1901 – Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the youngest man to serve as president after William McKinley dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo.
1916 – Christy Mathewson pitches and wins his final Major League Baseball game in Cincinnati’s 10-8 win against the Chicago Cubs. Mathewson pitched 9 innings and allowed 15 hits.
1923 – In his fourth heavyweight boxing title defense, Jack Dempsey recovers after being sent through the ropes to knock out Argentine challenger Luis Firpo in the second round at the Polo Grounds in New York City.
1933 – Two billion feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook, Oregon fire.
1937 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans United States ships from trading arms with China or Japan.
1939 – World’s first practical helicopter, the VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky, takes (feathered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut.
1940 – Congress passes first peacetime conscription bill (draft law).
1944 – Great Atlantic hurricane hits New England, killing 300-400 people along the East Coast.
1948 – Groundbreaking ceremony for United Nations world headquarters in New York.
1954 – Hurricane Edna, the second of the year, hits New York City resulting in $50 million damage.
1955 – Little Richard records “Tutti Frutti” at J&M Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1956 – IBM introduces the MAMAC 305, the first commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage. It weighs over a ton.
1963 – Mary Ann Fischer of Aberdeen, South Dakota, gives birth to America’s first surviving quintuplets, four girls and a boy.
1972 – “The Waltons” TV program premieres on CBS starring Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, and Will Geer.
1981 – Judge Wapner and People’s Court premieres on television.
1986 – Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton scores his 100th career NFL rushing touchdown and gains 177 yards, surpassing the 15,000-yard career plateau, in a 13-10 overtime win over the visiting Philadelphia Eagles at Soldier Field.
1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
2001 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation’s capital.
2018 – Former President Donald Trump’s campaign chair Paul Manafort pleads guilty to conspiracy charges and agrees to cooperate with a government investigation.
2018 – Hurricane Florence makes landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, as a category 1 hurricane.
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