1802 – 1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma.
1845 – Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis.
1865 – John Hyatts patents the billiard ball.
1886 – 1st dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY.
1899 – African-American inventor Issac R. Johnson the bicycle frame.
1902 – American outlaw Tom Horn’s murder trial begins, and he is eventually found guilty and sentenced to death.
1916 – In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5, up from $3.
1917 – Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter.
1933 – 1st synthetic detergent, “Dreft” by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale.
1935 – George Gershwin’s “Porgy & Bess” opens on Broadway, NY.
1948 – Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland.
1957 – US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware.
1959 – Pan Am begins regular flights around the world.
1960 – 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo.
1965 – The Supremes appear on Ed Sullivan Show.
1971 – 5th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins.
1973 – US Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns.
1985 – US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody.
1991 – Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy.
1994 – NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor’s #56.
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