1891 – Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1918 – Samuel Riddle buys Man o’War for $5,000
1926 – Greek-Serbian, Croatian and Slavs peace treaty signed
1936 – An unemployed worker, Neils B. Ruud, in Madison, Wisconsin, receives the first unemployment benefit check paid under a State law, for $15
1948 – Phillies commit 8 errors in a baseball game for the 2nd time
1948 – Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1985 – 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant
1986 – Bronze pig statue unveiled at Pike Place Market, Seattle
2008 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf, Ottawa Hunt GC: Australian Katherine Hull wins by 1 from Se Ri Pak
2013 – 15 civilians are killed by a Syrian warplane attack in Aleppo