1492 – Columbus misses Florida when he changes course.
1816 – 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans.
1868 – Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens.
1916 – Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeat Cumberland 222-0, most lopsided score in the history of US college football.
1931 – 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
1940 – World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the US into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1950 – US forces invade North Korea by crossing the 38th parallel.
1952 – First “Bandstand” broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute host)
1955 – Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn.
1959 – “Pillow Talk” film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson is first released.
1960 – TV series “Route 66” premieres on CBS.
1961 – “Bye Bye Birdie” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 performances.
1963 – JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty.
1968 – Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
1979 – “Eubie!” closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances.
1984 – Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL’s career rushing leader.
1993 – Nobel Prize for literature awarded to American Toni Morrison.
1996 – Rupert Murdoch launches Fox News with Roger Ailes as CEO.
2003 – American gubernatorial recall election is held in California. Governor Gray Davis is recalled and Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes governor.
2014 – Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola, the first case outside west Africa.
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