1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is founded by Englishman William Penn.
1775 – US Navy forms as the Continental Navy.
1871 – Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption.
1893 – Hurricane hits coast between Savannah, Georgia & Charleston, South Carolina.
1913 – President Woodrow Wilson says US will never attack another country.
1920 – League of Nations moves headquarters to Geneva.
1920 – Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins.
1938 – DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called “nylon”
1941 – Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan.
1954 – President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem.
1961 – 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test.
1969 – Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader’s Raiders.
1977 – NASA launches space vehicle S-200.
1978 – US President Jimmy Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill.
1980 – William Safire’s column entitled “The Ayatollah Votes” is published in the New York Times, and was later quoted in a campaign ad for Ronald Reagan in that year’s presidential election.
1988 – Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra.
1992 – Fox is launched Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to December.
1997 – Dow Jones crashes record 554 points to 7161.
1997 – Microsoft argues it should be “free from government interference”
2017 – First operation to separate conjoined twins joined at the head in India completed in New Delhi.