1830 – Oliver Wendell Holmes writes poem “Old Ironside” as tribute to the 18th century USS Constitution.
1908 – Carriage-maker, William C. Durant founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan.
1920 – The “Wall Street bombing” occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York, killing 38 and injuring 143.
1926 – Hurricane in Florida & Alabama, kills 372.
1937 – Redskins NFL franchise play first game in Washington at Griffith Stadium; defeat the New York Giants in season opener, 13-3.
1940 – FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (first peacetime draft)
1941 – German armored troops surround Kyiv, Ukraine.
1950 – Viet Minh offensive against French bases in Vietnam.
1953 – 1st movie in Cinemascope “The Robe” based on the book by Lloyd C. Douglas, directed by Henry Koster and starring Richard Burton and Jean Simmons premieres.
1960 – Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98.
1968 – Richard Nixon appears on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in”
1974 – US President Gerald Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters.
1979 – “Catfish Hunter Day” at Yankee Stadium.
1987 – Pope John Paul II ends his Los Angeles tour with an interfaith meeting at Dodger Stadium with leaders of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism.
1991 – Atlanta’s Otis Nixon of Evergreen, N.C., suspended for rest of 1991 season due to cocaine.
1992 – FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service.
1997 – Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs interim CEO.
2007 – 59th Emmy Awards: The Sopranos, 30 Rock, James Spader & Sally Field.
2018 – Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes sets NFL record of 10 touchdowns in first 2 weeks of a season, torching Pittsburgh’s secondary with 6 TD passes: leads Chiefs to 42-37 victory on the road.
2018 – US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accused of sexual assault in the 1980s in “The Washington Post”
2020 – Hurricane Sally makes landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a category 2 storm bringing serious flooding.
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