1899 – Montana admitted as 41st state of the Union.
1910 – 1st Washington State election in which women could vote.
1926 – George Gershwin’s musical “Oh, Kay” premieres in NYC.
1932 – Amidst the Great Depression, Democrat candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover.
1938 – 1st African American woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia.
1942 – 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
1949 – “All the King’s Men” based on Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer winning novel, directed by Robert Rossen and starring Broderick Crawford premieres in New York (Best Picture 1950).
1950 – A US aircraft shoots down a North Korean jet in the Korean War, the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history.
1951 – NY Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards.
1961 – Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8, a Lockheed Constellation aircraft, crashes near Richmond, Virginia, 77 die.
1964 – IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion.
1970 – Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal.
1979 – ABC broadcasts “Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage” with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to “Nightline”)
1988 – Vice President George, H.W. Bush is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Michael Dukakis.
1990 – 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian Gulf.
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Securtiy Council under Resolution 1441 unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”
2014 – Mikhall Gorbachev wars that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War.
2014 – US President Obama authorizes deployment of 1,500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants.
2016 – Republican Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America, defeating democrat Hillary Clinton, wor received 2.9 million more votes.
2018 – Deadliest fire in California history, the Camp Fire starts at Plumas National Forest spreads in Butte County destroying town of Paradise, more than 13,000 buildings and killing at least 88.