1851 – City of Des Moines, Iowa, incorporated as Fort Des Moines
1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill delivers a speech in Ulster opposing Home Rule, stating, “Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right”
1919 – Steel strike begins in the US and continues for four months
1937 – Date celebrated as the first International Hobbit Day and the birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins
1959 – Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant
1973 – Henry Kissinger is sworn in as America’s first Jewish Secretary of State, succeeding William Rogers
1979 – Montreal Expo Larry Parrish hits home runs off Phillies’ Rawly Eastwick in a doubleheader
2018 – Singer Rihanna is appointed as an ambassador for Barbados