1879 – Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb.
1907 – Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock leads to wide run on banks.
1907 – Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey circus.
1928 – Herbert Hoover speaks of “American system of rugged individualism.”
1932 – Film “Red Dust” directed by Victor Fleming, starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Mary Astor, premieres.
1938 – Chester Carlson has 1st successful experiment in electrophotography, later sold to the Haloid Company and dubbed “Xerox copying”
1950 – NFL: LA Rams beat Baltimore Colts 70-27.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, in a televised address to the nation about Russian missile bases in Cuba, imposes a naval blockade on Cuba; beginning the missile crisis.
1966 – Ice hockey legend Bobby Orr scores his first career goal (vs. Montreal Canadiens)
1967 – Ryder Cup Golf, Champions GC: US beats Great Britain 23½ to 8½. Ben Hogan captains Americans to record 15-point victory margin.
1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladder of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
1979 – Walt Disney World’s 100-millionth guest.
1983 – Two correction officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons.
1991 – General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion.
1992 – Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) launches into space.
1997 – Yahoo completes purchase of Four11.
2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active on record with 22 named storms.
2009 – Microsoft releases Windows 7.
2016 – AT&T buys Time Warner for $85.4 billion.
2019 – Drug company Biogen claims to have created the 1st drug to slow the advance of Alzheimer’s disease called Aducanumab.
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