1789 – The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1857 – William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930) is born.
1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (b. 1806) dies.
1915 – The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1945 – A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1961 – Dan Marino, Miami Dolphins football player and sportscaster
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1971 – The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against nuclear testing on Amchitka Island.
1978 – Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
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