1871 – US Morman leader Brigham Young arrested for bigamy.
1902 – Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” is published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London.
1916 – Pitching in his 3rd start in 5 days, Philadelphia Phillies right-hander Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 20th century MLB record 16th shutout of the .year, a 2-0 win v Boston Braves.
1919 – US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1932 – Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play franchise’s debut NFL game’ lose 14-0 to Brooklyn Dodgers at Braves Field..
1940 – British liner Empress, loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk.
1950 – 1st strip of Charlie Brown, “li’l Folks:, later “Peanuts”, by Charles M. Schulz published in seven nationwide papers..
1955 – “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” premieres on CBS television in the US>
1957 – “The Bridge on the River Kwai”, directed by David Lean and starring William Holden and Alec Guiness, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1958)
1960 – Mickey Wright becomes first player in LPGA Tour history to average fewer than 74 strokes per round to win the Vare Trophy after a season average of 73.25; first of 5 consecutive Vare Trophies for Wright.
1963 – LA Dodgers’ Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 NY Yankees in Game 1 of the Baseball World Series at Yankee Stadium; Dodgers win, 5-2 and sweep series, 4-0.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice.
1970 – 14 members of the Wichita State University football team as well as 17 administrators and supporters are killed in a plane crash in the Rocky Mountains.
1979 – Pope John Paul ll visits New York City, and at the U.N. denounces all concentration camps and torture.
1988 – Minnesota Twins total 3,030,672 in attendance at Hubert Humphrey Metrodome; first AL club ever to break 3 million in a MLB season.
1996 – 30th Country Music Association Award: Brooks & Dunn win.
2001 – NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11.
2013 – 8 people are killed and 14 are injured after an accident involving an SUV, church bus, and tractor trailer in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
2016 – Veteran broadcaster Vin Scully calls his final LA Dodger game (7-1 loss in San Francisco) after a record 67 MLB seasons.
2020 – US President Donald Trump announces via Twitter that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19, President hospitalized later that day.
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