1888 – Washington Monument opens for public admittance.
1903 – 11 inches of rain falls in 24 hours in New York City.
1919 – Baseball World Series: The Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago White Sox 10-5 at Comiskey Park for a 5-3 series victory. Due to the ‘Black Sox Scandal’ it’s the last World Series to take place without a Commissioner of Baseball in place.
1930 – First transcontinental flight by a woman completed by Laura Ingalls.
1936 – Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1941 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project.
1946 – Eugene O’Neill’s play “The Iceman Cometh” premieres in New York City.
1947 – First telephone conversation between occupants of a moving car and an airplane.
1960 – Dallas Cowboys quarterback Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass of 2 inches.
1963 – Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba and Haiti, killing 6,000 people.
1965 – The Beatles’ “Yesterday” single goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks.
1974 – Washington Capitals’ first NHL game, losing 6-3 to the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden to start a 37-game road losing streak for Washington.
1975 – The New York Yankees play their first American League Championship game, beating the Kansas City Royals 4-1.
1983 – Buffalo Bills quarterback Joe Ferguson passes for 419 yards with five touchdowns in winning 38-35 in overtime against the Dolphins in Miami.
1984 – Astronaut Kathy Sullivan becomes the first United States woman to walk in space during a Space Shuttle Challenger mission (STS-41-G).
1992 – Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to New York.
2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2013 – Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Areh Warshel win the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
2018 – President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, says she is resigning at the end of the year.
2023 – World record set for heaviest pumpkin, a Jack-o’-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds, grown by Travis Gienger from Anoka, Minnesota. It would be enough for 687 pies.
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