1922 – WEAF in New York City airs the first radio commercial for Queensboro Realty, costing $100 for 10 minutes
1955 – Chicago Black teenager Emmett Till is kidnapped, beaten, and shot dead by white men in Money, Mississippi; his killers are eventually acquitted, but the case helps ignite the US civil rights movement.
1967 – WCBS-AM (880) radio in NYC begins its all-news format; the AM station is knocked off the air just beforehand, moving the debut to the FM sister station (101.1)
1980 – First use of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine to scan the human body at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Scotland
1982 – The USSR performs an underground nuclear test
2017 – Matt Vogel debuts as the voice of Kermit the Frog in the “Muppet Thought of the Week” video
2017 – Investigation into German nurse Niels Högel, serving a life sentence for killing two patients, concludes he probably killed 86 more
2022 – Pakistan appeals for international aid as the death toll from monsoon rains and floods rises to over 1,000 people