1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is founded by Englishman William Penn.
1787 – Federalist letters start appearing in New York newspapers.
1893 – Hurricane hits coast between Savannah, Ga. & Charleston, SC.
1913 – President Wilson says US will never attack another country.
1920 – Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins.
1925 – Water skis patented by Fred Waller.
1938 – DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called “nylon”
1947 – “You Bet Your Life” with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio.
1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1960 – Singer Ben E. King records “Spanish Harlem” & “Stand By Me”
1969 – Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader’s Raiders.
1975 – Covers of Time & Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen.
1978 – US President Jimmy Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill.
1982 – China announces its population at 1 billion people plus.
1988 – “ET” released to home video (14 million presold).
1992 – Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to December.
1997 – Microsoft argues it should be “free from government interference.”
2005 – The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years.
2011 – MLB World Series Game 6: St. Louis Cardinal 3B David Freese hits game-tying 2 run triple with 2 outs in the 9th and then hits walk-off home run in the 11th.
2015 – American soccer star Abby Wambach announces her retirement.
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