1829 – Tremont Hotel, 1st US hotel opens (Boston)
1848 – 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania.
1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1907 – Belasco Theater opens at 111 W 44th St. NYC.
1916 – Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic in the US at 46 Amboy Street, Brooklyn.
1923 – John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
1928 – Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manish by 2 points.
1940 – Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. is promoted to brigadier general, the first African-American person to become a general in the US military.
1943 – Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city’s new subway system.
1952 – Woolworth’s at Powell & Market (San Francisco) opens.
1957 – Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits Williamsburg, Virginia.
1962 – Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK is shown photos confirming the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
1971 – Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in San Francisco.
1973 – Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho controversially awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam that later failed.
1985 – Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
1986 – US government shuts down due to disputes between President Reagan and the House.
1987 – 338,500,000 shares traded on NY Stock Exchange (record), Dow Jones falls more than 100 points (1st time)
1995 – Million Man March held in Washington, D.C. (over 830,000 African American men attend)
2013 – The United States ends its 16-day government shut down and avoids default in a bi-partisan deal in the Senate.
2018 – Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman denies knowledge of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi according to President Trump.
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