1880 – 1st pro baseball game at Polo Grounds, NY Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings.
1915 – 1st transcontinental radio telephone message sent by U.S. naval station at Arlington, Virginia, to naval radio station at Mare Island, San Francisco.
1916 – American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller becomes the world’s first billionaire.
1920 – Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10.
1927 – Telephone service begins between US & Mexico.
1936 – Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign.
1940 – Musical film “Strike Up the Band” starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.
1947 – Dizzy Gillespie presented his 1st Carnegie Hall concert in NY.
1953 – “Milton Berle Show” premieres on NBC in the US.
1959 – Little Anthony & the Imperials record “Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop”
1962 – “Allie Cat” by Bent Fabric & His Piano peaks at #7.
1972 – Robert McNamara, former US Secretary of Defense, is almost thrown overboard on a ferry by an artist wanting to confront him on his role in escalating US involvement in the Vietnam War (no charges pressed)
1976 – Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Los Angeles Dodgers manager.
1983 – US Congress authorizes President Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon.
1990 – Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years.
1997 – Jury selection in Terry Nichols Oklahoma bombing trial begins.
2006 – US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.
2008 – Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, its largest single-day point loss, following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual.
2017 – Mysterious sonic attacks on US diplomats prompt US to warn citizens not to travel to Cuba and pull some embassy staff.
2021 – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declares 23 species of bird, fish and other wildlife extinct, including the ivory-billed woodpecker.
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