1899 – African-American inventor Issac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
1916 – In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3.
1920 – Cleveland Indians outfielder Elmer Smith hits baseball’s first ever World Series grand slam (Game 5, 1920)
1932 – “Betty & Bob” premieres on radio.
1933 – 1st synthetic detergent “Dreft” by Procter & Gamble goes on sale.
1935 – George Gershwin’s “Porgy & Bess” opens on Broadway, NY.
1948 – Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland.
1957 – US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komia Agbell Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware.
1959 – Pan Am begins regular flights around the world.
1960 – 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo.
1961 – Variety TV show “The Bob Newhart Show” premieres on NBC in the US.
1966 – The Beach Boys release their influential single “Good Vibrations”
1973 – US Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after pleading no contest to allegations of tax fraud.
1983 – 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins.
1991 – Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy.
1995 – Robert E. Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics.
2003 – Shirin Ebadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, making her the 1st Iranian Muslim woman to receive the prize.
2010 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, TPC Potomac: Mark O’Meara wins he lone Championship Tour major title with par on first playoff hole against Michael Allen.
2021 – Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen says country won’t bow to Chinese pressure in defiant speech on Taiwanese National Day, day after Chinese President XI Jinping vowed to “fulfil reunification”
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