1679—New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1873—Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co. collapses, causing panic on Wall Street, the start of the panic of 1873 and the long depression.
1891—Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief.
1911—Louis Napoleon Parker’s “Disraeli,” premieres in NYC.
1919—Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast.
1926—Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250.
1934—USSR admitted to League of Nations.
1947—National Security Act passes.
1955—Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock)
1962—Charlie Finley is denied permission to move A’s to Dallas-Fort Worth.
1965—Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle plays his 2,000th game.
1965—“I Dream of Jeannie”, starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, premieres on NBC.
1975—Heiress-turned-bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco.
1977—Brooks Robinson night in Baltimore.
1984—Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
1990—500 lb. 6′ Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC.
1996—Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts.
2005—57th Emmy Awards; Lost, Everybody Loves Raymond, James Spader & Patricia Arquette win.
2014—8 people (including 2 children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida.
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