Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1789

Congress passed the First Judiciary Act, which provided for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court.

1869

Financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to corner the gold market, sending Wall Street into a panic and leaving thousands of investors in financial ruin.

1929

Lt. James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated NY2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in New York in the first all-instrument flight.

1948

Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio propagandist ''Axis Sally,'' pleaded innocent in Washington, D.C., to charges of treason. (Gillars served 12 years in prison.)

1955

President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.

1957

The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.

1960

The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Va.

1969

The trial of the ''Chicago Eight'' (later seven) began. Five of the defendants were convicted of crossing state lines to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention, but the convictions were ultimately overturned.

1976

Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. (She was granted clemency by President Carter and released after 22 months.)

1995

Israel and the PLO agreed to sign a pact at the White House ending nearly three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities.

1996

The United States and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.

1998

The Federal Reserve put into circulation $2 billion in harder to-counterfeit $20 bills.

1999

Oregon teen-ager Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents and gunned down two classmates at school, abandoned an insanity defense and pleaded guilty to murder. (He was later sentenced to 112 years without parole.)

2000

For the first time, citizens of the Yugoslav federation - Serbia and Montenegro - voted directly for president. Supporters of opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica declared victory the next day.

2023

NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully lands back on Earth.

1896

Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minn.

1945

Lou Dobbs, American conservative political commentator, author and television host who presented Lou Dobbs Tonight from 2003 to 2009 and 2011 to 2021. From 2021 until his death, he hosted The Great America Show on iHeartRadio and loudobbs.com. (d. 2024)

1991

Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died in La Jolla, Calif., at age 87.