1929 – “Black Tuesday” Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the “Great Depression”
1936 – Cole Porter’s musical “Red Hot and Blue”, starring Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope, opens at the Alvin Theatre, NYC; runs for 183 performances.
1940 – Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson draws the 1st number – #188 – in the 1st peacetime military draft in US history.
1942 – Branch Rickey named President and General Manager of Brooklyn Dodgers.
1945 – First ballpoint pen goes on sale, manufactured by Reynolds in the US (just beating biro)
1950 – Bill Rexford in an Oldsmobile finishes 26th in the season finale at Occoneechee Speedway in Hillsboro, North Carolina to win the NASCAR Grand National Series Championship.
1956 – NBC anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley first team up in “The Huntley-Brinkley Report.”
1963 – “Meet the Beatles” booklet is published.
1969 – US Supreme Court orders end to all school segregation “at once”
1974 – Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application.
1983 – Notre Dame’s Gil Fenerly rushes for 337 yards & 6 touchdowns.
1988 – 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics.
1989 – Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions.
1994 – NY Lotto pays $60 million+.
1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
2001 – ExxonMobile announces that a consortium it leads will spend $4 billion over 5 years to develop large offshore oil and natural gas fields in Russia’s far eastern Sakhalin region.
2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world’s largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.
2015 – Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) is elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, succeeding John Boehner (R-Ohio)
2020 – India records more than 8 million COVID-19 cases, the second country after the US, with a death toll of 120,527.
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