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.
1930 – Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8.
1943 – Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in American League history at 16 years, 8 months.
1954 – US plane shot down above Siberia.
1957 – Elvis records “White Christmas”, “Silent Night” & “Here Comes Santa Claus”
1958 – Mary Ann Mobley (Mississippi), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959.
1969 – John Kander and Fred Ebb’s “Cabaret” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances.
1975 – US Open Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY; Chris Evert wins her first of 6 US singles titles; beats Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.
1981 – Musical “They’re Playing Our Song” closes at Imperial NYC after 1082 performances.
1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1990 – US citizen is shot in Kuwait; oil market surge on aggressive US statements toward Iraq.
1995 – Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig’s record, plays in 2131 straight games.
2008 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams wins her third US title; beats Jelena Jankovic of Serbia 6-4, 7-5.
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.
2020 – Los Angeles County reported its highest-ever temperature of 121 F.
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