1863 – Governor Seymour asks President Lincoln to suspend draft in NY.
1882 – US Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration.
1900 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founded.
1921 – 1st aerial crop dusting in Troy, Ohio, to kill caterpillars.
1921 – MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis hands out life bans to 8 Chicago White Sox players accused in Black Sox scandal despite their acquittal by a Chicago jury.
1923 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th US President upon death of President Warren G. Harding.
1932 – Official automatic timing & photo-finish camera for track events is used for first 1st time at Los Angeles Olympics instrumental in changing 110m hurdles final, review gives Donald Finley bronze ahead of American Jack Keller.
1941 – Gas (petroleum) sales limited in US.
1948 – Negro League veteran pitcher Satchel Paige debuts for Cleveland after controversial signing, goes 7 innings in 5-3 win vs Washington.
1953 – Frank Blair becomes news anchor of “Today Show”
1958 – The Billboard Hot 100 is founded.
1960 – Lee Petty and his sons, Richard & Maurice race against each other for the first and only time at Dixie Speedway in Birmingham, Alabama; Richard 2nd, Lee 3rd.
1963 – Allan Sherman releases “Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda”
1967 – 45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam.
1975 – Louisiana Superdome is dedicated.
1977 – Radio Shack issues a press release introducing the TRS-80 computer, within weeks thousands were ordered.
1981 – 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike; US President Ronald Reagan offers ultimatum to workers: ‘If they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated.
1992 – “Unforgiven” directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Best Picture 1993).
2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 22, 2001 attacks.
2015 – US President Obama unveils his Clean Power Plan to cut greenhouse gases.
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