1861 – West Virginia secedes from Virginia.
1901 – First woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
1908 – Billy Murray hits the charts with “Take Me Outto the Ball Game”
1911 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole.
1911 – Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
1926 – Harry Houdini’s last performance, at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1929 – “Black Thursday”, start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%.
1931 – George Washington Bridge linking New York City and New Jersey dedicated, opens the next day.
1938 – US forbids child labor in factories.
1939 – Nylon stockings go on sale for first time (Wilmington, Delaware)
1944 – US Captain David McCampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte.
1945 – Charter of United Nations comes into effect.
1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States’ support to South Vietnam.
1962 – Cuban missile crises: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba.
1963 – Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award.
1973 – Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on New Jersey Turnpike.
1989 – American televangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud.
1996 – Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium.
2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
2008 – “Bloody Friday” saw many of the world’s stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most idices.
2012 – Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over $50 million in damage.
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