1789 – 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the President and Congress.
1793 – US President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
1848 – Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner.
1895 – Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
1919 – Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drowns 280 along Gulf Coast.
1938 – Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers, 2-0.
1946 – Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1st for heavyweight boxing title.
1947 – US Air Force created as a separate military service by passing of the National Security Act.
1957 – US Western TV drama “Wagon Train” premieres.
1964 – TV series “The Addams Family”, starring John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy, and Jackie Googan, premieres in ABC.
1966 – Baltimore quarterback Johnny Unitas throws 4 touchdown passes in 38-23 win at Minnesota to surpass Y.A.Tittle as NFL’s career leader with 212; finishes career with 290 TD passes.
1975 – Heiress-turned-bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco.
1984 – Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic.
1987 – US & USSR sign accord to remove mid range missiles.
1994 – 1st Presidents Cup Golf, Robert Trent Jones GC: Davis Love III is undefeated as US beats international team, 20-12 inaugural event.
1997 – Ted Turner gives $1 billion to the United Nations, creating the public charity, the United Nations Foundation.
2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2009 – The 72 year run of the soap opera ‘The Guiding Light’ ends as its final episode is broadcast.
2016 – In Russian elections Putin-backed United Russia party wins 54% of Parliamentary seats led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
2018 – China announces new $60 billion tariffs on US imports, a day after the US imposes $200 billion worth of new tariffs on Chinese goods.
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