1885 – 1st newspaper cartoon strip.
1919 – US Marines again send troops to Honduras.
1923 – ZR-1(biggest active dirigible) flies over NY’s tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower.
1941 – FDR orders US Navy that any Axis ship found in American waters be shot at on sight.
1941 – Construction of the Pentagon begins in Arlington County, Virginia (completed January 15, 1943). Designed by architect George Bergstrom and built by contractor John McShain, construction was overseen by Leslie Groves.
1954 – 1st Miss America TV broadcast; 19-year-old Lee Meriwether of California crowned 27th Miss America.
1959 – Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans.
1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph.
1964 – Gillette’s 20-year contract with Madison Square Garden & ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleveland Auditorium.
1967 – US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material.
1970 – The Ford Pinto is introduced.
1976 – US Open Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Chris Evert retains her title; dominates Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 6-3, 6-0.
1977 – The Atari 2600, originally known as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS) is released in North America, revolutionizing the video game industry.
1986 – Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89….237.57 million shares traded.
1998 – Independent counsel Ken Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
2001 – Two passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into New York’s World Trade Center Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,606 people.
2001 – Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board.
2012 – The US Consulate of Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people, including the US ambassador.
2012 -The US is warned by Moody’s that its AAA credit rating is at risk if lawmakers fail to produce a long-term debt reduction plan.
2017 – Hurricane Irma leaves 7 million US homes without power in Florida and Georgia.
2018 – “Fear”: Trump in the White House” by Bob Woodward is published by Simon and Schuster.
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