1899 – George F. Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee.
1914 – The largest one-day percentage drop in history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%.
1917 – Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska.
1930 – Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book, ball bouncing into stands not a HR, now a double.
1937 – National Football League Championship, Wrigley Field, Chicago: Washington Redskins beat Chicago Bears, 28-21.
1946 – “Tide” laundry detergent introduced.
1955 – Film adaptation of “The Rose Tattoo”, starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster, premieres of the Astor Theatre in Times Square, NYC.
1963 – Frank Sinatra, Jr. returned by kidnappers after his father paid the $240,000 ransom demanded.
1865 – Chicago halfback Gale Sayers ties NFL record for most touchdowns in a game with 6 in 61-20 victory over San Francisco 49ers at Wrigley Field.
1966 – US Supreme Court votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta.
1968 – Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black person to be ranked #1 in tennis.
1974 – 50-year-old Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President.
1980 – Apple makes its initial public offering on the US stock market – 38 years later it would become the first US company valued at over $ 1 trillion.
1982 – $9,800,000 in cash stolen from a money transport car in NYC.
1990 US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks.
2000 – US Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore, setting the recount dispute in Florida’s 2000 presidential election in George W. Bush’s favor and thus handing him the presidency.
2011 – 77th Heisman Trophy Award: Robert Griffin III, Baylor (QB).
2018 – American Media, Inc. publisher of “National Enquirer” admits paying hush money to mistresses of US President Donald Trump.
2020 – Media personality Perez Hilton is banned from TikTok.
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