Archive “This Day in History”
1865 – William Sheppard receives the first patent for liquid soap.
1901 – The Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1906 – The first Victor Victrola is produced.
1921 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed Deputy Director of the Bureau of Investigation.
1932 – The British Broadcasting Corporation begins experimental regular television broadcasts.
(1945–The Vietnam conflict begins when Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
1946 – The Baseball Association approves a 168-game schedule, but later withdraws it.
1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black woman to compete in a national tennis competition in the United States.
1950 – The first patent for vehicle speed control (cruise control) is granted to the American inventor Ralph Teetor.
1959 – The American Football League is officially named at a meeting in Dallas, Texas, with founding members from Dallas, New York, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles and Minneapolis-Saint Paul.
1964 – Supreme’s “Where Did Our Love Go” reaches #1.
1971 – FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 members of the Camden 28, a religious-left anti-war activist group seeking to disrupt the draft in Camden, New Jersey.
1984 – The last Volkswagen Rabbit was produced.
1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson).
1994 – DNA testing links OJ Simpson to the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.
2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a stone inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2010 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, Crosswater Club: Fred Funk wins the last of his three Champions Tour majors by one stroke ahead of Michael Allen and Taiwanese Lu Chien-soon.
2018 – Longest bull market ever for the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index at 3,453 days, dating back to the 1990 decline of 19.9%, although the usual average is 20%.
2021 – Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Singapore to begin a brief visit to Southeast Asia.
2022 – Dr. Anthony Fauci announces his resignation as Chief Medical Advisor to the President and as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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