1665 – “Ye Bare & Ye Cubb” is the first play performed in North America in Acomac, Virginia.
1859 – First successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake.
1881 – Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die.
1894 – Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Ac, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by he Supreme Court.
1912 – Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes “Tarzan of the Apers”
1917 – Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game.
1927 – Parks College, America’s oldest aviation school, opens.
1938 – Two NYC subway trains collide at 116th Street killing 2 injuring 51.
1945 – US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.
1955 – “Guinness Book of World Records” first published.
1958 – Clark Griffith says Senators will probably accept offer to move to Minnesota.
1961 – Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on “What’s My Line”
1972 – US bombs Haiphong, North Vietnam.
1978 – Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases.
1984 – US President Ronald Reagan announces “Teacher in Space” project.
1988 – Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager, tops Philadelphia, 4-2.
1990 – Market prices plunge as OPEC nears informal agreement to increase output to cover shortfall due to invasion; cash market trading experiences abrupt decline.
1995 – Worst fire in New York in 80 years ends after 4 days.
2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport at Lexington, Kentucky, bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia killing 49 of 50 on board.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.
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