1871 – The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222 million in damage.
1916 – In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the first owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5, which was up from $3.
1920 – Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play first NFL game, a 0-0 tie.
1930 – Associated Press votes Joe Cronin unofficial American League Most Valuable Player and Baseball Writers Association names Hack Wilson National League MVP.
1935 – George Gershwin’s “Porgy & Bess” opens on Broadway in New York.
1943 – US bombers accidentally strike Enschede, Netherlands, causing 151 deaths.
1956 – “Giant”, directed by George Stevens, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean in his last role, premieres in New York City.
1959 – Pan Am airlines begins regular flights around the world.
1961 – Major League Baseball expansion draft to stock Houston Astros and New York Mets.
1964 – XVIII Summer Olympic Games open in Tokyo, Japan.
1971 – 5th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins.
1973 – Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after pleading no contest to allegations of tax fraud.
1978 – Congress approves dollar coin honoring women’s suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony.
1987 – Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen’s 8th studio album “Tunnel of Love”
1991 – Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy.
1994 – NFL’s New York Giants retire Lawrence Taylor’s No. 56.
2008 – Singapore becomes the first Asian country to slip into a recession since the credit crisis began. Growth faltered as a result of less demand for exports, a reduction in tourism, and the end of the real estate boom.
2010 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, TPC Potomac: Mark O’Meara wins his lone Champions Tour major title with par on first playoff hole against Michael Allen.
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.
2022 – Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for discoveries which improve how society deals with financial crisis.
About Author
