1870 – Postcards first used in the United States.
1905 – 1st College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 17-0 in Annapolis.
1923 – Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal.
1929 – Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe in the Teapot scandal – 1st US Cabinet member to go to jail.
1937 – Casey Stengel signs to manager the Boston Bees.
1944 – Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink.
1951 – Peace talks aimed at ending the Korean War resumed in Panmunjom.
1955 – Tappan sells 1st microwave oven.
1960 – 1st electric wrist watch placed on sale in New York City.
1962 – US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson demands USSR UN representative Valerian Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying, “I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over”
1964 – “The Wrong Way Run”, Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety (NFL’s #1 blooper)
1974 – US Air Force fires 1st ICBM.
1978 – San Diego Padres pitcher Gaylord Perry wins National League Cy Young. He is the first pitcher to win the award in both leagues (AL, 1972)
1984 – “Give My Regards to Broad Street” premieres (Gotham Theater, New York City)
1988 – ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy pigs as pets.
1994 – Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjacked in South Carolina. She actually killed them.
2001 – Microsoft releases Windows XP for retail sale.
2009 – American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 4 games to 2.
2021 – Elon Musk makes a record $25 million in one day pushing his estimated worth to $255.2 billion, likely making him the richest person ever according to Forbes.
2021 – NASA’s scientists announce they may have detected the first panel outside our galaxy in the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), 28 million light years away.
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