Louis Dembitz Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice, died, 1941
Republic of Portugal established, 1910
Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant (Monroe, Michigan) accident, 1966
Battle of the Thames (Upper Canada), 1813
Jim Bakker, TV evangelist, convicted of fraud and conspiracy, 1989
New York Yankees won the World Series, 1953
Earl Warren sworn in as chief justice of the US Supreme Court, 1953
57 people escaped East Berlin by tunnel, 1964
Space Shuttle Challenger (US) was launched on its sixth mission, 1984
First radio broadcast of a World Series, 1921
Thomas Stone, signer of the US Declaration of Independence, died, 1787
Parker House (oldest hotel in US) opened, 1856
Eddie Robinson became college football’s all-time winning coach, 1985
Eddie Kendricks, singer (Temptations), died, 1992
Dalton Gang held up two banks simultaneously (Coffeyville, Kansas), 1892
Nez Perce indians surrendered to US Cavalry, 1877
First successful Confederate attack using a submersible craft (David), 1863
First televised White House address (Truman), 1947
Eastern Airlines Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 killed), 1960
Charlie Smith, oldest American (137 years), died, 1979
Oregon became the first US state to remove criminal penalties for less than an ounce of pot, 1973
Tecumseh, Shawnee Indian Chief and orator, killed, 1813
Eugene Hasenfus captured after his plane, carrying arms intended for the Nicaraguan rebels was shot down, 1986
Lech Walesa named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1983