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1902 – Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” is published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London.

1916 – Zoological Society of San Diego founded in San Diego, California.

1919 – President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.

1932 – Washington Redskins, playing as the Boston Braves, play franchise’s debut National Football League and lose 14-0 to the Brooklyn Dodgers at Braves Field.

1942 – RMS Queen Mary, carrying thousands of United States troops, slices cruiser HMS Curacao in half, killing 239 people.

1950 – First strip of Charlie Brown, “Li’l Folks”, later renamed “Peanuts,” by Charles M. Schulz is published in seven nationwide papers.

1955 – “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” premieres on CBS television.

1957 – “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” directed by David Lean and starring William Holden and Alec Guinness, is released. It wins the Academy Awards Best Picture in 1958.

1960 – Mickey Wright becomes the first player in LPGA Tour history to average fewer than 74 strokes per round to win the Vare Trophy after a season average of 72.25. It’s the first of five consecutive Vare Trophies for Wright.

1966 – Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax wins his 27th game of the season, 8-3 against the Philadelphia Phillies, in clinching the Dodgers’ third National League pennant in four years.

1974 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder Hank Aaron hits his final home run as a member of the Atlanta Braves in a 13-0 drubbing of the Cincinnati Reds. Aaron’s 733rd career home run on his last National League at-bat.

1982 – The Portland Building, designed by Michael Graves and considered the first postmodern building, is opened in Portland, Oregon.

1988 – Minnesota Twins total 3,030,872 in attendance at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome to become the first American League club to break 3 million spectators in a season.

1988 – XXIV Summer Olympic Games close at the Seoul Olympic Stadium in Korea.

1994 – “Show Boat” opens at Gershwin Theater in New York City.

1999 – #21 University of Alabama football team beats #3 Florida 40-39 in overtime to snap the Gators’ 30-game home win streak. Future Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander scores four touchdowns for the Crimson Tide.

2001 – NATO backs United States military strikes following attacks on 9/11.

2013 – Eight people are killed and 14 are injured after an accident involving an SUV, church bus, and tractor trailer in Jefferson County, Tennessee.

2018 – First Lady Melania Trump arrives in Ghana to begin a four-nation tour of Africa.

2021 – Massive oil slick from a pipeline discovered off California along the Orange County coast covering 13 square miles.