1694 – American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec.
1813 – The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).
1905 – Edward Macon Royle’s play “Squaw Man” premieres in NYC.
1915 – 25,000 women march in New York City demanding right to vote.
1921 – Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis.
1932 – “Fred Allen Show” premieres on radio.
1933 – John Dillinger and his gang rob Central National Bank, in Greencastle, Indiana, taking $75,000.
1941 – Walt Disney’s animation “Dumbo” released.
1956 – First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast.
1963 – Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” premieres in NYC.
1972 – “Pippin” opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1944 performances.
1979 – Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minnesota marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches.
1981 – US national debt hits $1 trillion.
1984 – Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young.
1988 – Robert Bork’s supreme court nomination rejected by US Senate.
1991 – Clarence Thomas sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice.
1991 – Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s suicide machine kills 2 women.
1997 – Dow Jones drops 186.88 points.
2000 – “Monday Night Miracle”, down 30-7 at the end of the third quarter, the New York Jets pulled together a rapid and improbable comeback with 4 touchdowns and a field goal in the fourth quarter, eventually defeating the Miami Dolphins 40-37 in overtime.
2001 – Apple released the iPod.
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