1902 – Deo LeFevre and Henri Desgrange create the Tour de France bicycle race.
1914 – State Department starts requiring photographs for passports.
1917 – Ukrainian Republic declared.
1929 – First broadcast of “Goldbergs” on radio.
1943 – United States forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island.
1945 – The Nuremberg war trials begin as 24 Nazi leaders are put on trial before judges representing the victorious Allied powers.
1952 – Chicago Cubs slugging left fielder Hank Sauer wins National League Most Valuable Player.
1958 – American puppeteers Jim and Jane Henson establish Muppets Inc. (now known as The Jim Henson Company)
1962 – Mickey Mantle wins American League Most Valuable Player award for the third time.
1966 – John Kander and Fred Ebb’s “Cabaret” opens at Broadhurst Theater in New York City. It runs for 1,166 performances and wins eight Tony Awards.
1968 – Second Country Music Association Awards: Glen Campbell and Tammy Wynette win.
1969 – San Francisco Giants’ Willie McCovey edges New York Mets’ Tom Seaver as National League Most Valuable Player.
1974 – The United States files an antitrust suit to break-up AT&T.
1983 – 33rd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Bobby Allison wins.
1990 – The United States’ 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space.
2001 – President George W. Bush dedicates the Department of Justice headquarters as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building on what would have been Kennedy’s 76th birthday.
2008 – After critical failures in the United States financial system began to built up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its lowest since 1997.
2011 – President’s Cup Golf, Royal Melbourne GC: Jim Fukryk wins all 5 of his matches as the United States beats the International team 19-15.
2018 – Mississippi 15-week abortion ban overturned by judge saying it violated women’s constitutional rights.
2022 – President Joe Biden turns 80 years old, becoming the first octogenarian to serve in the country’s highest office.
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