1635 – Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony.
1701 – Collegiate School of Connecticut (Yale U), chartered in New Haven.
1837 – Steamboat “Home” sinks off Okracoke, North Carolina, killing 100.
1888 – Washington Monument opens for public admittance.
1903 – 11″ rainfall in 24 hours (NYC).
1936 – Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program – beginning of the Manhattan project.
1946 – First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50.
1947 – First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane.
1960 – Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2″)
1963 – Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000.
1974 – Race riot in Boston due to “bussing”
1977 – Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31.
1980 – 1st consumer use of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1984 – Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space.
1986 – Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E. Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
1990 – Radio stations around the world play “Imagine” honoring John Lennon.
2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2007 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high.
2016 – Second US Presidential debate: Hostile confrontation between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at Washington University, St. Louis.
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