1899 – George F. Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee.
1914 – The largest one-day percentage drop in the 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. A ball bouncing into stands is now a double instead of a home run.
1937 – National Football League Championship, Wrigley Field, Chicago: Washington Redskins beat Chicago Bears 28-21.
1946 – “Tide” laundry detergent introduced.
1946 – The United Nations accepts six Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr.
1955 – Film adaptation of “The Rose Tattoo”, starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster, premieres at the Astor Theatre in Times Square, New York City.
1957 – Willem J. Kolff and his team at Ohio’s Cleveland Center remove the heart from a dog and replaced it with a pneumatic pump which kept the dog alive for 90 minutes, proving the viability of the artificial heart.
1961 – Nazi German Army officer Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel.
1965 – Chicago halfback Gale Sayers ties NFL record for most touchdowns in a game with 6 in a 61-20 victory over San Francisco 49ers at Wrigley Field.
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 over $1 trillion.
1982 – $9,800,000 in cash stolen from a money transport car in New York City.
1988 – “Rain Man”, directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, premieres in New York. It wins Best Picture in 1980.
1997 – Boston Red Sox sign Pedro Martinez to a record 6-year $69-million contract.
2000 – Supreme Court releases its 5-4 decision in Bush v Gore, settling the recount dispute in Florida’s 2000 presidential election in George W. Bush’s favor and thus handing him the presidency over Al Gore.
2011 – 77th Heisman Trophy Award: Robert Griffin III, Baylor quarterback.
2018 – American Media Inc., publisher of National Enquirer, admits paying hush money to mistresses of President Donald Trump.
2022 – Emma Tucker appointed editor of The Wall Street Journal. She’s the first woman to lead the paper.
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