1834 – First African-American granted a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter.
1884 – George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
1893 – Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret.
1908 – Upset over seating arrangements at the Baseball World Series, sports writers form a professional group that will become Baseball Writers Association of America.
1916 – 1st PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Siwanoy CC, Bronxville, NY: Englishman Jim Barnes defeats Jock Hutchison by 1 hole in 36-hole final.
1922 – 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC.
1926 – A.A. Milne’s book “Winnie the Pooh” released.
1943 – US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17s during assault on Schweinfurt.
1952 – UN General Assembly first meets at its new headquarters in New York.
1957 – Everly Brothers’ “Wake Up Little Susie” reaches #1.
1960 – Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy in a speech at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
1963 – WGHP-TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (ABC) begins.
1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1975 – US President Gerald Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside.
1976 – Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to American economist Milton Friedman.
1982 – US President Reagan proclaims a war on drugs.
1995 – Atlanta Braves become 1st team to sweep in NL playoffs (beat Reds)
1998 – Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
2014 – World Health Organization announce Ebola virus death toll at 4,447, and the fatality rate has reached 70%.
2017 – Producer Harvey Weinstein is expelled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after historical revelations of sexual harassment and rape.
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