1858 – Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine in Pittsburgh.
1881 – Gunfight at the OK Corral; The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs, between lawmen (including Wyatt Earp) and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed.
1911 – Baseball World Series: Philadelphia A’s rout NY Giants, 13-2 at Shibe Park to clinch 4-2 series win and retain Championship.
1916 – American sex educator Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1927 – Duke Ellington sings “Creole Love Song”
1940 – The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
1949 – US President Harry Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents.
1950 – Mother Teresa founds Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India.
1951 – Future world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano defeats former champion Joe Louis by TKO in the 8th round at Madison Square Garden.
1958 – PanAm flies first transatlantic jet from New York to Paris.
1962 – JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba. Nikita Khrushchev sends not to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closes its bases in Turkey; offer is rejected.
1968 – First European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy.
1973 – President Nixon releases first White House tapes on Watergate scandal.
1982 – US budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1962.
1988 – Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 months’ advisory services.
1993 – NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte.
2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in Californian history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres, destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
2017 – US President Donald Trump declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency.
2020 – US Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court sealing a conservative 6-3 majority.
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