1798 – First bank robbery in the US: Bank of Pennsylvania robbed of $162,821 at Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia.
1864 – Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during Savannah Campaign (US Civil War)
1897 – “McCall” magazine first established.
1901 – Theodore Roosevelt advises “Speak softly & carry a big stick”
1914 – The US Treasury Department establishes the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to provide up to $5 million worth of insurance for merchant ships and their crews.
1929 – Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros.
1935 – Labor Day hurricane makes landfall in Florida, killing 423 people, the strongest and most intense hurricane to make landfall in the United States.
1937 – US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act.
1944 – Future US President George H.W. Bush bails from a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific.
1954 – Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20.
1958 – Minnesota announces $9 million bond to improve Metropolitan Stadium.
1958 – U.S, Air Force C-130-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a mission. All crew lost.
1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee High School.
1969 – The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1974 – US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
1987 – Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan.
1991 – US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania.
2015 – Earth’s trees number just over 3 trillion according to study in “Nature” by Thomas Crowther of Yale University.
2015 – US President Barack Obama becomes the first president to visit the Arctic Circle at Kotzebue, Alaska.
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