1902 – Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” is published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London.
1916 – Pitching in his 3rd start in 5 days, Philadelphia Phillies right-hander Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 20th-century Major League Baseball record 16th shutout of the year, in a 2-0 win against the Boston Braves.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1932 – Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play franchise’s debut NFL game; lose 14-0 to Brooklyn Dodgers at Braves Field.
1935 – 1st alcohol power plant forms in Atchison, Kansas.
1944 – US B-17s drop pamphlets on Weicheren, Germany.
1950 – 1st strip of Charlie Brown, “Lil Folks” later “Peanuts”, by Charles M. Schultz, published in seven nationwide newspapers.
1955 – “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” premieres on CBS television.
1950 – Mickey Wright becomes first player in LPGA Tour history to average fewer than 74 strokes per round to win the Vare Trophy after a season average of 73.25; first of 5 consecutive Vare Trophies for Wright.
1963 – Los Angeles Dodgers’ Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 New York Yankees in Game 1 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium; Dodgers win 5-2 and sweep series 4-0.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice.
1968 – Redwood National Park established to preserve the tallest trees on earth by an act of Congress with 58,000 acres (later extended)
1970 – 14 members of the Wichita State University football team as well as 17 administrators and supporters are killed in a plane crash in the Rocky Mountains.
1980 – Michael Myers (D-Pa) is 1st representative expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
1988 – Minnesota Twins total 3,030,672 in attendance at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome; first American League club to break 3 million in a Major League Baseball season.
1996 – 30th Country Music Awards: Brooks & Dunn win.
2001 – NATO backs US military strikes following 9/11.
2009 – The International Olympic Committee votes to award Rio de Janeiro, Brazil rights to host the Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
2016 – Veteran broadcaster Vin Scully calls his final Los Angeles Dodgers game (2-1 loss in San Francisco) after a record 67 MLB seasons.
2018 – Saudi American journalist Jamal Khashoggi enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen again prompting a diplomatic crisis.
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