1792 – “Old Farmer’s Almanac” is 1st published and edited by Robert Thomas.
1860 – 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon) of Boston.
1902 – US President Theodore Roosevelt threatens to start using army troops to work coal mines struck since 12 May; this brings the owners to agree to abide by a Commission of Arbitration.
1914 – Garrett Morgan patents his safety hood device, which would later be refined into the gas mask.
1937 – A recorded trace of snow in Central Park, NYC.
1944 – US 1st army begins battle of Aachen, first German city captured during WWII.
1960 – Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba.
1962 – Edward Albee’s play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opens on Broadway featuring actress Uta Hagen.
1966 – 173 US aircraft bomb North Vietnam.
1967 – First American Basketball Association (ABA) game is played with Oakland Oaks beating Anaheim Amigos, 132-129; red, white & blue ball and 3-point field goal introduced.
1976 – First electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle obtained by Dr. F. A. Murphy, working at the C.D.C.
1978 – US President Jimmy Carter answers callers’ questions on National Public Radio.
1982 – IOC Executive Committee approves the reinstatement of Jim Thorpe’s gold medals from the 1912 Olympics.
1987 – 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
1990 – Target Center, a multi-purpose arena in Minneapolis officially opens.
1999 – The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
2002 – MLB American League Championship: Anaheim Angels beat Minnesota Twins, 4 games to 1.
2016 – American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
2019 – Kurdish forces make a deal with Syrian army for them to patrol border areas in north east Syria to combat Turkish offensive after US President Donald Trump pulls out US forces.
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