Woman suffrage amendment approved by US Congress, 1920
Frans Hals died, 1666
George Lincoln Rockwell, Nazi leader, assassinated, 1967
City of New Orleans founded, 1718
Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist, died, 1867
PC-Write Version 1.0 launched, 1983
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, died, 1900
Allied forces liberated Paris, 1944
Chicago Cubs faced 66 Philadelphia batters but won 26-23, 1922
Great Colonial Hurricane (20’ tides), 1635
Dwight Gooden became the youngest 20 baseball game winner, 1985
David Hume, Scottish philosopher, died, 1776
Gower Champion, broadway director (“42nd Street”), died, 1980
“Father Knows Best” first broadcast, 1949
First person to swim the English Channel (Matthew Webb - 22 hours), 1875
Uruguay declared independence from Brazil, 1825
Samantha Smith, US schoolgirl who visited USSR, died in a plane crash, 1985
Richard E. Byrd began Antarctic expedition, 1928
First black to win US men’s singles tennis championship (Arthur Ashe), 1968
Voyager 2 (US) at closest approach to Saturn, 1981
Truman Capote (Truman Streckfus Persons), novelist (“In Cold Blood”), died, 1984
Amelia Earhart completed transcontinental flight, 1932
Fastest team to reach three million season attendance (64 games, Toronto Blue Jays), 1990
First baseball game broadcast (KDKA, Pittsburgh), 1921