1932 – British government signs trade treaty with USSR
1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket, launched from Whites Sands US, takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1959 – US premier of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1st Cello concert
1976 – 1st Toronto International Film Festival opens
1982 – 12th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14
1987 – NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
1991 – “Dancing at Lughnasa” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 421 performances
1997 – Marv Albert sentenced in assault case
2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.
2017 – Albert Einstein’s “Theory of Happiness”, written as a note for a bellboy instead of a tip in Tokyo in 1922 sells for $1.56 million