1902 – 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1924 – British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin cancels Labour contract with USSR
1925 – Red Grange plays his final University of Illinois game and signs with the Chicago Bears
1938 – Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia and declare inhabitants to be German citizens
1979 – Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack US embassy, 1 dies
1993 – “Cyrano – The Musical” opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 137 performances
1995 – Israel grants jailed US spy Jonathan Pollard citizenship
1995 – Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 5,000 for 1st time