1633 – Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government.
1860 – Telegraph line between San Francisco and LA opens.
1873 – First women’s prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute.
1896 – Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks.
1904 – 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY).
1918 – American soldier Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans.
1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son.
1942 – Comedy duo Abbott and Costello launch their weekly radio show.
1945 – Microwave oven patented.
1957 – Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles.
1971 – John Lennon releases his megahit “Imagine”
1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
1978 – 29th Formula One WDC: Mario Andretti wins by 13 points.
1979 – J. McHugh & A Marvin’s musical “Sugar Babies” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 performances.
1981 – President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat’s funeral.
1984 – 18th Country Music Association Awards: Alabama wins.
1990 – US doctors Joseph E. Murray & E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize.
1995 – Dolphin’s Dan Marino breaks Fran Tarkenton’s NFL career completions record.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
2015 – Actress and singer Selena Gomez reveals she has Lupus