1899 – George F. Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee.
1914 – The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%.
1928 – Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne’s play “Wings over Europe” premieres in New York City.
1930 – Baseball Rules Committee revises the rule book, changing that a ball bouncing into the stands is a double instead of a home run.
1937 – NBC and RCA sends first mobile-TV vans onto the streets of New York.
1946 – Tide laundry detergent introduced.
1946 – United Nations accepts six Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr.
1953 – Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in a Bell X-1A rocket plane.
1957 – Willem Johan Kolff and his team at Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic removed 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.
1963 – Frank Sinatra Jr. returned by kidnappers after his father paid the $240,000 ransom demanded.
1965 – Chicago halfback Gale Sayers ties NFL record for most touchdown in a game with six in a 61-20 victory over the San Francisco 49ers at Wrigley Field.
1968 – Arthur Ashe becomes first black person to be ranked #1 in tennis.
1980 – Apple makes its initial public offering on the stock market. 38 years later it becomes the first United States company valued at over $1 trillion, first over $2 trillion two years later, and first over $3 trillion three years after that.
1985 – 248 soldiers and eight crew members die in an Arrow Air charter crash.
1986 – James “Bonecrusher” Smith scores a technical knockout against World Boxing Association champion Tim Witherspoon inside Madison Square Garden.
1995 – Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by the Senate 63-36. It needed a 2/3 approval vote.
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.
2013 – The United States announces sanctions on the two dozen companies who assisted Iran with their nuclear program.
2018 – American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, admits paying hush money to mistresses of President Donald Trump.
2022 – Emma Tucker appointed editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, becoming the first women to lead the paper.
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