1893 – Great stock market crash on New York stock exchange.
1915 – A state-record 100 degrees in Fort Yukon, Alaska.
1923 – Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane.
1929 – First color television demonstration performed by Bell Laboratories in New York City.
1939 – The Brooklyn Dodgers tie the Boston Bees 2-2 in 23 innings with the game called on account of darkness after 5 hours 15 minutes.
1942 – FBI captures eight Nazi saboteurs from a submarine off New York’s Long Island.
1947 – WRC-TV, channel 4 in Washington, D.C., a NBC affiliate, begins broadcasting.
1950 – North Korean troops reach Seoul, South Korea as the United Nations asks members to aid South Korea and President Harry Truman orders US Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict.
1957 – Hurricane Audrey kills 526 in Louisiana and Texas.
1962 – Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems.
1966 – Soap opera Dark Shadows premieres on ABC-TV.
1972 – Legendary video game and home computer company Atari is founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Sunnyvale, California.
1973 – John Dean tells Watergate Committee about President Richard Nixon’s “enemies list.”
1979 – Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities.
1980 – United States revives military draft registration.
1986 – Robby Thompson of the San Francisco Giants sets a Major League Baseball record when he is caught stealing four times in a game.
1995 – Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14) launches.
2005 – AMD files broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in Federal Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
2016 – Supreme Court strikes down Texas law restricting abortion 5-3.
2017 – Mark Zuckerburg announces Facebook has reached 2 billion monthly users.
2019 – Supreme Court rules the Constitution doesn’t prohibit partisan gerrymandering, allowing a ruling party to redraw electoral boundaries.
2023 – Supreme Court rejects the “independent state legislature” theory that would have given state legislatures power to set rules for federal elections and draw congressional maps.
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