1871 – The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222m in damage.
1889 – Barnard College is founded in New York after Columbia University refuses to accept women.
1904 – Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd Street in NYC.
1916 – In game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3.
1933 – 1st synthetic detergent, “Dreft” by Proctor & Gamble, goes on sale.
1935 – George Gershwin’s “Porgy & Bess” opens on Broadway, NY.
1948 – Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland.
1957 – US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware.
1959 – Pan Am begins regular flights around the world.
1960 – 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo.
1963 – “From Russia With Love” 2nd James Bond film based on a novel by Ian Fleming, starring Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi, premieres in London.
1966 – The Beach Boys release their influential single “Good Vibrations”
1973 – US Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after pleading no contest to allegations of tax fraud.
1977 – 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins.
1978 – US Congress approves dollar coin honoring women’s suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony.
1990 – US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space.
1991 – Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy.
1994 – NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor’s #56.
2018 – Hurricane Michael makes landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph, going on to kill 27, having killed 15 in Central America.
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