1908 – New York Giants set Major League Baseball season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
1918 – American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks a German gun nest, killing at least 25 and captured 132 Germans.
1927 – “The Second Hundred Years” silent short film released starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy – 1st Laurel and Hardy film with them appearing as a team.
1933 – Colt Tower dedicated in San Francisco as a monument to firefighters.
1940 – Baseball World Series: Cincinnati Reds beat Detroit Tigers 2-1 at Crosby Field for 4 games to 3 series win; Reds second championship.
1942 – Comedy duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello launch their weekly radio show.
1945 – Microwave oven patented by inventor Percy Spencer.
1951 – Revival of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “Music in the Air” opens at Ziegfeld Theater in New York City; runs for 56 performances.
1958 – Dr. Ake Senning installs first pacemaker (Stockholm)
1962 – North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers’ Party.
1966 – Wyoming’s Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yards (54, 54, 52)
1971 – John Lennon releases his megahit single “Imagine”
1978 – American Mario Andretti in a Lotus finishes 10th in the season ending Canadian Grand Prix at lle Notre-Dame Circuit, but wins his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 13 points from Ronnie Peterson.
1981 – President Ronald Reagan greets predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat’s funeral.
1990 – 24th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins.
1998 – House of Representatives votes to begin impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton on charges of lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
2001 – President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
2012 – Film “Lincoln” directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, based on the biography by Doris Kearns Goodwin, premieres.
2019 – FBI confirms Samuel Little is America’s most prolific serial killer after verifying more than half of his 93 confessed murders.
2020 – FBI charge 13 men with plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and storm the Michigan Capitol.
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