1776 – Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested.
1784 – 1st daily newspaper in America (Pennsylvania Packet & General Advertiser)
1827 – According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Joseph translated into The Book of Mormon.
1837 – Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry & china stores.
1895 – First auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company.
1903 – First cowboy film “Kit Carson” premieres in US.
1928 – “My Weekly Reader” magazine made its debut.
1938 – Hurricane (183 MPH winds) in New England kills 700.
1948 – “Texaco Star Theater” with Milton Berle premieres on NBC-TV.
1955 – Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9 for heavyweight boxing title.
1957 – “Perry Mason” with Raymond Burr premieres on CBS-TV.
1968 – Police drama “Adam-12” debuts on NBC in the US.
1970 – “Monday Night Football” premieres on ABC – Browns 31, Jets 21.
1973 – Nate Archibald signs 7 year contract with NBA KC Kings for $450,000.
1986 – 38th Emmy Awards: Golden Girls, Cagney & Lacey & Michael J. Fox win.
1990 – Reports that US refinery problems will lead to a loss in capacity and aggressive remarks by Saddam Hussein send crude prices to new highs.
2003 – 55th Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Everybody Loves Raymond, James Gandolfini & Edie Falco wins.
2008 – Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.
2015 – Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin, pulls out of the Republican US Presidential race.
2016 – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan pledge $3 billion to medical research to “cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century”
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