1902 – Chicago Cubs infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers and Frank Chance appear together as teammates for the first time, creating the famed double-play combination of “Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
1919 – Guy Bolton and George Middleton’s “Adam & Eve” premieres in New York City.
1928 – San Felipe Segundo/Okeechobee hurricane makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a category 5 storm, killing over 300 people, leaving 500,000 people homeless and causing $50 million in damages (about $799 million in 2020 dollars).
1932 – New York Yankees clinch their seventh American League pennant.
1936 – 17-year-old Cleveland Indians future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller strikes out then-record 17 Philadelphia Athletics in a 5-2 win at League Park, Cleveland.
1944 – 30th Infantry Division of the United States 1st Army frees Margraten, Netherlands during World War II.
1944 – Great Atlantic hurricane reaches peak intensity as a Category 4 storm, goes on to kill 300 to 400 people along the East Coast.
1949 – Republican Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator for Maine, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress. She was in the House of Representative from 1940-49 and the Senate from 1949-73.
1954 – Cincinnati first baseman Ted Kluszewski scores a run in his record 17th consecutive game as the Reds lose 5-4 to the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field.
1961 – Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit.
1965 – Beatles release single “Yesterday” – just Paul, with strings arranged by George Martin.
1969 – “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!” by Hanna-Barbera debuts on CBS.
1971 – 11 guards and 31 prisoners die during a takeover at Attica State Prison.
1977 – General Motors introduces the first diesel auto, the Oldsmobile 88.
1988 – Four players – Boston’s Jim Rice, Toronto’s Jesse Barfield, Chicago Cubs’ Damon Berryhill and Montreal’s Hubie Brooks -tie a major league record of four players hitting a grand slam on the same day.
1997 – The Carolina Hurricanes first exhibition game results in a 4-1 win over the New York Islanders.
2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
2013 – Jim Furyk fires a 12 under par 59 in the second round of the BMW Championship at Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest, Illinois, becoming the sixth player to shoot sub-60 in a PGA Tour event.
2018 – Amazon live streams “Thursday Night Football” as Cincinnati beats Baltimore 34-23 with the first all-female broadcast booth in NFL history. Andrea Kremer calls the game with Hannah Storm.
2023 – Rise in overdose deaths from fentanyl-laced stimulants mark the “fourth wave” of the overdose crisis in the United States, according to UCLA research.
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