1866 – 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
1893 – Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat.
1918 – US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die.
1926 – Babe Ruth becomes first MLB player to hit 3 home runs in a World Series game as NY Yankees beat St. Louis Cardinals, 10-5 in Game 4 at Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis.
1935 – Market Street Railway, San Francisco, starts using trackless trolley coaches.
1945 – Tavern owner ‘Billy Goat’ Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of Baseball World Series, is escorted out and casts goat curse on Chicago Cubs.
1956 – Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral polio vaccine is ready for testing; it would soon supplant Jonas Salk’s vaccine in many parts of the world.
1958 – US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains a record 60 days under the north pole.
1959 – Single game World Series attendance record set (92,706 in LA)
1961 – JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters.
1965 – The Supremes release “I Hear a Symphony”
1966 – Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout.
1976 – US President Gerald Ford says there is “no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe”
1979 – Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit The White House, meeting with President Jimmy Carter in Washington, D.C.
1985 – Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games & at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0.
1987 – “Faith” single released by George Michael (Billboard Song of the Year 1988)
1996 – Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate.
2010 – Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instagram.
2018 – Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed and sworn onto the US Supreme Court amid protests and after an FBI investigation.
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