1898 – NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms.
1903 – United States wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska and Canada.
1917 – Suffragette Alice Paul begins a seven-month jail sentence for peaceful picketing in support of the Women’s Suffrage Amendment (right to vote) at the White House in Washington, D.C.
1926 – Hurricane in Cuba kills 600 people.
1928 – Wien Alaska Airways Inc. incorporated. It’s the first airline in Alaska and one of the first in the United States with Noel Wien as president.
1931 – Frankie Frisch of the St. Cardinals is named baseball’s Most Valuable Player.
1939 – “All the Things You Are” is recorded by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
1942 – “Durham Manifesto” is issued by the Southern Conference on Race Relations held in Durham, North Carolina. It calls for fundamental changes in race relations.
1944 – United States forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the 6th Army in the Battle of Leyte.
1957 – Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentaries.
1962 – Peter, Paul and Mary’s debut folk album “Peter, Paul and Mary” reaches No. 1 on the album charts.
1963 – Jim Brown sets the NFL single-season rushing record with 1,863 yards.
1973 – President Richard Nixon accepts the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and deputy Attorney General William Ruckelhaus as they refuse orders to discharge Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in what has become known as “The Saturday Night Massacre” after the resignations. Acting Attorney General Robert Bork fires Cox.
1982 – Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to George Stigler.
1988 – Man armed with explosives blows himself up in a 125 Street subway station in New York City.
1997 – United States government accuses Microsoft of violating antitrust laws by forcing the Internet Explorer browser on computers.
2015 – Vice President Joe Biden confirms he will not run for president in 2016.
2019 – First New York-to-Sydney, Australia non-stop test flight by a commercial airline achieved by a Qantas Boeing 787 Dreamliner in 19 hours and 42 minutes.
2020 – Justice Department sues Google for an illegal monopoly over internet search and search advertising.
2020 – Vietnam suffers its worst floods in decades with over 100 people killed, according to the Red Cross.