1899 – George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee
1915 – 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany
1917 – Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska
1937 – NBC and RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY
1946 – Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building and burying 38
1964 – Cleveland Browns’ Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes
1975 – Sara Jane Moore pleds guilty to trying to kill US President Gerald Ford
1982 – $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NYC
1988 – “Rainman” directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise premieres in New York (Best Picture 1989)
1990 – US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks