1492 – Columbus misses Florida when he changes course.
1806 – Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood.
1826 – Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations.
1869 – Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) opens.
1913 – Ford Motor Company institutes world’s first moving assembly line for the Model T Ford.
1916 – Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeats Cumberland 222-0, the most lopsided score in the history of college football.
1936 – 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel.
1950 – US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel.
1952 – First “Bandstand” broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host).
1959 – “Pillow Talk” a film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson is first released.
1960 – TV series “Route 66” premieres on CBS.
1961 – “Bye Bye Birdie” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 performances.
1963 – Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190.
1975 – US decides John Lennon won’t be deported due to UK pot conviction.
1982 – Musical “Cats” opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway NYC and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1989 – Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games).
1991 – Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments to her.
1998 – Mathew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2003 – American gubernatorial recall election is held in California. Governor Gray Davis is recalled and Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes governor.
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