1879 – Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb.
1906 – Henry Ford becomes President of Ford Motor Company.
1907 – Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey circus.
1928 – China expels all Russian instructors & civil servants.
1934 – Notorious bank robber Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd is shot and killed by FBI agents in East Liverpool, Ohio.
1939 – NBC becomes first network to televise a pro football game; Brooklyn Dodgers beat Philadelphia Eagles, 23-14 at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field.
1959 – Bob Merrill’s musical “Take Me Along” opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 448 performances.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis.
1966 – Ice hockey legend Bobby Orr scores his first career goal (vs Montreal Canadiens)
1967 – Ryder Cup Golf, Champions GC: US beats Great Britain 23½-8½; Ben Hogan captains Americans to record 15-point victory margin.
1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The die is still used in Canada.
1979 – Walt Disney World’s 100-millonth guest.
1981 – US national debt tops $1 trillion.
1991 – General Motor’s announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion.
1997 – Compaq testifies Microsoft threaten to break Windows 95 agreement if they showcased a Netscape icon.
2000 – President’s Cup Golf, Robert Trent Jones GC: Davis Love III, Stewart Cink and Kirk Triplett are unbeaten as US outclasses international team, 21½-10½.
2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
2009 – Microsoft releases Windows 7.
2016 – AT&T buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion.
2019 – US drug company Biogen claims to have created 1st drug to slow advance of Alzheimer’s disease called aducanumab.
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