1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1682 – William Penn lands at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania.
1811 – 1st Ohio river steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans.
1863 – International Committee of Red Cross forms as result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917,1944, 1963).
1872 – J.S. Risdon patents metal windmill.
1904 – First intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas).
1929 – “Black Tuesday” Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the “Great Depression.”
1941 – Cole Porter’s musical “Let’s Face It” premieres in New York City.
1945 – First ballpoint pen goes on sale, manufactured by Biro.
1950 – 2nd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Bill Rexford wins.
1956 – Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up.
1966 – National Organization of Women founded.
1969 – Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation “at once.”
1982 – Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted.
1989 – Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions.
1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts of on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
2004 – Arabic news network, Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2008 – Delta Airlines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world’s largest airline and reducing the number of legacy carriers to 5.
2012 – Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage and forces the New York stock exchange to close.
2015 – Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) is elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives, succeeding John Boehner (R-Ohio)
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