1636 – Harvard University, Cambridge, founded by a vote of the Massachusetts General Court.
1793 – Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin.
1858 – R.H. Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $11.06.
1886 – Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City.
1904 – St. Louis police try a new investigation method – fingerprints.
1913 – “Krazy Kat” comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal.
1921 – First American gubernatorial recall election is held in South Dakota. Governor Lynn Frazier loses to Ragnvald A. Nestos.
1929 – Dow Jones plummets 38.33 points (13%) to 260.64.
1936 – FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
1943 – German submarine U-220 sunk by US aircraft in the Atlantic.
1954 – Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Ernest Hemingway.
1958 – Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (average went from .230 to .322)
1962 – Cuban missile crisis: US President JFK receives letter from Soviet Leader Khrushchev suggesting agreement.
1981 – Edward M. McIntyre elected 1st black mayor of Augusta, Georgia.
1986 – The centennial of the Statute of Liberty’s dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.
1988 – Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University of Washington library.
1992 – Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world!
2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launched for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
2015 – World Health Organization ranks Tuberculosis alongside HIV as world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing 1.2 million (2014)
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