1635 – Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony.
1837 – Steamboat “Home” sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100.
1855 – American inventor Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor.
1872 – Aaron Montgomery starts his mail-order business.
1876 – 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires.
1915 – Louis Kaufmans comedy “Unchastened Woman” premieres in New York City.
1926 – NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms.
1936 – Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1946 – First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50.
1947 – First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane.
1963 – Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000.
1965 – Beatles’ “Yesterday” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks.
1969 – Supremes release “Someday We’ll Be Together”
1976 – “Robber Bridegroom” opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 145 performances.
1980 – 1st consumer use of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1986 – “Phathom of the Opera” premieres in London.
1997 – UNC’s Dean Smith, winningest college basketball coach retires.
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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