1898 – First forestry school in America opens at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina.
1901 – Construction begins on the New York Stock Exchange.
1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo
1922 – New York City law requires all ‘pool’ rooms to change name to ‘billiards’.
1931 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman Lou Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days and 6th homer in consecutive games in New York Yankees’ 5-1 win against the Boston Red Sox.
1939 – General George Marshall sworn in as the United States Chief of Staff.
1948 – 1st US Open Women’s Golf, Spokane CC: Patty Berg wins inaugural Open and only one played in match play format; takes 36-hole final 5&4 over Betty Jameson.
1953 – 101 degrees F, highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in September.
1958 – St Louis Cardinals pitcher Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a National League record 9 batters in a 1-0 shutout of the Cincinnati Reds.
1962 – United Nations announces Earth’s population has hit 3 billion.
1969 – Jerry Lewis’ 4th Muscular Dystrophy telethon held.
1975 – “Gunsmoke” goes off the air.
1984 – “What’s Love Got to Do With It” single tops the charts, giving Tina Turner her 1st #1 as a solo artist.
1985 – Bill Elliott claims a $1 million bonus for winning 3 of the 4 crown jewel races on the NASCAR schedule; the Daytona 500, Winston 500 and Southern 500.
1989 – Revival of Cole Porter’s musical “Anything Goes” closes at Beaumont Theater in New York City after 804 performances.
1996 – The Carolina Panthers outgun the Atlanta Falcons 29-6 in their first regular season NFL game at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte.
2007 – In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans see Appalachian State’s Corey Lynch block a Jason Gingell 37-yard field goal attempt with 6 seconds remaining to inspire an epic 34-32 win against Michigan at Ann Arbor.
2015 – Pope Francis tells priests to pardon women who have had an abortion in a letter released by the Vatican.
2022 – TV series “The Lord of the Rings; the Rings of Power” premieres on Amazon Prime Video.
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