1825 – Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC.
1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
1896 – Henry Ford takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit.
1912 – Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law.
1917 – American men begin registering for the draft.
1919 – US Congress passes the Women’s Suffrage Bill, the 19th Amendment.
1927 – Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard & 200-yard free-style.
1940 – Winston Churchill’s speech “We shall fight on the seas and oceans”
1942 – Capitol Records Co. opens for business.
1947 – US House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley Act.
1949 – “Cavalcade of Stars” debuts (Dumont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950.
1957 – 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation.
1967 – Curt Flood’s record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games)
1968 – Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings.
1973 – A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
1975 – Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in North Carolina.
1986 – Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court.
1990 – Greyhound Bus files for bankruptcy.
1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2018 – Former US President Bill Clinton and James Patterson publish a thriller novel “The President is Missing” together.
2018 – US President Donald Trump tweets “I have the absolute right to PARDON myself”
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