1836 – 16″ of snow falls in Bridgewater, NY.
1892 – US Pledge of Allegiance first recited in public schools during Columbus Day.
1901 – Theodore Roosevelt renames the “Executive Mansion” as “The White House”
1915 – Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford manufactures its 1 millionth automobile at the River Rouge plant in Detroit.
1928 – 1st use of iron lung (Boston’s Children Hospital)
1935 – Cole Porter’s musical “Jubilee” opens at the Imperial Theatre, NYC; runs for 167 performances.
1948 – Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager.
1957 – First commercial flight between California & Antarctica.
1960 – JFK & Richard Nixon’s third presidential debate.
1967 – Baseball World Series: Lou Brock steals WS record 7 bases as St. Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 7-2 at Fenway Park for a 4-3 win; MVP: Cards pitcher Bob Gibson.
1971 – Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar”, starring Jeff Fenhaolt and Ben Vereen opens at Mark Hellinger Theatre, NYC: runs for 711 performances.’
1973 – US President Richard Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as Vice President.
1977 – US Supreme Court heard arguments in “reverse discrimination” case of Allan Bakke, white student denied admission to University of California Med School.
1987 – 21st Country Music Association Award: Hank Williams, Jr. wins.
1989 – Dallas running back Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Minnesota Vikings for 5 players and 6 future draft picks including future stars Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith and Darren Woodson.
1991 – Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN.
1999 – The Day of Six Billion: the proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
2008 – Anna Kournikova and Andy Roddick defeat Martina Navratilova and Jesse Levine in a match for charity, raising over $400,000 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation and Atlanta AIDS Partnership Fund.
2018 – US air strike in central Somalia kills about 60 al-Shabab militants.
2020 – UK PM Boris Johnson announces a new three-tier system for COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge.
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