1862 – US President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is published in northern newspapers.
1875 – Billy the Kid is arrested for the 1st time and jailed after receiving clothing stolen from a Chinese laundry…escapes two days later.
1897 – 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyenne, Wyoming)
1912 – 1st Mack Sennett “Keystone Comedy” movie released “Cohen Collects a Debt”
1926 – “Upset of the Decade” – Gene Tunney beats defending champion Jack Dempsey by 10-round unanimous decision at Sesquicentennial Stadium (later known as JFK Stadium), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for world heavyweight boxing title.
1938 – Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World’s Fain in NYC (capsule contained a woman’s hat, man’s pipe & 1,110′ of microfilm.
1948 – Braves clinch NL pennant.
1949 – US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR’s 1st nuclear device detonation.
1952 – US vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon makes his “Checker’s” speech, defending the gift of a cocker spaniel to his daughters.
1957 – “That’ll Be the Day” by Buddy Holly and the Crickets reaches #1 in the US.
1969 – 1st broadcast of “Marcus Welby MD” on ABC-TV.
1976 – US televised presidential debate between Republican incumbent Gerald Ford and Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter.
1983 – MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to win 300 games, beating Cardinals 6-2 in St.Louis.
1986 – Congress selects the rose as US national flower.
1997 – Seattle Mariners break record for most HRs in a year (258)
2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released.
2012 – Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine.
2017 – US President Donald Trump withdraws invitation to the White House for NBA champions Golden State Warriors after Stephen Curry says he doesn’t want to attend.
2019 – US police officers fired after arresting two six-year-olds at a school on charges of misdemeanor battery in Florida.
2020 – President Donald Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the US November election at a White House press conference.