1775 – United States Navy forms as the Continental Navy.
1893 – Hurricane hits the coast between Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina.
1913 – In a speech in Mobile, Alabama, President Woodrow Wilson vows the United States “will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest.”
1920 – Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA, is granted a limited commercial license by the Department of Commerce.
1925 – Water skies patented by Fred Waller.
1938 – DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called “nylon.”
1941 – Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be a war with Japan.
1947 – “You Bet Your Life” with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio.
1954 – Walt Disney’s first TV show, “Disneyland,” premieres on ABC.
1960 – American League admits Los Angeles and Washington.
1968 – XIX Summer Games close at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City.
1972 – OPEC approves plan providing for 25 percent government ownership of all western oil interests operating within Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia.
1978 – President Jimmy Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill.
1982 – China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people.
1992 – FOX network’s scheduled launch is rescheduled until December.
1997 – Dow Jones Industrial Average crashes 554.26 points (7.18%) to close at 7,161.15. It’s the 10th largest percentage decline in the index since 1915.
2004 – The Boston Red Sox win their first World Series in 86 years with a 3-0 win against the St. Louis Cardinals to complete a four-game sweep.
2017 – First operation to separate conjoined twins joined at the head in India completed in New Delhi.
2019 – California Governor Gavin Newsom declares a state of emergency with multiple fires across the state, including Sonoma County’s Kincade Fire burning over 30,000 acres.
2020 – A record 69.5 million Americans have already voted a week before election day, 50.4% of the 2016 total vote.
2023 – Lewiston, Maine, mass shooter Robert Card, who killed 18 people, is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his former place of employment.
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