1903 – Boston Pilgrims clinch American League pennant, beating Cleveland 14-3.
1920 – National Football league is born in Canton, Ohio when 12 teams pay $100 each to join the American Football Association. It was renamed the NFL in 1922.
1926 – Hurricane hits Miami and Palm Beach, Florida, killing an estimated 450 people.
1931 – First LP record demonstrated by RCA Victor in New York City, but the venture failed.
1937 – First NFL game in Washington, D.C. as the Redskins beat the New York Giants 13-3.
1943 – Load of “ammunition in transit” explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station.
1947 – Jackie Robinson is named Major League Baseball’s Rookie of Year by Sporting News.
1954 – In a quick re-match at Yankee Stadium in New York City, Rocky Marciano knocks out Ezzard Charles in the 8th round to retain his world heavyweight boxing title.
1956 – New York Yankees clinch pennant #22 on Mickey Mantle’s 50th home run of the season.
1961 – “Car 54, Where are You?” premieres on television.
1962 – Justice Department files first suit to end segregation in public schools.
1968 – San Francisco Giants’ Gaylord Perry no-hits the St. Louis Cardinals 1-0.
1976 – NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California, named after Star Trek Enterprise with the show’s cast attending.
1986 – Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice of the Supreme Court.
1989 – Hurricane Hugo begins a 4-day sweep through the Caribbean, killing 62 people.
1997 – Dr. Sam Sheppard’s body is exhumed for a DNA test. His murder trial inspired the television show and movie “The Fugitive.”
2007 – AOL, once the largest internet service provider in the United States, officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia, to New York City.
2015 – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports 2015 Northern Hemisphere summer is the hottest on record.
2018 – Hurricane Florence has caused 900 people to be rescued from flooding with a death toll at 23 people and Wilmington, North Carolina, isolated, officials announce.
2019 – San Francisco Giants outfielder Mike Yastrzemski hits a home run in his first game at Boston’s Fenway Park, long-time field of his grandfather Carl Yastrzemski of the Red Sox.
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