1878 – Inventor Henry Tibbe patents an improved corn cob pipe design.
1910 – Walter Brookins, flying a Wright biplane over Atlantic City, New Jersey, becomes the first pilot to fly an airplane to an altitude of 1 mile, reaching 6,175 feet or 1.169 miles.
1914 – The Boston Red Sox purchase future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth’s contract from the minor league Baltimore Orioles.
1918 – Congress creates the Distinguished Service Medal.
1932 – The Washington Redskins football team, then known as the Boston Braves, formed.
1944 – In World War II, United States troops secure Saipan as Japan falls.
1948 – Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in Major League Baseball pitching two scoreless innings for Cleveland in St. Louis.
1951 – President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end the state of war with Germany.
1955 – Bill Haley & His Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock” tops the Billboard chart, one of the best-selling singles ever.
1963 – Crusher Lisowski beats Vern Gagne in Minneapolis to become the National Wrestling Association champion.
1967 – WRET-TV, channel 36, in Charlotte, North Carolina begins broadcasting as in independent station as WCTU-TV.
1970 – In Atlanta, Chief-Nok-a-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn.
1978 – Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington, D.C. for the Equal Rights Amendment.
1982 – Pan Am 727 crashes in a storm in Kenner, Louisiana, shortly after take-off, killing 153 people.
1986 – Atlanta Braves outfielder Dale Murphy ends his consecutive game streak at 740.
1987 – Colonel Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence.
1992 – Space Shuttle STS 50 (Columbia 13) lands.
1996 – Senate approves 90 cents raise to $4.25 minimum wage.
2009 – Joe Sakic retires after 21 NHL seasons with the Quebec Nordiques and Colorado Avalanche franchise, finishing with 625 goals and 1,641 points.
2017 – CEO Elon Musk is the first owner of Tesla’s first mass market electric car – the Model 3.
2018 – Hedge fund billionaire David Tepper buys the Carolina Panthers for an National Football League record $2.275 billion.
2023 – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Chinese economic leaders end two days of talks in Beijing aimed at stabilizing relations between the world’s two biggest economies.
About Author
