Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1847

New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.

1893

The New York stock market crashed.

1929

The first color television was introduced in a public demonstration at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York.

1942

The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.

1944

American forces completed their capture of the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans during World War II.

1950

President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.

1957

Over 500 people were killed in Texas and Louisiana when Hurricane Audrey struck the southwestern Louisiana coast, making it one of the deadliest hurricanes in American history.

1969

Police raided the Stonewall Inn, a well-known gay bar in New York City, on charges of operating without a liquor license. This led to protests by the local gay community that would later turn into the first LGBT rights movement.

1973

Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an ''enemies list'' kept by the Nixon White House.

1980

President Carter signed legislation reviving draft registration.

1985

Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., passed into history as officials decertified the road.

1994

The band Aerosmith became the first major band to allow fans to download their music off the Internet.

1998

During a joint news conference broadcast live in China, President Clinton and President Jiang Zemin offered an uncensored airing of differences on human rights, freedom, trade and Tibet.

2018

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, a critical swing vote on the court, announced his retirement. He was replaced by Brett Kavanaugh in what would begin a conservative shift in the court’s decisions.

1844

Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.