1898 – City of New York established.
1915 – Boston Red Sox clinch American League pennant by beating Detroit.
1920 – Tune Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd Street, New York City.
1927 – Yankees slugger Babe Ruth smacks his Major League Baseball-record 60th home run off Tom Zachary in the 8th inning of New York’s 4-2 win over the Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium.
1935 – George Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” premieres in Boston.
1946 – Twenty-two Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials.
1947 – In the first televised World Series baseball game, the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-3 in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium. Also the largest crowd to date, 73,365.
1950 – Radio’s “Grand Ole Opry” is broadcast on TV for the 1st time.
1960 – “The Flintstones,” the first animated sitcom created by Hanna-Barbera, premieres on ABC.
1962 – President John Kennedy sends 3,000 federal troops to the University of Mississippi to quell riots protesting desegregation.
1968 – 1st Boeing 747 jumbo jet rolls out.
1970 – New American Bible published.
1977 – Due to budget cuts, the Apollo program’s ALSEP (Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package) left on the moon are shut down.
1980 – Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1988 – IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer.
1997 – Hooters agrees to pay $2 million in discrimination suits.
2007 – Presidents Cup Golf, Royal Montreal GC: David Toms and Scott Verplank remain undefeated as US beats International team, 19 1/2-14 1/2.
2012 – Ryder Cup Golf, Medinah CC: Europe retains Cup 14 1/2-13 1/2; win 8 and tie the 12 singles matches after trailing 10-6.
2022 – Hurricane Ian makes landfall, just south of Georgetown, South Carolina.
2022 – In defiance of international law Vladimir Putin announces Russia’s illegal annexation of four Ukrainian provinces, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhya.
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