1869 – 1st westbound train arrives in San Francisco.
1899 – Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk.
1901 – US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York.
1909 – New York Times headline announces American explorer Robert Peary had discovered the North Pole 5 months earlier.
1916 – 1st true supermarket, the “Piggly Wiggly” is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee.
1935 – “Steamboat Round the Bend” film directed by John Ford and starring Will Rogers released weeks after Rogers’ death.
1943 – “Congressional Limited” train derails near Frankfort, Philadelphia, kills 79.
1946 – All-American Football Conference begins regular season play as the Cleveland Browns beat the Miami Seahawks 44-0 before 60,135 at Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium.
1953 – Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38.
1954 – WINS NYC begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show.
1957 – Elvis records “White Christmas”, “Silent Night” & “Here Comes Santa Claus”
1969 – “Cabaret” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances.
1969 – TV sitcom “The Brady Bunch” create by Sherwood Schwartz premieres on ABC in the US.
1975 – Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open.
1982 – Jerry Lewis’ 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000.
1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1995 – Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks Gehrig’s record, plays in 2,131 straight games.
2017 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Caribbean Islands of Barbuda, Sint Maartens and British Virgin Islands. Prime Minister Gaston Browne reports 95% of buildings in Barbuda damaged.
2018 – New York and New Jersey state attorneys launch investigations into sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy, bring to six the number of states investigating.