1915 – Boston Red Sox clinch American League pennant by beating the Detroit Tigers.
1919 – Avery Hopwood’s “Gold Diggers” premieres in New York City.
1927 – Yankees slugger Babe Ruth smacks his Major League Baseball-record 60th home run off Tom Zackery in the eighth inning of New York’s 4-2 win over Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium.
1935 – George Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” premieres in Boston.
1935 – The Boulder Dam, later renamed the Hoover Dam, astride the border of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1946 – Twenty-two Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbontrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death or prison at Nuremberg war trials.
1953 – Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
1955 – American actor and cultural icon James Dean is killed in a car crash at 24 years old.
1960 – “The Flintstones,” the first animated sitcom created by Hanna-Barbera, premieres on ABC.
1962 – President John F. Kennedy sends 3,000 federal troops to the University of Mississippi to quell riots protesting desegregation.
1968 – The first Boeing 747 jumbo jet rolls out.
1973 – The New York Yankees close 50th year at Yankee Stadium with an 8-5 loss to the Detroit Tigers for an 80-82 season record. Manager Ralph Houk resigns.
1977 – Apollo program’s ALSEP (Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package) left on the Moon are shut down due to budget costs.
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox in collaboration with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1988 – IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer.
1997 – New York Yankees Tim Rains, Derek Jeter and Paul O’Neill are the first to hit three consecutive home runs in the postseason as the Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 8-6.
2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile of the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service almost two years before the F-14 itself retired.
2014 – A case of Ebola virus reaches Dallas, Texas.
2022 – Hurricane Ian makes landfall just south of Georgetown, South Carolina.
2023 – Bipartisan deal to avoid government shutdown signed just hours before midnight deadline, provides funding for 45 days.
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