st carload of rail freight (boots & shoes) arrives in San Francisco, from Boston after a 16-day trip.
1904 – Automotive tire chain patented.
1914 – Japan declares war on Germany in World War 1.
1919 – “Gasoline Alley” cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune.
1931 – Philadelphia A’s Lefty Grove loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight.
1938 – “You Can’t Take it With You” from the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, directed by Frank Capra and starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur premieres, Best Picture (1939)
1944 – British General Bernard Montgomery consults with US Generals Omar Bradley and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1952 – Kitty Wells becomes 1st woman to reach #1 on Billboard Country chart with “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”, stays at top for 15 weeks.
1962 – 1st Europe-US live TV program (via Telstar)
1966 – The Beatles’ last concert in Queens, New York City at Shea Stadium before a crowd of 45,000, and 11,000 unsold seats.
1970 – Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game.
1972 – Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates Vice President Spiro Agnew, but not unanimously; 1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley.
1980 – Charles O. Finley sells Oakland A’s MLB franchise for $12.7m to Walter Hass, Jr. (owner and CEO of Levi Strauss)
1985 – Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games.
1990 – US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf.
1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled “A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places”
2005 – Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane.
2011 – A 5.8 earthquake occurs in Mineral, Virginia felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia.
2020 – President Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway announces she is stepping away from the White House for family reasons.
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