1773 – American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom’s East India Company tea ships’ cargo are burned at Annapolis.
1774 – 1st Continental Congress makes Declaration of Colonial Rights in Philadelphia.
1834 – First black to obtain a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter.
1893 – Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret.
1908 – Baseball Writers Association of America forms.
1922 – 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens on Third Avenue NYC.
1926 – AA Milne’s book “Winnie the Pooh” released.
1947 – Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015).
1957 – Every Brothers’ “Wake Up Little Susie” reaches #1.
1960 – Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK.
1961 – “How to Succeed in Business” opens at 46th St. NYC for 1415 performances.
1963 – WGHP TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (ABC) begins.
1964 – Phillips begins experimenting with color TV.
1975 – US President Gerald Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside.
1978 – 1st TV movie from a TV series-“Rescue from Gilligan’s Island”
1980 – Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court.
1988 – Crude oil prices jump in anticipation of possible production accord at Gulf Cooperation Council meeting set for October 16.
1996 – Dow Jones closes over 6,000 for 1st time (6,010).
1998 – Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
2014 – World Health Organization announce Ebola virus death toll at 4,447, and the fatality rate has reached 70%.
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