1493 – Christopher Columbus embarks on his 2nd expedition to the New World, setting sail with a fleet of 17 ships.
1657 – First autopsy & coroner’s jury verdict is recorded in Maryland.
1789 – US Federal Judiciary Ac is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court.
1869 – Black Friday; Wall Street panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold.
1889 – Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder.
1906 – V Herbert & H Blossom’s musical “Red Mill” premieres in NYC.
1924 – Boston, Massachusetts, opens its airport.
1929 – Lt James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-instrument flight.
1930 – Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights.
1938 – Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis.
1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1952 – American fast food restaurant chain “KFC” {Kentucky Fried Chicken} opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1958 – Donna Reed Show premieres on ABC.
1968 – “Sixty Minutes” premieres on CBS-TV.
1973 – St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals.
1976 – “Oh! Calcutta!” opens at Edison Theater NYC for 5,959 performances.
1988 – Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)
1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
2001 – Crude oil and petroleum products futures fall to their lowest levels in nearly two years amid fears that a recession will reduce energy demand.
2015 – Pope Francis becomes the 1st pope to address the US Congress. Names Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day as his American heroes.
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