1869 – Golf’s first recorded hole-in-one is scored by Tom Morris at Prestwick’s 8th hole in Scotland
1893 – Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma, opens white settlement homesteaders
1908 – Carriage maker William C. Durant founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan
1926 – Italian-Romanian peace treaty is signed
1945 – Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55″) off Okinawa (record low)
1979 – Ryder Cup Golf, The Greenbrier: US wins, 17-11; new Team Europe replaces Great Britain and Ireland as official opposition to the United States
1992 – FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service
1999 – First-ever season of “Big Brother” reality show begins on the Veronica channel in the Netherlands