1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1861 – US Congress passes First Confiscation Act.
1880 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the 1st person to be executed by electric chair.
1914 – Denis Patrick Dowd, Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
1923 – Henry Sullivan becomes 3rd person and first American to swim English Channel (27 hours, 25 minutes Dover-Calais)
1934 – US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915.
1937 – US and USSR sign trade treaty.
1945 – Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay”
1952 – St. Louis Browns veteran pitcher Satchel Paige, 46, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout, 1-0 v Detroit Tigers in 12 innings.
1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American national broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing math from St. Nicholas Arena.
1960 – Chubby Checker performs his version of “The Twist” on “The Dick Clark Show” starting a worldwide dance craze.
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities.
1973 – Roberto Clemente, Warren Spahn, Billy Evans, Monte Irvin, Mickey Welch and George “High Pockets” Kelly are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY.
1989 – “Oh! Calcutta” revival closes at Edison Theater NYC after 5959 performances, Broadway’s longest running musical revue.
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the internet.
1997 – Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc.
2006 – Tiger Woods (30) becomes the youngest player to compile 50 PGA Tour wins with a 3 stroke victory over Jim Furyk in the Buick Open at Grand Blanc, Michigan.
2012 – A large fire erupts at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, Ohio, injuring six employees.
2019 – Barney’s New York files for bankruptcy, amid figures 7,567 US retail stores have closed so far in 2019 compared to 5,864 in 2018.
2019 – Lawyer representing 800 boy scouts identify 250 sex abusers within Boy Scouts of America saying “It’s the largest paedophile ring on earth.”
2020 – US COVID-19 death toll could reach 300,000 by December 1, about 70,000 lives saved if masks worn consistently, according to University of Washington study.
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