1772 – New Jersey passes a bill requiring a license to practice medicine.
1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.
1892 – 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa’s band (NJ).
1914 – Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce.
1934 – British liner Queen Mary is launched.
1947 – Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series.
1952 – Yankees clinch 4th straight & 19th American League pennant, beating A’s 5-2.
1954 – Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd & Mickey Mantle plays shortstop.
1955 – NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929.
1960 – 1st of 4 TV debates, Nixon & Kennedy, took place (Chicago).
1961 – Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth’s record.
1962 – TV comedy series “Beverly Hillbillies” premieres on CBS.
1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic (Washington, D.C. to Paris) in record breaking time (3h33m)
1979 – 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million.
1988 – NYC’s Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark.
1992 – Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
2012 – Japanese automakers suspend operations in China.
2014 – World Health Organizations estimate that Ebola death toll has reached 3,091 – with Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone hit hardest.
2019 – WHO announces 800,000 children in DR Congo will be vaccinated in nine days in world’s largest measles epidemic that has taken over 3,500 lives.
2019 – US income inequality widest for over 50 years, worst in California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana and New York, according to new census.
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