1895 – 1st pro football game. Quarterback John Brallier and the Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0. Brallier was paid $10 for expenses.
1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope (kinetographic camera), a device which produces moving pictures.
1909 – A.J. Rewatch Co. patents cork-center baseball.
1920 – Detroit radio station 8MK (now WWJ, 950 AM) is 1st to broadcast a news program.
1935 – President Franklin Roosevelt signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents.
1940 – US National Guard assembles.
1950 – Brooklyn Dodgers’ Gil Hodges hits 4 home runs and a single in a game against the Boston Braves.
1954 – Hurricane Carol hits New England, 70 die. Costliest hurricane at the time and 1st storm name to be retired.
1955 – 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated (Chicago, Illinois)
1965 – Congress establishes Department of Housing & Urban Development.
1972 – American 4×200-meter freestyle relay team of John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter and Mark Spitz swam a world record 7:35.78 to beat West Germany for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics.
1978 – Emily and William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of American publishing heiress Patty Hearst.
1983 – Edwin Moses of the United States sets 400-meter hurdle record (47.02 seconds) in Koblenz.
1987 – Curtis Strange sets golf’s earning for year record ($697,385).
1994 – Pentium computer beats world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris.
2006 – 23rd MTV Video Music Awards: Panic! At the Disco, Kelly Clarkson and James Blunt win.
2009 – The Walt Disney Company announces it will acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4.24 billion.
2018 – “A Star is Born” film remake directed by and starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga premieres at the Venice Film Festival.
2022 – US life expectancy falls to its lowest level since 1996 (76.1 years vs 79 years in 2019), with COVID-19 a main contributing factor, according to the CDC.
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