1633—Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government.
1840—First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed.
1860—Telegraph line between LA & SF opens.
1873—First women’s prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute.
1896—Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks.
1904—1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY)
1928—Cole Porter & E. Ray Goetz’ musical “Paris” premieres in NYC.
1934—Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son.
1944—“The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” debuts on CBS radio.
1951—“Music in the Air” opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances.
1957—Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles.
1964—Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test.
1973—NLCS game 3 brawl between Cincy’s Pete Rose and NY Met Bud Harrelson.
1974—Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement: at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of United States.
1981—President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford & Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat’s funeral.
1990—US doctors Joseph E. Murray & E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize.
1995—Dolphin’s Dan Marino breaks Fran Tarkenton’s NFL career completions record.
2001—U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
2012—Hugo Chavez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term.
2014—Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.
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