1808 – Mary Anna Custis Lee, American wife of Robert E. Lee (d. 1873) is born.
1832 – Caroline Harrison, American educator, 24th First Lady of the United States (d. 1892) is born.
1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1881 – William Boeing, American engineer and businessman, founded the Boeing Company (d. 1956) is born.
1891 – Stanford University opens its doors in California.
1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, killing 21.
1924 – Jimmy Carter, American lieutenant and politician, 39th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate is borbn.
1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1947 – Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (d. 2009) is born.
1957 – First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
1961 – The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.
1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
1966 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1975 – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1979 – The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.
1982 – Epcot opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
2015 – Umpqua Community College shooting: a gunman killed nine people at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon.
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