1837 – Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts founded. It’s the first US college founded for women.
1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Rontgen rays.
1904 – Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell receives the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug.
1917 – Telephone company runs first advertisement for Army operators, receives 7,000 applicants.
1926 – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and P.G. Wodehouse’s musical “Oh, Kay” opens at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. It runs for 286 performances.
1933 – President Franklin Roosevelt creates the Civil Works Administration.
1942 – Operation Torch began as United States and British forces under Gen. Dwight Eisenhower land in French North Africa.
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.
1961 – Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8, a Lockheed Constellation aircraft, crashes near Richmond, Virginia, 77 die.
1965 – Soap opera “Days of Our Lives” premieres.
1966 – Frank Robinson, Baltimore Orioles outfielder, selected as American League Most Valuable Player. He is the first player to win MVP in both leagues.
1970 – Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63-yard field goal.
1979 – ABC broadcasts “Iran Crisis: America 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.
1997 – Tampa Bay Devil Rays name Larry Rothschild as their first manager.
2004 – Mercury Nashville Records releases “Greatest Hits” album by Shania Twain (Billboard Album of the Year, 2005)
2014 – Mikhail Gorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War.
2016 – Republican Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States of America, defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton with an Electoral College victory of 304-227. Clinton received just under 2.9 million more popular votes.
2021 – United States reopens its borders to vaccinated non-US citizens after more than 18 months, lifting restrictions imposed because of COVID-19.
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