- 1915] Suffragettes: 25,000-30,000 women march on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan demanding the right to vote...
- 1946] UN meets to greet: The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time in a Flushing Meadows auditorium...
- 1956] Debuted on this date: NBC-TV broadcasts the first video tape coast-to-coast. It's a tape of Jonathan Winters performing...
- 1973] Dead air: President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over the Watergate tapes as the clock ticks...
- 1983] Beirut blast: A suicide truck bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon kills 241 U.S. Marines and sailors. Another attack kills 58 French paratroopers...
- 1989] Bizarre Boston story: Charles Stuart claims that he and his pregnant wife had been shot by a black robber. Carol Stuart and her prematurely delivered baby died. Stuart, who was white, was later implicated in the shootings and apparently committed suicide...
- 1993] Walk-off: Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Joe Carter hits the 2nd walk-off home run in World Series history and for the first time a team from outside the U.S. wins the Fall Classic. The (Mitch) Phillies (Williams) are the (Mitch) losers (Williams) in game 6, 8-6...Bill Mazeroski of the Pirates hit the 1st walk-off HR in Series history to beat the Yankees in 1960...
- 1998] Sniper attack: Dr. Barnett Slepian, an abortion doctor was killed at his home in suburban Buffalo when a sniper fired through his kitchen window. James Kopp is convicted of the murder and is serving 25-to-life in prison...
- 1998] Land-for-Peace: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat sign a land-for-peace agreement at the White House...
- 2004] "Happy Trails": Legendary tenor Robert Merrill, a fixture singing our national anthem and 'God Bless America' at Yankee Stadium, dies at 87 while watching game one of the 2004 World Series (Red Sox-Cardinals) at home...
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