1890 – The President of the Latter-Day Saints, Wilford Woodruff issues a manifesto advising members that the teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned.
1924 – Boston, Massachusetts, opens its airport.
1929 – Lt. James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Michhell Field in NY in 1st all-instrument flight.
1940 – Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR.
1948 – Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs.
1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded in Hamamatsu-city, Japan.
1952 – American fast food restaurant chain “KFC” (Kentucky Fried Chicken) opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1955 – US President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver.
1957 – “Jailhouse Rock” single released by Elvis Presley (Billboard Song of the Year 1957)
1963 – US Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limiting nuclear testing.
1968 – “60 Minutes” premieres on CBS-TV.
1972 – NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colts (44-34)
1976 – “Oh! Calcutta!” revival opens at Edison Theater NYC for 5,959 performances, Broadway’s longest-running musical revue.
1985 – Apollo Computer Inc lays off 300 employees.
1995 – Ryder Cup Golf, Oak Hill, CC: Europe wins 14 1/2 – 13 1/2: unheralded Irish rookie Philip Walton secures victory for Europe beating Jay Haas 1 up.
1996 – US President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
2017 – Tour Championship Men’s Golf, East Lake GC: Xander Schauffele wins rich season-ending event by 1 stroke from Justin Thomas.
2019 – Nancy Pelosi announces formal impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump, arguing that he tried to enlist a foreign power for is own political gain.
2020 – President Donald Trump nominates Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the US Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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