1492 – Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course.
1765 – Stamp Act Congress (First Congress of the American Colonies) convenes in New York City to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.
1816 – 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans.
1868 – Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) opens.
1919 – Fritz Kreisler & F. Jacobi’s “Apple Blossoms” premieres in NYC.
1929 – Ramsay MacDonald is first British Prime Minister to address US Congress.
1931 – 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY.
1940 – World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1942 – US & UK government announce establishment of United Nations.
1950 – US forces invade North Korea by crossing 38th parallel.
1958 – US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury.
1960 – 2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate.
1963 – JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty.
1968 – Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
1985 – 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB.
1991 – Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexual inappropriate comments to her.
1996 – Rupert Murdock launches Fox News with Roger Ailles as CEO.
1998 – Mathew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2015 – US President Barack Obama apologizes to Doctors without Borders President and the President of Afghanistan for the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz.
2016 – Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent.
2018 – Limousine crash ills 20 people, including two pedestrians in Schoharie, New York.
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