1902 – 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1945 – General Motors workers go on strike
1955 – Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peron
1959 – Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1963 – US President John F. Kennedy flies to Texas (assassinated the next day)
1964 – Verrazano-Narrows suspension bridge opens in New York City, then the world’s longest
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: “I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing.”
1986 – Central African Republic adopts constitution
1993 – “Cyrano – The Musical” opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 137 performances
2018 – RIBA’s best building in the world biennial international prize awarded to Canuanã school in Brazil