1864 – -Oct 7th) Cruise of CSS Florida
1888 – Frank Sprague opens the first successful U.S. electric street railway system, the Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in Richmond, Virginia
1923 – Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
1935 – Leonarde Keeler first uses his polygraph machine on criminals later convicted of assault on its findings in Portage, Wisconsin
1969 – Stan Coveleski and Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame
1969 – KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1970 – Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points
1976 – Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom and umpire Cal Hubbard elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1977 – Toronto’s Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman
1989 – 0°F (-18°C) or below in 15 US states