1792 – “Old Farmers Almanac” is published and edited by Robert Thomas.
1792 – Cornerstone laid for the Executive Mansion (White House) in Washington.
1860 – 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston.
1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
1914 – Garrett Morgan patents his safety hood device, which would later be refined into the gas mask.
1931 – Musical “Everybody’s Welcome” with T/J Dorsey premieres in NYC.
1944 – US 1st army begins battle of Aachen, first German city captured during WWII.
1947 – “Kukla, Fran & Ollie” premieres.
1950 – “All About Eve” directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter premieres (Academy Awards Best Picture 1951).
1960 – Third presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY.
1962 – “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen.
1966 – 173 US aircraft bomb North Vietnam.
1973 – Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in “Emily in for Carol”
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.
1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications (later Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
1989 – Dow Jones down 190.58 points.
1999 – The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (DTBT)
2015 – Basketball player Lamar Odom is hospitalized after being found unconscious in a brothel in Nevada.
2016 – American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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