1888 – Willard Bundy patents time card clock.
1914 – State Department begins requiring photographs for passports.
1919 – First municipally owned airport opens in Tucson, Arizona.
1923 – American inventor Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design, adding a caution between “stop and “go,” an important development in automobile safety.
1931 – AT&T begins commercial teletype service.
1943- World War II: United States forces land on Tarawa and Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.
1945 – The Nuremberg war trails begin as 24 Nazi leaders are put on trial before judges representing the victorious allied powers.
1947 – The first permanent television installed on a seagoing vessel in New Jersey.
1958 – American puppeteers Jim and Jane Henson establish Muppets Inc., which later became the Jim Henson Company.
1962 – Mickey Mantle wins the American League Most Valuable Player award for the third time.
1962 – USSR agrees to remove remaining IL-28 bomber jets from Cuba and the United States lifts blockade to end the Cuban missile crisis.
1967 – At 11 a.m., the Population Clock at the Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million.
1974 – The United States files an antitrust suit to break up AT&T.
1977 – Steve Largent begins his NFL streak of 177 consecutive games with at least one reception.
1979 – United States’ first artificial blood transfusion occurs at the University of Minnesota Hospital.
1984 – McDonald’s makes its 50 billionth hamburger.
1995 – NASA Space Shuttle STS 74, Atlantis 15, lands back at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
2008 – After critical failures in the United States financial system began to build up atfer mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its lowest level since 1997.
2014 – Nearly 5 million illegal migrants in the United States have the threat of deportation deferred after President Barack Obama announces sweeping immigration changes.
2022 – New York state activates the National Guard to assist with historic snow event around Buffalo with Orchard Park receiving over 6 feet.
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