Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1789

Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first U.S. secretary of the treasury.

1814

An American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.

1850

Jenny Lind, the ''Swedish Nightingale,'' gave her first concert in the United States, at Castle Garden in New York.

1936

President Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam's first hydroelectric generator in Nevada.

1941

Charles A. Lindbergh sparked charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he blamed ''the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration'' for trying to draw the United States into World War II.

1944

President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met in Canada at the second Quebec Conference.

1954

The Miss America pageant made its network TV debut on ABC; Miss California, Lee Ann Meriwether, was crowned the winner.

1962

The Beatles recorded their first single, ''Love Me Do'' and ''P.S. I Love You,'' at EMI studios in London.

1967

''The Carol Burnett Show'' premiered on CBS.

1985

Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds recorded his 4,192nd hit, breaking Ty Cobb's career record.

1987

CBS went black for six minutes after anchorman Dan Rather walked off the set of ''The CBS Evening News'' because a tennis tournament being carried by the network ran overtime. (The tennis coverage ended abruptly, catching the anchorman off guard.)

1997

The Army issued a searing indictment of itself, asserting that ''sexual harassment exists throughout the Army, crossing gender, rank and racial lines.''

1997

Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.

1998

Congress released Kenneth Starr's report that offered graphic details of President Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct and leveled accusations of perjury and obstruction of justice; the president's attorneys quickly issued a rebuttal.

2023

The Libyan city of Derna experiences catastrophic floods after Storm Daniel causes two dams to collapse, killing over 11,300 people.

1885

Author D.H. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, England.

1971

Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died at age 77.

1973

Chilean President Salvador Allende died in a violent military coup.

2014

Bob Crewe, American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer. Crewe co-wrote and produced a string of Top 10 singles with Bob Gaudio for the Four Seasons. (b. 1930)

2020

Toots Hibbert, Jamaican singer and songwriter who was the lead vocalist for the reggae and ska band Toots and the Maytals. A reggae pioneer, he performed for six decades and helped establish some of the fundamentals of reggae music. (b. 1942