1886 – Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first confetti ticker tape parade in New York City.
1904 – St. Louis police try a new investigation method – fingerprints.
1913 – “Krazy Kat” comic strip by Geroge Herriman debuts in New York Journal.
1919 – Volstead Act passed by Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Woodrow Wilson’s veto.
1922 – First coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game between Princeton and the University of Chicago.
1929 – Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 38.33 points (13%) to 260.84.
1936 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
1945 – German submarine U-220 sunk by United States aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean.
1954 – Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Ernest Hemingway.
1958 – Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of the Year. His batting average went from .230 in 1957 to .322 in 1958.
1962 – New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Title passes for 7 touchdowns in a 49-34 win against the Washington Redskins.
1974 – Luna 23 launched and it landed on the moon on November 2.
1978 – Bobby Orr scores his last career National Hockey League goal while playing for the Chicago Blackhawks. Detroit won the game 7-2.
1986 – The centennial of the Statue of Liberty’s dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.
1988 – Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University of Washington library.
1997 – NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as the first women to officiate a major professional all-male sports league.
2008 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later cancelled Constellation program.
2015 – World Health Organization ranks tuberculosis alongside HIV as the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing 1.2 million people in 2014.
2020 – Global COVID-19 cases record one-day increase of more than 500,000 for the first time, rising 25% in under two weeks, according to Reuters.
2021 – Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook will change its corporate name to Meta amid increased public scrutiny over leaked internal documents.
