1893 – Whitcomb Judson of Chicago patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
1900 – United States troops arrive in Beijing, China and help put down Boxer Rebellion.
1907 – Taxis first began running in New York City.
1913 – The 17th amendment to the Constitution, direct election of senators, declared constitutional.
1928 – First aerial crossing of Pacific takes off from Oakland, California.
1937 – Second largest crowd in Polo Grounds history — 61,756 — watches Brooklyn Dodgers beat New York Giants 10-3 in baseball, ending Carl Hubbell’s record for consecutive-game winning streak at 24.
1941 – First edition of “Parade” magazine goes on sale.
1947 – Eastern DC-4 crashes between Port Deposit and Perryville, Maryland, kills 53.
1955 – Supreme Court orders school integration “with all deliberate speed.”
1961 – President John F. Kennedy visits French President Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
1960 – “Gitarzan” by Ray Stevens peaks at #8.
1979 – Radio City Music Hall in New York City reopens.
1985 – National Football League’s New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000.
1989 – Speaker of US House of Representatives Jim Wright resigns.
1992 – Fifth Children’s Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000.
2005 – Mark Fell, former FBI high ranking official, revealed as “Deep Throat” source during Watergate investigation in Vanity Fair article.
2013 – First tornado chaser to be killed by a tornado. Tim Samara and two others killed by El Reno tornado in Oklahoma, the widest ever recorded at 2.6 miles.
2017 – Comedienne Kathy Griffin fired from CNN after photo of her holding bloody head resembling President Donald Trump by Tyler Shields posted.
2019 – Disgruntled employee shoots and kills 12 people at a US municipal building in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
2023 – NASA panel investigating unidentified flying objects at its first open meeting highlights stigma involved in reporting sightings and lack of high-quality data, Mysterious radio signals turned out to be a local microwave.
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