1817 – 1st Mississippi “Showboat” leaves Nashville on maiden voyage.
1898 – NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms.
1910 – 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series.
1917 – US suffragette Alice Paul begins a 7-month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of the women’s Suffrage (right to vote) Amendment at the White House in Washington, D.C.
1926 – Hurricane in Cuba kills 600.
1935 – Detroit Tigers future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BWAA; Boston Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell is runner-up.
1939 – “All the Things You Are” recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
1944 – US forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the US 6th army on Leyte.
1955 – “No Time for Sergeants” opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith.
1962 – Peter, Paul and Mary’s debut folk album “Peter, Paul and Mary” reaches No. 1 on US album charts.
1963 – Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yards.
1970 – American agronomist Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to world food supply.
1973 – US President Nixon accepts the resignations of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelhaus as they refuse orders to discharge Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, in what has become known as “the Saturday Night Massacre”
1987 – 10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis.
1993 – Highest scoring, longest lasting World Series game – Toronto Blue Jays score 6 runs in 8th inning to defeat Philadelphia Phillies 15-14, in 4 hour, 14 minute slugfest at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia.
1998 – Comedian Richard Pryor is awarded the 1st ever Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
2004 – MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox come back from 0-3 to beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3.
2015 – US Vice President Joe Biden confirms he will not run for President in 2016.
2018 – President Trump threatens to pull the US out of an arms control agreement with Russia because Russia has violated its terms.
2020 – US Justice Department sues Google for illegal monopoly over search and search advertising.
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