1871 – Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, New York, Boss Tweed is arrested after the New York Times exposes his corruption.
1893 – Hurricane hits coast between Savannah, Georgia & Charleston, South Carolina.
1913 – President Woodrow Wilson says the United States will never attack another country.
1920 – Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA, is granted a Limited Commercial license by the Department of Commerce.
1925 – Water skis patented by Fred Waller.
1938 – DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called “nylon”
1941 – Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be a war with Japan.
1947 – “You Bet Your Life” with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio.
1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem.
1954 – Walt Disney’s 1st TV show, “Disneyland’, premieres on ABC.
1960 – Pop and soul singer Ben E. King records “Spanish Harlem” & “Stand By Me”
1962 – Black Saturday during the Cuban Missile Crisis: An American spy plane is shot down over Cuba and the Navy drops warning depth charges on Soviet submarines.
1969 – Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader’s Raiders.
1978 – President Jimmy Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill.
1982 – China announces its population has reached more than 1 billion people.
1991 – Baseball World Series: Minnesota Twins beat Atlanta Braves 1-0 in 10 innings in Game 7 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. It’s the Twins 2nd title since move to Minneapolis. MVP is Twins pitcher Jack Morris.
1992 – FOX is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to December.
1997 – Dow Jones crashes record 554 points to 7,161.
2011 – Major League Baseball World Series Game 6: St. Louis Cardinals third baseman David Freese hits game-tying 2 run triple with 2 outs in the 9th and then hits walk-off home in the 11th to tie the best-of-7 series against Texas at 3 wins apiece. St. Louis won Game 7 and the World Series.
2018 – Gunman shoots and kills 11 people and injures six at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in an anti-Semitic attack.
2019 – Tiger Woods scores a wire-to-wire 3-stroke win over Hideki Matsuyama at the inaugural ZoZo Championship at Accordia Golf & Country Club to tie Sam Snead’s record of 82 PGA victories.
2020 – World Health Organization confirms Europe is in the midst of a 2nd COVID-19 wave with cases rising rapidly, 30% in a week, deaths rising 40%.
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