1837 – Steamboat “Home” sinks off Ocracoke, North Carolina, killing 100.
1865 – First US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania.
1903 – 11 inches rainfall in 24 hours (NYC)
1909 – Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game.
1926 – NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms.
1936 – Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project.
1947 – First telephone conversation between occupants of a moving car and an airplane.
1958 – MLB World Series: NY Yankees beat Braves, 6-2 at County Stadium in Milwaukee, clinch 4 game to 3 series triumph: MVP: Yankee pitcher Bob Turley.
1961 – US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police.
1965 – Beatles’ “Yesterday” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks.
1974 – Race riot in Boston due to “busing”
1978 – 12th Country Music Association Award: Dolly Parton, Crystal Gayle, and Don Williams win.
1980 – 1st consumer use of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1986 – Stage musical “Phantom of the Opera” premieres in London, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman; runs for 13,62 performances.
1997 – North Carolina’s record winning college basketball coach Dean Smith retires.
2007 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high.
2014 – Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus.
2018 – President Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley says she is resigning at the end of the year.
2020 – The UN’s World Food Program is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.