1932 – United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops
1954 – San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens
1964 – James Baldwin’s stage drama “Blues for Mister Charlie,” directed by Burgess Meredith, closes at the ANTA Playhouse in NYC after 148 performances
1969 – Joe Pepitone quits NY Yankees after being fined $500 for leaving the bench
1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany
1987 – 44th Venice Film Festival: “Au revoir les enfants” (“Goodbye, Children”), directed by Louis Malle, wins Golden Lion
2004 – 21st MTV Video Music Awards: OutKast, Beyoncé, and Usher, featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, win
2018 – Germany returns the human remains of Namibian Herero and Nama people killed during the 1904-08 genocide at a church service in Berlin