1892 – 1st appearance of “Pledge of Allegiance” in Youth’s Companion magazine.
1900 – 6,000 killed when a hurricane and tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas.
1916 – President Woodrow Wilson signs the Emergency Revenue Act, doubling the rate of income tax and adding inheritance and munitions profits tax.
1930 – 1st appearance of comic strip “Blondie”
1939 – President Franklin Roosevelt declares “limited national emergency” due to war in Europe.
1945 – United States invades Japanese-held Korea.
1946 – Bill Kennedy of the Rocky Mount (NC) Leafs in the Coastal Plain League strikes out minor league-record 456 batters. Kennedy finished the season with a 28-3 record and a 1.03 earned run average.
1951 – Japan signs a peace treaty with 48 countries in San Francisco.
1956 – Harry Belafonte’s album “Calypso” goes #1 and stays there for 31 weeks.
1960 – Nationwide release in United States of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh.
1965 – Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana and Florida.
1971 – John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C.
1974 – President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes.
1984 – US Open Women’s Tennis, Martina Navratilova retains her title; beats Chris Evert Lloyd 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.
1991 – Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pittsburgh Steelers in a 52-34 win.
1999 – Attorney General Janet Reno names former Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at Branch Davidian church near Waco, Texas in response to revelations in the film “Waco The Rules of Engagement”
2005 – Two EMERCOM II-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
2015 – Pope Francis announces moves to streamline the annulment process within the Catholic Church.
2021 – Derek Jeter, Ted Simmons, Larry Walker, and Marvin Miller are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, elected in 2020, ceremony was postponed due to pandemic.
2021 – Biden administration releases blueprint calling for 44% of American electricity to come from the sun by 2050 (currently 3%)
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