1909 – A.J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball.
1911 – The “Sullivan Act” requiring New Yorkers to possess licenses for firearms small enough to be concealed comes into effect.
1918 – Boston Red Sox clinch American League pennant, the earliest it has been decided.
1935 – President Franklin Roosevelt signs an act prohibiting export of United States arms to belligerents.
1941 – Radio program “Great Gildersleeve,” a spin-off of “Fibber McGee & Molly,” debuts on NBC.
1950 – Brooklyn Dodgers’ Gil Hodges hits four home runs and a single in a game against the Milwaukee Braves.
1954 – Hurricane Carol hits New England, 70 people die. It was the costliest hurricane at the time and first storm name to be retired.
1960 – Agricultural Hall of Fame forms.
1965 – Congress establishes Department of Housing & Urban Development.
1973 – Bowler Earl Anthony wins Professional Bowlers Association National Championship. It begins the first of his two three-peats.
1978 – Emily and William Harris plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of American publishing heiress Patty Hearst.
1983 – Edwin Moses of the United States sets 400-meter hurdle record of 47.02 seconds in Koblenz, Germany.
1987 – Curtis Strange sets golf’s earnings for a year record with $697,385.
1991 – William H. Webster ends his term of 14th director of CIA. He is the only person to head both the FBI and CIA.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris.
2009 – The Walt Disney Company announces it will acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4.24 billion.
2012 – Apple loses its patent dispute with Samsung in Tokyo, Japan.
2019 – Minnesota Twins smash six home runs in a 10-7 loss to the Tigers in Detroit and breaks Major League Baseball record by hitting their 268th home run of the season.
2022 – United Nation weather agency predicts a rare “triple dip” La Nina pattern to last till the end of 2022, the first this century, likely to extend droughts in Horn of Africa, South America.
2023 – Two leaders of the right wing group the Proud Boys given lengthy sentences for sedition for the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Joseph Biggs is sentenced to 17 years and Zachare Rehl to 15 years.
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