1835 – Farroupilha’s Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
1850 – Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
1870 – Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury
1945 – German rocket engineers begin work in US
1954 – 1st FORTRAN computer program run
1980 – “Blizzard of Ozz”, the debut solo album by English rock musician Ozzy Osbourne, is released in the United Kingdom
1981 – Ryder Cup Golf, Walton Heath GC: US wins 18½-9½; 6th and final Ryder Cup for Jack Nicklaus as a player; wins all 4 of his matches
2017 – Hurricane Maria makes landfall on Puerto Rico as a category 4 hurricane, knocking out all power and killing 25
2018 – Woman shoots seven people, killing three and herself at a Rite Aid distribution center near Baltimore, Maryland
2019 – Researchers for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) propose that aliens may have bugged earths co-orbitals (nearby orbiting rocks) in “The Astronomical Journal”