1857 – The City of Anaheim is founded.
1892 – Dalton Gang ends in shootout in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup.
1905 – Orville and Wilbur Wright’s “Flyer III” flight 38.5 km in 38.3″
1914 – World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill.
1924 – 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News.
1925 – WSM-AM in Nashville Tennessee begins radio transmissions.
1943 – US air raid on Wake, Japanese execute 98 US prisoners in retaliation.
1945 – “Meet the Press” premieres on radio.
1953 – The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1954 – Hurricane Hazel forms in the Caribbean, killing 400-1000 people in the Bahamas and Haiti.
1960 – Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
1963 – Hyde Street Pier re-opens as State Historical Park.
1965 – Dick McInnes from Henderson, Kentucky stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite pulled by a speedboat along the Ohio River.
1984 – 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G) Challenger 6 is launched with the first Canadian in space Marc Garneau on board.
1985 – Grambling’s Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game.
1992 – 1st overturn of a George H.W. Bush veto (cable bill)
1992 – NY Senator Alphonse D’Amato filibusters for 15 hours, 20 minutes.
2001 – Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2005 – Vampire novel “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer is first published by Little Brown.
2015 – Governor of California, Jerry Brown signs a bill giving terminally ill patients the “right to die”
2018 – US unemployment figures hit lowest level since 1969 – 3.7% according to Department of Labor.