- 1851] Premiered on this date: The first issue of The New York Times is published...1927] The Mother Ship has landed: The Columbia Broadcasting System debuts with a network of 47 stations. The name of the company is later shortened to CBS...1963] The following TV shows debuted on this date: "The Patty Duke Show" which airs for 3 years...1965] "I Dream of Jeannie" starring Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman. This series runs for 5 seasons...1965] "Get Smart" starring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon with a run of 5 years plus syndication forever...
- 1940] Published on this date: "You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe...
- 1947] Separate but equal: The U.S. Air Force is established as a separate military branch by the National Security Act...
- 1960] Fidel visits the Apple: Fidel Castro stays at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem where he meets with Malcolm X. He also makes TV appearances and is generally treated like the hero he wasn't...
- 1961] "Happy Trails": U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold dies at 56 in a plane crash in Rhodesia (now Zambia)...1975] Jimi Hendrix dies of a drug overdose at 27...1994] Tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis is the victim of an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning at 40...
- 1963] Curtains: The New York Mets play their last game at the Polo Grounds. Shea Stadium opens for opening day 1964...
- 1969] No tip-toeing around: Tiny Tim announces his engagement to "Miss Vicki" on the "Tonight Show with Johnny Carson". Johnny extends TT & MV an invitation to get married on the show which they do in December...
- 1975] Gotcha: Patty Hearst is captured in San Mateo (CA). She will be convicted and sentenced to 7 years in prison for her role in SLA crimes. Jimmy Carter will commute the sentence and she only serves 22-months...
- 1977] Captain Courageous: Ted Turner captains the Courageous to victory, sweeping Australia in the 24th 'America's Cup' in Newport (RI). Twenty years later on this same date (1997) Turner announces that he will donate $1 billion to the U.N. over the next 10 years...
- 1994] Talkin' baseball: The Ken Burns produced "Baseball" series of specials premieres on PBS, making a star of Buck O'Neill, a former Negro League player...
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